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Will Rossi and his boyfriend, Rob Massi, have come forward to identify themselves as two of the men photographed with antigay ex-congressman Aaron Schock at Coachella, but they want everyone to know that the whole thing has been a big, huge misunderstanding.
Just in case you need a recap: Last week, alleged photos of the former GOP congressman who once voted against the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell surfaced online. They showed him partying with a group of shirtless white gays at Coachella.
Then Queerty obtained a photo allegedly showing Schock in a full lip lock with another dude, his hand searching for something down the front of the guy’s pants.
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Then we obtained a video of it.
Now, Rossi and Massi want the world to know that they are “are entirely against Aaron Schock’s values, views and actions” and that they were “embarrassingly unaware” of who he was when they snapped their picture together.
In a statement posted to each of their Instagram pages over the weekend, the boyfriends say they had only just met Schock when they posed for the now infamous photograph.
“Will and I wanted to take a photo with our friends at Coachella, to celebrate our last day there,” the guys explain. “Being polite, we allowed Aaron–who was basically a stranger to us and someone we just met–to include himself in our photo.”
They say they never would have allowed Schock to appear in their photo had they known who he was or what he stood for.
“For our own political ignorance, we are deeply sorry,” the guys say.
The statement continues, “We hope Aaron does decide to come out publicly and live the gay life he so freely enjoyed at Coachella, the kind of life so many out and proud LGBTQ individuals have fought for and have made possible for younger gays like Will and me to live today.”
“And we hope if or when Aaron does decide to come out and own his actions, he apologizes and makes amends with the LGBTQ community, because he certainly owes us one.”
See Will and Rob’s full statement below:
Related: How do you solve a problem like the toxic white gays who party with Aaron Schock?
SportGuy
Lmao, yeah right. Bye Felicia!
DCguy
A good lesson for Anti – LGBT, closeted Republican bigots like Schock. These guys are apologizing for even associating with you Aaron. In the days of social media you don’t get to run off and hide to live in a Glass closet like people such as Kevin Spacey did for years. You are exposed, and it is now detrimental for anybody to even associate with you.
Welcome to personal responsibility for bigots.
Vince
Spacey is instantly recognizable and Schock can even move into the gay ghetto (west hollywood) and no one is the wiser. I’m pretty politically aware but probably wouldn’t catch on to Schock either in that kind of setting.
Doug
He definitely has the standard “clone” look… I don’t think I would ever recognize Schock either.
Will323
Then who are the other two that do know him?
iamru2
Put away your pitch fork dear!
DCguy
@iamru2
Translation: The anti-LGBT troll as always is here to defend any Republican bigot.
Brian
Why do you assume that the other two knew him?
GGuy10021
Keith Anthony & Tyler Tixier. No assumption that they know Aaron, they do. At least these guys seem sincere, the other two don’t give a shit.
iamru2
@ ggguy you really are a disgusting pos for posting names in here , you are as bad as the alt right nutcases. Queerty should be ashamed for allowing people to post names in here by readers!
DCguy
@iamru2 And you should be disgusted for always defending anti-LGBT bigotry.
HmphGay
@iamru2, it’s a shame they’ve been dragged into this mess but dragged they are…. There’s no turning back, no hope for privacy or clemency now… they need to own up to it, apologize and call out this dick for who he is. Thank you GGuy10026. I think it’s the right thing to do.
Will323
Don’t let iamru2 bully you GGuy10021, He’s probably Aaron Schock.
GGuy10021
@iamru listen, Will and Rob have decency here. They did this the right way. The other two, who I did call out by name, did not. They literally do not give a shit and probably have similar views and thoughts to the Schocker. The two mentioned are conditionally nice to you, if you have abs and are white or if you have money then all the rest doesn’t matter. This is not heresay, this is a fact. That’s their prerogative but also, everything about this is public, so it is what it is. It’s not disgusting to acknowledge the difference between how Will and Rob handled this vs. the other two. Aaron for all measures has been taken care of by everyone else.
PinkoOfTheGange
Schock’s personal trainer and the PT’s bf. There are multiple pix of Schock and the trainer out there.
BornTo
@ GGuy10021 Sounds you like you don’t like white guys and likely are just a jealous troll knowing those guys would never look at you twice except with pity.
GGuy10021
@Bornto Actually, here’s some tea for you, I’ve hooked up with both of them. Schocking, I know! Also, how do you gather that I don’t like white guys? Because I said that they only like white guys? Is there logic to what you’re saying here @bornto?
mr guy
But Queerty how can can anything that comes out of their problematic thin lips be taken at melanin-deficient face-value …afterall just look at them shamelessly standing there being all Neanderthal cave beast-y (ugh!) and smelling of wet dog while aging like milk!
justsimple
Was that before they all hooked up or after
Xzamilloh
I can’t stress this enough: They have great bodies, but PLEASE let’s not take the power of squats and lunges for granted.
Brian
I am offended by your chickenlegophobia.
WindsorOntario
Shock is 37. In ten years it’s unlikely he’ll still look like that.
okiloki
I can’t even tell which one he is even knowing he is in this picture. Much ado about nothing.
MatthewHall
It would be much better if shock came out and DIDN’T “live the gay life at coachella.” The two don’t inherently go together.
azzolina
I can’t fault them. I wouldn’t know Aaron Schock if he dropped dead in front of me. I just wouldn’t recognize him though I know who he is by name.
p²
I knew all about Aaron Schock’s horrible anti-gay antics and saw dozens of pics of him and his downton abbey office at the capitol. However, once he was gone from the limelight he was gone from my memory. If some hot guy came up to me at a festival or in a bar and told me his name was Aaron Schock, I would not have put it all together until long after we were done making out and groping each other. Feel free to be outraged at these gay guys that hung out with him, but I’m going to feel free to think you’re ridiculous and petty for it. I’ll keep my outraged pointed at the one guy who deserves it.
justyouandi
Did they know him then as a guy named Aaron Schock, or are they accepting now, because Queerty says so, that it is indeed Aaron Schock? Queerty has been using the word ALLEGEDLY when they suggest Schock’s identity in this pic and video.
The identity of the guy in this pic still hasn’t been confirmed to me with any assurance.
truthseeker
This is what I wonder too. I Googled what he looks like shirtless and his abs look different than that guys.
Plus, if all of these outraged people who took the photos recognized him, why didn’t anyone have the audacity to confront him? They just snap a photo and run to the internet and begin to furiously type?
DCguy
Interesting, the anti-LGBT trolls first tried to defend Schock and portray him as a victim, now since that didn’t work they are trying to say it’s not him.
Let me guess, next you’re going to claim that it is him, but the other person is a woman?
jlwk55
I still don’t know which one is Aaron Schock in that group picture
Doug
I think he’s the second from the left.
Freethinker
This is not the first article on this subject that you refer to gay white men. If they had been brown or black it would have been okay? The reference is gratuitous. You are white. The majority of Queerty is white as is your readership? Should we discount what you said as a result?
s1792dv1
Exactly. Why is it relevant that the guys were white as if that is another strike against these men. I think all us “white” guys are fed up with being racist simply by being white.
Kangol
Are you asking a question with your penultimate statement or not? Do you have the stats on Queerty’s readership in front of you? Also, Queerty does refer to “black” people, “black gay,” etc.; this isn’t an anomaly, but you aren’t a regular reader, in which case you may have missed that.
Ashke113
Because Shock is a republicant, that’s why they said white men. That’s why any republicant says white men
truthseeker
@Kangol
Queerty refers to “black gays” when it does some puff piece on what they call “black Twitter’s reaction” but has Queerty ever referred to “black gays” as “problematic”, “toxic” and something that needs correcting as compared to the amount of times they’ve painted “white gays” as some shameful group of our community?
The answer is no
If you don’t believe me, take any random story that references “black gays” and a random one about “white gays” and look at the tone of each.
Geeker
Just more himbots talking and yet saying nothing, Schock will fit right in.
spacecadet
Correction: They say they would never would have allowed Schock to appear in their photo if he had been some fat schlub. :op
Ashke113
Halleluyer
Bryguyf69
Yes, you can see Will and Rob only have their arms around each other. Similarly, the leftmost three men, with Schock allegedly in their middle, have their arms around each other. In other words, it seems like two distinct groups that merged just for the photo. I know that there exist similar photos of my girlfriend and me looking chummy with strangers we just met, e.g. at festivals and raves. Don’t know about the two guys with their arms around Schock, but I believe Rob.
Ashke113
Thank you Detective.
ShiningSex
It’s not a misunderstanding. They knew who he was and are just upset because they got called out for it. Ignorant!!!
Pii
Why would any self respecting member of the Lgbt community want to go to Coachella in the first place. Did Philip Anschutz’s company sell the festival? I’m pretty sure he’s still spending a portion of his profits supporting efforts hostile to LGBT rights?
Ashke113
Free unlimited drugs & sex
Ashke113
“Basically a stranger to us” – gay translation = we had sex with him so there was no reason to ask him his political views……or his name
Heywood Jablowme
lol – well, maybe Aaron couldn’t talk because his mouth was full?
Black Pegasus
Gurl bye!!
I don’t believe neither of you! I bet all of you f*cked and laughed about it afterwards.
batesmotel
Aaron should just clear the air and state his stance. Not doing so means he still holds those views he voted against. It’s also likely he’s not saying anything because he wants the votes. But he’ll get newer votes over the ones he lost due to saying he’s evolved on gay matters. Sounds like he doesn’t care and doesn’t owe anyone anything. That’s what I get from him. As it stands anyway it’s not like these Coachella pics will hurt him. This site is the only media that’s talking about it. No major media sources care.
talktalktalk
you are writing about ‘Will and Rob’ like we are supposed to have heard of them. Who even are they? They have like 3k insta followers…..are they supposed to be well known?
SportGuy
These homo Nazis are only upset they got called out
magicmike
They may not have known who he was but that also didn’t stop the bf from being the one in the pic letting shock jerk him off. My bigger problem is the gays at this festival. The same gays who tell u to avoid chic fil et are the ones here because it’s the “in” thing to do. More so, why are celebs like Ariana and Lizzo and Beyonce doing this fest then accepting awards for being lgbt supporters.
IWantAFullBeard
In absolutely no way do they want attention for themselves.
Hahahahaha
andreleneal
They took a photo with a good-looking, muscly, White Gay. He was allowed into the photo because of that. Pretending anything else is disingenuous. Had Aaron Schock been a chubby Latinx Queer trying to join their group, he would not have only been banned from the photo.
ElPillo
“Being polite, we allowed Aaron–who was basically a stranger to us and someone we just met(, but whom we thought was hot and we we are that kind of people) to include himself in our photo.”
The fact is that it was a shallow decision; they are still thinking on first-name basis. However, I agree that Schock must be publicly contrite and seek absolution from his gay fellowship.
justmeh
Seriously people, these guys are a bunch of total D-bags… Stupidity is terminal and you can’t ever fix stupid. They are at Cochella which is an event whose founder, Philip Anschutz, one of the richest people in the U.S. is one of the biggest donors to anti-LGBT organizations such as the Alliance Defending Freedom, the National Christian Foundation, and the Family Research Council. Nothing shocks me about these types any more, just disgusting that so many of these generations have no clue about reality, what many of us went through to get them the “few, but in no way EQUAL” rights they enjoy.
Saps48
Why doesn’t this photo have a caption identifying the guys, so we don’t have to argue amongst ourselves like second-rate Miss Marples?
Bryguyf69
Okie-dokie, here is a caption, L to R:
1) Tyler Tixier – West Hollywood; Boyfriend to Keith Anthony. Interestingly, he has a Facebook post mocking Trump (in favor of Clinton). At least he’s not a Trump supporter.
2) Aaron Schock – allegedly…
3) Keith Anthony – self-described “celebrity trainer” in West Hollywood. Also a member of the Business License Commission. Boyfriend to Tyler Tixier. Instagram : @keithanthonytrainer
4) Willi Rossi – San Francisco; Boyfriend to Robbi Massi
5) Robbi Massi – San Francisco; Boyfriend to Willi Rossi
And yes, all of the above seem rather superficial since their social media consist mostly of themselves topless and beach wear. Very little, if anything, about current events (unless the event is a gay party), activism,, non-topless activities, etc.
Note that Willi and Robbi only have their arms around each other, while Tyler, (alleged) Aaron and Keith only have their arms around themselves as well. That lends credibility to Willi’s claim that this photo is made of two separate groups that may not know each other well. It is unknown if Willi/Robbi knew Tyler/Keith before Coachella.
You’re welcome.
Miles
I read somewhere that Aaron liked the photo and then took his like down the next day, If this is true then the cat is out of the bag, Otherwise I would not have been certain that he was in the photo.
There are many facets of the gay community where people do not feel included just like in society in general. Perhaps when we get done with this thread, we could start some new privilege threads. How about gay men under 30 privilege, big dick privilege, professional gay men privilege, married gays privilege…. the list goes on and on. The important thing is to be comfortable with your self and not give a crap of how or where you fit in.
As titillating as the video was, I do not feel it was appropriate to post it online without the permission of the 2 men that were in it. No gay or bi man deserves that no matter what they have done.
DCguy
The short one.The problem is, if you’re doing it out in public there’s a risk.
Bryguyf69
Social media, and even traditional journalism, post uncredited images all the time. If you want to behave provocatively in public, or semi-public, then the fault is yours. Everyone knows that this is the age of smartphones so there is no expectation of privacy in that setting.
Bryguyf69
“No gay or bi man deserves that no matter what they have done.”
Deserve what? Everything in the video was presumably consensual. No one forced them to make out in the open. There is clearly an element of exhibitionism, and posting it online is merely an extension of that. There is no reasonable expectation of privacy. In fact, as a [hated] demi-celebrity — and someone a good topless body — there should actually be an expectation of exposure.
Toofie
Sorry, you fool around in public, you have no expectation of privacy.
Bryguyf69
Okie-dokie, here is a caption, L to R:
1) Tyler Tixier – West Hollywood; Boyfriend to Keith Anthony. Interestingly, he has a Facebook post mocking Trump (in favor of Clinton).
2) Aaron Schock – allegedly…
3) Keith Anthony – self-described “celebrity trainer” in West Hollywood. Boyfriend to Tyler Tixier. Instagram : @keithanthonytrainer
4) Willi Rossi – San Francisco; Boyfriend to Robbi Massi
5) Robbi Massi – San Francisco; Boyfriend to Willi Rossi
Note that Willi and Robbi have their arms around only each other, while Tyler, (alleged) Aaron and Keith only have their arms around themselves as well. That lends credibility to Willi’s claim that this photo is made of two separate groups that posed together for this photo. It is unknown if Willi/Robbi knew Tyler/Keith before Coachella.
You’re welcome.
prttymn33
So, all of you woke activists, what say you about when he can come out? Yeah, he’s a douchebag. He voted anti-gay during his term, like that bully that ended up making out with me at Prom, but what is Aaron Schock’s penance? When will he be accepted? Not even forgiven, but accepted as a member of the gay community? Where is everyone’s understanding?
And what is this bashing of white guys who go to the gym. Am i no longer welcome because i lost that 20 lbs? I’m a white guy with very few gay black friends. Does this make me “the enemy”.
armandov
Yes, we all make mistakes in our teens and even early 20’s. But Aaron Schock was in his 30’s when he voted anti-gay-100%. He was a grown a$$ man and not a teen. He was in a position of great power and should have known better and he failed his community.
Unless he makes a formal apology and/or uses whatever political power he has left to help promote gay rights, he deserves disdain from our community. He is a horrible person.
jomax36
Yeah okay. Right sure you didn’t know him . Probably cuz you wanted a threesome with bigot gay closet republican . Sure it wasn’t the party drugs. No they’ll blame it on that next.