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'Lucien' the escort: Anti-gay minister George Allan Rekers is homosexual who bought nude massages BY Neil Nagraj <http://www.nydailynews.com/authors/Neil%20Nagraj> DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Friday, May 7th 2010, 4:26 PM The anti-gay crusader snared this week in a gay sex scandal is a homosexual who "liked being rubbed down there," the escort at the center of the flap confirmed in a new interview. During a recent vacation on which the escort accompanied George Alan Rekers, the Baptist minister paid for daily nude body rubs, the man identified as "Lucien" told the Miami New Times.<http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2010/05/george_rekers_is_a_homosexual_says_escort.php>He told the newspaper Rekers created a name for his preferred massage technique - "the long stroke," a rubdown that involves complex below-the-belt touching. The newspaper reported this week that Rekers - a vocal proponent of gay-to-straight conversion therapy - found "Lucien" on the gay escorting site RentBoy.com and retained his services for a 10-day European vacation. When contacted by the paper, Rekers acknowledged he'd hired "Lucien," but denied he knew the man's profession until halfway through their trip. "I had surgery," Rekers told the Miami New Times, "and I can't lift luggage. That's why I hired him." Rekers also said in a Facebook interview with the blog joe.my.god that he tried ministering to the 20-year-old gigolo and teach him "it is possible to cease homosexual practices to avoid the unacceptable health risks associated with that behavior." Rekers was a co-founder in 1983 - along with evangelical stalwart James Dobson - of the Family Research Council. The advocacy group describes itself as championing "marriage and family as the foundation of civilization, the seedbed of virtue, and the wellspring of society." Rekers claims on his Web site to have been a fixture in Washington for decades, advising on child welfare to both the White House and Congress. He also is a board member of NARTH, a group that argues homosexual desires can be "cured" with therapy, and the author of "Growing Up Straight: What Families Should Know About Homosexuality." Rekers has slammed the Miami New Times' reporting as "slanderous" and full of "misleading innuendo," adding, "there was nothing inappropriate" about his relationship with "Lucien."
