Today we were making our usual rounds, monitoring hate group websites, when we noticed something very peculiar: when we tried to access the website of Peter LaBarbera (AKA Porno Pete)’s organization, the so-called Americans for Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH), we received an error message. Repeated attempts yielded the same result, so now we’re wondering: has Porno Pete gone out of business?
It’s been a rough year for Porno Pete. In March, AFTAH was designated an anti-gay hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. In July, Pete sent out a tweet that seemed to suggest he was moonlighting as a Starbucks barista. The following month, the news broke that the IRS revoked AFTAH’s tax-exempt status back in 2010. And now his website is down. It appears that would-donors are none too enthusiastic about subsidizing Porno Pete’s gay porn addiction, anti-gay misinformation campaigns, and “undercover” operations at leather events.
I wonder if the lights are even on at Porno Pete’s dungeon AFTAH headquarters…
h/t: Clint Walker
Since LaBarbera has children to support, I hope he can support them. But truly, he can give much more good to the world as a Starbucks barista than through this weird and hateful ministry. The kids will probably be prouder of him, too.
If Pete sold his porn stash he’d be fine. If he pawned each sleazy mag for $1 he’d be a millionaire. But I guess he isn’t ready to part with his pride and joy.
I am going to miss my favorite comedian…Its good to know that there are crazy people in this world that will let you laugh at them. Heck, he puts it right out there…Now what to do? Maybe he could convince the Leather Archives and Museum in Chicago to purchase his collection for display as his collection rivals theirs I’m sure. It would be a great addition and what a steal, its even close by, so no big transportation expenses either.
Hey guys, sorry to disappoint you but we are not out of the pro-family Exposing-LGBT-Misinformation business — but rather the victims of a hacker, or so it seems. Perhaps it was one representing the Forces of Tolerance? (Homosexual or liberal activists as censors? Perish the thought!) For whatever reason, our site is down and our server host is working to fix the problem.
Re: the “barrista” thing, anyone can “work” at Starbucks, as long as their laptop has Wi-fi. But it’s always more interesting to float another lie about yours truly than to stick with the facts.
And then there is Wayne Besen’s pathetically crass “Porno Pete” smear — of which he is so proud that he even repeated it like a mantra during a recent radio debate with me on the Barry Lynn show “Culture Shocks.” Wayne, isn’t name-calling among the SPLC’s criteria for qualifying as “hate group”? Or are PRO-gay calumnies somehow exempt?
The fact that “Truth” Wins Out slanders so effortlessly demonstrates: 1) your lack of real arguments; and 2) that you guys are the real haters, something an objective observer could learn from perusing your bigoted, sophomoric — and often vicious — blog. So here’s to the next debate: call me an idealist but I hereby challenge Wayne to refrain from ugly ad hominem putdowns for the full hour! You can do it, Wayne! Yes you can.
Peter LaBarbera
Americans For Truth About Homosexuality
Mr LaBarbera (since you don’t want to be called Porno Pete),
The nickname is not exactly the same as your vicious attacks on the LGBT community. Here’s the thing: Wayne has given you a nickname that conveys your obsessive interest in leather sex (an interest that the majority of the LGBT community doesn’t even really care about). You and your ilk insist that we are immoral, wrong and disgusting. That is your choice to believe. However, the first amendment does not allow you to impose your beliefs based on your imaginary friend (who I understand wants to be called God, yes?) on the rest of us. Separation of church and state, you know?
Most of the time, as Wayne and Evan point out, we aren’t really angry at you. We just find you a particularly amusing headache.
Emma
Translation of Porno-Pete’s diatribe; I know you are but what am I. You’re being mean by not letting me be mean to you! WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!
And Porno-Pete? It’s okay for you to admit your crush on Wayne. We understand.
One other thing Porno-Pete. You have no evidence that gay people are behind this. It could just as easily be your fellow bigots who are tired of you emberrasing them. But since you don’t think equal protection applies to gay people, it’s no surprise that you don’t thin innocent until proven guilty applies to us either.
Shorter Porno-Pete:
“How dare you hate me for attacking and oppressing you!”.
Oh no! I’ll miss Porno Pete and our Tweet-offs. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-oZgNgaCKTCU/TnjmKHTlzeI/AAAAAAAAAa8/RU-a4okBkpw/s320/dadttroll.jpg
I like how every time a rabidly anti-gay website has issues it’s always due to alleged hacking. Websites do break.
I never knew hacking was a term that meant not being able to pay the bills.
I tell you what. I’ll stop calling you Porno Pete when you stop acting like a gay obsessed peeping Tom — slithering around the maze of bathhouses and scurrying around leather parties in a sick voyeuristic manner in the faux name of right wing “research”. And when you stop peddling “ex-gay” lies — because we all know your “ex-gay” poster boys John Paulk, Wade Richards, and Michael Johnston did not work out so well — yet you keep peddling the BS.
A person who peddles known lies deserves no respect. That is why you have earned your name — PORNO PETE.
Deal?
Wayne you should also check out his twitter page as it also has been deleted.
my bad it seems it still works too bad.
Wayne Bessen is not attacking Peter LaBarbera as a person. I understand that Wayne has a deep love for Peter, as do all gay people. No, it is Peter’s chosen behavior that we cannot abide. Spending one’s entire professional life attacking a nonexistent “homosexual lifestyle” is a terrible waste of time and talent. It is because we love Peter that we are called to tell him, in love, that it is unhealthy and wrong to spend one’s time skulking about at sex events and then insinuating that all gay people engage or condone such activities.
Because of his chosen lifestyle, Peter has many children to support. Yet instead of maximizing his earnings in a real full-time job, he chooses to spend a few hours a week running AFTAH. What he does the rest of the week, who can say? I imagine that Peter would claim that running AFTAH is a 40 hour/week job, but I don’t really know because Peter hasn’t filed AFTAH’s Form 990 in 3 years and AFTAH Board member, attorney and Liberty University Law School Dean Matt Barber apparently failed to notice.
So it is for these reasons that we call Peter LaBarbera “Porno Pete”. It may seem harsh, but the truth hurts. Change your lifestyle Peter and restore your name.
As the AFTAH banquet is coming up, perhaps Peter would like to update the world on the status of his lawsuit against Holiday Inn. He made such a big show of filing the suit. But anyone with the money for the filing fee can do that.
What evidence did he have that Holiday Inn engaged in religious discrimination just because it did not wish to host an event that would disrupt the enjoyment of the other guests? Did any of the numerous Christian legal groups offer or agree to represent AFTAH? Is the lawsuit even still pending? I imagine that if Peter had good answers to any of these questions, we would have seen something on the AFTAH website.
I read that poor Pete could not afford to get to Folsom this year. Maybe he’s just sad.
I wonder how many times a day PP (pun intended) obsessively checks out and reads this website. It didn’t take him long to respond on here. Maybe his chaps are at the cleaners. Santorum stains are so hard to get out.
Re: Starbucks – If Pete is not moonlighting at SB, why not clearly say so? You’ll notice that his “denial” above doesn’t clearly and unambiguously deny that he is moonlighting there.
Also, when a native speaker of the English language wishes to convey that he is employed by SB, he states that he is “working at Starbucks”. If that speaker wishes to convey that he was simply a customer of SB and was using WiFi, then he would say “I was doing work at Starbuck’s” or perhaps “I went to Starbuck’s to do some work”. But he would not say that he was working “at Starbuck’s”.
Now Peter has always suffered from limited proficiency in the English language, so we won’t fault him if the tweet was poorly written. But let him say clearly that he doesn’t moonlight.
Oh, Wayne, he’s baiting you like you are some dummy who can’t see through his childlike taunts. I really like the way he speaks about “misinformation” and “real arguments” like he doesn’t participate in either. Ho hum.
We all know that people of his ilk do not like gay people who want to be treated as legal equals or in any way considered an ordinary part of the human race. I’m sure he’ll allow us to continue breathing, but if your boss wants to fire you for being gay; you’re refused employment because you’re gay; you aren’t allowed to adopt because you are gay; no serving in the military because you’re gay; and on and on the list goes; he is perfectly at peace with that just so long as you keep yourself hidden and away from decent people, like himself I’m sure. He simply can’t realize that we’ve done all that for generations and gotten only misery and foul treatment for it. We’ve had enough and want to be recognized as his equal. Terrible isn’t it? I still think he should get a real job instead of living off the fools who give him money just to badmouth us.
Wayne & Pete! Always with the sniping!
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Junior High School is a nightmare from which I am trying to wake up.
—mark miner / Didaskalos
He doesn’t want us to keep breathing. That’s why he supports Uganda’s gay genocide bill and refers to countries that don’t execute us as having “liberal attitudes”.
Boy, he really hates being called “Porno Pete” doesn’t he? But not enough to give up his world class collection.
I have a recurring image of a 90 year old LaBarbera: He is forgotten, abandoned, incontinent, and drooling in a nursing home while mumbling about the good old righteous gay-bashing days, and wondering what the hell happened. And then, along comes the nurse to clean up the drool, and put on a clean diaper. That nurse is a gay man.