Bedazzled!: Anti-Gay Politician Says Blacks Responsible For Soliciting Gay Sex Charge

Bedazzled!: Anti-Gay Politician Says Blacks Responsible For Soliciting Gay Sex Charge (Tampa, Florida) State Rep. Bob Allen (R), a longtime foe of LGBT rights in Florida, has a bizarre excuse for being charged with offering a male cop $20 for oral sex in a washroom at a park. He was busted last month in a sting at Veteran's Memorial Park in Titusville, Florida. (story) In taped statements made by Allen to police following his arrest and released by the force Allen admits to soliciting the male officer but claims that it was the result of being nervous by the high number of black men in the park. "I certainly wasn't there to have sex with anybody and certainly wasn't there to exchange money for it," Allen told officers. Of the arresting officer Allen said in the tape, "This was a pretty stocky black guy, and there was nothing but other black guys around in the park." He claimed he feared he "was about to be a statistic" would have said anything just to get away.