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USE OF GAY SOCIAL NETWORK BY ELECTED OFFICIAL AND PUBLIC EMPLOYEES ROCKS SOUTH TEXAS
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<br /><div>By<b> Juan Montoya</b></div>An ongoing probe into whether at least one Willacy County official, a Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) trooper and at least one married federal employee in Cameron County used a gay sex smartphone application to arrange dates and rendezvous with other like-minded men may well be the latest scandal that rocks the Rio Grande Valley.<br />The three men have been implicated in the continuing probe of the online transmission of their photos online on an iPad cruising app called <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=308956623&mt=8">Grindr</a>. <br />Reportedly, the DPS trooper is pictured in his uniform outside his trooper motorcade, Cavazos in his personal vehicle, and the federal employee shirtless in one of several photos he posted. <br /> Cavazos was elected to office in 2006 and was a close political ally of former Willacy County Judge and now convicted sex offender Elsiero Barnhart. At the time of Barnhart's conviction, the case made national news since it was the first case to ever be moved out of the Willacy County and the first reported sexual assault by an elected official. Cavazos still lives with his grandmother in Willacy County, while the federal employee is married.<br />In his posting on Grindr, he states standing before a presidential seal: "BTM, Young, educated and very successful. I don't like fems and discretion is a must. Currently married and looking for dates, friends.".<br />The transmission of revealing photos of former Puerto Rican Senator Roberto Arango who represented San Juan in the New Progressive party and was the chairman of the Republican party for the San Juan Congressional District resulted in his resignation in Aug. 2011.<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQlMVwpXKnPORbfCG1WYCF_lu4gthsUUlaP921_E6vjvxoVzbNtG65e8ZQy_QaxgZK_RN0xHrHZxULJrQbZx7wHS_OzNn85PILyQ8TIljdzeXu23M3Q5lZ3PIBCJPGaf5P_z4oVDNT1nY/s1600/ruben+grinder.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQlMVwpXKnPORbfCG1WYCF_lu4gthsUUlaP921_E6vjvxoVzbNtG65e8ZQy_QaxgZK_RN0xHrHZxULJrQbZx7wHS_OzNn85PILyQ8TIljdzeXu23M3Q5lZ3PIBCJPGaf5P_z4oVDNT1nY/s320/ruben+grinder.PNG" width="213" /></a>Although the DPS trooper and the federal employee have not been publicly identified, images leaked in the social media indicates that the elected official who used the iPad app to solicit same-sex partners was Willacy County Treasurer Ruben Cavazos. In the case of the Cavazos, a full-face photo identifying him merely as Ruben appears on the screen. Others who have seen more photos say that in the application, say Cavazos appears in more than one pose. </div><div>On 2011 a <i>Washington Post</i> online section reported that nude photos which appeared to depict Puerto Rican Senator Arango showed up on the Grindr app, which targets gay and bisexual users.<br /> Arango at the time didn't even deny that the photos were real: "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 going to say I didn't take it. I'd tell you if I remembered taking the picture, but I don't."Ironically, Arango was a proponent of Resolution 99, which was a bill which would ban efforts to allow same-sex marriage in Puerto Rico.</div><div>The iPhone is a hotbed for location-based social networks, which tap into the phone's geolocation features to help users find nearby friends and strangers that they might like to meet. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=308956623&mt=8">Grindr</a> (iTunes Link) was one of the first iPhone applications geared towards gay and bisexual men.<br />The<i> Washington Post</i> reported that while privacy is an issue for all location based social networks," it is of the utmost importance on gay networks. Without proper security measures, bigots could easily download such applications and use them to pinpoint targets for hateful slurs and potentially even violence. </div><div>Grindr deals with these issues by obscuring a user's absolute location by default. Rather than plotting each user on the map, Grindr displays how far away they are (distances can range from a few feet to miles away).<br />The application presents users with a list of nearby strangers, arranged in a grid of photos (you can click on a photo to see their personal profile). From here, users can strike up a real-time chat. If they decide they like their new acquaintance, they can they optionally choose to reveal their exact location."</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-3085543532395642999?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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A NOCHE BOHEMIA FOR BEGUM 4 JP 2-2 TONIGHT
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