http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/27/1380680/-Gay-NYC-businessmen-who-hosted-Ted-Cruz-try-to-repair-image-but-it-s-not-selling-in-Texas?detail=email
Ian Reisner is one of two gay businessmen who have come under fire for hosting Ted Cruz at a private campaign event in their Manhattan apartment.
Politicians aren't the only ones suffering from whiplash over the rapid change in public sentiment on LGBT issues during the last handful of years. New York businessmen Ian Reisner and Mati Weiderpass, who co-own the LGBT-friendly hotel Out NYC, have no doubt been taken by surprise at the fury over their dinner party last week for Ted Cruz.
The same day the New York Times report first surfaced, an effort to boycott the two entrepreneur's establishments arose on Facebook and now counts over 9,000 likes. The boycott also includes a strip of properties Reisner recently bought at the very gay-popular Fire Island Pines resort. Both Reisner and Weiderpass have since gone into full damage control. Here's Reisner's latest effort, an apology posted to his Facebook wall:
That was cold comfort to one his commenters, John Selig, who responded this way:
"It is your responsibility to carefully vet any politician before lending your support. I live in Texas and suffer continued hatred from Ted Cruz and his followers. You have made them stronger and more successful. At best, you are a fool."
The entire imbroglio highlights the divide between big-city gays and those who reside in less progressive parts of the country. It may be all too easy for some to sit in a Manhattan high-rise and find common ground on foreign policy with a blatant homophobe like Ted Cruz, even as his anti-gay efforts ravage the lives of LGBT Americans in his home state and elsewhere.
a traitor of any kind is still as egregious, is this a Steve Scalise moment like he didn't know Cruz was a bigot and hated him or did he really hate the guy he hosted a fund raiser for Cruz who obviously was willing to put the republican bigotry mantel on hold for money and he did it in his own home not more up front and personal than that. as hard as Gays have had it why would one support the party that despises them??? Americans of all stripes vote against their own interest from time to time mostly under informed or mislead this guy had to know Cruz his platform consist of denying Gay's equality.
