Petrelis Files

GLAAD's Vodka Pride Pool Party
With Steroidy Porn Star

And the GLAAD award for best appearance by a steroid-pumped gay male porn star at a pool party sponsored by Absolut vodka goes to youngish smoothie Matthew Rush!

Okay, he's pleasing enough to my queer eye, but Rush is not nearly reason enough to keep this corrupt organization in business. Rush appears on the left and I don't know who is with him on the right. Just how many parties must this group hold before gays start demanding accountability and transparency?

The relevancy of GLAAD disappeared a long time ago, and the only entities who benefit from it anymore are corporations more interested in pursuing their profits, A-gay social climbers, red carpet manufacturers and all the caterers and party-planners who benefit from rubber chicken galas hosted by the group.

Down at the Miami Herald's site, gay scribe Steve Rothaus reports:

GLAAD, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, held a pool party Saturday evening in at the W hotel in Fort Lauderdale, an official event of Stonewall Street Festival & Parade. Among the attendees: MSNBC news anchor Thomas Roberts, who with his partner, Patrick Abner, will be parade grand marshal Sunday night in Wilton Manors.

Here are a few pictures taken by Jon Schwenzer, South Florida chapter president of the NLGJA, the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association:

Click to enlarge and you'll clearly see the Absolut and GLAAD logos on the screen in the background, and also read the vodka company's name on the beach ball. GLAAD is little more than leech upon the community, selling its soul to the highest corporate bidders and the gays would do themselves a huge favor to just dismantle the group.