Subscribe to Breaking NewsWithers: Manhunt.net chairman resigns from board
, contributing editor, 365Gay Blog 08.16.2008 12:22am EDT
Sorry about posting this so late, but the chairman and co-founder of Manhunt.com, Jonathan Crutchley, has been forced to resign from the site’s board. Seems Crutchley’s maximum donation to John McCain’s campaign didn’t go down well with the company’s other founder Larry Basile.
“It should be known that Jonathan Crutchley’s donation to McCain left the entire Board in disbelief,” Basile said in an statement. “I am disappointed that we have lost some customers, and I understand the anger. It is too bad for the web site if we lose customers, but PLEASE never refer to me as a Republican. I consider it an offense.”
Is this enough for people who have been asking for a boycott of Manhunt?
Chris, Who is the ignorant one? The one that can not make a post without calling names or belittling someone with a differing point of view or the one that points out that blindly following a single party is foolish?
Thanks for advice Trace, but I’ll take my “anger” over your ignorance any day.
The bottom line is he still owns the company even if he “resigns”. They are raking in 2.4 Million dollars a month from this site. He still owns the majority of the stock in the company, do you think he cares if he is “forced to resign” he is laughing all the way to the bank. Cancel your manhunt account now!!
Chris, you may want to get some medication to control that anger streak you have going on there.
I find it entertaining that everyone is so bent out of shape regarding the actions of someone that runs a site that is (shall we say) less than honorable. Honestly, it’s a site that not only supports but encourages random and reckless sexual acts.
Cant say that I’m too upset about anyone withholding support of Manhunt but find it entertaining that they’re doing it for the reasons being claimed. (Talk about not seeing the forest for the trees.)
And by the way, McCain supports gay couples ability to protect their relationships through legal action. So in my book, both of these so called candidates support “Separate and Somewhat Less Than Equal.” Ya know, thanks but no thanks to either option.
Having reading more of these posts – it is shocking that anyone could possibly, intelligently deny the dynamic involved here. NOBODY is saying that this a-hoel doesn’t have a right to put his money where he wants or support who he wants. What we ARE saying is that WE HAVE EVERY RIGHT not to feed money into someone who activley/financially supports a candidate who undermines GLBT civil rites. Crutchley can do whatever the f**k he wants, he will not however, be doing anti-gay work with my GAY DOLLARS! PERIOD! This is not brain surgery folks! And for the “Gay Republicans” (what’s next – Jews for Hitler?) on the board – get a grip. How people can rationalize their support of a party that actively seeks to undermine them is beyond comprehension. While McSame and Obama neithers upport gay marriage, Obama DOES support civil unions – something McSame DOES NOT and on virtually EVERY SINGLE OTHER ISSUES OF IMPORTANCE TO GLBT PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY TODAY THEIR VIEWS AND THEIR VOTING HISTORIES COULD NOT BE MORE OPPOSITE. OBAMD HAS SUPPOTED GLBT RITES AND McSAME HAS – NOT! PERIOD! Where the hell is there discussion on this? Are these “Gay Republicans that stupid or desperate” as not to see what is clearly and undeniably staring them right in the f**king face????
JJS – The only thing that is a PITY, are ignorant remarks such as yours. Nobody would have been forced to resign from a GAY website for making contributions to a PRO-GAY candidate. Are you really that ignorant as not not see the distinction?
Sounds to me like another form of unacceptable bigotry. If someone had been forced to resign because of a contribution to Obama, you would be all up in arms about unfairness, destroying free speech, etc. The gay community has become just as hate-filled and repressive as the homophobes. Pity.
WOW Sam!
Your post to Bahrain 17 is absolutely amazing. Very well said Sir.
Bahrain 17,
And when will the gay community in countries around the world stop being always, always, always equated with sex?
Don’t get me wrong,
I love sex (safe sex, that is)but these days, there is far more to gay life than just sex these days in the USA, same as in the straight community…we also go to work, feed the pets, some of us are raising kids, some of us are actually getting married to others of the same sex, we go to movies, to parks, travel, read books, dine out, do grocery shopping, have friends and family. More and more of us American gays are thinking about a family life centered around those we love. Things like casinos and sex escorts might be hallmarks of Bahraini gay life and maybe Bahraini gays have yet to develope a concept of equaling gay life with family life as they likely have no gay role models living a truly family life to base that on, coming from an Arab culture that traditionally forbids homosexuality at least in places like Saudi Arabia. Maybe they based their assumptions (as we once universally did in America) that gay life was not about falling in love, romance and creating a family-type bond with the person you loved most, that gay is likely for many of your fellow Arabs and other Middle Eastern men nothing more than a sex act and I hope I don’t get found out sort of thing. Not even a life, maybe just a quick transaction, or quick sex and an immediate return back to “Calling me a homosexual is an insult to me as a Muslim!
You know, man from Bahrain, we gay men and women in the USA are working on getting the ability to set up a family life for ourselves with those we love most, and love is for many of us now living a nice life at home with a same-sex partner maybe even raising adopted children or children from a previous heterosexual marriage not about secretly getting a load off with another man and then pretending he doesn’t exist.
For us gay Americans, gay is thankfully now more and more about being family and having a lovely home life and sex escorts are a thankfully more and more a thing of the past century for the vast majority of us here. Hopefully you gay men in the Middle East will one day be able to live in a family mode and come to know true love. And maybe the sex escorts will be hopefully one day a thing of the past for your gay people in Bahrain as well and maybe your gay people there will one day be able to openly live a family-style life at home with their same-sex partners. I know this sounds odd to you, but I hope Bahraini gays can find true love this way and that there is far more to being gay than just a sex act.
That’s fine, Jeff. It’s apparent that you change the subject for your own benefit so you can have your rant and eat it too. It’s OK. Give yourself a pat on the back. I’m sure you’ve done yourself proud.
Allen: Did I claim most gay men aren’t liberal? No. I simply said being gay does NOT equal being liberal. Touche’
Tom: 50,000 murders in the United States on average in a country of a couple hundred million and you think that’s a pattern? Wow, what a bubble you have going on.
Jeff Barea,
You say “..bizarro world views of your own life – running zig zag to your car to avoid some Republican sharpshooter”. Do you have amnesia or not read the news? Quite recently, a dittohead, gun-toting RUPUBLICAN did indeed walk into a Unitarian church and killed several people, because he was upset with his interpretation of liberalism. You can check all the details on this web site.
Go ahead and keep living in your bubble world, while your nice boss goes off to vote McCain into power, then more scum-bag bigots like Antonio Scalia will be appointed to the Supreme Court, and laws like sodomy laws will go back into affect. When the christian police are toting your butt off to jail and putting you on a sex-offender registry for having threesomes, you won’t be so complacent then.
By the way, you failed to mention one right belonging to married couples which same-sex couples don’t have and never will get in an attorney’s office: immigration rights.
Oh please, Jeff Barera, I never once said that “gay = liberal”, but anyone who would claim that majority of gays in this country aren’t liberal is living in an alternative reality most people aren’t familiar with. All of which is completely beside the point anyway. The main complaint raised by people sympathizing with Crutchley in this comment board is that his right to free speech is being denied because the board forced him to resign as chairman of Manhunt. That’s denial of freedom of speech? I suppose that makes ClearChannel’s actions against the Dixie Chicks denial of free speech too. And while a lot of Chicks sympathizers claimed that to be so, it’s funny how Republicans and conservatives didn’t see it the same way. Truly when its one of your own being hoisted on their own petard, the inclination toward hypocrisy runs deep on both sides on the aisle.
I simply can not believe that this is such an issue. The only difference between Obama and McCain are that McCain has a history of actually supporting the rights of all people. If you watched the interviews with Pastor Rick Warren last night, you noted that BOTH candidates noted that marriage is “between one man and one woman.” BOTH further went on to explain that marriage rights should be decided by the states and that there should be legal protections for partners. The difference? McCain has said this for years. Obama? Well he says it based upon party polls.
People need to wake up that there are as many in the Democratic Party that don’t like gay folk as there are in the Republican Party. The difference? The Democrats will smile at ya, shake your hand, take your money and stab ya in the back.
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If you boycott, keep it up. A CEO stepping down means nothing – Crutchley still has all the money, $30 million plus a year.
Larry Basile used to be co-owner of a magazine called Outweek. When his partner was dying of AIDS he forced him out of the business and left him penniless. In order to monopolize on a phone sex business he forced the closure of Outweek; Manhunt grew out of that phone site, which was a product of the forced magazine closure. The whole company is pretty underhanded and dirty, inotherwords.
Do you want to spend money with someone who marginalized a gay business partner, especially if said partner is too ill to even fight back? I don’t.