George Rekers talks to Rentboy Lucien on speakerphone
Early last week Miami New Times broke the story of anti-gay activist George Rekers taking a paid male escort from the explicit website rentboy.com on a 10-day trip to Europe. The site had a photo of Rekers and the young escort, who they refer to as ‘Lucien,’ arriving at the Miami airport upon their return. (Read all about it in our previous Rekers article HERE.)
Rekers has issued a number of statements since the story, claiming he didn’t know Lucien was a male escort until his European trip was underway and adamantly denying that he met Lucien through rentboy.com, even though Lucien has contradicted that in statements made to Miami New Times.
Since that initial article the diligent folks at the Times have applied the journalistic full-court pressure on George Rekers and he continues to turn the ball over (heh heh). Lucien talked about his time with Rekers in Europe:
The male escort hired by anti-gay activist George Alan Rekers has told Miami New Times the Baptist minister is a homosexual who paid him to provide body rubs once a day in the nude, during their ten-day vacation in Europe.
Rekers allegedly named his favorite maneuver the “long stroke” — a complicated caress “across his pen!s, thigh… and his anu$ over the butt cheeks,” as the escort puts it. “Rekers liked to be rubbed down there,” he says.
The Times crew were with Lucien in a Fort Lauderdale home when he received a call from George Rekers at about 1am Thursday morning. Lucien talked with Rekers on speakerphone as The Times staff listened in. Here is an excerpt from the article about the conversation:
“What was going through your mind when you went on that website?” demanded Lucien, referring to rentboy.com, the gay escort site where he had posted his profile.
Rekers paused for several seconds, considering. “Well, I’d be happy to sit down and talk to you more about that.” He paused again. “We have to deal with the situation that we have, and make sure it doesn’t get worse.”
“Sometimes I feel like I should just tell [the press] what happened on the trip.”
“No,” said Rekers quickly, “Please don’t do that. Please don’t let them pressure you into it.”
“But I’m getting pressured out of the gay community!” Lucien was fairly screaming now. “If I ever wanted to be with someone — it wouldn’t work out! This is my f*cking name!”
After some cross-talk, Rekers tried to calm Lucien down: “I’ve been through things like this in the past –”
Lucien cut him off: “Well I haven’t! I’m 20 years old! If you’ve been through this, you shouldn’t have gone to that website, you shouldn’t have hired me — why did you make so many choices [for me]?”
That’s one of the first lessons learned when entering the public life: never talk openly to your gay male rentboy escort on speaker phone, especially if you were recently photographed with him after a 10-day trip to Europe!
I wouldn’t have thought it possible for this story to get more ridiculous, but now I’m starting to think this may be one of those EPIC can of worms – a gift that just keeps giving, like Tiger Woods! I give it until Monday before the Tiger Woods/Jesse James effect fully kicks in and all of Reker’s previous Billy-dilly-dalliances start coming forward. (I guess they would be called misteresses?) One crucial element that would help bust the dam wide open is more pictures of Rekers. It still boggles my mind that someone with so much influence who has made so many public appearances only has one photograph of himself (aside from the Miami airport one with Rentboy) on the internet!
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