Andrew Belonsky is a New York-based journalist and a former Queerty editor. He currently writes for the New York Daily News, the LGBT blog AKAWilliam, the Huffington Post and has filled in as Gawker's night editor. Belonsky is also a contributor to The Bilerico Project and lives in New York City.
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According to Parker, she just wanted to lighten the appropriately-named Belcher’s mood, so she gave him a hug and a kiss on the cheek.
“He was just waving his arms and has a Bible in one hand, up and down, and screaming at the top of his lungs, ‘sodomites’ and ‘you’re going to hell,” she said. “I thought he needed a hug. So I gave him a hug.”
Parker, however, has totally overblown the encounter, describing the hug in the most brutish terms possible: “She ran her arms all the way around me and pulled me toward her.” The horror!
Belcher also claims Parker was aiming for his lips — “If I hadn’t turned my head, I’d have gotten it right on my mouth.” — but Parker insists he’s a “damned liar.”
Still, Belcher contends Parker’s hug and kiss were “just one of many attempts to silence the preaching to those in need of salvation who practice a death style that they call a lifestyle.”
Police are apparently taking the situation very seriously. Police Chief Roy Collins said that though he didn’t think Belcher truly would press charges, Parker’s action wasn’t “a show of affection” and qualifies as “unwanted touching.”
As silly as this story is, it also reveals how self-serious homophobic activists can be; if you ask me, Belcher needs to stop being such a hard ass and loosen up. It makes things so much easier, if you know what I mean.
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Now this is a result. James Edward Belcher is making a heroic stand against Grannie and Auntie Abuse. We must support him. He must prevail.
I think she should have just been sick all over his shoes, accidentally, of course. It's not like she didn't feel sickened by being near him.
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