Leading Anti-Gay Activist Caught Vacationing With Male Prostitute

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A leading anti-gay activist has been caught taking international vacations with a 20-year-old male prostitute, the Miami New Times reports. George Alan Rekers is a co-founder of the Family Research Council, a longtime congressional advisor, and the author of Growing Up Straight: What Families Should Know About Homosexuality. He was photographed on April 13 in the Miami Airport with "Lucien," a Puerto Rican paid escort who describes himself as "sensual," "wild," and "up for anything." (Rekers apparently met him through rentboy.com.) The two were returning from a 10-day trip to London and Madrid when they were caught by a delighted New Times contributor. "I had surgery," Rekers said when a journalist approached him. "I can't lift luggage. That's why I hired him." (The New Times points out that Rekers was pushing the pair's suitcases when he was spotted.) Both men denied having sex on the trip, but, according to the paper, Rekers reportedly e-mailed the escort again on March 26 about a future trip to Rome. The New York Daily News writes that Rekers' name has since been quietly removed from the Family Research Council's Web site, even as he continues to maintain that nothing sexual happened on the trip. "If you talk with my travel assistant ... you will find I spent a great deal of time sharing scientific information on the desirability of abandoning homosexual intercourse," Rekers wrote in an e-mail to a blogger.

Read original story in Miami New Times | Wednesday, May 5, 2010