What better what to change, than to infiltrate?

It is ironic that Gay sex is funding John McCain’s campaign.

Rotello’s larger point is this: sex obsessed Gay men are self-medicating their insecurities, alienating themselves, objectifying each other into abstraction and decimating Gay “communities” WHILE empowering the very hegemonic machine that seeks to destroy them.

The fact that Larry Crutchley, one of the founders of Manhunt, is a committed Republican who has donated generously to the McCain campaign proves Rotello’s larger point: attempting to assuage insecurity and self-loathing with obsessive behavior and careless choices will destroy you…and us.

Using anything good (like sex, drugs or alcohol) to an ugly extreme is destructive (HIV, liver disease, addiction, death, etc). So, why use Manhunt if it supports Republican power and our own oppression? We can all have a lot of great sex without putting McCain in office, can’t we? In evolutionary terms unless we adapt better to our environment we will quickly become irrelevant…and extinct.

Even without the whole Republican component to this story Gay men need to start thinking about how to have (a lot of great) sex as an expression of self-respect not low self-esteem.

Maybe Jonathan Crutchley is just a shrewd businessman making investments to protect his company and bottom line. Republicans perpetuate anachronistic homophobia for political gain. Manhunt exploits the resultant fear, shame and self-loathing that disfigures normal sexual energy into anonymous sexual networks. Keeping Republicans in office guarantees no expansion of rights for anyone, especially The Gays. Therefore the shame spiral continues perpetuating the need for online sexual outlets, more headless naked pics and ass/dick shots. And Jonathan Crutchley keeps making more money.

Reminds me of how McDonald’s aggressively markets to people of color…

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/375154/how_mcdonalds_targets_the_

Well while that sounds great on the surface, as long as he is still a partner/owner all it really means is that he will still profit from the website and can still sell out our community but donating to the bigots in the republican party.

Traitor! Benedict Arnold!

Self hating gays should be publicly mocked. I for one am deleting my manhunt account, they charge for every little thing anyhow!

I have closed my account with the money grubbers that feel that the gay agenda does not matter. I’ll move on to smaller hookup sites like http://www.wetlizard.com. At least when I ask them a question I dont get a corporate scripted message back like I did every time I asked something of manhunt. Manhunt thinks they are the end all be all.

As for the people that posted that he gave the money in his own name, if you look up the donation he put in CEO Online Buddies, Inc. Do your research.

Incredible, stupid arrogance. It’s all about the money. Crutchley will likely live to regret attempting to make his wealth from Manhunt.net ’safe’ from we staunch liberals (who expect he and his ilk to contribute to social programs in a big way) when the GOP and RR take his website to task and make it illegal. Better hedge your bet, Crutchley! You’re counting on financial shrewdness being the goal of the Republican base, but these days it’s all about your morals; and it’s quite clear you haven’t any! BOYCOTT!

Being a fiscal conservative is one thing. Voting for someone who is willing to deny you your rights is another thing entirely. How any Gay person could support John McCain is beyond my comprehension.

Well it is his money, and he is free to do with it as he wants… But I’ll be DAMNED if he ever gets a red cent outta ME!

I agree with Mr. Moll - no more Manhunt for me! The only true political clout in this country is money. Until GLBT people and those who side with them start to make it known that they will boycott companies that side with anti-GLBT politicians - and then DO boycott, we will never have equality. Think of what would happen if GLBT people and their supporters bought nothing but essential goods - food, etc, for a month - the economy would reflect that and send a strong message to Congress and others. In the meantime, GLBT people who support those who deny us equal right - ie the GOP - are self-hating throwbacks and deserve to be shunned.

How sad that is!

Dump Manhunt and sign on to Big Muscle or Big Muscle Bears at bigmuscle.com or bigmusclebears.com. The founders of these sites are not gay Uncle Toms. If anyone still uses Manhunt after knowing about his donation to McPain, he is part of the problem and not part of the solution.

“Well McCain has pledged to appoint another SC Judge like Scalia who can overturn Lawrence v. Texas and take us back to the good old days when gays were in jail or in the closet. That might actually help Manhunt’s business - more closet gays.
As for me I think I’ll stick to other online sites.”

Well said, Patrick O’Neill. Scalia has been waging a campaign to overturn Lawrence since the day the decision (and his dissent) were published. And McCain has not just promised to ‘appoint a judge like Scalia,’ he has promised that all his judicial nominations will pass muster with the religious right.

But the real election opportunity will be the underticket - the Senate and the House races. Since Obama is unlikely to win, it is critical that the Democrats take a great enough majority in the Senate to block the rightists that McCain is going to nominate.

Bradley,

Pardon my bluntness, but you’re out of your mind.

You think it’s a good idea that there’s a wide-range of opinions represented in the Gay community? Such as banning Gay Marriage… or returning all those adopted children (that McCain opposes). How about firing all Gay teachters?

Any Gay who supports McCain, especially with money earned off the backs of other gays, is exhibiting one single trait: internalized homophobia.

Why would it possibly be a good thing for our own people to support our sworn enemies?

Sorry, but this article is one of the dumbest I’ve read in a long time. You owe an apology to the Gay community for supporting this anti-gay drivel.

Bradley - sorry to say but what a bunch of crap! Who the f**K cares if he is making the donation in HIS NAME? Yes, OBVIOUSLY, it is still HIS MONEY - we should know, we GAVE him the BULK OF IT! He isn’t some low-level employee with precious little involvement in the company - he is a CO-FOUNDER for Christsakes! … and one of the most glaring examples of a HYPOCRITE I have read about in a LONG TIME. Rationalize all you want - this man WILL be held ACCOUNTABLE!

Bradley Johnson, you have it backwards. Crutchley’s donations to McBush are not like an employee’s donations; they are an owner’s donations and, as such, they do fairly reflect on the company he owns.

I wouldn’t be so quick to jump on some “Manhunt is run by fascists!” bandwagon. Mr. Crutchley is making the donations in his own name, not Manhunt’s. So while I’m not thrilled with the news, it’s still his money to do with as he pleases. It’s the same way the causes you donate *your* money to doesn’t mean your employer supports them.

The fact that Crutchley uses the term “gay agenda” is VERY telling! How many gay or gay supportive people do you know who use that term? I don’t know any! The only people I know who use that term are ANTI-GAY people! BOYCOTT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If Jonathan Crutchley is so uptight that he thinks being labeled a liberal is an insult of the highest order, he should read Wayne Besen’s posting at http://www.waynebesen.com/2008/08/in-defense-of-liberalism.html
I don’t think he really understands what that word means in its fullest sense.

Well McCain has pledged to appoint another SC Judge like Scalia who can overturn Lawrence v. Texas and take us back to the good old days when gays were in jail or in the closet.

That might actually help Manhunt’s business - more closet gays.

As for me I think I’ll stick to other online sites.

$30,000,000.00 ??? F**K HIM!

“Jonathan Crutchley, co-owner and founder of Manhunt.net, contributed $2,300 to John McCain. “If we have a seasoned, experienced person defending the country in this dangerous age,” wrote Crutchley to a blog commentator, “we will be able to argue about the gay agenda later.”

Crutchley founded Manhunt along with Larry Basile for a $800,000 investment in 2001. The site, I read in the phenomenal article by Michael Joseph Gross in this month’s Out magazine, now brings in $30 million a year not counting ad revenues, on members in 100 countries. Manhunt is adding 30,000 new members per week and counts more adherents than every single gay rights group in the country combined.

Sure, everyone has a right to their own political views, but I recoil a bit at a man who sucks fortunes out of our community while undermining it with his vote.”