Peter LaBarbera Plugs Away At BDSM

Left Behind Baptist guy Tim LaHaye‘s wife Beverly LaHaye set up “Concerned Women for America”, an organisation with which Peter LaBarbera was associated. In 2001, LaBarbera wrote, with others in this organisation, The Bush Administration’s Republican Homosexual Agenda: The First 100 Days, which probably came as quite a surprise to the White House.

Anyway, LaBarbera these days has a new full-time gig as boss of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality. What’s really cool is that LaBarbera forced himself to attend the Folsom Street Fair for several hours (as research, of course) and managed to create that wonderfully explicit photo essay. This article seems to be the original source for an article in Baptist News. The article’s contents appears to have been “pinkwashed” by passing through the AFTAH –> Pink News –> Baptist News. LaBarbera has quite a fan club:

For the past 10 years, Peter LaBarbera has devoted his life to opposing the “homosexual activist movement.” A 38-year-old father of five, LaBarbera is a fixture at gay conferences around the country. He also visits sex clubs and S/M bans in his native Washington, D.C., to gather material for his seven-year,old newsletter, “Lambda Report.”

LaBarbera promises there’s more: Coming in Part Two: More Folsom Street Fair photos and insights into those San Francisco Values, and why you should care. I sure hope he hurries up with those photos and stops hogging them, but for now it seems to me from this limited sample that LaBarbera and his fellow travellers derive no small satisfaction from gathering material obsessing over bondage and men-playing-with-men in all their polymorphous perversity.