Christian right anti-gay activist takes vacation with gay male escort

By GottaLaff

Carry your bags, sir?

Another day, another Rushpublic Hyp. O. Crite. Today's episode: Baggage fees:

That man was George Alan Rekers, of North Miami — the callboy's client and, as it happens, one of America's most prominent anti-gay activists. Rekers, a Baptist minister who is a leading scholar for the Christian right, left the terminal with his gay escort, looking a bit discomfited when a picture of the two was snapped with a hot-pink digital camera.

Reached by New Times before a trip to Bermuda, Rekers said he learned Lucien was a prostitute only midway through their vacation.

Ahh, it was all an honest mistake, see.

"I had surgery," Rekers said, "and I can't lift luggage. That's why I hired him." (Though medical problems didn't stop him from pushing the tottering baggage cart through MIA.)

Sure, sure, and guys cruise Hollywood Boulevard to hire babysitters.

Yet Rekers wouldn't deny he met his slender, blond escort at Rentboy.com — which features homepage images of men in bondage and grainy videos of crotch-rubbing twinks — and Lucien confirmed it.

He was probably just looking for some pithy articles.

Lucien said he was surprised that Rekers was unaware of his line of work.

Rekers lectures worldwide, from Europe to the Middle East, on teen sexuality. Yet during his ten-day sojourn with Lucien to London and Madrid, he had no lectures scheduled.

However, to be fair and balanced:

Both men deny having sex on the trip, and emails exchanged between the two before their jaunt are cautiously worded.

Fine. Let's give him the benefit of the doubt. Are you game? I'm game. But why go to all the trouble to specifically seek out Rentboy.com?

Oh what the heck. It was probably just some kind of innocent typo. Besides, what could he possibly find there that would make him think this had anything to do with gay sex?

To arrive at Lucien's site, Rekers must have accepted Rentboy.com's terms of use, thereby acknowledging he was not offended by graphic sexual material. He then would have been transported to a front page covered with images of naked, tumescent men busily sodomizing each other.

Oh. Dear.

Now who's going to help Rekers schlep around his emotional baggage?