There’s even more fallout from hotelier Ian Reisner’s enduringly unwise decision to host a party for GOP Ted Cruz at his glassy, glossy midtown monstrosity The Out NYC home.
Organizers of the annual Ascension party have ceremoniously pulled out of hosting the modern Bacchanalia at a Reisner-owned venue on Fire Island, the party’s home for the last nine years. Instead, Ascension’s producer Eric Von Kuersteiner will be luring his Speedo-clad minions of flag dancers and glow stick twirlers to Mykonos, Greece.
While the official word is doused in sparkles and rainbow swirls — “the Fund wanted to find a special and unexpected way to produce the 10th Anniversary!” — Edge Media Network breathlessly reports that Von Kuersteiner shared a few choice words in a (theoretically) closed Facebook group.
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Alluding to the recent boycott of Reisner’s OUTpost Fire Island Pines properties, Von Kuersteiner writes: “I thought that the Boycott would have convinced Ian to do the right thing and sell. (He’s had offers since I withdrew mine.) Unfortunately, however, he has not. As I would not personally patronize any of his properties, I cannot in good conscience support his businesses with any additional revenue that Ascension brings to the Pines every year.”
If taking your throbbing hi-NRG party all the way to another continent sounds a bit extreme, keep in mind that Reisner — who not only hosted the Cruz event but donated $2,700 to his campaign fund — ill-advisedly told New York: “Gays are cheap… gays are entitled… Do you know how challenging it is to make a penny off a gay person?”
Hmm. Well, several thousand of those cheap gays are rearranging flight plans to attend a dance party in Mykonos, Greece.
h/t: Gay Star News
Rodney Church
NO gay-dollars for those who oppose 🙂
Chris
More and more, this is looking like a pi**ing match among the 1%. Who can afford to fly to Mykonos, Greece because they want to boycott a Fire Island Party that used to be held in a venue owned by a big-wig gay Republican donor?
SeeingAll
Ian Reisner is almost a billionaire and is just laughing at those boycotters. Even losing that party to Mykonos doesn’t affect him much. And his places on Fire Island and in Manhattan are crowded as always. I’m not taking sides, just reporting it as it is.
Robb Forehand
Should work out perfectly for the private jet crowd. Good riddance.
SeeingAll
@Robb Forehand: That’s the trouble. It’s really a private spat between rich snots on both sides of the issue right now. Significant to the general gay population only in their own minds.
Mykaels
Grudge match: gay edition
Zekester
I understand the boycott of Reisner but it makes no fucking sense to move a gay party from a state with FULL and equal gay rights to a country with NO gay rights whatsoever.
Something is very fishy here. It looks like someone used Reisner as an excuse to make this move. Follow the money. This is one 1 percenter using the guise of a righteous boycott to benefit another 1 percenter.
SeeingAll
@Zekester: Hmm. Never thought of that. Possible, for sure. There’s a lot of sneakiness going on (like the scam they staged with Marti W. being thrown out of the Sip & Twirl place).
Kieran
So because of Reisner, who admittedly made a foolish mistake allowing Cruz’ Zionism to trump his record on Gay Civil Rights, you’re going to penalize the entire State of New York, one of the most gay friendly places in the world, by off shoring jobs to……….Greece?!
SeeingAll
@Kieran: If you post that logic on the Facebook Boycott Fire Island Pines page they’ll delete it and then ban you from the page.
David Minker
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Cam
@SeeingAll: said….
“Ian Reisner is almost a billionaire and is just laughing at those boycotters. Even losing that party to Mykonos doesn’t affect him much.”
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I always love the crowd of usual suspects we get in here that always claim that boycotts don’t work. Really? It worked with Target, it worked with Indiana, the mere threat of it is freaking out South Carolina.
If Reisner was so unconcerned then why did he right that kiss ass letter to all the property owners apologizing and begging forgiveness.
Yeah, really sounds like he’s laughing at the boycott.
I also love the typical attack of “Gosh, you’re offshoring jobs”, well by that logic, then I guess we should all patronize every anti-gay business out there to help those employees shouldn’t we?
SeeingAll
Cam : I never said boycotts don’t work. I said THIS boycott isn’t working because not enough people are boycotting. Get it ? His apology was him trying to be nice. Since his apology wasn’t accepted, he’s said, “Then….fuk you.”
SeeingAll
So…Cam…do you think Ireland would have been a better choice for the party then Greece ?
musctop
@SeeingAll: Guess again. I’ve been to FI 3 times already this season and while the crowds at the Pines are light, things are hopping in Cherry Grove.
SeeingAll
@musctop: I’m not guessing. The crowds have been bigger than last year. But a lot depends on …weather, everything else. And the new silly “Name Them and Shame Them” routine isn’t going to work either. (All F.I. is just rich silly things, or wannabe rich silly things, on both sides of the battle, though).
SeeingAll
So…why wasn’t the party moved to Cherry Grove instead of Greece, do ya think ??
robho3
Who even goes to these circuit parties? Tweaked out rich queens. These parties are very 2001…. I could care less if they have it on mars. But I do think mr riesner is a d-bag. Ever see him on million dollar listing? He’s is gross untitled ass.
Joseph Pasquino
Please it’s a tacky circuit party. Good riddance
Desert Boy
Fuck you, Ian Reisner. A pox on your house.
Saint Law
@SeeingAll: If there’s one thing worse than a rich silly thing it’s a poor silly thing with delusions.
Just sayin
SeeingAll
@Saint Law: Anyone with delusions is bad, or at least bad-off.
Stache99
@SeeingAll: @Zekester: He couldn’t get a permit from the park service to do it. It has nothing to do with Reisner other then Kuersteiner wanting the properties for himself ergo the fake boycott.
SeeingAll
@Stache99: I had heard that, yes. (Other stuff too though).
QJ201
Hope the boys can get all their potions and powders through customs in Greece.
Cam
@SeeingAll: See, now that is just desperate. You claim his apology to the other Pines Property owners was him being nice?? Oh yes, because Reisner has SUCH a history of being “nice”. Funny isn’t it then that instead of being “nice” to the gay community at large, he attacked and derided them, yeah, he certainly is “nice” isn’t he?
SeeingAll
@Cam: I do think he was trying to be nice. Don’t know for sure, though. Don’t know him. I do know the boycott isn’t working, though. The reasons to boycott him, the alleged “offenses”, just aren’t solid enough to convince a massive amount of people to take enough offense to skip their summer rituals.
notevenwrong
Mykonos, WTF? Boycott one rich asshole by slapping the 99% in the face. Now only rich assholes and their rent boys can afford to attend. How nice for them.
Stu Chamberlain
Greece? Ridiculous. There are plenty of acceptable party venues closer to Fire Island. Have a good time, one-percenters.
Cam
@SeeingAll: said….
“I do think he was trying to be nice. Don’t know for sure, though. Don’t know him. I do know the boycott isn’t working, though. The reasons to boycott him, the alleged “offenses”, just aren’t solid enough to convince a massive amount of people to take enough offense to skip their summer rituals.”
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Yes, by all means, lets not look at what he did, let’s just go by the false reality that you have invented.
1. You think he was trying to be nice, all evidence to the contrary.
2. And the reasons to boycott and “Alleged” offences just aren’t solid?
Ok, now I know you’re a troll. First of all, he admitted to them, therefore they aren’t “Alleged”
Secondly, he held a major fundraiser for a person running for the most powerfull office in tha nation, who has committed themselves to attacking LGBT’s and stripping away their civil rights.
The fact that you are trying to completely minimize and avoid that shows that you are just another little troll, probably being paid a few bucks and hour by Reisner to go on gay sites and try to deflect the discussion.
Nice try.
David Chin
I don’t understand why there is so much animosity of the move to Mykonos. The point is not who is going to where. The money is just not going to the assholes who owns the Out hotel and fire island venues. That’s a good thing
SeeingAll
@Cam: Yes, “alleged” offenses. “Alleged” by the boycott leaders. I’m not saying he didn’t do the actions, I’m saying it’s the offense (or offensiveness) that’s alleged. And Reisner is not going to pay me or anyone else to post along with the peasants on something called Queerty, which he probably never heard of. He’s in a wealthy NYC clique (in his case the NYC Jewish one). And the boycott is still not working. I didn’t see it at the Pines, and everybody’s told me on every day it’s the same as usual. I’m sure Reisner and company are basically entitled jerks (especially because Reisner inherited the money to begin with) but……what ya gonna do? Now, you answer : why Greece instead of Ireland ?
Cam
@SeeingAll:
So…….first of all you still don’t understand what the world “Alleged Means”
Secondly you keep claiming that the boycott isn’t working, when the entire subject of this story was that more than one major event has pulled out of his venue.
Go back to your boss at the temp company, and tell her that you tried your best to support Reisner on a gay website but they didn’t give you a good enough script.
And better luck next time.
SeeingAll
@Cam: Well, obviously it’s important to you to think that this alleged boycott works (don’t know why, you’ve probably never been to Fire Island) when the whole thing is just a Game of Thrones between a bunch of equally contemptible people…..only in this case it’s the rich Jew one who is unaffected.
SeeingAll
@Cam: Why Greece instead of Ireland ? (Don’t pretend you don’t know).
JoshGL
Haven’t any of you gals figured out that this is a hoax?
passingthru
@SeeingAll: Why do you care so much to say the same thing over and over so many times? I have been to Fire Island many times. I don’t really care if the boycott works. I don’t like what this guy did so I don’t spend my money supporting him or his businesses. It seems simple. If it makes sense to move this party, then move it.