Terry Bean, another Franklin Scandal?

The founder of the America’s largest homosexual activist organization has been arrested and charged with sexually abusing a teenage boy.

The gay rights activist, Obama backer and Democratic fundraiser, Terry Bean, 66, who raised $500,000 for Obama's re-election campaign, and his ex-boyfriend, 25-year-old Kiah Lawson, were indicted for 'sexually abusing a 15-year-old boy' at a Eugene hotel.

Terrance Bean, 66, of the Human Rights Campaign was taken into custody at his home on Wednesday by the Portland, Oregon Police Bureau Sex Crimes Unit following an indictment by a Lane County Grand Jury. He was booked at the Multnomah County Jail and released after posting 10 percent of his $50,000 bail.

Bean is facing two counts of third-degree sodomy, a felony, and one count of third-degree sex abuse, a misdemeanor. The charges stem from an ongoing investigation that involves an alleged sexual encounter with a 15-year-old boy. Police state that there may be additional victims involved and others may also be arrested as part of the investigation.

The arrest of Terry Bean and ex-boyfriend Kiah Lawson for sexually assaulting a juvenile male has put a black mark on one of the nation’s most significant LGBT activists.

Bean was a leading figure and fundraiser for gay-rights in the U.S.. He is perhaps best known for co-founding the largest LGBT group in the nation, Human Rights campaign in 1980. He also helped establish the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund, an organization that supports openly gay politicians.

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Comment by Ragnarok on December 11, 2014 at 12:38am: I wonder how many other skeletons he hides in his closet.

Comment by Less Prone on December 9, 2014 at 4:02am: Exactly, Whether he's gay or not is not the issue, corruption is. This kind of people are put in positions of power because they can be controlled and blackmailed to do almost anything.

Comment by Tara on December 8, 2014 at 10:49pm: "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men." John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton

These guys who commit sexual crimes against children are almost always in positions of power. To me, Terry Bean being homosexual is a side note because you hear about this shit happening in the Church, in politics, social services or any organization that works with children and they're not all homosexuals committing these crimes. If you take a sexual deviant and put him in a position of power, he thinks that he can get away with anything because he is hiding behind the system that 9 times out of ten, will protect him. So... this could very well be another Franklin scandal. I'm sure there are many more victims of this sick pig!