America’s First Grindr Senator
An anti-gay Puerto Rico Senator and the Vice-Chairman of Puerto Rico’s committee to re-elect George Bush/Dick Cheney in 2004 stands accused of posting extremely sexual photographs to the Internet gay hookup site, Grindr. Senator Roberto Arango is active within the Republican Party. Senator Arango is formerly married, and has a daughter.
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The English-language website Guanabee reports that a Puerto Rican TV show, “Dando Candela“Â broadcast a picture that was “supposedly downloaded from the popular gay cruising app Grindr. The picture, they said, is one of Roberto Arango, senator and president of the Partido Popular Democratico [Popular Democratic Party]. When asked about the picture, Roberto Arango didn’t confirm or deny taking the photograph.
Roberto says he’s been documenting his weight loss and that this picture may very well be a part of that:
“You know I’ve been losing weight. As I shed that weight, I’ve been taking pictures. I don’t remember taking this particular picture but I’m not gonna say I didn’t take it. I’d tell you if I remembered taking the picture but I don’t.”
Guanabee shows several photographs that are definitely not safe for work (NSFW) including one reportedly of Arango naked, on a bed, taken from the rear.
A tip given to blogger Joe.My.God. adds that, “In 2009 he [Arango]Â voted in favor of Resolution 99 which would have amended Puerto Rico’s constitution to ban the recognition of same-sex marriages (it didn’t pass). He has been opposed to civil union bills and in 2004 he used a rubber duck and made it quack to make fun of an opponent (in Puerto Rico, the word for duck, “pato”, means faggot.)”
Grindr is a very popular  geosocial networking application primarily used by gay men to identify and communicate with other gay men nearby, often to arrange dates, hookups, or other often sexual encounters. Grindr boasts it has “has 45,000 users per second and it is now the globes largest gay social network and has people registered throughout 92 countries,” according to Bent magazine.
Last year, sent the following letter to the U.S. Congress, and was subsequently excoriated and ridiculed for his poor grammar, English, and overall lack of understanding of the very basic issues surrounding statehood for Puerto Rico.
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