Fort Lauderdale Police, Gay Pride Parade Officials, And Swiss Navy Lube Respond To Coke Float 2012

Outrage over #COKEFLOATGATE at Fort Lauderdale gay pride is escalating, with new reaction from event organizers, a statement from sponsor Swiss Navy Lube, and even an official police investigation. Should gay porn star Dallas Reeves be arrested and sent to prison for doing a bump of coke on a float?

At first, officials at Stonewall Summer Pride tried to play the incident off as a prank, writing on their Facebook page:

There is an unfortunate picture doing its rounds on Facebook that suggests models on a float were engaged in drug taking. For all we know, it is just a prank of two guys fooling around to get a rise out of people. Nonetheless, Stonewall Summer Pride takes this seriously and condemns such actions and the suggestion of such actions. The individuals responsible will be banned from future Stonewall Summer Pride events as their actions undermine the integrity and spirit of our community, the company sponsoring the float, and the companies whose float it represented.


Then, another Facebook user commented that Stonewall Summer Pride wasn’t taking #COKEFLOATGATE serious enough, so SSP took a cue from fellow coke float critic Antonio Biaggi and decided to get really fucking pissed. Here’s Stonewall Summer Pride’s responses to the responses, in which they call Dallas Reeves and the unidentified go-go boy “pathetic” and announce that the police are involved:

[P]lease do not misconstrue the post! It is VERY clear that Stonewall Summer Pride takes this seriously, and to repeat, condemns the actions of these two pathetic individuals! Action is being taken, and had the organizers seen what they were doing at the time, they would have been pulled IMMEDIATELY from the parade! The actions of these two people are despicable and have brought shame on the community and event!

The SSP Chair met again with police today to further discuss this situation. The police are doing their own investigation into the matter and will have a resolution shortly! (Let’s hope there is a mug shot to follow too!)

Meanwhile, float sponsor Swiss Navy Lube is pissed, too (via SFGN):

These boys were from a studio and are NOT employees of Swiss Navy. We are taking precautions to make sure this does NOT ever happen again. They were simply asked to pass out out product. I am sorry. We do several 100 events a year and this is a first for us. Again, they were not employees of Swiss Navy, MD Science, New Moon, Matty’s or Roise’s.

As usual, The Sword does NOT take sides in controversial matters like this (#fair&balanced), but I will admit that it is truly inspiring to see so many people, including the Fort Lauderdale police department, making such incredibly good use of their time by getting excited over a Facebook pic of someone holding his hand up to someone else’s nose.

Are you #teamSwissNavy, #teamStonewallPride, #teamDallas, #teamGoGoBoy, #teamAntonioBiaggi, or #teamCOKE?

[Facebook; SFGN]

 

30 thoughts on “Fort Lauderdale Police, Gay Pride Parade Officials, And Swiss Navy Lube Respond To Coke Float 2012”

  1. Whether or not he was actually doing an illegal activity is really irrelevent to the general public. It APPEARS as if he is using drugs. In many minds, perception is reality.

    Pride, an event which is intended to not only show other gay people that it’s ok to be gay, but also to show the world we are normal, here to stay, and deserve equality. Dallas was representing gay pride whether he was on the Swiss Navy Lube float or just walking in the parade as an individual. Actually he has no “RIGHT” to do drugs. There is no personal right to do anything illegal. If it was our right to do drugs, we could not be arrested. There would be no laws against it.

    Yes we do have the right to be outraged, embarrassed or celebratory in how we feel about it. That includes the right to how we feel, regardless of our past or present behaviour.

    I am not outraged however that he may have done drugs, but I am outraged that it APPEARS he did them in public where he was seen as a representative of the GLBT community. Regardless if we wanted him to be or not, he did represent us.

    Re: the sponsorship money from Swiss Navy lube. It is important to both the company, the pride organization AND the GLBT community. It shows corporate acceptance of gay individuals to the world, it provides money to host an expensive large event AND it does advertise their product. It’s a win-win situation for all involved.

    I am curious as to how it is expensed by corporations. As advertisement or charitable donation?

  2. “Let ye without sin cast the first stone”. Although this would appear, on circumstantial evidence only, to be a lapse in judgement, I find the hypocrisy of the responses on this blog laughable to say the least. We don’t really know, as an absolute fact, what was done on that float, however, the person(s) involved I have personally spoken to and have been made re-aware that things that appear to be what they look like on this photo shouldnt be done in the public view.

  3. Actually APOV, in broward county it is illegal to inhale anything aside from its intended legal purpose. So no matter what he was snorting, if it wasn’t oxygen then they broke the law. I’ve turned over my company’s video and photos from pride to the police willingly because I find everyone at Baileey productions disgusting. I’m not beyond reproach, but I have common sense. And the only reason I haven’t posted the rimming picture is because Stonewall Pride has been embarrassed enough.

    1. Oh, this is bullshit. And even if it IS illegal to inhale anything in Broward County (huh?), there is no evidence from this photo that actual inhalation was going on — you see two people engaged in what LOOKS to be inhaling drugs, but may not be. This photo alone will never be able to be used to indict someone under drug possession or drug use laws.

  4. “the police are doing their own investigation into the matter” How? The only evidence they have is a photo / video of one man helping another man inhale an unidentified substance. The only way that it could be proved to be cocaine is if they travelled back in time and arrested them as it happened and as far as I’m aware the Florida police don’t have use of a Tardis.

    1. Um, APOV, there are such things as bystanders who might turn out to be witnesses. I think they train most police to find and interview them — even in Florida. I think Dr. Who can keep his phone box for the moment.

  5. I’ve said for years that these events do more harm than good. They seem to attract just the wrong sort of representations of a so-called proud community.

  6. Wait A Minute!

    FabScout?
    I read on Facebook Dallas Reeves works for Baileey Productions. Can someone confirm who the agency is?
    They seem the most responsible. Has anyone apologized to the city of Fort Lauderdale? Swiss Navy? Gay Pride?
    It’s an embarrassing set back for sure but it calls attention to the fact that some of us need help.
    All joking aside, rehab before jail time. Clearly Dallas needs help. Look what he’s wearing… he has to be high.

  7. It appears on their facebook page that they are also blaming the agency that booked the models. According to some of the comments on the South Florida gay news website, Dallas later pulled the guys pants down and was rimming him as the float was going through the parade. I’m sure the photos will surface shortly.

    My guess is that next year’s Fort Lauderdale pride will be a very different affair. Stu is right this kind of publicity can be death for an event and at this point it’s the only thing people are talking about in terms of this event.

  8. I’ve been following this story now and reading over all the posts and comments, and here is my P.O.V.:
    What anyone anywhere wishes to do be it drugs, bareback porn (why you guys put this in the same category I don’t know), or even self mutilation, it is with in the spectrum of a fully aware adult to do, if they so chose to do so with out scrutiny. Being an adult is when one takes charge of one’s life and agrees to be fully responsible for what one’s actions are–and the ramifications of said actions. If he wants to do coke, let him, far be it for anyone including myself to say a dam fucking thing about it. However and here is were I see the fault; have some class about it. I think we have a big failure in being smooth and sly with things. Gay men don’t have the proper role models and mentors to tell you growing up, “Discretion is key to success.” Many things go down all the time, even I have my skeletons, but the world does not have to know about it. Of coarse everyone is in a jumble now, the stuff is still ILLEGAL even if it is very common place in many industries and circles. To do it out in the open like that and have the whole world see you not even trying to hide it.. you’re stupid, and deserve the backlash. I know the world thrives on all the negativity and bad decisions (TMZ, TheSword..love you guys xoxo) but a bad decision is still just that. He was hired to represent a company (Swiss Navy) and he did a bad job at it. Now they have to save face and so do the parade promoters, because they don’t want to have the back lash of being involved in illegal activities, simple right? So they will through Dallas Reeves (who is he, never heard of him?) under the bus to save said face. We in this business, and i’m reminding you it’s a business we work for all it’s worth to make money in the long run, perspective is key. How the world sees your product is how it will react to it, so if you say “I don’t care what people think.” You’re losing out, they make and break you every step of the way.

    Ps. “too” = also “to” = preposition; direction to a person, place, or thing.. “your”= pronoun; attributive adjective “you’re” = contraction of you’ and are’
    Antonio Biaggi can not speak or write the English language very well, it’ snot his first yet he is trying… what’s your excuse?

    “no shade no T”

    Leo

    1. shut up whore… no won wunts to here about it!

      So what is your day job, after spending hours getting poked in the ass, English teacher? If you say you studied Eng Lit in college, I will laugh at you.

      Pride is supposed to be about representation, and frankly the floats of pornstars and lube are something for which I want no association with. IF you decide on doing those things, that is your prerogative, but when the concept of “pride” is overrun with corporate and business entities looking to make money: it loses its meaning and original purpose. It has been co-opted by business looking to get the pink dollar, and with gay porn “stars” who cannot identifiy as gay or homosexual; Pride is a joke now, and when you, another crap “star” makes platitudes about being an adult and having the right to choose, just totally makes it even worse. Adults can make choices, just the kind in public that isn’t self destructive and pointless…like attending pride, but not the kind that includes taking drugs.

        1. the porn is not the problem, nor is the need for someone to have sex and make a living off of it… but its more that a porn performer’s opinions carry more weight then some others in the gay community–did elect them to be representatives of my sexuality; so why are they on display at pride? or for that matter in any of the web sites dedicated to gays. This also goes on to include gay celebrities.

      1. By that standard what makes you think anyone wants to read anything you have to say? you are “OMG” on a blog post wall. Get a grip you sweaty pustule of gangrenous vaginal discharge.. I know it takes such courage to be a nasty behind the anonymous veil of the internet… good for you. Keep up the good work. :)

    2. Leo, I’m with you, I think. This actually seems like a very simple one — do what you like in private, but committing an illegal activity while on a freaking float in the middle of a freaking Pride parade when you’re being paid by a company to represent their freaking product is mind-bogglingly stupid. Reeves and his buddy deserve whatever shit comes down on their heads. Reeves isn’t being thrown under a bus, he’s being held responsible for his bad choices.

      I say this with a bit of sadness. Leo, Dallas Reeves was a ’90s porn performer, and the star of the first gay porn video I ever wanked off to.

  9. What they’re really worried about of course is bad publicity and how that might affect sponsorship money.

  10. Jeff Bone Bitch

    Who cares?? omg its a LUBE float..seriously…and porn stars…with not many hot boys on it. It’s trashy old man retirement city…I would need a bump to if i went to that lame tired ass pride. Why is it such a big deal? Hookers, lube, bumps, $$, camera…what do you expect?

  11. theswordsucksdonkeydick

    this clinches it, pride is dumb and gay men are assholes. i don’t want to be gay, not because of guilt or shame about sexuality; but the brashness and stupidity of some in the “community”.

  12. more importantly – why is Dallas wearing so much clothing?? Isn’t it HOT in florida?

    Who really cares? everyone has dabbled in some fun here & there!! relax… its just pride :)

  13. You can’t really tell anything specific from the photo BUT I have to say if it is proven he is doing coke then all I can think to myself is how pathetic…you can’t make it through a parade without doing drugs?!

  14. LMAO
    SWISS NAVY SHOULD BE ME UPSET ABOUT THE $5 HOOKERS THEY HAVE ON THIER FLOAT.
    ALL THAT COKE NO WONDER THEY’RE SO SKINNY!!!
    Good jOb FABSCOUT LOL

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