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GayPornBlog.com (GPB), which definitely is NSFW (Not Safe For Work), picked up on a story that we broke here at Legal Schnauzer. The GPB post istitled "Did Notoriously Anti-Gay Federal Judge William Pryor Pose Nude for Badpuppy?"
The GayPornBlog report says the Pryor photo gallery included 12 images. We have published only one photo so far, although our sources connected to Alabama law enforcement say their investigation in 1997 turned up "eight or nine" images.
Pryor's unfriendly public stances toward the gay community attracted the attention of editors at GayPornBlog:
A former state attorney general of Alabama from 1997-2003 (and the youngest state attorney general at the time), Judge William Pryor was nominated to the Eleventh Circuit by President George W. Bush in April, 2003.
Since then, the staunchly conservative judge has proven to be an outspoken homophobe. In 2005, Pryor wrote a brief to the Supreme Court on behalf of the Texas anti-sodomy law where he argued that decriminalized gay sex would lead to legalized necrophilia, bestiality and child pornography.
Lambda Legal Task Force President called him “an ideological tyrant of the highest order.”
Who are the folks behind GayPornBlog? The site's "About Us" page says it is the work of Jack Shamama and Mike Stabile. Here is more about the site:
Gay Porn Blog has been blogging about gay porn since there was an internet with porn to blog about. It has been featured in Salon, Slate, Huffington Post, Out and many others.
It is run by Mike Stabile and Jack Shamama. Jack Shamama was born in Brooklyn and moved to Miami’s tony South Beach for his adolescence. He’s been fending off men ever since. Jack prefers Yoko Ono and Jessica Simpson.
Mike Stabile first discovered the power of porn in boarding school, when he would trade his father’s Playboy centerfolds for social currency. He’s been trading sex for favors ever since. Mike likes John Lennon and Ashlee Simpson.
Mike and Jack have been best friends since college and both work in the gay porn industry. Their writing has, collectively and separately, appeared in magazines such as Playboy, Daily Beast, Salon, Huffington Post, the Village Voice, Pug Talk, Out.com and others.
That intro might be light-hearted, but these guys are not lightweights. Shamama is an award-winning author, producer, and screenwriter. Much of his commentary has focused on technology, social networking, and adult entertainment. He has been interviewed by a number of news outlets about Apple products.
Stabile has extensive experience as a documentary filmmaker, and currently is working on a film about GLBT philanthropist Chuck Holmes. An industry publication named GayPornBlog the best adult blog of 2005, and several of Stabile's screenplays have been nominated for GayVN Awards.
Obviously, GayPornBlog has been around a long time, and it has a high profile in the blogosphere. We can't help but be impressed with the blog's public spirit, as seen from its determination to help unearth any and all gay-porn photos of Judge Bill Pryor. After running a nude photo of Pryor from badpuppy.com next to one of Pryor in his judicial finery, the GPB editors had this to say:
It seems like it could very well be Pryor, who is a married father of two. Posing naked is not something we would normally chide someone for doing. Given the fact that he’s been classified as one of the most demonstrably anti-gay judicial nominees in recent memory adds a level of hypocrisy to the whole equation. What do you guys think? (Also, if anyone has any of the other 11 photos from the set, please feel free to email them to us!)
That e-mail address at GPB is jack@fauxjob.com.