A conservative TV host from down under says straight men are being victimized after the Australian parliament was rocked by a gay sex scandal.
First, the backstory: Footage of an unnamed senior government staff member jerking off onto a female lawmaker’s desk was leaked by a whistleblower last week.
The video was obtained by The Australian newspaper and Channel Ten. It came with a huge dump of additional photos of numerous male government employees engaging in sex acts inside Parliament House.
The whistleblower, who admitted to being an active participant in some of the activity, said he leaked the photos and video to put a stop to the “toxic, powerful, privileged boys club that does what it wants, when it wants, where it wants.”
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According to the whistleblower:
- One man filmed his sexual “conquests” in Parliament House and shared them, sometimes via the men-seeking-men app, Scruff.
- He has videos or images depicting six or seven men in total involved in consensual sex acts in Parliament House, including four who have at some point worked in politics.
- One of the men signed a male sex worker from Queensland into Parliament House for a male former Coalition MP
- He was involved in some of the sex acts and felt motivated to speak out following Four Corners’ Inside the Canberra Bubble piece last November.
The incident has sparked a lot of dialogue about toxic male culture in Australia.
Now, conservative TV host Rowan Dean says that it’s totally unfair to criticize all men when only gay men were the ones who engaged in the behavior.
This week, Dean said he was “really irritated” that straight dudes are being blamed when it was actually “a group of homosexual staffers” behind the inappropriate acts.
“The idea that this has something to do with basic male culture in Australia is complete garbage,” he said.
Dean then said LGBTQ leaders need to speak out about this.
“I did not hear one single senior MP or senior Minister who identifies as homosexual coming forward and criticizing this mob…. Why is mainstream male heterosexual Australia being blamed for this?”
He then went on to say that the attacks on straight men are “disgraceful” and he was “fed up” with being blamed for things gay men did.
“I’m going to say this on behalf of the men of Australia,” he continued. “I am fed up to the back teeth of being blamed as if we had some kind of cultural problem with women.”
“I’m sorry it is not in the Australian male culture to sit around jerking off on people’s desks, it’s not part of the Australian male culture.”
After the photos and video leaked, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison called the whole thing “disgusting and sickening,” and said the men involved demonstrated “staggering disrespect” for everyone who works in parliament. He also confirmed that the man who masturbated onto the female lawmaker’s desk has been fired.
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
barryaksarben
pictures please
mvcy89
LOL I think I kinda love you. Thanks for making me smile.
Mr. Stadnick
I have always wondered who spoke for all of the heterosexual men in Australia.
radiooutmike
What makes Rowan Dean think that all those men are homosexuals…?
Leo
Blind faith.
cc423
Because he has yet to blow them
Fahd
This isn’t about gay or straight, it’s about drugs, in my opinion. There’s plenty of examples of straight men behaving like as*ses by the way – in Australia and elsewhere.
What’s wrong with Australia that they don’t have the basic security of cameras in parliament – even in the U.S. the seditionists rampaging around the capital on Jan. 6th were on camera when doing it. Cameras would have deterred a lot of this behavior.
Joshooeerr
Except Parliament House has perfectly adequate security, and rape victim Brittany Higgins and her attacker were recorded on security cameras and checked in and escorted to their office, which was then unlocked for them by security guards. It was a security guard who later noted the attacker leaving in a hurry, checked on Higgins and found her in a state of undress. Higgins and her attacker were Parliament House staffers, and both entitled to be in the building after hours. Security is not responsible for what happens in private offices, nor should they be. Higgins and her attacker were apparently drunk; they were not on drugs. The other serious offences at the heart of the scandal – the alleged rape by Christian Porter and the multiple instances of harassment by Andrew Lamming – occurred outside Parliament House.
Fahd
So the guy j*rking off on the female parliamentarian’s desk was in a private office? What your describing is different from the article above. BTW, blaming drugs and security is often a fallback.
Leo
Seconded.
Joshooeerr
Rowan Dean is just too funny. For US readers, he’s the equivalent of someone like Sean Hannity, only Sean looks almost intellectual by comparison. Dean claims this has nothing to do with straight men, who do not have a cultural problem with women. Except that the real scandal here revolves around the former attorney-general Christian Porter, who is accused of rape, as well as a long, long, long list of appalling behaviour toward women. It all started with the rape of a female staffer by a male staffer in the Defence Minister’s office. Another minister has just been forced to resign after the exposure of years of misogynistic bullying and sexual harassment, including taking up-skirt pictures of women. These are the serious allegations – and they all involve sexual offences by heterosexuals against women. Trying to spin any of this as a gay problem is laughable and outrageous.
Openminded
I don’t know very many Gay men who really give women a second thought, especially enough to jack off on their desk. If I had to bet, I’m betting it ain’t the Gay guy doing the deed by spilling the seed.
CastleSF
It just shows that most gay men are obsessed with sex, have little self control and can’t tell right from wrong. They allow themselves to sink so low as to indulge in these reckless and shameful behaviors in government offices. It’s just disgusting!
cs1900
You sound fun.
mailliw110
So why are you here?
CurtisIsTheOne
YOU remind me of “Church Lady”. I agree. You DO sound fun. How about a date?
Wicked Dickie
“…I’m sorry it is not in the Australian male culture to sit around jerking off on people’s desks, it’s not part of the Australian male culture…” No, they do it in the bathroom.