{"id":18405,"date":"2015-05-02T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-05-02T16:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/gay-nyc-hoteliers-reveal-why-they-hosted-a-ted-cruz-reception-and-share-their-thoughts-on-the-growing-backlash\/"},"modified":"2015-05-02T12:00:07","modified_gmt":"2015-05-02T16:00:07","slug":"gay-nyc-hoteliers-reveal-why-they-hosted-a-ted-cruz-reception-and-share-their-thoughts-on-the-growing-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/gay-nyc-hoteliers-reveal-why-they-hosted-a-ted-cruz-reception-and-share-their-thoughts-on-the-growing-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Gay NYC Hoteliers Reveal Why They Hosted a Ted Cruz Reception and Share Their Thoughts on the Growing Backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Gay NYC Hoteliers Reveal Why They Hosted a Ted Cruz Reception and Share Their Thoughts on the Growing Backlash<\/b><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/towleroad.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c730253ef01b7c7838fa3970b-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cruz\" src=\"http:\/\/towleroad.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c730253ef01b7c7838fa3970b-500wi\" title=\"Cruz\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In an interview with&nbsp;<em>New York<\/em> magazine, <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> hoteliers Ian Resiner and Mati Weiderpass speak at length about their thoughts on the blowback following their intimate &#8220;fireside <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=grq0&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">chat<\/a>&#8221; and dinner with anti-LGBT Sen. Ted Cruz last week.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll recall after news broke of the reception, <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> organizations began to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2015\/04\/gay-nyc-hotelier-issues-apology-for-hosting-intimate-reception-for-ted-cruz-i-made-a-terrible-mistak.html\" target=\"_blank\">quickly pull out of fundraisers and events<\/a> at establishments owned by the two NYC&nbsp;multimillionaires. Cruz himself also seemed to want to distance himself from the two in the wake of headlines, as he filed two new bills&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2015\/04\/ted-cruz-introduces-two-new-bills-targeting-same-sex-marriage-to-remind-you-hes-still-very-much-anti.html\" target=\"_blank\">targeting same-sex marriage<\/a>&nbsp;a short time afterwards.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/towleroad.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c730253ef01b8d10d1a47970c-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Reisner\" src=\"http:\/\/towleroad.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c730253ef01b8d10d1a47970c-200wi\" title=\"Reisner\"><\/a>Reisner told the magazine the negative reactions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/boycottFIP\" target=\"_blank\">on Facebook<\/a> and elsewhere deeply troubled him:<\/p>\n<p>Besides the business aspect, for me the horrible part is the abundance of communications in all forms. Letters, <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=grq0&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">calls<\/a>, texts, emails, Facebook notifications, and postings. Like, hate. The hate against us is so strong, for me, it literally makes me weep. That there&rsquo;s a vast group of <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> folks in America that don&rsquo;t know what I&nbsp;<em>have<\/em>&nbsp;done for the <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> cause, consistently for decades, and now think I&rsquo;m anti-<a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a>. There&rsquo;s such a massive divide between the reality of what we do, did and do, and their limited thinking of what we do because of a few facts and a few headlines.<\/p>\n<p>Reisner added that in many ways the reception was only held so that Cruz could meet and discuss Israeli politics with Reisner&#8217;s business partner Sam Domb, an Orthodox Jew who watched his mother perish in the Nazi death camps during World War II. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The full interview, which can be read <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2015\/05\/owners-of-out-hotel-on-ted-cruz-controversy.html\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>, also touches on Weiderpass&#8217;s time in the army, <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">naked<\/a> Twister at the penthouse, why Reisner thinks <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gays<\/a> are an &#8220;entitled&#8221; group and more.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=vgqYpxbYpA8:JLvbunRCvsA:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=vgqYpxbYpA8:JLvbunRCvsA:I9og5sOYxJI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=I9og5sOYxJI\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=vgqYpxbYpA8:JLvbunRCvsA:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=vgqYpxbYpA8:JLvbunRCvsA:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?i=vgqYpxbYpA8:JLvbunRCvsA:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=vgqYpxbYpA8:JLvbunRCvsA:cGdyc7Q-1BI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=cGdyc7Q-1BI\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=vgqYpxbYpA8:JLvbunRCvsA:YwkR-u9nhCs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=YwkR-u9nhCs\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/towleroad\/feed\/~4\/vgqYpxbYpA8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nKyler Geoffroy<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2015\/05\/reisner_weiderpassinterview.html\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.towleroad.com\/2015\/05\/reisner_weiderpassinterview.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gay NYC Hoteliers Reveal Why They Hosted a Ted Cruz Reception and Share Their Thoughts on the Growing Backlash In an interview with&nbsp;New York magazine, <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> hoteliers Ian Resiner and Mati Weiderpass speak at length about their thoughts on the blowback following their intimate &#8220;fireside <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=grq0&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">chat<\/a>&#8221; and dinner with anti-LGBT Sen. 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