If your uncomfortable fascination with Tiger King hasn’t yet worked its way out of your system, the full, 23-minute video from Joe Exotic‘s 2014 throuple wedding to Travis Maldonado and John Finlay has found its way onto the internet.
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And by that we mean it was released by Joe himself, clearly trying to milk this moment for everything it’s worth while he sits in a prison cell over 17 federal charges of animal abuse (eight violations of the Lacey Act and nine of the Endangered Species Act) and two counts of murder for hire.
Call it tiger milk.
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Vince
Poor Travis;-(
Donston
All three look miserable in that pic.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Absolutely nothing more classy than a wedding in the basement of an American Legion Hall….
Dick Gozinia
I wonder what their sex life was like given that neither Travis nor John was gay?
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Wa$ lot$ of hot $ex!
Donston
I hate to go on one of my little tangents. But I’m tired of everyone making everything about sex. Sex does not build and sustain relationships. There are plenty of men out here in same-sex relationships, who prefer homo relationships, but they’re not homosexual. Hell, there are some guys in homo relationships who aren’t even sexually homo-leaning. Focusing so much on sex or attractions is partly why many dudes are out here claiming to be “straight” or saying that they’re really into women, but hey’re sleeping next to their homeboy every night. They prefer persistently pleasing men. They prefer persistent same-sex passions, affections, love, relationships. Hell, the majority of famous men who are currently in gay relationships aren’t really homo. We really need to get out of this mentality that sex and attractions is everything and drives fulfilling partnerships.
Ultimately, we don’t know what these guys were truly, thoroughly about. They say that they’re “straight”. But for many, identity is just about what you do or don’t want to be attached to. We don’t know what type of fluidity they may have experienced. We don’t even know why they eventually settled down with women. We can’t detect where they are or were in the romantic, sexual, affection, fascination, emotion, relationship spectrum. However, we can surmise that money, drugs, and just being generally “damaged” and “lost” played big roles in why these guys were with Joe and stayed with him.
I don’t even think Joe was with these guys for sex or even “love”. It was likely more about the ego boost. For a lot of these “queers” being with someone who identifies as “gay” or someone who has unabashed homo preferences and ambitions- it just doesn’t do much for their ego. Joe was likely into these guys because of his own megalomania. Being able to have “straight” guys be with him allowed him to distance himself from “basic gays”, and it made him feel “special”. He also likely felt that he could control these guys with gifts, shelter and drugs.
Cam
@Donston said…. “There are plenty of men out here in same-sex relationships, who prefer homo relationships, but they’re not homosexual. ”
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Please provide proof of the multitude of straight men in gay relationships.
cliche guevara
@Cam –
Why are you asking Donston to provide proof of something he didn’t claim? Straight men aren’t even mentioned in quote. This will probably blow your mind but there are men out there that aren’t straight and aren’t gay. Seems pretty clear that is the group Donston is talking about.
BuddyinCA
Seemed staged to me.
cliche guevara
Given the amount of planning and rehearsals that go into most weddings I think that could reasonably argue that most are staged.