Mancunt Update

Yes, I've cancelled my Manhunt subscription. I encourage the rest of you to do the same. Check the Towleroad comments pages for back-door (ahem) ways to look at the pictures you want to see (if you decide to continue Manhunt cruising).

Don't give that right-wing prick another dollar of your money. There are so many other ways to hook up if that's what you're looking for...

Oh no she didn't...

Many of us have apparently been duped... again. Thanks to Towleroad for breaking this story.



The CEO of the wildly popular gay hookup site, Manhunt (link intentionally omitted), is Jonathan Crutchley of Boston, MA. He is the man pictured below, seated at a desk at the Manhunt headquarters. (Note the inexcusable curtains.)




Mr. Crutchley's business relies solely on the libidos of gay men, including myself. He makes 30 million dollars yearly off of us, not including advertising revenues. He was described in a recent Out article as "a liberal Republican with a tight white beard", but his response to a recent addition to the comments page associated with his interview on Online Personals Watch shows that the "liberal" moniker is a misnomer if ever there was one. His snarky, right-wing response is shown below:

Mr. Crutchley gave $2300, the maximum allowable personal donation, to the John McCain presidential campaign. (The donation was accepted.) He is also one of those irritating gay men who is so myopic and selfish that he thinks that McCain's party, the platform for which traditionally contains language that is directly opposed to the very existence of GLBT Americans, would be better for GLBT Americans than any other party... Democratic or otherwise.

Mr. Crutchley is right, Obama is not in support of marriage equality. But any reasonable examination of the data reveals that Obama will nominate judges that are more amenable to our civil equality, will ensure that our country will cease its breakneck race to the bottom of the ethical barrel, and will end the lies-based debacle in Iraq that should never have happened in the first place. And his nasty comment about the word "liberal" being an insult is in itself insulting to the vast majority of gay men in the United States.

Crutchley is free to espouse any political opinion he likes, and is free to give his homo dollars to any politician he wishes. I, in turn, am free to take my business elsewhere.

I, for one, am thoroughly pissed off, and will be cancelling my Manhunt subscription. I encourage everyone to do the same.