Republican Sen. Koering’s dinner with porn star scrutinized
Wednesday, June 16, 2010 at 6:00 am
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Already locked in a tough primary battle, Minnesota’s only openly gay elected Republican courted controversy this week when he met with a gay porn actor for dinner Sunday evening. The dinner date was revealed on Twitter when porn actor Brandon Wilde tweeted:
lol so funny !! in 45 min’s im going 2 dinner with the senator : )
In an interview with gay porn news website The Sword, Koering admitted to the date.
“I don’t see anything wrong with going out with him. Do I think that being a porn star is the best thing? No. But that’s his choice,” Koering said. “I think he’s a nice guy.”
Wilde has starred in films such as “My Brother’s Hot Friend” and “Cruiser Boys.” He divides his time between Brainerd, Minn., and West Hollywood, Calif., and at one time offered escort services on rentboy.com, the same website where religious right figure George Rekers found his “vacation companion.”
“I think he wanted to get in my pants, truthfully,” he told The Sword following the date. “And he was pretty flirty. But it was just dinner. We both were checking out the waiter though. It was fun.”
“He told me he wants to be president one day! But first, he needs to win his re-election,” Wilde told The Sword. “He said once he was re-elected he’d work on gay rights issues and NOH8 stuff, you know? He said he’d make it so gay marriage was legal in Minnesota.”
Koering denied that portion of the conversation.
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Comment posted June 16, 2010 @ 7:25 am
Wow, Andy, such homophobia. Why is this story such a problem for you? Aren’t gay people expected to date, you know, other gay people?
Comment posted June 16, 2010 @ 9:32 am
It’s not a problem for me. But I think the implied question here is whether it’ll be a problem for Republicans in Koering’s district.
Comment posted June 16, 2010 @ 9:57 am
What would Republicans say if a straight, male Democrat dated a female porn star and sometime fille de joie? Would they be revealing a bias against heterosexuality?
Comment posted June 16, 2010 @ 11:51 am
Dennis,
You obviously have no idea how to identify homophobia in its proper context. Which makes the rest of your comment moot.
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Dano,
It’s good to see you haven’t turned over a new leaf. I like it when people don’t surprise me. It makes it easier to maintain my cynical worldview.
Comment posted June 16, 2010 @ 12:00 pm
I’m not homophobic. I could argue that Koering is homophobic. He’s gay yet opposes marriage equality for same-sex couples.
Comment posted June 16, 2010 @ 12:05 pm
What Dennis is really getting at is the problem of politicians who are gay who cause great harm to the LGBT community by voting against their interests.
Comment posted June 16, 2010 @ 12:18 pm
Andy, I would remind you that Elton John opposes same-sex marriage as well. There are gay people who think through social issues before jumping on the politically popular bandwagon and then there are others of the same tribe who expect everyone within that tribe to think alike.
Comment posted June 16, 2010 @ 12:33 pm
Elton John doesn’t oppose marriage equality because he’s worried about getting reelected. There are legitimate arguments about the discriminatory nature of the institution of marriage or the liberationist view of marriage’s impact on gay culture.
Those are valid viewpoints. Opposing something that arguably has benefits for your own community just because you fear getting voted out of office is not a valid viewpoint on marriage. And that’s the basis Koering has used several times in his opposition.
Elton John may have thought through the issue; I have yet to see Koering do the same.
Your comparison does not hold water, Dennis.
Comment posted June 16, 2010 @ 12:58 pm
Dano,
It’s hard to take a joke when internet doesn’t have an *insert sarcasm here* option to clarify that what you said was a joke.
What I do have, however, is your other comments in recent days pertaining to LGBT issues, and they all carry the same tone of unacceptance.
Comment posted June 16, 2010 @ 3:09 pm
At least he didn’t hire him to carry his baggage for him.
Comment posted June 16, 2010 @ 4:44 pm
Well, if by “carry” you mean “fondle” and if by “his baggage” you mean…………
Comment posted June 16, 2010 @ 4:58 pm
Koering is no friend to gays. He’s just another sleazy gay Republican politician who wants to keep his business in the closet when it serves to protect his political interests, even if it goes against the interests of the rest of the gay community. Just another Larry Craig. He probably has a favorite stall at MSP too.
Comment posted June 17, 2010 @ 7:38 pm
Sen. Koering may want to brush up on his Shakespeare:
“He’s mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse’s health,
a boy’s love, or a whore’s oath.”
King Lear (III, vi, 19-21)
Comment posted June 20, 2010 @ 7:21 pm
If they would just eat each other, they could save some money and have some fun.
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