Liberty University president and antigay activist Jerry Falwell Jr. swears that’s not him in photos taken at a 2014 circuit party in Miami Beach. But multiple sources, including the photographer at the party, beg to differ.
The accusations were first made in the explosive exposé published by Politico this week. Investigative journalist Brandon Ambrosino reports:
On July 19, 2014, popular Swedish DJ John Dahlbäck performed at Wall, a nightclub in Miami Beach, Fla. That night, the club happened to have a photographer on-site to grab candid shots of the revelry. The photos were shared online by World Red Eye, an outlet that documents Miami’s nightlife scene, and Jerry and Trey Falwell were visible in some of the pictures—the outlet identified Trey by name.
Of course, a guy going to a circuit party in Miami Beach normally wouldn’t be that big a deal… except that Liberty University has a strict policy against this sort of behavior.
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The college prohibits alcohol consumption for all students, even those who are over the age of 21, living on or off campus.
The official policy states:
Liberty University prohibits the possession, use, manufacture, or distribution of alcoholic beverages, tobacco, nicotine, illegal drugs, and non-prescribed controlled substances by its students, whether this occurs on or off campus. … Violations of this prohibition may result in disciplinary action, including a sanction of non-return or administrative withdrawal.
The college also discourages co-ed mingling, especially after sundown.
The official policy states:
All students are asked to display mature Christian behavior in social interaction. Proper respect must be shown to all individuals at all times. Harassment of any type will not be tolerated. Handholding is the only appropriate form of personal contact. Improper personal contact or other forms of public display are considered in poor taste. After dusk, students should not be alone with an individual of the opposite sex in any unlighted area such as the ball fields, parking lots, parked cars, ravine or other wooded areas, etc. This is considered improper social behavior.
When asked by Ambrosino about the photos, Falwell denied ever going to the nightclub and said the pictures were photoshopped.
“There was no picture snapped of me at WALL nightclub or any other nightclub,” he claimed. “I’m sure you already knew that though.”
“If you show me the picture, I can probably help you out. I think you are making some incorrect assumptions, or have been told false things or are seeing something that was photo-shopped.”
But sources tell a much different story. They say Falwell was “angry” when he learned the photos had been taken and even tried having them scrubbed from the internet.
Politico reports:
To remedy the situation, multiple Liberty staffers said Falwell went to John Gauger, whom they characterized as his “IT guy,” and asked him to downgrade the photos’ prominence on Google searches. Gauger did not respond to requests for comment.
Now, the photography agency that took the photos is also pushing back against Falwell’s claims the images were doctored.
World Red Eye has been documenting Miami’s party scene for over 20 years. After being accused by Falwell of photoshopping the images, the company’s founder, Seth Browarnik, put out a statement this morning that reads:
For 21 years, I have maintained an impeccable reputation for documenting Miami Beach’s storied social scene.
We wholly reject Jerry Falwell Jr.’s baseless allegation in yesterday’s Politico report by Brandon Ambrosino that one of our pictures was “photo-shopped” or manipulated in any fashion.
We, in fact, did not know Politico’s purpose for licensing the image and were as surprised as anyone to discover that Mr. Falwell was among the partygoers we photographed on July 19, 2014 at WALL Lounge.
As a result, we reviewed all the images we have from the event and discovered an additional four photos that include Mr. Falwell and two more of his son.
Statement in response to yesterday's @politico story on Jerry Falwell Jr. that included our photographs. Additional photographs of Mr. Falwell and his son are posted here: https://t.co/szq7nAFkP0 pic.twitter.com/Y8t36Qpfqa
— Seth Browarnik (@worldREDEYE) September 10, 2019
Browarnik included several more pictures of Falwell at the club. You can see the all of the images HERE.
So now that Falwell has officially been caught in a lie, we can’t help but wonder: What else might the evangelical leader be lying about?
His “close friendship” with the pool boy perhaps?
His “business mentorship” to his personal trainer maybe?
Oh, and what about those x-rated photos of himself that he swears absolutely do NOT exist?
Drip… drip… drip…
Related: Can we talk about all the gay culture happening on Jerry Falwell Jr.’s Instagram page?
sanfranca1
Where are the “receipts” mentioned in the headline?
JGnPhilly
The receipts are the pictures… Click over to the photographers site to see them!
ShiningSex
those are NOT photoshopped. Falwell is total closet case.
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startenout
Receipts is slang for having proof, in this case the additional undoctored photos.
iron
lf this is an educational institution why would any want to send their children to be educated by a clown
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
I clicked on a link and saw no pics with Falwell in them. This is beginning to look more like a juvenile smear campaign started by queens in junior high school than an adult non-sexually explicit gay website set up to inform people whats really happening. Ok, we know the guy has his problems but an article claiming to contain evidence but won’t produce it is overkill. If a pic of his being there exists thats what should be featured on this site and not in a link to nowhere.
JGnPhilly
Get your eyes checked. Literally just clicked the link and there are pictures there of him and his son. Sad. This douche is a hypocrite and should be called out for it!
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
@JGnPhilly……….I have a 27in iMac and enlarge the screen till where I was waiting for it to pop out of its enclosing. All I saw was the good Rev. Falwell smiling and surrounded by a crowd where there are no less than four women for every man present. That generally isn’t the case for a gay circuit party. There are more missing details that would confirm this pic as more proof this is a “scandal” worth mentioning. Nude dancers, jockstrapped leather clad crowd with guys who can’t dance all over the dance floor kissing and caressing each other while club music blared overhead, ok, I would agree is gay. Based on this pic I walk away believing he actually has a life and sometimes it includes a little harmless letting-your-hair-down fun with a few people he feels close to, or should I say this pic adds to the smear campaign its beginning to sound like. If this is a gay event I’m glad I wasn’t invited. Our monthly barn square dance shows more signs of life and is free, no cover charge with church provided buffet.
Josh447
Josh447
I see a new click-plant has been seeded into the comments section. She/it /whatever, is fake news. Probably best ignored.
RevJames
Vision, cognitive or integrity issues, take you pic, they took his.
ShiningSex
I saw the pics. Get your eyes examined queen or get a faster computer that will upload the pics.
Bengali
No. It’s just another fake Christian judging others for the behavior he himself displays. Maybe he burn in hell. But only after catching multiple, incurable STDs.
Itsonlythetruth
Are you looking at the right pictures? He is in the pictures some clearer then others but definetly in them.
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
Ok, he’s in the picture. Now where is the scandal? There are four women to every one man and i see none in suggest acts. All he has to say is he was invited to an event that did not present itself as a gay event. I read the title and expected a scandal with pics that clearly isn’t there. And by the way, my glasses aren’t broken. Many of you are seeing something that I do not see and can’t quite explain what that something is.
startenout
Darling did you actually read the entire article? They didn’t say it was a gay circuit party, just a circuit party in Miami. They also pointed out the hypocrisy of him being at this party with girls and booze after dark since that is an exact prohibition at his fake “university.” In fact anything more than handholding is reason for expulsion. Additionally, they pointed out that if he’s going to lie about something as innocuous as being photographed in a club, what else is he lying about. There. I did the work for you.
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
@Startenout…….Thanks honey. I doubt a google search could have been more informative than your comment pointing out to Sister Bertha its not yet time to head on over to Dollar Tree and stock up on the Tiki Torches, cigarette lighters and spray starch for the sheets and hoods. Praise the lord. Its time for Tuesday evening Bingo but thanks again.
pavel20
I think the point is not about what type of party it is. He shouldn’t be at a party, nightclub or any similar type of environment like this given his position as the leader of Liberty University, which strictly prohibits any of this kind of behavior.
Tread
WALL is a a straight club and this was a straight event. John Dahlback is the furthest thing you can find from a circuit DJ, and I say this as both a gay man who frequents circuit and EDM events. The story is misleading, using the term “circuit party.” Just because there may be gay men in attendance doesn’t mean it’s automatically a circuit event. I believe Falwell is a closet sex freak, but this story is really reaching. He was clearly at the club, but to call it a circuit event is untrue.
Josh447
Just to clarify: Wall is a straight venue and does not use the title “circuit party” for any of its events. That title is a strictly gay title used by gay organizations only for gay events. Falwell was not at a gay nightclub or event, nor was his son Trey as the title of this story and its writer would like you to believe. It’s called fake news.
GentlemanCaller
OK, just to further clarify, then: an evangelical preacher who rails against hedonism, alcohol, fornication, dancing, and public partying; who runs a “school” whose policies strictly prohibit such activities, is photographed along with his children reveling at a liquor-soaked nightclub event. So it’s not a gay thing, but it’s still flagrant hypocrisy, though, right?
jjose712
True, it’s a straight club (that goes ahead of what he preach and makes his students do anyway), he reserved the gay things to his pool boy and his trainer.
And frankly, it’s tiresome that queerty allows very obvious trolls to write here
Josh447
Damn rights! The guy is still majorly busted, just not at a gay venue as tagged.
ShiningSex
WRONG!!! THAT WAS A GAY CIRCUIT PARTY. DO YOUR HOMEWORK DOUCHE.
Bengali
Many straight clubs have gay nights and he obviously attended one of them. He’s a closet case. But it’s okay. You like to be in your safe place for the things for which you can’t present or argue facts but you do excel at calling everything FAKE NEWS when the fake Christians who stand alongside hacks like Graham and Falwell Jrs. behave more sleazily than the people they are condeming.
Chrisk
i wouldn’t even think this was a story since it’s not explicitly gay. Falwell is desperate to keep it from the public so you know there’s definitely a story there.
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
Aw come on, give the guy a break. Didn’t Jesus himself drink wine and made it appear once out of no where? My child, you must learn to “believe” as Brother Falwell obviously is beginning to do. I’ll let you figure out for yourself just what he is beginning to believe about what he was taught. lol
Josh447
Your one serious dork
Bob
hmmm. seems that thanks to his wonderful trainer and poolboy, brother Falwell is learning how good dick tastes.
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
Hi Josh447. Having a bad day honey? Sorry to hear that. Happily my comments are helping you feel better. Let me know how I can help you feel better (and keep in mind we MUST be fully clothed, out in public and in view of security cameras).
Hallelujah!
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
WHY THE FCUK ARE YOU DEFENDING THIS VILE ABHORRENT NOXIOUS PUKE??? GO AWAY TROLL!!
ShiningSex
SISTER BERTHA IS A CLOSET CASE OR JUST STUPID. OR BOTH.
michaelmt1009
A man from a religious background telling a lie….wow that’s never ever happened before!!!
domen8r
“…at Wall nightclub or any other nightclub…” FallingNotSoWell’s own words, regardless of the gayosity of the venue or event. While it may be “circuit party” in the headline is subjective, the overcompensating finality of the denial suggests he is heavenbent on hiding the hell out of sumfin. Trey is only guilty of breaking the school’s prescribed behavior, if indeed he is a student there. There is falsehood present, even if by omission. Karma may eventually out them both.
RIGay
A lot of Tromp-bot Trolls on Queerty these days. Can’t go one story without having some insist that it’s fake where the volumes content shows otherwise.
Mack
The troll are all over any thing that’s liberal. I guess there is so much lying going on at the right wing sites they got tired of the competition and came over to push their lies here and other liberal sites.
Josh447
ShiningSexTurd,
I called Wall, they don’t do or call any of their events “Circuit Parties” nor do they host gay events. So douche plus, do your homework B4 coming off like a clueless class A f**c*ktard.
Dan
Come on guys. That was Not a circuit party. Too many girls and way to many shirts (counted one unbuttoned shirt). If it is a gay event it’s for the lame and repressed or they need a new event planner. Listen, the guys a douche. He a self hating closet case at the very least (we all deal with those all the time) but it’s imperative that we have responsible full truth journalism or it makes it that much easier for him to deny the true details based on past false accusations.
ShiningSex
I’VE BEEN TO CIRCUIT PARTIES WHERE THERE WAS A LOT OF WOMEN. DUH!!!! SIT DOWN!
Dan
DAH! Listen shiny, I stated too many girls, of course there are women at circuit parties. But where are my sister in drag. My little Twinkie boys with underwear touching anything that has a pulse. My leather harnesses and beefy bears. I’m simply saying that it looks like a frat/ sorority mixer which is the real story. What is a middle aged preacher doing at a frat rave? And if that’s an example of a circuit party you attend. Then I’m sure you have lots of experience just “sitting down” and hoping that someone is desperate enough to sit next to ya. Maybe one of those sorority girls will hang with you and hold your hair back when you puke up your Miller lite
Josh447
ShiningSexTurd,
I called Wall, they don’t do or call any of their events “Circuit Parties” nor do they host gay events. So douche plus, do your homework B4 coming off like a clueless class A f**c*ktard.
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
Dan, well said. Its called spreading rumors and it amounts to the pot calling the kettle black or even worse which side of the witch hunt is the present hunter/speaker on. This only adds fuel to his claims of a smear campaign.
Hussain-TheCanadian
I seriously doubt Jerry Falwell is gay, however I do think hes into some kinky and “vile” sh#t – I have a feeling he might like orgies, that includes him being a cuck (watching his wife getting f#cked by those young guys)
Also, what is a “man of god” doing at a rave? I dont see pics of him handing out bibles (eye roll).
blackhook
Jerry Falwell Jr has got to be the strangest, creepiest character out of all the weirdos in Evangelical-dom …and we need a new vocabulary to describe him. I mean…to call Falwell a hypocrite is not fair to the rest of the normal hypocrites…
#FallwellCrimeFamily
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
I’ll say this about him; he doesn’t exactly make the scandals surrounding fast cars, sleazy women and cocaine loving Oral Roberts Jr. come off as saintly. Thats about the only good thing I can find to say about him.
mtrodetguy
Jerry FRAUDwell Jr. 4 ADDITIONAL photos is a lot of receipts. Either he is gay (leading a double {secret} life) or his son is. This, along with the pool boy and personal trainer reports, sexual orientation definitely in question.
Maleko50
The pic used in this article is definitely photoshopped!!!! Case closed.
QGridster64
Maybe they were just out doing some missionary work…