lifting the luggage

[victor steinbok]

This may not be "hiking the Appalachian Trail" and the story has not
spread quite as far, but don't be surprised hearing "lifting the
luggage" to be used as a euphemism in the near future. I will
certainly help the story along:

http://bit.ly/b4W34W

> That man was George Alan Rekers, of North Miami — the callboy's client and, as it happens, one of America's most prominent anti-gay activists. Rekers, a Baptist minister who is a leading scholar for the Christian right, left the terminal with his gay escort, looking a bit discomfited when a picture of the two was snapped with a hot-pink digital camera.
> Reached by New Times before a trip to Bermuda, Rekers said he learned Lucien was a prostitute only midway through their vacation. "I had surgery," Rekers said, "and _I_can't_lift_luggage_. That's why I hired him." (Medical problems didn't stop him from pushing the tottering baggage cart through MIA.)

And, in case anyone is looking for more examples from an old ADS-L
thread, another instance of "twink":

> Yet Rekers wouldn't deny he met his slender, blond escort at Rentboy.com — which features homepage images of men in bondage and grainy videos of crotch-rubbing twinks — and Lucien confirmed it.

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