Gay-for-Pay Porn Star's Wife Talks
Contents:
- DOG GAY PORN DON’T MAKE REE RIOUT GAY, BUT IT DO MAKE HIS WIFE LOOK MISERABLE
- GAY-FOR-PAY PORN STAR’S WIFE TALKS
- JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
- MY GAY WAR WH PETER THIEL: GAWKER’S NICK DENTON FAC THE FUTURE FIGHT TO WINGAWKER’S NICK DENTON DON’T KNOW IF HE’S ABOUT TO BE ED BY HULK HOGAN, OR SAVED BY ZIFF DAVIS. BUT HE SAYS ALL HIS WO STEM OM HIS AND PETER THIEL’S GAY IOLOGIL DIFFERENC.LLOYD GROVEUPDATED APR. 13, 2017 3:38PM EDT / PUBLISHED JUN. 17, 2016 9:09PM EDT BFA/REX/SHUTTERSTOCKFOR AN ONLE MEDIA ENTREPRENR WHO MIGHT BE ABOUT TO LOSE HIS FORTUNE TO A RETIRED CELEBRY WRTLER (WORST SE SCENAR)—OR (BT SE) SAVE BY SELLG HIS PANY TO A RPORATE WHE KNIGHT WILLG TO PAY $90 LN OR MORE—NICK DENTON SOUNDS REMARKABLY SUNNY.“LOOK, A LOT OF THIS IS ABOUT APPEARANC. THE LMER AND MORE NFINT WE ARE, THE QUICKER BS RETURNS TO NORMAL. CALM IS SELF-FULFILLG,” THE BRISH-BORN FOUNR OF GAWKER MEDIA TOLD THE DAILY BEAST ON FRIDAY, A WEEK AFTER HIS RPORATE CHILD FILED FOR BANKPTCY PROTECTN AGAST A FLORIDA JURY’S $130 LN JUDGMENT LAST MARCH FAVOR OF HULK HOGAN (REAL NAME: TERRY BOLLEA).WH THE BANKPTCY CLARATN, WAS ALSO ANNOUNCED THAT THE DIGAL PUBLISHG AND GAMG PANY ZIFF DAVIS HAD AGREED TO BUY GAWKER MEDIA FOR A REPORTED $90 LN, OR POSSIBLY MORE, IF IS THE WNG BIDR A LATE-JULY CTN TO BE SUPERVISED BY THE URT.IF ZIFF DAVIS IS SUCCSFUL, DENTON—WHO OWNS AROUND 30 PERCENT OF GAWKER MEDIA, WH AN ADDNAL 15 PERCENT OWNED BY FAY TSTS—HAS AGREED TO STAY ON AS A NSULTANT. WHATEVER THE FUTURE HOLDS, DENTON SISTS THAT GAWKER MEDIA’S NEARLY 300 EMPLOYE SHOULDN’T NECSARILY BE WORRIED.“IT’S TOO EARLY TO TELL WHAT AN ACQUIRER’S STRATEGY WOULD BE,” HE SAID AN TERVIEW NDUCTED VIA FACEBOOK MSAGG. “BUT [THE GAM AND ENTERTAMENT PANY] IGN EMPLOYS MORE PEOPLE NOW EDORIAL AND VIO THAN DID WHEN ZIFF DAVIS TOOK OVER.“GIZMODO AND OUR OTHER BRANDS ARE ALREADY MORE EFFICIENT THAN MANY OF OUR PETORS. GIZMODO IS BIGGER AND BETTER THAN THE VERGE—WH ABOUT A THIRD OF THE EDORIAL STAFF.”DENTON NTUED: “IF I’M EMOTNAL, I’M RELIEVED THAT WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO SECURE A SOLID FUTURE FOR THE PEOPLE AND THE BRANDS… AND I’VE BEEN SO PROUD OF THE RPONSE OF PEOPLE THE PANY, WHETHER WRERS, SELLERS OR ENGEERS. EVERYBODY HAS BEEN SO LM, PURPOSEFUL AND GROWN-UP.”GIVEN THE STAK, DENTON HIMSELF SEEMS EERILY OL AND POSED, MATAG AN AIR OF SANGOID THROUGH NTUAL MEDATN.IN ADDN TO THAT JAW-DROPPG $130 LN FIGURE, THE CLEARLY DISGTED JURY THE TWO-WEEK TRIAL—AID BY AN EQUALLY REVOLTED TRIAL JUDGE WHO HAS NSISTENTLY LED AGAST GAWKER AND LAST WEEK UPHELD THE VERDICT—SLAPPED DENTON PERSONALLY WH A $10 LN PENALTY, AND H FORMER GAWKER EDOR CHIEF A.J. DLER (SPE TRIAL EVINCE THAT HE HAS A NEGATIVE WORTH) WH A $100,000 PUNISHMENT FOR POSTG A SALAC VIO EXCERPT OF BOLLEA HAVG SEX WH THE WIFE OF A IEND.DENTON AND DLER ARE HOPG THAT THE BANKPTCY URT WILL AFFORD THEM PERSONAL PROTECTN AS WELL, PENDG THE OUTE OF AN TIMATED EIGHT-MONTH-LONG FLORIDA STATE APPEALS PROCS.DENTON—WHOSE HBAND IS ACTOR DERRENCE WASHGTON—IS BEG FORCED TO TIGHTEN HIS BELT, RENTG OUT THEIR EXPANSIVE SOHO LOFT (FOR A REPORTED $15,000 A MONTH) TO MOVE TO LS STLY DIGS ON MANHATTAN’S UPPER WT SI.“I’VE PROMISED DERRENCE WE’LL MOVE BACK DOWN AFTER THE APPEAL,” DENTON NFID, “THOUGH I RATHER LIKE UP HERE. IT’S RIGHT BY WHERE WE GOT MARRIED”— A POSH JUNE 2014 CELEBRATN AT THE MM OF NATURAL HISTORY.DENTON NOTED AN ASI: “DERRENCE IS SO SICK OF JOURNALISTS. HE SE A PILE OF NEWSPAPERS BY THE GATE AT THE AIRPORT AND SAYS: ‘POISON.’”THE LEGAL OUTE BOLLEA V. GAWKER WILL MEAN THE BTER OR HAPPY ENDG OF FOUR YEARS OF URT FILGS, POSNS, TRIAL TTIMONY, AND LNS LEGAL FE—WHICH, ON BOLLEA’S SI, HAVE BEEN SECRETLY FUND BY AN AGGRIEVED SILIN VALLEY BILLNAIRE, VENTURE PALIST PETER THIEL, WHO RECENTLY WAS INTIFIED AS THE FANCIAL BACKER OF NOT ONLY BOLLEA’S VASN OF PRIVACY LAWSU BUT ALSO A UPLE OF OTHERS AGAST GAWKER MEDIA.THE THIEL-PAID ATTORNEY, CHARL HARR—THE UNSEL ALL THREE LAWSUS, AND TANGENTIALLY VOLVED TWO OTHERS—RECENTLY THREATENED GAWKER WH A SIXTH ACTN ON BEHALF A HAIR RTORATN SPECIALIST WHO, ACRDG TO AN EXHSTIVE GAWKER VTIGATIVE REPORT, HAS FOR YEARS TEND TO PRUMPTIVE REPUBLIN PRINTIAL NOMEE DONALD TMP’S AMAZG NFECTN OF TWISTY YELLOW LOCKS.THE GEY THIEL’S GOAL, AS HE DITED A RARE TERVIEW LAST MONTH WH THE NEW YORK TIM, IS TO SUE GAWKER MEDIA TO OBLIVN, OR REASONABLE FACSIE THEREOF, FOR ALLEGEDLY VLATG HIS PRIVACY BY REPORTG THAT HE’S “TOTALLY GAY, PEOPLE,” (ALTHOUGH THIEL MA NO SECRET OF THAT FACT, WHICH WAS WILY KNOWN 2007 WHEN THE NOW-FUNCT GAWKER SE, VALLEYWAG, RAN THE STORY) AND FOR G ALL MANNER OF PUBLIC PA TO SOME OF HIS RICH IENDS THAT VALLEYWAG VERED AGGRSIVELY.IN A STRANGE CINCE, THIEL, WHO LLS HIMSELF A LIBERTARIAN, PLANS TO ATTEND THE REPUBLIN NVENTN CLEVELAND AS A TMP LEGATE OM CALIFORNIA.AND A WRKLE THAT IS SIMPLY BIZARRE, THIEL HAS GIVEN AT LEAST $3.5 LN TO A BRISH PUTER SCIENTIST-TURNED THEORETICIAN AND HIS “METHELAH FOUNDATN,” WHICH IS LOOKG TO WAYS THAT HUMAN BEGS MIGHT LIVE FOREVER.“IT’S BEEN A GREAT STORY,” DENTON NTUED. “JT THK ABOUT . A SISTER BILLNAIRE. A PRO WRTLER WH A SPL PERSONALY. DONALD TMP’S HAIR. A BUNCH OF RADIL JOURNALISTS NEW YORK. A TRIAL. A STORY THAT WORKS ON BOTH TABLOID AND TELLECTUAL LEVELS. YOU ULDN’T MAKE UP. AND WE STILL HAVE THE FAL ACT TO GO.”IT’S TYPIL OF THE 49-YEAR-OLD DENTON—A FORMER FANCIAL TIM REPORTER WHO LNCHED GAWKER A DOZEN YEARS AGO AS A MEDIA AND CELEBRY GOSSIP BRAND AND BUILT TO A PRIVATELY HELD PANY WH SEVEN DIFFERENT S, VERG EVERYTHG OM HIGH TECH TO LIFTYLE, AND 260 EMPLOYE—THAT HE N APPROACH A POTENTIAL TASTROPHE WH A SENSE OF AMED TACHMENT.“OH, GAWKER HAS ALWAYS BEEN A CCIBLE FOR DRAMA,” HE SAID. “WE REPORT ON , AND SOMETIM WE’RE PART OF . THIS IS NO MORE STRSFUL THAN THE WAR WH APPLE 2010, OR WH SCIENTOLOGY 2008, OR WH RIGHT-WG GAMERGATE ACTIVISTS 2014,” HE ADD, REFERRG TO VAR HEADLE-MAKG NTROVERSI. “PETER THIEL IS A VERY TERTG ANTAGONIST.”DENTON WENT ON: “THIS IS TERTG BEE HIS MOTIV ARE BOTH POLIL AND PERSONAL. ON THE ONE HAND, HE WANTED TO PUNISH A MEDIA OUTLET THAT DARED MOCK HIM AND HIS SILIN VALLEY IENDS. THEY’RE NOT ED TO THAT.“BUT THIEL ALSO HAS AN IOLOGIL OPPOSN TO TRANSPARENCY. DID YOU SEE THE VIO OF HIM QUTNED OUTSI THE BILRBERG MEETG?” DENTON NTUED, CG THE GERMAN-BORN BILLNAIRE’S RECENT ASSERTN, OUTSI OF CLOSED-DOOR NCLAVE OF FOREIGN-POLICY EL, THAT NOSY JOURNALISTS ARE THE EQUIVALENT OF THE STASI, EAST GERMANY’S COMMUNIST-ERA SECRET POLICE.“HE MA HIS VIEWS CRYSTAL CLEAR. DECISN MAKERS N’T BE HONT IF THEY’RE BEG NSTANTLY ‘MONORED BY SOCIETY.’ HE MA A NNECTN BETWEEN TRANSPARENCY AND AN ALL-SEEG MUNIST DICTATORSHIP. THAT’S A FASCATG ARGUMENT.”DENTON ADD: “FROM WHAT I UNRSTAND, THIEL FEELS HE’S BEEN TERRORIZED BY GAWKER FOR A . APART OM OUR PIECE CELEBRATG THE FACT THAT SILIN VALLEY’S MOST SUCCSFUL VENTURE PALIST WAS GAY, THE VERAGE OF THIEL’S BS AND POLIL VIEWS HAS BEEN MORE MOCKG AND CRIL.”THE IRONY OF DENTON’S LEGAL TROUBL—THAT THEY ARE THE RULT OF A TANIC CLASH BETWEEN TWO WILDLY SUCCSFUL, HIGH-PROFILE GAY MEN—ARE NOT LOST ON HIM.“THIEL AND I ARE BOTH GAY, BUT WE HAVE VERY DIFFERENT VIEWS ON GAY INTY,” DENTON SAID. “I’VE LONG THOUGHT IMPORTANT THAT GAY PEOPLE BE VISIBLE ALL WALKS OF LIFE—NOT JT TRADNAL PROFSNS SUCH AS HAIRDRSG. AND I DON’T BELIEVE AN DIVIDUAL’S ZONE OF PRIVACY EXTENDS TO GAY SOCIAL LIFE. IF YOU’RE OUT PUBLIC WH YOUR DATE, I DON’T SEE WHY THE L FOR GAY PUBLIC FIGUR SHOULD BE ANY DIFFERENT THAN THOSE FOR STRAIGHT PEOPLE.“AT A HIGHER LEVEL, THIS IS A CLASH BETWEEN NFINTIALY AND TRANSPARENCY. BUT THERE IS ALSO THE GAY ANGLE: A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE MORE RADIL AND NSERVATIVE APPROACH TO GAY RIGHTS. THE RADILS PHED FOR MORE TRANSPARENCY, FOR GAY PEOPLE TO STAND UP AND BE UNTED.“THE NSERVATIV, SUCH AS PETER THIEL, FOR A LONG TIME SUBSCRIBED TO THE IA THAT GAY RIGHTS ARE ‘SPECIAL’ RIGHTS. THEY DIDN’T WANT TO PH SOCIETY FURTHER THAN WAS FORTABLE GOG.” DENTON, WHO IS OBVLY ON THE “RADIL” SI OF THE ARGUMENT, ADD: “I THK ’S AWOME THAT GAY PEOPLE NO LONGER HAVE TO LIVE ACRDG TO A SGLE TEMPLATE. YOU N BE A TMP-SUPPORTG, IMMORTALY-SEEKG, NEO-REACTNARY VENTURE PALIST—AND ALSO BE GAY. THAT’S PROGRS.”DENTON SISTED THAT DON’T BOTHER HIM THAT MANY, MANY PEOPLE, NOT ONLY FLORIDA BUT NEW YORK, HAVE BEEN ROOTG FOR GAWKER’S STCTN.“OH, I DON’T FEEL THAT,” HE SAID. “AFTER THE HOGAN VERDICT, Y, THERE WAS SOME SCHAN—PECIALLY OM MEDIA PEOPLE WHO HAD THEMSELV BEEN MOCKED BY ”HE ADD: “SPEAKG OF THOSE CRICS, I JT HAD A LIGHTFUL LUNCH WH MICHAEL WOLFF”—THE USA TODAY MEDIA WRER WHO HAS APPLD THE JURY’S FDGS AGAST GAWKER AND SENTIALLY WISHED GOOD RIDDANCE TO BAD BBISH.WOLFF PAID, DENTON REVEALED.“I LIKE THE GUY. ALWAYS HAVE,” HE SAID. “HE DON’T MIX WELL WH THE GAWKER BLOGGERS—EVEN THOUGH MICHAEL, LIKE THEM, N NEVER RIST A GRATUO SULT. I THK HE HAT THEM BEE HE WAS ONCE LIKE THEM.” LLOYD GROVE
- ‘ULTIMATE FIGHTER’ CONTTANT SAYS ‘GAY FOR PAY’ PAST WAS MISTAKE
DOG GAY PORN DON’T MAKE REE RIOUT GAY, BUT IT DO MAKE HIS WIFE LOOK MISERABLE
* nick dent gay *
Havg sex wh a man would seem to negate any claim of heterosexualy, and yet, there are plenty of guys who claim that dog all sorts of thgs wh other people's penis (cludg bottomg, which Dent do) is jt a job, jt somethg to "get over wh" (as Dent says) on the way to the to acunt a metric like the Ksey Sle, which nsirs even cintal gay sex a viatn om absolute heterosexualy (meang that Ree is at least a 1 — predomantly heterosexual, only cintally homosexual — if not a 2 — predomantly heterosexual, but more than cintally homosexual), seems a ltle disgenuo to ll a man who regularly has sex wh men totally straight, regardls the reason. Jt as his body language suggts he really enjoys gay sex spe what he says, hers suggts that she is not nearly as OK wh her hband's job as she lets on.
Sign up today for our ee To TopWorldGay-for-Pay Porn Star’s Wife TalksGay-for-pay porn star Ree Riout, also known as Nick Dent, and his wife Becki talk about their fort level wh his reer choice, sayg that the cisn down to money, the new U. "Now, his foc is gay porn, which, spe what people thk, I'm more fortable wh, " said Becki, who like Nick is om Oregon.
GAY-FOR-PAY PORN STAR’S WIFE TALKS
He got to after he was offered $1, 500 simply to masturbate on a gay webse lled Straight porn only pays men $300 a scene, but gay porn pays up to five tim as much. Reece isn't gay and I'm jt happy he isn't filmg wh other women.
But gay sex is tough if you're straight.
Workg gay porn is better all round. Major profsnal sports to publicly e out as gay. Last Febary, Maxen nnected wh lebacker Carl Nassib, who beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay 2021, as he navigated a path forward.
JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
Gawker will mean the bter or happy endg of four years of urt filgs, posns, trial ttimony, and lns legal fe—which, on Bollea’s si, have been secretly fund by an aggrieved Silin Valley billnaire, venture palist Peter Thiel, who recently was intified as the fancial backer of not only Bollea’s vasn of privacy lawsu but also a uple of others agast Gawker Thiel-paid attorney, Charl Harr—the unsel all three lawsus, and tangentially volved two others—recently threatened Gawker wh a sixth actn on behalf a hair rtoratn specialist who, acrdg to an exhstive Gawker vtigative report, has for years tend to prumptive Republin printial nomee Donald Tmp’s amazg nfectn of twisty yellow gey Thiel’s goal, as he dited a rare terview last month wh The New York Tim, is to sue Gawker Media to oblivn, or reasonable facsie thereof, for allegedly vlatg his privacy by reportg that he’s “totally gay, people, ” (although Thiel ma no secret of that fact, which was wily known 2007 when the now-funct Gawker se, Valleywag, ran the story) and for g all manner of public pa to some of his rich iends that Valleywag vered a strange cince, Thiel, who lls himself a libertarian, plans to attend the Republin nventn Cleveland as a Tmp legate om a wrkle that is simply bizarre, Thiel has given at least $3.
MY GAY WAR WH PETER THIEL: GAWKER’S NICK DENTON FAC THE FUTURE FIGHT TO WINGAWKER’S NICK DENTON DON’T KNOW IF HE’S ABOUT TO BE ED BY HULK HOGAN, OR SAVED BY ZIFF DAVIS. BUT HE SAYS ALL HIS WO STEM OM HIS AND PETER THIEL’S GAY IOLOGIL DIFFERENC.LLOYD GROVEUPDATED APR. 13, 2017 3:38PM EDT / PUBLISHED JUN. 17, 2016 9:09PM EDT BFA/REX/SHUTTERSTOCKFOR AN ONLE MEDIA ENTREPRENR WHO MIGHT BE ABOUT TO LOSE HIS FORTUNE TO A RETIRED CELEBRY WRTLER (WORST SE SCENAR)—OR (BT SE) SAVE BY SELLG HIS PANY TO A RPORATE WHE KNIGHT WILLG TO PAY $90 LN OR MORE—NICK DENTON SOUNDS REMARKABLY SUNNY.“LOOK, A LOT OF THIS IS ABOUT APPEARANC. THE LMER AND MORE NFINT WE ARE, THE QUICKER BS RETURNS TO NORMAL. CALM IS SELF-FULFILLG,” THE BRISH-BORN FOUNR OF GAWKER MEDIA TOLD THE DAILY BEAST ON FRIDAY, A WEEK AFTER HIS RPORATE CHILD FILED FOR BANKPTCY PROTECTN AGAST A FLORIDA JURY’S $130 LN JUDGMENT LAST MARCH FAVOR OF HULK HOGAN (REAL NAME: TERRY BOLLEA).WH THE BANKPTCY CLARATN, WAS ALSO ANNOUNCED THAT THE DIGAL PUBLISHG AND GAMG PANY ZIFF DAVIS HAD AGREED TO BUY GAWKER MEDIA FOR A REPORTED $90 LN, OR POSSIBLY MORE, IF IS THE WNG BIDR A LATE-JULY CTN TO BE SUPERVISED BY THE URT.IF ZIFF DAVIS IS SUCCSFUL, DENTON—WHO OWNS AROUND 30 PERCENT OF GAWKER MEDIA, WH AN ADDNAL 15 PERCENT OWNED BY FAY TSTS—HAS AGREED TO STAY ON AS A NSULTANT. WHATEVER THE FUTURE HOLDS, DENTON SISTS THAT GAWKER MEDIA’S NEARLY 300 EMPLOYE SHOULDN’T NECSARILY BE WORRIED.“IT’S TOO EARLY TO TELL WHAT AN ACQUIRER’S STRATEGY WOULD BE,” HE SAID AN TERVIEW NDUCTED VIA FACEBOOK MSAGG. “BUT [THE GAM AND ENTERTAMENT PANY] IGN EMPLOYS MORE PEOPLE NOW EDORIAL AND VIO THAN DID WHEN ZIFF DAVIS TOOK OVER.“GIZMODO AND OUR OTHER BRANDS ARE ALREADY MORE EFFICIENT THAN MANY OF OUR PETORS. GIZMODO IS BIGGER AND BETTER THAN THE VERGE—WH ABOUT A THIRD OF THE EDORIAL STAFF.”DENTON NTUED: “IF I’M EMOTNAL, I’M RELIEVED THAT WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO SECURE A SOLID FUTURE FOR THE PEOPLE AND THE BRANDS… AND I’VE BEEN SO PROUD OF THE RPONSE OF PEOPLE THE PANY, WHETHER WRERS, SELLERS OR ENGEERS. EVERYBODY HAS BEEN SO LM, PURPOSEFUL AND GROWN-UP.”GIVEN THE STAK, DENTON HIMSELF SEEMS EERILY OL AND POSED, MATAG AN AIR OF SANGOID THROUGH NTUAL MEDATN.IN ADDN TO THAT JAW-DROPPG $130 LN FIGURE, THE CLEARLY DISGTED JURY THE TWO-WEEK TRIAL—AID BY AN EQUALLY REVOLTED TRIAL JUDGE WHO HAS NSISTENTLY LED AGAST GAWKER AND LAST WEEK UPHELD THE VERDICT—SLAPPED DENTON PERSONALLY WH A $10 LN PENALTY, AND H FORMER GAWKER EDOR CHIEF A.J. DLER (SPE TRIAL EVINCE THAT HE HAS A NEGATIVE WORTH) WH A $100,000 PUNISHMENT FOR POSTG A SALAC VIO EXCERPT OF BOLLEA HAVG SEX WH THE WIFE OF A IEND.DENTON AND DLER ARE HOPG THAT THE BANKPTCY URT WILL AFFORD THEM PERSONAL PROTECTN AS WELL, PENDG THE OUTE OF AN TIMATED EIGHT-MONTH-LONG FLORIDA STATE APPEALS PROCS.DENTON—WHOSE HBAND IS ACTOR DERRENCE WASHGTON—IS BEG FORCED TO TIGHTEN HIS BELT, RENTG OUT THEIR EXPANSIVE SOHO LOFT (FOR A REPORTED $15,000 A MONTH) TO MOVE TO LS STLY DIGS ON MANHATTAN’S UPPER WT SI.“I’VE PROMISED DERRENCE WE’LL MOVE BACK DOWN AFTER THE APPEAL,” DENTON NFID, “THOUGH I RATHER LIKE UP HERE. IT’S RIGHT BY WHERE WE GOT MARRIED”— A POSH JUNE 2014 CELEBRATN AT THE MM OF NATURAL HISTORY.DENTON NOTED AN ASI: “DERRENCE IS SO SICK OF JOURNALISTS. HE SE A PILE OF NEWSPAPERS BY THE GATE AT THE AIRPORT AND SAYS: ‘POISON.’”THE LEGAL OUTE BOLLEA V. GAWKER WILL MEAN THE BTER OR HAPPY ENDG OF FOUR YEARS OF URT FILGS, POSNS, TRIAL TTIMONY, AND LNS LEGAL FE—WHICH, ON BOLLEA’S SI, HAVE BEEN SECRETLY FUND BY AN AGGRIEVED SILIN VALLEY BILLNAIRE, VENTURE PALIST PETER THIEL, WHO RECENTLY WAS INTIFIED AS THE FANCIAL BACKER OF NOT ONLY BOLLEA’S VASN OF PRIVACY LAWSU BUT ALSO A UPLE OF OTHERS AGAST GAWKER MEDIA.THE THIEL-PAID ATTORNEY, CHARL HARR—THE UNSEL ALL THREE LAWSUS, AND TANGENTIALLY VOLVED TWO OTHERS—RECENTLY THREATENED GAWKER WH A SIXTH ACTN ON BEHALF A HAIR RTORATN SPECIALIST WHO, ACRDG TO AN EXHSTIVE GAWKER VTIGATIVE REPORT, HAS FOR YEARS TEND TO PRUMPTIVE REPUBLIN PRINTIAL NOMEE DONALD TMP’S AMAZG NFECTN OF TWISTY YELLOW LOCKS.THE GEY THIEL’S GOAL, AS HE DITED A RARE TERVIEW LAST MONTH WH THE NEW YORK TIM, IS TO SUE GAWKER MEDIA TO OBLIVN, OR REASONABLE FACSIE THEREOF, FOR ALLEGEDLY VLATG HIS PRIVACY BY REPORTG THAT HE’S “TOTALLY GAY, PEOPLE,” (ALTHOUGH THIEL MA NO SECRET OF THAT FACT, WHICH WAS WILY KNOWN 2007 WHEN THE NOW-FUNCT GAWKER SE, VALLEYWAG, RAN THE STORY) AND FOR G ALL MANNER OF PUBLIC PA TO SOME OF HIS RICH IENDS THAT VALLEYWAG VERED AGGRSIVELY.IN A STRANGE CINCE, THIEL, WHO LLS HIMSELF A LIBERTARIAN, PLANS TO ATTEND THE REPUBLIN NVENTN CLEVELAND AS A TMP LEGATE OM CALIFORNIA.AND A WRKLE THAT IS SIMPLY BIZARRE, THIEL HAS GIVEN AT LEAST $3.5 LN TO A BRISH PUTER SCIENTIST-TURNED THEORETICIAN AND HIS “METHELAH FOUNDATN,” WHICH IS LOOKG TO WAYS THAT HUMAN BEGS MIGHT LIVE FOREVER.“IT’S BEEN A GREAT STORY,” DENTON NTUED. “JT THK ABOUT . A SISTER BILLNAIRE. A PRO WRTLER WH A SPL PERSONALY. DONALD TMP’S HAIR. A BUNCH OF RADIL JOURNALISTS NEW YORK. A TRIAL. A STORY THAT WORKS ON BOTH TABLOID AND TELLECTUAL LEVELS. YOU ULDN’T MAKE UP. AND WE STILL HAVE THE FAL ACT TO GO.”IT’S TYPIL OF THE 49-YEAR-OLD DENTON—A FORMER FANCIAL TIM REPORTER WHO LNCHED GAWKER A DOZEN YEARS AGO AS A MEDIA AND CELEBRY GOSSIP BRAND AND BUILT TO A PRIVATELY HELD PANY WH SEVEN DIFFERENT S, VERG EVERYTHG OM HIGH TECH TO LIFTYLE, AND 260 EMPLOYE—THAT HE N APPROACH A POTENTIAL TASTROPHE WH A SENSE OF AMED TACHMENT.“OH, GAWKER HAS ALWAYS BEEN A CCIBLE FOR DRAMA,” HE SAID. “WE REPORT ON , AND SOMETIM WE’RE PART OF . THIS IS NO MORE STRSFUL THAN THE WAR WH APPLE 2010, OR WH SCIENTOLOGY 2008, OR WH RIGHT-WG GAMERGATE ACTIVISTS 2014,” HE ADD, REFERRG TO VAR HEADLE-MAKG NTROVERSI. “PETER THIEL IS A VERY TERTG ANTAGONIST.”DENTON WENT ON: “THIS IS TERTG BEE HIS MOTIV ARE BOTH POLIL AND PERSONAL. ON THE ONE HAND, HE WANTED TO PUNISH A MEDIA OUTLET THAT DARED MOCK HIM AND HIS SILIN VALLEY IENDS. THEY’RE NOT ED TO THAT.“BUT THIEL ALSO HAS AN IOLOGIL OPPOSN TO TRANSPARENCY. DID YOU SEE THE VIO OF HIM QUTNED OUTSI THE BILRBERG MEETG?” DENTON NTUED, CG THE GERMAN-BORN BILLNAIRE’S RECENT ASSERTN, OUTSI OF CLOSED-DOOR NCLAVE OF FOREIGN-POLICY EL, THAT NOSY JOURNALISTS ARE THE EQUIVALENT OF THE STASI, EAST GERMANY’S COMMUNIST-ERA SECRET POLICE.“HE MA HIS VIEWS CRYSTAL CLEAR. DECISN MAKERS N’T BE HONT IF THEY’RE BEG NSTANTLY ‘MONORED BY SOCIETY.’ HE MA A NNECTN BETWEEN TRANSPARENCY AND AN ALL-SEEG MUNIST DICTATORSHIP. THAT’S A FASCATG ARGUMENT.”DENTON ADD: “FROM WHAT I UNRSTAND, THIEL FEELS HE’S BEEN TERRORIZED BY GAWKER FOR A . APART OM OUR PIECE CELEBRATG THE FACT THAT SILIN VALLEY’S MOST SUCCSFUL VENTURE PALIST WAS GAY, THE VERAGE OF THIEL’S BS AND POLIL VIEWS HAS BEEN MORE MOCKG AND CRIL.”THE IRONY OF DENTON’S LEGAL TROUBL—THAT THEY ARE THE RULT OF A TANIC CLASH BETWEEN TWO WILDLY SUCCSFUL, HIGH-PROFILE GAY MEN—ARE NOT LOST ON HIM.“THIEL AND I ARE BOTH GAY, BUT WE HAVE VERY DIFFERENT VIEWS ON GAY INTY,” DENTON SAID. “I’VE LONG THOUGHT IMPORTANT THAT GAY PEOPLE BE VISIBLE ALL WALKS OF LIFE—NOT JT TRADNAL PROFSNS SUCH AS HAIRDRSG. AND I DON’T BELIEVE AN DIVIDUAL’S ZONE OF PRIVACY EXTENDS TO GAY SOCIAL LIFE. IF YOU’RE OUT PUBLIC WH YOUR DATE, I DON’T SEE WHY THE L FOR GAY PUBLIC FIGUR SHOULD BE ANY DIFFERENT THAN THOSE FOR STRAIGHT PEOPLE.“AT A HIGHER LEVEL, THIS IS A CLASH BETWEEN NFINTIALY AND TRANSPARENCY. BUT THERE IS ALSO THE GAY ANGLE: A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE MORE RADIL AND NSERVATIVE APPROACH TO GAY RIGHTS. THE RADILS PHED FOR MORE TRANSPARENCY, FOR GAY PEOPLE TO STAND UP AND BE UNTED.“THE NSERVATIV, SUCH AS PETER THIEL, FOR A LONG TIME SUBSCRIBED TO THE IA THAT GAY RIGHTS ARE ‘SPECIAL’ RIGHTS. THEY DIDN’T WANT TO PH SOCIETY FURTHER THAN WAS FORTABLE GOG.” DENTON, WHO IS OBVLY ON THE “RADIL” SI OF THE ARGUMENT, ADD: “I THK ’S AWOME THAT GAY PEOPLE NO LONGER HAVE TO LIVE ACRDG TO A SGLE TEMPLATE. YOU N BE A TMP-SUPPORTG, IMMORTALY-SEEKG, NEO-REACTNARY VENTURE PALIST—AND ALSO BE GAY. THAT’S PROGRS.”DENTON SISTED THAT DON’T BOTHER HIM THAT MANY, MANY PEOPLE, NOT ONLY FLORIDA BUT NEW YORK, HAVE BEEN ROOTG FOR GAWKER’S STCTN.“OH, I DON’T FEEL THAT,” HE SAID. “AFTER THE HOGAN VERDICT, Y, THERE WAS SOME SCHAN—PECIALLY OM MEDIA PEOPLE WHO HAD THEMSELV BEEN MOCKED BY ”HE ADD: “SPEAKG OF THOSE CRICS, I JT HAD A LIGHTFUL LUNCH WH MICHAEL WOLFF”—THE USA TODAY MEDIA WRER WHO HAS APPLD THE JURY’S FDGS AGAST GAWKER AND SENTIALLY WISHED GOOD RIDDANCE TO BAD BBISH.WOLFF PAID, DENTON REVEALED.“I LIKE THE GUY. ALWAYS HAVE,” HE SAID. “HE DON’T MIX WELL WH THE GAWKER BLOGGERS—EVEN THOUGH MICHAEL, LIKE THEM, N NEVER RIST A GRATUO SULT. I THK HE HAT THEM BEE HE WAS ONCE LIKE THEM.” LLOYD GROVE
Apart om our piece celebratg the fact that Silin Valley’s most succsful venture palist was gay, the verage of Thiel’s bs and polil views has been more mockg and cril. ”The irony of Denton’s legal troubl—that they are the rult of a tanic clash between two wildly succsful, high-profile gay men—are not lost on him.
“Thiel and I are both gay, but we have very different views on gay inty, ” Denton said. “I’ve long thought important that gay people be visible all walks of life—not jt tradnal profsns such as hairdrsg.
‘ULTIMATE FIGHTER’ CONTTANT SAYS ‘GAY FOR PAY’ PAST WAS MISTAKE
And I don’t believe an dividual’s zone of privacy extends to gay social life.
If you’re out public wh your date, I don’t see why the l for gay public figur should be any different than those for straight people. But there is also the gay angle: a difference between the more radil and nservative approach to gay rights. The radils phed for more transparency, for gay people to stand up and be unted.