Kevin Beiser is an openly gay middle school teacher and trustee on the San Diego Unified School District who recently launched an exploratory committee for a potential City Council run.
His future political ambitions may have just been derailed, however, after not one, not two, not three, but four men have accused him of sexual misconduct.
Paul Crawford says Beiser invited him over to his house for a pool party in 2017. Towards the end of the party, he claims Beiser pressured him into participating in an orgy.
“I was violated,” Crawford tells Voice of San Diego. “Was I raped? No, I don’t think I was raped. I’m not scarred for life. But I’ll never forget it.”
Voice of San Diego reports:
Crawford said Beiser followed him into the bathroom and propositioned him for a threesome with another man. He said he declined, telling Beiser he had never done anything like that. But Beiser directed him into the bedroom anyway, where the other man joined them. Crawford then said he lay down on the bed, closed his eyes and lay still while both men performed sexual acts on him.
He said he kept his eyes closed tightly the entire time. Then Beiser lay next to him and masturbated. When he finished, Crawford said, Beiser leaned over and pried his eyelids open.
Afterwards, Crawford says, Beiser called him “a good boy.”
Three other men, all of whom are involved in local San Diego politics and in the beginning of their careers, also detailed alleged encounters with Beiser to Voice of San Diego.
One of the accusers, being referred to as simply John Doe, recently filed a lawsuit against him alleging sexual assault and sexual harassment.
Doe worked as Beiser’s former campaign manager during his 2014 school board re-election campaign and again as a consultant on his 2018 re-election campaign.
According to the suit, Beiser invited him out to JR’s Bar, a popular gay bar in Washington, D.C.
Beiser said he would be there with friends, according to the lawsuit, but it was just the two of them for most of their time. Doe got drunk, he said, thinking Beiser was doing the same, but he now believes he was the only one drinking.
“When (the former campaign manager) was incapacitated by alcohol, Mr. Beiser took him to a hotel and sodomized him,” the complaint reads.
The complaint alleges that the next morning, Doe expressed regret over what happened, and that Beiser then promised him work once they got back to San Diego. It says that this felt to the campaign manager like a quid pro quo offer in exchange for not taking legal action.
The suit also alleges other unwanted sexual advances made over the course of several years, including Beiser offering Doe oral sex and full-body massages, encouraging him “to hook up with gay dudes,” replaying the sodomizing incident in D.C., and inviting him over to skinny dip in Beiser’s pool and hot tub.
Doe said he “continually” told Beiser “I’m not interested, I don’t want this,” and that it made the work environment very “uncomfortable.”
“It’s kind of like, he’s creepy, I just kept patting him off and he was tolerable,” Doe tells Voice of San Diego.
Meanwhile, the San Diego County Democratic Party has now called for Beiser to resign.
“Due to the heinous nature of the allegations against SDUSD School Board President Kevin Beiser, the San Diego County Democratic Party Central Committee will consider a resolution calling for his resignation tonight,” party leaders said in a statement.
For his part, Beiser is denying the allegations.
In his own statement released earlier this week, he said: “There is no truth to these allegations. We believe they are politically motivated and we intend to vigorously defend ourselves.”
Related: Mayor denies sexually harassing man because “he’s a skinny Korean kid with pimples on his cheek”
RIGay
Interesting… [back in the day] I hosted several orgies at my home. At no time was anyone forced to do anything they did not want to do. Some wanted to experience it all, others remained modestly clothed and observed off on the sidelines (there to cheer and just… be). When someone overindulged, we politely put them someplace to sleep it off or decompress. We treated everyone with equal respect.
This guy sounds like a closet douche bag who uses alcohol to force himself onto men. I hope he gets his comeuppance.
QueerTruth
He sounds like a gross lecher creep but the first story is not NOT a criminal offense. Paul joined the orgy (yes, against his better judgment) but it was of his own free will in the end and he was an adult. The were no threats, intimidation, drugging, or physical force of any kind.
You should read the full interview.
Brian
The metoo movement has not done itself any favors by lumping accusations that are clearly just regret for a choice they willingly made, in with legitimate claims of sexual assault and harassment. I think a lot of people have stopped caring, as we’ve heard way too many stories like the first one here.
And I’m not crazy about ” I went to a bar and got wasted” as an explanation of how you were victimized. I’ve done plenty of stupid things when I got drunk, and have never thought anything other than “it’s your own damn fault for getting drunk”. Thankfully, those days are long behind me.
iamru2
@ dcguy no one in this story was taped nor sexually assaulted so put away your faux outrage!
iamru2
Sounds like buyers remorse to me!
draven
When I was a 13-14 year old teenager my two 18 year old camp instructors victimized and assaulted me. They put dry ice on my arm. I ended up with 3rd degree burns. They never got in trouble. My parents didn’t press charges. They wrote them off as being young and dumb. They also understood they had for teenage children at home and they knew young people do stupid things. This was before the laws we have now. Talking mid 1970’s. Those guys burned me because they knew I was gay. I made them feel uncomfortable. I block that pain out for almost 30 years. I walk into a eatery and one of the guys that burn me own the eatery and recognize me. I didn’t remember him. He actually said my name. I was in shock. He gave me free French fries. Wow. I never went back to that eatery. But all that pain came back to me in a instant. What I remember was the look on my mother’s face when the doctor had to burst the blisters from the dry ice burning me and peel the skin off from the very large blisters I had. She was so sad. I was a trooper tho. I still have the scar tho. I don’t hate those guys. I just pray for them. I’m glad they didn’t put that dry ice on my face though. Moral of the story I survived. I healed. I’m the best person ever. They were also white and I’m black. I guessed they were mad because I was a very cute teenager then and I’ve been told I’m drop dead gorgeous as a grown man who will be 58 years young tomorrow….3-21-2019. Life hurts sometimes. The pain. Just have Love in your heart. Period.
Mick406
You are a very forgiving guy. I’m glad you don’t hold resentment for the rest of the white population, which would be easy to do. I wish there were more people like you in the world.
Black Pegasus
@draven
Thanks for sharing your story.
jjose712
Sorry, but regret something you do is not abuse.
If they weren’t coerced to do the sexual acts they are complaining about something they are responsible.
Everybody does things that regret and if they are smart they learn of their mistakes and don’t make them again.
Abuse, harassment and rape are something totally different
Evji108
What one does first of all is excuses themselves to grab any personal items and then head for the exit. Not complicated.
Itsonlythetruth
If your a grown ass man how does anyone make you do something you don’t want to do? Were you held at gunpoint or by some other weapon? If not, you could have left the situation you wanted no part of.
Polaro
If you tell this story from the perspective of the other guy you get a very different story. No one seems interested in that view of how things happened. Unless it was rape, I’m not really interested in these me too sob stories about things people regret they did. Not that were done to them. None of these were rape.
Billy Budd
This is the Mccarthism of the new era.
RexRed
The republican party will take Kevin right in…