Mayor’s Affair: Beau Breedlove speaks out
We’ve heard the openly gay mayor of Portland, Oregon, Sam Adams, apologize for his affair with a teenage intern, and confess he lied about it while running for office. But for the first time, the young man at the center of the City Hall scandal is speaking out, and only to 365gay News.
Beau Breedlove sat down with Ross Palombo of CBS News to tell his side of the story.
Breedlove says their relationship began when he was 17, working as a legislative intern. Adams was 42 and a commissioner for the city of Portland.
“What attracted you to him?” Palombo asked.
“Our friendship, his personality…” Breedlove said. “I thought he was very handsome, I thought he was very charismatic.”
The second time they met, the subject of Breedlove’s age came up.
Breedlove says Adams was surprised to learn he was 17.
“He was worried about the perception of our relationship at that time,” Breedlove told Palombo.
But not worried enough to stop their first kiss, Breedlove says, a kiss goodbye at the train station.
“It was a kiss, it caught me off guard, but it was mutual,” Breedlove said.
“He, the adult, knows you’re 17… but kisses you anyway?” Palombo asked.
“It just happened… It just happened,” Breedlove whispered.
Breedlove also details a kiss inside City Hall, and tells when he and Adams first had sex.
While the Portland Attorney General is investigating whether Breedlove was of the age of legal consent at the time of the sexual relationship, Breedlove insists he is not a victim.
Breedlove also describes his life today, and his relationship with Adams now.
You can see the full interview exclusively on 365gay News, Thursday at 7pm Eastern and Pacific, on Logo.
@ TANK Said: February 6th, 2009 at 7:44 pm
I must assume this post is aimed at me?
re: “if you want to be accepted, just act straight”
I made no such statement.
End of argument
And just when you thought you’d heard the dumbest most revoltingly stupid thing you’d ever heard in your life, stroke inducing comments like “if you want to be accepted, just act straight” come along. I don’t want to be accepted, then. I want equal rights and equal protections, and no amount of assimilationism is going to get that for me. Instead, visibility (by being who we are and living our lives) will and has increased acceptance and tolerance. Blending IN does not in any way shape or form change attitudes people hold about gays. This is demonstrable. You act like a twit (like them) in your ridiculous image of suburban assimilationist sweater normalcy, and they compartmentalize–you are NOT THEM, and they vote against THEM, not you, while justifying it by the assumption that YOU, like THEM, don’t think THEY (the homos) deserve rights…after all, you’re not one of those gays…the gays they’re voting against. Being like heterosexuals has done wonders for this movement…oh, wait…there wouldn’t be a movement at all if we’d continued down that path.
Mr. Sullivan III, I meant no personal attack.
There is a hierarchy that we all come under. Think of it as a ‘flow chart’ where everything falls under, and branches off, of this imaginary line(s). The Hetero’s think of themselves as one(1) step under this ‘trunk’. Beginning with them: everything else is broken down into sub-groups. Although; (in reality) in their minds: they are ‘The Trunk’. The Homo’s to them, are some where far under this trunk, branched off some where as a sub-set.
The goal of the Homosexual community, or objective, is to move themselves up that flow chart: closer to The Trunk. Not a extension of, or sub-set of. “A state of real existence, rather than a possibility”.
“If the Homosexual community wont’s to win this war, just act straight”. The GLBT community will have to move themselves up that flow chart.
Picture beau breedlove as a heterosexual. Chav, and with girlfriend expecting their second love child…cheating with girlfriend’s sister.
The dog’s name (named after the long island lolita herself…) and dog walking sashay were low comedy, and looked staged by the station and beau.
It’s nice to see that breedlove and adams are still friends despite the fact that adams wouldn’t return the station breedlove conducted this interview with a callback. I imagine breedlove will be wearing off white at their wedding, after adams propses on bended knee in the same bathroom they shared a “romantic” kiss in. Phew, it’s time to calm down…
The name Beau Breedlove says it all, doesn’t it? These people are fame chasers and will do anything to get their sorry faces in the news. The mayor ought to know better. He ought to be grounded for a year.
without possiblities there is not future,,, check out our president. I dont ACT in any particular fashion,, but if I hear a negitive gay or black man as the butt of a joke I stand tall and rebufff the individual making the joke, and tell them why,,, that I am a gay proud man,,,not a misguided man who plays something he is not. In over 40 years I have gotten maybe 4 or 5 negitive responses. I dont ACT like anyone except who I am… I am a PROUD man. PERIOD
@Daniel O’Sullivan III Said: February 6th, 2009 at 10:08 am
Act: a state of real existence rather than possibility.
Post Script I wrote “DONT ACT BE” I put spaces in there that did not show up, so let me be clear… what I ment was DONT ACT……. “BE”
mdc.philly Said: “just act straight”? what the hell does that mean? a football player,, a construction worker? a Doctor,, the President?
I think what the gay community is saying is DONT ACT BE
How does a black man “act” white, or a hispanic (who acts straight and then gets drunk and seeks gays) a steriotype, which is the point I am trying to make,, just what the hell is ACTING straight
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Mr. Beau Breedlove and all Homosexuals need to understand, and never forget who your audience really is. Our culture, and this world is Heterosexual. There really is no such thing as the [gay culture] working side-by-side with the [straights]. Note…I did not use the word straight culture! The gay community is looked at as a sub-culture. Gays like to think of themselves as a culture. The Homosexual community: is a culture inside a culture. Although this is fine inside the gay club, this does not work very well outside…in a straight world. Heterosexuals accept Homosexuals much better, if gays act straight. The Heterosexual world is a Black and White world – The Homosexual world is a rainbow world. This is a contradiction and the contrast is easy to understand.
Its best not to follow the crowed. Its much more fun to simply be apart of it (life). As long as [they] feel a need to define [us], we will find a need to redefine us. If the Homosexual community wont’s to win this war, just act straight.
Beau Breedlove, SHUT UP! You were not a girl. You were a MAN and you could handle yourself. Yes, gay relationships are different from heterosexual ones. Gay relationships tend to be egalitarian even with large age differences. Plus not only are you in a relationship with a person of the same sex but also someone of the same sexuality which means you are atleast basic knowledge of who you are dealing with.
Uraiane wrote: “How many heterosexual people lied about something and are still in office? I think it more than him telling a lie about his personal life.”
Actually in regards to heterosexuals, I was thinking about the situation with the Clintons, when I made my “spousal involvement” remark. It wasn’t right then and it isn’t right here. This is not specifically either a gay or a straight issue. I’d take great offence at having my sex life scrutanized, regardless of whether or not I told a little white lie about it. People do this all the time, and it doesn’t affect their ability to do a job. It’s just nobody else’s business. If we could go after every politician who ever lied about his or her sex life, gay or straight, we’d have very few politicians left in office, and they wouldn’t be necessarily the best and most qualified at their jobs. Plus we’d be spending money on things like the Ken Starr investigation, analyzing jizz stains on clothing or maybe bed sheets, instead of putting the money where it’s really needed.
How many heterosexual people lied about something and are still in office? I think it more than him telling a lie about his personal life.
I must strongly disagree with those who are saying the problem is the mayor lied. If this had happened in Canada, or in many European countries, for example, the view would be it was a lie yes, but a lie about sex. It doesn’t involve or affect anyone except the people directly involved in the relationship, or perhaps the other spouse if it is an extra-marital affair. It’s a very personal matter.
I started having sex with MEN when I was 13,, it was my choice,,, my family knew about it,, As long as you are happy,, we still love you,, and they accepted me and the people I chose to have sex with,, If the kiss or sex was consentual what is the difference,,, love happens,, and young men and women make choices and more often move on to loving others,, that is just the way it works,,, if he was 17, what is the differance between that and 18,, is he any smarter dumber than than when he turns 18. did you wait to have sex until you were 18. some no matter what age are never ready for a real kiss. Or a relationship because we get screwed up no matter what age. You might have waited until you were 21,,, and how many marrages did you have? I am not a proponante of inter generational sex but it happens and I learned a lot,, both good and bad,, do you think that my heart hurt anymore or any less when my heart got broken, or when I was riding a love high? age had nothing to do with it. Look at your kids,, know they will have sex and fall in love a lot earlier than you did.. it is like mom and dad having sex just for fun. Remember how you felt,, it turned out to just be a fact of life.
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