Armistead Maupin Supports The Fire-Island Boycott

<p>Even though multi-millionaire NY gay hoteliers Ian Reisner and Mati Weiderpass have now hired Omar Sharif Jnr as their PR Spokesman to try and stop the stem of anger and outrage over their support of anti-gay Senator Ted Cruz, the campaign keeps mounting to boycott all their businesses.</p> <p> </p><p><img src="http://www.thegayuk.com/communities/8/004/009/928/388/images/4618926647.png" width="460" height="242" alt="" title=""/></p> <p>The latest one to pitch in with his comments is venerable author and activist <a href="http://www.thegayuk.com/magazine/4574334751/tags/ArmisteadMaupin">Armistead Maupin</a> who reacted yesterday with this tweet.</p><p></p><p></p><p>"I'm the only gay man I know who has never been to Fire Island. I have not made a point of staying away -- its charms are legendary, of course -- but the occasion has simply never presented itself. Now, it's quite likely that I will remain forever virginal in that regard. Or at least until these guys are no longer collecting money at the dock. When I coined the term 'A-gay' forty years ago, these were just the sort of creeps I had in mind. It was never intended as something to aspire to." </p><p></p><p></p><p>Reisner and Weiderpass have being compounded their problems after the initial outcry to them hosting the Right Wing Presidential Candidate by giving a whole string of interviews in the media such as NY Magazine intended as a form of apology but completely backfiring when Reisner criticised the gay community which he claimed <a href="http://www.thegayuk.com/magazine/4574334751/NYC-Hotelier-Gays-Are-Cheap-Gays-Are-Entitled/9704334">considered it ‘entitled’ as well the fact they were ‘cheap’</a>.</p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.twitter.com/RogerWalkerDack">@RogerWalkerDack</a></p><p> </p>