A Smut-In for Shut-Ins: City List Logs Gay Porn [NY] [Where else?]

Daily News (New York) | June 26, 2003 | Joel Siegel

[firebrand]

Using taxpayer money, the city controller has compiled a new directory of services for gays and lesbians that includes Web links to hard- and soft-core pornography, the Daily News has learned.

One directory entry, titled "The Closet Case Show on the Web," is a listing for a Web site that offers "safe erotica for shut-ins."

The site contains scores of racy and explicit photos, including one set breathlessly titled "Jimmy Losing His Briefs!" and another called "Jeff Helps Sandy into a Suit," the suit being a Speedo.

Another set of photos on the site, "How to Seduce a Preppie," focuses on a "college freshman" named Paul.

Controller William Thompson's new "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Directory of Services and Resources," issued June 11, is 120 pages long and can be accessed from Thompson's city Web site or obtained at his office.

Thompson aide Michael Egbert said the controller's office has produced such directories for 20 years, but he did not know whether the erotica was new this year.

He defended the inclusion of the sex site listings, saying they were a small part of the directory.

Most of the other listings are for more standard resources, such as a motorcycle club for lesbians and the College of Staten Island's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Alliance.

City Councilman Andrew Lanza (R-S.I.) said it is "entirely appropriate" for the controller to produce a directory of services for gays and lesbians.

"Obviously, though, you ought not to be using taxpayer dollars to facilitate the distribution of pornographic material - especially in times like these, where you ought to be more careful with [city] money," he said.

Alan Van Capelle, executive director of the Empire State Pride Agenda, a gay rights group, said, "I know Bill Thompson's record. I don’t think the gay and lesbian community could have a better friend in city government than Bill Thompson. If anybody is offended by it, I can guarantee that wasn't Bill Thompson's intention."

[firebrand]

The full article is no longer available on the net without paying for it, thus no url.

[firebrand]

A friend of mine had been screaming about Hevesi's similar website to anyone who would listen. No one wanted to touch the subject.

Now Thompson's is ten times worse and at least, at last, the Daily News has woken up.

[timm22]

City Councilman Andrew Lanza (R-S.I.) said it is "entirely appropriate" for the controller to produce a directory of services for gays and lesbians.

Interesting. Somehow, I don't see how offering special, non-essential services to a small, particular group of citizens is a legitimate function of government.

[NEW YORKCITYGOPMAN]

The Comptroller of New York City is suppose to safeguard the public's money.

He sure as heck is NOT safeguarding the children of NYC. One of the groups listed at this website is an outfit called Queer Stories For Boys.

This is not really a matter of gay/lesbian rights, even. It is more about the role of government and the protection of minors. If Mr. Hevesi or Mr. Thompson want to have listings of this kind at their own personal or campaign websites, fine. But to use public money to inform the citizens of New York how they might contact 'The Closet Case Show on the Web' or Queer Stories for Boys is a disgrace. The story broke in the Daily News on June 26. Now that the public knows something about this, doesn't the Comptroller at least have a responsibility to look at some of the hundreds of listings at this site and remove those that are NOT appropriate for a publicly funded site?

Let's see if he takes action. I'm NOT holding my breath!

[NewRomeTacitus]

So I'm looking for Liddy's book in the Nashville Public Library when I spotted "Gay Travel Resources" on a lower shelf for any kid to peruse. To think I once avidly read "Boys Life", pursued Scouting and trusted my neighbors with nary a thought touching on alternative lifestyles.
Today's liberal-tainted world must be tough for most kids to deal with. I know it makes me queasy on a regular basis.
Got Mona Charon's "Useful Idiots" and got on the waiting list for Ann Coulter's "Treason" (44 people ahead of me!).
Support Regnery Press who supports conservative authors.

[Coleus]

What the comptroller does
http://www.comptroller.nyc.gov/what_comptr_does.asp

Funny, there's nothing there stating that he sould be a pig and a gay rights activist and promoter. I thought his office worked with budgets.

http://www.comptroller.nyc.gov/

http://www.comptroller.nyc.gov/contact.htm
http://www.comptroller.nyc.gov/bureaus/adm/contact.shtm
http://www.comptroller.nyc.gov/press/contact.shtm

http://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20030626-034358-9983r.htm

[NEW YORKCITYGOPMAN]

Thank you, Coleus, for that good post telling how we can contact the office of Comptroller. On the home page of that website, along the right hand side, you will come across the following intra-website link:
- LGBT Directory of Services

If you click on this, you will be taken to this directory, a listing in alphabetical order of hundreds, perhaps over one thousand groups, associations, agencies and individual there to serve the gay community. There are many, many listings which should NOT be there. Thanks for your post.

NYCGOPMAn

[Cacique]

This is excellent ammunition for our race in the districts we are running candidates (in Brooklyn). In a couple of districts the constituents are very socially ocnservative despite their registration. In particular since the current holder of one of the seats is reputed to be gay, though most constituents don't know it.

[NEW YORKCITYGOPMAN]

This is the link to the comptroller's directory.

http://www.comptroller.nyc.gov/bureaus/cac/LGBT_directory_03_web.pdf

[Coleus]

Thanks for the link. I couldn't find it on his webpage, how did you find it?

[NEW YORKCITYGOPMAN]

At the comptroller's website home page, on the right side, there is a section called 'help me find'

That takes you to the following link: -
LGBT Directory of Services

[NEW YORKCITYGOPMAN]

It should certainly be used against Thompson (and Hevesi for that matter) when he runs agains.

But Cacique, think about it. This is NOT really an anti-gay issue. It is an issue which is more about the role and responsibility of government in how they use our taxpayer dollars. And it is also about the role governnment has in protecting our children.

Queer Stories For Boys is not a group that should be promoted at a publicly funded website.

Neither would a group called Straight Stories For Girls.

So while this garbage is coming from a LGBT directory, being against many of the inappropriate listings it contains, does NOT make one anti-gay! In my opinion, that is what you should stress in your Brooklyn races. Good luck.

NEWYORKCITYGOPMAN

[NEW YORKCITYGOPMAN]

BUMP!