{"id":47812,"date":"2016-11-29T10:25:32","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T15:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/small-town-politician-exposed-for-writing-nasty-antigay-tweets\/"},"modified":"2016-11-29T10:25:32","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T15:25:32","slug":"small-town-politician-exposed-for-writing-nasty-antigay-tweets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/small-town-politician-exposed-for-writing-nasty-antigay-tweets\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Town Politician Exposed For Writing Nasty Antigay Tweets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Small Town Politician Exposed For Writing Nasty Antigay Tweets<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/content\/docs\/2016\/11\/28172818\/Bellamy_Mina-Pirasteh-670x447.jpg\" alt=\"bellamy_mina-pirasteh\" width=\"650\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/content\/docs\/2016\/11\/28172818\/Bellamy_Mina-Pirasteh-670x447.jpg 670w, https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/content\/docs\/2016\/11\/28172818\/Bellamy_Mina-Pirasteh-360x240.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\"><\/p>\n<p>Meet Wes Bellamy. He is the Vice Mayor of&nbsp;Charlottesville, Virginia&nbsp;who is currently facing <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=grq0&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">calls<\/a> for resignation after a series of tweets written between 2009 and 2014 in which he refers to <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> people as &ldquo;faggots&rdquo; and makes disparaging remarks about <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a>&nbsp;were unearthed from the bowels of his Twitter page.<\/p>\n<p>The tweets were discovered by self-proclaimed &ldquo;pro-free speech, anti-affirmative action, anti-cultural Marxist and pro-equality&rdquo; blogger Jason Kessler, who shared them on his website&nbsp;last week.&nbsp;In one of the&nbsp;tweets, written back in&nbsp;October 2011, Bellamy answered a question prompted by another user &ldquo;Does it make <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">males<\/a> uncomfortable wen <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">girls<\/a> are so upfront about <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">sex<\/a>??&rdquo; with &ldquo;It only makes faggots uncomfortable.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.queerty.com\/twitter-slams-trump-spokeswoman-katrina-pierson-antigay-remarks-obama-blaming-20160803\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter Slams Trump Spokeswoman Katrina Pierson For Antigay Remarks, Obama Blaming<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In another tweet from that same time, Bellamy insinuates that <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a> in leadership roles (i.e. school principals, teachers, etc.) turn little <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">boys<\/a> <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a>, writing: &ldquo;I&rsquo;m all for equal opportunity&hellip;but a Female principal with a school full of <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">female<\/a> teachers is fkn a sure fire way to fk our lil <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">boys<\/a> up smh.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But that&rsquo;s just the top of the iceberg. Here are some more screenshots from Bellamy&rsquo;s account:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/content\/docs\/2016\/11\/28164639\/16448_screen_shot_20161126_at_161019f.png\" alt=\"16448_screen_shot_20161126_at_161019f\" width=\"600\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/content\/docs\/2016\/11\/28164639\/16448_screen_shot_20161126_at_161019f.png 613w, https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/content\/docs\/2016\/11\/28164639\/16448_screen_shot_20161126_at_161019f-360x127.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/content\/docs\/2016\/11\/28165644\/calls-women-cunts.png\" alt=\"calls-women-cunts\" width=\"600\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/content\/docs\/2016\/11\/28165644\/calls-women-cunts.png 640w, https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/content\/docs\/2016\/11\/28165644\/calls-women-cunts-360x158.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/content\/docs\/2016\/11\/28164736\/16447_screen_shot_20161126_at_162025f.png\" alt=\"16447_screen_shot_20161126_at_162025f\" width=\"600\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/content\/docs\/2016\/11\/28164736\/16447_screen_shot_20161126_at_162025f.png 614w, https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/content\/docs\/2016\/11\/28164736\/16447_screen_shot_20161126_at_162025f-360x147.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/content\/docs\/2016\/11\/28164905\/16449_screen_shot_20161126_at_30203_pmf-670x209.jpg\" alt=\"16449_screen_shot_20161126_at_30203_pmf\" width=\"600\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/content\/docs\/2016\/11\/28164905\/16449_screen_shot_20161126_at_30203_pmf-670x209.jpg 670w, https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/content\/docs\/2016\/11\/28164905\/16449_screen_shot_20161126_at_30203_pmf-360x112.jpg 360w, https:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/content\/docs\/2016\/11\/28164905\/16449_screen_shot_20161126_at_30203_pmf.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"><\/p>\n<p>Since the tweets went viral, 30-year-old Bellamy has&nbsp;issued a statement on Facebook, calling the tweets &ldquo;disrespectful&rdquo; and &ldquo;ignorant&rdquo; and assuring people that they are not representative of who he is today:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>But not everyone is sure about Kessler&rsquo;s motivations for publishing the tweets.<\/p>\n<p>Nikuyah Walker, a member of the Albemarle-Charlottesville NAACP, said while she finds what Bellamy wrote&nbsp;&ldquo;alarming,&rdquo;&nbsp;she questioned why Kessler dug so far back into his&nbsp;private Twitter account, which includes almost 123,000 tweets.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Wes is a black <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">male<\/a>,&rdquo; she hypothesizes. &ldquo;You often face a different level of scrutiny.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyprogress.com\/news\/local\/past-bellamy-tweets-draw-ire\/article_2c5a86fa-b514-11e6-88b1-878551ca38ab.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Daily Progress<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;also points out that Kessler frequently tweets about &ldquo;alt-right&rdquo; issues and just last week posted on&nbsp;his Facebook that he is considering a run for City Council to &ldquo;protect&rdquo; the city&rsquo;s Confederate statues and &ldquo;curtail institutional racial discrimination (i.e. affirmative action).&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.queerty.com\/antigay-senatorprostitute-patron-david-vitter-gets-trolled-on-twitter-20150629\" target=\"_blank\">Antigay Senator\/Prostitute Patron David Vitter Gets Trolled On Twitter<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?a=fuZzpmu9SJs:1ZeAkMaw1yE:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?a=fuZzpmu9SJs:1ZeAkMaw1yE:dnMXMwOfBR0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?d=dnMXMwOfBR0\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.queerty.com\/small-town-politician-exposed-writing-nasty-antigay-tweets-20161129?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+queerty2+%28Queerty%29\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.queerty.com\/small-town-politician-exposed-writing-nasty-antigay-tweets-20161129?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+queerty2+%28Queerty%29<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small Town Politician Exposed For Writing Nasty Antigay Tweets Meet Wes Bellamy. He is the Vice Mayor of&nbsp;Charlottesville, Virginia&nbsp;who is currently facing <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=grq0&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">calls<\/a> for resignation after a series of tweets written between 2009 and 2014 in which he refers to <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> people as &ldquo;faggots&rdquo; and makes disparaging remarks about <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a>&nbsp;were unearthed from the bowels of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/small-town-politician-exposed-for-writing-nasty-antigay-tweets\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Small Town Politician Exposed For Writing Nasty Antigay Tweets<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Small Town Politician Exposed For Writing Nasty Antigay Tweets - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/small-town-politician-exposed-for-writing-nasty-antigay-tweets\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Small Town Politician Exposed For Writing Nasty Antigay Tweets - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Small Town Politician Exposed For Writing Nasty Antigay Tweets Meet Wes Bellamy. 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