Subscribe to Breaking NewsWithers: Manhunt.net founder donates cash to McCain
Manhunt.net is getting a lot of ink recently. First there is the Out magazine article looking at the site’s impact on gay male culture. Now one of the site’s co-founders is a proud John McCain donor. According to Opensecrets Jonathan Crutchley has given the maximum individual donation to the presumptive Republican nominee.
Be prepared to be cut if you describe Crutchley as a liberal Republican. He admits his brand of Republicanism isn’t the same when compared to a Republican from Alabama, but for him the word liberal is an insult of the highest order.
If I were a betting man, I would wager camp McCain will return the cash when the story gets a wider audience. McCain can’t seek the support of the GOP base and take money from a gay guy who makes tons of money off of gay sex. Sure McCain could make a big tent argument but that takes political courage, a rather rare commodity in a close election.
Hopefully more gays and lesbians who think like Crutchley will come out of the closet. I’m not going to shed too many tears for gays who happen to be Republican, but the stories are out there of prejudice against those whose politics are a deeper shade of red. A community only stays vibrant when all ideas are presented at the table and it’s time to give up the deceit that sexuality leads to a liberal agenda.
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!