Irrational hate apparently knows no party lines. Beyond our conventional mating rituals, the cruising area is an arena of male virility that allows individuals to feel like an elemental part of nature again.
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Sheriff Gautreaux, a Democrat, is basically the anti-gay version of Arizona's anti-immigrant despot Sheriff Joe Arapaio, a Republican. Traveling and Cruising The Perfect Match The vulnerability of being nude in a strange place, protected only by a few dunes or a forest, is liberating and extraordinary. It's only the gays that get he and his force excited, and that excitement not only opens them up to a host of lawsuits, but national ridicule.īut more disturbing, it shows how small-minded people let power go to their heads. But they are, presumably, straight, so Gautreaux and company's eyebrows remain uncocked. Do Christians not using singles events to cruise for potential sex partners? Of course they do. To that, I'd like to note that a local Christian singles group gets together at a local park for a run. But Hicks balked at that comparison, telling The Advocate, " is not the place to initiate or attempt to initiate sexual relations.” People meet there to find sex partners, after all. "To our knowledge, the Sheriff’s office was never contacted or told that the law was not enforceable or prosecutable," they said Sunday.īruce Parker from Equality Louisiana said that by the Sheriff's definition of "inappropriate," then all Baton Rouge bars should be shut down. In a statement released after the story, Sheriff Gautreaux's office claimed he didn't know about that decade-old ruling. “This is a law that is currently on the Louisiana books, and the sheriff is charged with enforcing the laws passed by our Louisiana Legislature,” said spokesperson Casey Rayborn Hicks “Whether the law is valid is something for the courts to determine, but the sheriff will enforce the laws that are enacted.”Īgain, the courts - well, THE court, as in the Supreme Court - did decide on such laws, way back in 2003, when it invalidated "crime against nature" laws that are simply covers for discrimination. Gautreaux's office is sticking to its anti-gay ways.
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While Attorney General Hillar Moore III refuses to prosecute these men - "…From what I’ve seen of these cases, legally, we found no criminal violation,” Moore said.
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"The July 18 arrest is among at least a dozen cases since 2011 in which a Sheriff’s Office task force used the unenforceable law to ensnare men who merely discussed or agreed to have consensual sex with an undercover agent, an investigation by The Advocate has found." And the count against the man was based on a part of Louisiana’s anti-sodomy law struck down by the U.S. The men did not agree to have sex in the park, a public place. "There had been no sex-for-money deal between the two. This has happened at least a dozen times since 2011. Gautreaux, III, the Sheriff of East Baton Rouge Parish, has been sending deputies into public parks to spark up conversations with cruising gay men, suggest they go somewhere to have sex, and then arrest them under "crime against nature" laws. The Baton Rouge Advocate revealed this weekend that Sid J.