Headline Roundup • April 27th, 2015
Owner Apologizes for Event
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Two gay New York businessmen who hosted a recent dinner for Ted Cruz apologized to the gay community, saying it was a “terrible mistake” because of the GOP presidential hopeful’s opposition to same-sex marriage.
Ian Reisner, in a Facebook message posted Sunday night, said he has been upset by the backlash he’s received from gay men and lesbians, who called for a boycott of The Out NYC hotel and Fire Islands Pines businesses run by Reisner and his business partner, Mati Weiderpass
Ian Reisner, a gay businessman who hosted an event for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) in New York this week, apologized on Sunday after furious backlash from the gay community.
Reisner and his longtime partner Mati Weiderpass hosted a "fireside chat" with the presidential candidate, who reportedly softened his notoriously anti-gay tone at the event by claiming that, if one of his daughters were gay, "I would love them just as much.” News of Cruz's appearance prompted a boycott of the two men's businesses.
In a statement posted to his Facebook...
Breitbart News
One of the two openly gay hoteliers who hosted Republican Senator Ted Cruz at a Manhattan event last week, has caved to the Gaystapo with the kind of sniveling, dishonest and humiliating apology demanded by the Gaystapo if you don’t want your life ruined.
“I am shaken to my bones by the emails, texts, postings and phone calls of the past few days. I made a terrible mistake,” wrote Ian Reisner on his Facebook page over the weekend.
Reisner went on to
