When you engage in illegal activities like this, and allow yourself to be the subject of extortion attempts, it's news. Hard to argue that this isn't a news story, particularly given that this guy is the CFO of a major company. And in this case, equality means being subject to the same invasive press that everyone else is subject to. I basically feel like everyone should be treated equally. As many of you know I am a staunch advocate for gay and transgender rights. Gawker and other liberal rags wouldn't think twice about publishing a story like this if the "victim" was a conservative who may have expressed opinions that could be viewed as anti-gay. What I find interesting here is the apparent double standard. Gawker received a ton of negative press, mostly from the largely liberal media and Hollywood types, and has since apologized and expressed regret for running the story. The prostitute, apparently miffed, called Gawker with the story and they ran with it. Geithner got spooked and backed out of the rendezvous, though he still paid him in full. The prostitute found out who he was and tried to get Geithner to help him resolve a legal dispute he was having. He set up a rendezvous with a gay porn star and paid him $2,500. Geithner is married to a woman and has three kids. There's a controversy brewing in media circles about Gawker publishing an article about Conde Nast CFO David Geither (the brother of Obama's ex Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner) getting caught up with a gay prostitute and ensuing extortion attempt.
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