Out of The Closet: Michael Weinstein Owns Two Dozen Stores That Sell Bareback Videos - GoFuckYourself.com

AsianDivaGirlsWebDude · 09-02-2011, 01:06 PM

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AIDS Healthcare Foundation?s Michael Weinstein, a fierce proponent of condom usage in porn and the leading force behind ongoing efforts to make condom use mandatory in California porn, owns and operates nearly two dozen ?Out of the Closet? stores, including the recently opened Wilton Manors, Florida location.

In addition to used clothes and furniture, this store is also home to an ?AHF Pharmacy.? Also available at Michael Weinstein?s thrift store? Used bareback porn.

When the store opened in 2008, Weinstein announced that ?Ninety-six cents of every dollar raised through the Wilton Manors store and through ?AHF Pharmacy? will benefit AIDS Healthcare Foundation?s HIV/AIDS prevention and education programs in Broward County and statewide,? so selling bareback movies in that same store would be an oddly counterintuitive move on the part of an organization whose sole objective is to prevent the spread of HIV. And yet, here they are.

The bareback movies currently on sale at Michael Weinstein?s Out of the Closet in Wilton Manors include Bareback Joy Riders, Bareback Sailor Pimp, and Cum Inside Me.

[This photo of bareback porn currently on sale at Out of the Closet; note: customers have to ask a clerk to view the films, which are typically kept behind a counter) was taken by Out of the Closet employee Ryan Dixon, a former adult performer living with HIV.

Dixon took issue with AHF/Out of the Closet selling the films, so he brought them?as well as the subject of bareback porn and bareback performers?to the attention of Out of the Closet?s district manager, Matt Lamariana, who rebuffed Dixon, allegedly telling him, ?Who cares??

In April Dixon quit his job at Out Of The Closet, citing the bareback titles and Lamariana?s attitude. Excerpts from Dixon?s letter of resignation:

This letter is being written to inform you that the weeks of April 10, 2011 and April 17, 2011 will be my final two weeks with the AIDS Healthcare Foundation as a cashier at Out of the Closet. I have made this decision based on my experiences working at your store, observations about operations I have made and personal beliefs which I cannot compromise.

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Out of the Closet is supposed to be a fundraiser, but to sell bareback porn movies behind the counter just to make money makes me sick. I confronted a fellow employee about it, then the assistant manager, and finally my store manager about not feeling right about selling them because of what this company is supposed to be portraying. When Matt was asked about it, he looked at me, shrugged, and said, ?Who cares? It?s been made and they?re probably already dead from whatever they caught.?

As a former adult model living with HIV, that comment was the last straw for me. Are we not the same company that protests studios that make videos without condoms, but yet it?s ok to sell their movies because it?s ?already made??

A press rep for AHF/Out of the Closet confirmed to The Sword that porn is sold in some store locations, but couldn?t comment on Dixon?s resignation or the sale of bareback porn. Additional calls to AHF/Out of the Closet in Florida have not been returned.

The Free Speech Coalition?s Diane Duke, a frequent opponent of Weinstein and AHF in the ongoing battle of condoms in porn, told me that AHF?s campaign against the porn industry has never been about the safety of adult performers.

?AHF?s activities have always been about gaining power, fame and fortune,? said Duke. ?This is the kind of train wreck that happens when a nonprofit loses site of its mission and follows the money.?

More bareback porn and a shot of the pharmacy at Michael Weinstein?s Out of the Closet in Wilton Manors, Florida:

Footage of Michael Weinstein advocating mandatory condom use in porn at a press conference last year:

What a hypocrite...and Michael Weinstein personally makes bank off of all of his grandstanding too:

Michael Weinstein's 2007 basic pay for AHF alone was nearly $300,000
(not counting perks and other revenue streams that he has).

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I hope the jackasses in the mainstream who access information here and at other industry-focal communities like GFY and twist it to make our community look selfish, evil and immoral put -this- out as quickly and nastily as they like to slag on our performers and producers.

JamesGw · 09-02-2011, 01:40 PM

So much hypocrisy everywhere.

epitome · 09-02-2011, 01:50 PM

Old news, but yeah, very hypocritical.

Edit: What's weird though is I have not seen porn in those two locations. I moved down here in May though. Wonder if they've since stopped selling porn because of this.

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Originally Posted by RaiderCash_Dominik

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