On Friday, April 15, 2011, I went to the Veterans Administration for my bi-annual eye exam. In the process of having my vision checked, my eyes were dilated to check for cataracts. (My right eye has deteriorated to become a just a tad more farsighted, btw.)
So, while wearing very dark glasses to protect against San Diego’s very bright, spring sun, I tweeted the following:
And thus began an twitter exchange with Peter LaBarbera of Americans For Truth About Homosexuality.
Seriously. This is bewildering needling that began from a benign tweet regarding a routine medical procedure that I’d recently had.
It’s pretty obvious that Peter LaBarbera wants to know my previous male name so he can stop referring to me as Autumn…or should I say stop referring to me as “Autumn.” You know, because the quotation marks around my legal first name are important for Mr. LaBarbera to use in his attempt to deny any recognition my gender identity, as well as deny that my legal name of Autumn Sandeen is real or credible.
Put another way, Mr. LaBarbera wants to weaponize my former male name against me. So exactly why would I voluntarily surrender a weapon to him? Did he honestly expect I would respond to his tweet with my old male name?
Apparently, this twitter exchange is what passes for Christian love and New Testament encouraged golden rule behavior within Mr. LaBarbera’s mind — I can’t decide whether Mr. LaBarbera’s behavior is entertainingly amusing or simply pathetic.
Bizarrely, Peter LaBarbera identifies lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community members as haters, but doesn’t see himself as a homophobic and transphobic hater. Nor does he believe that his American’s For Truth About Homosexuality website deserves the Southern Poverty Law Center’s identification of the website as a hate site.
Really. I find that Mr. LaBarbera’s belief that he isn’t a homophobic and transphobic hater just a tad hard to believe.
And seriously, WTF? I honestly just can’t figure out what he got out of this exchange.








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Well…He’s a pathetic fuck. Isn’t he?
Wow, he thinks he’s cleverfor a hateful idiot. I’m sure his buddies are all virtually high-fiving him for his wit, and when one lives in an insulated world he can’t see anything from a different point of view.
Check the last sentence in the third from the last paragraphAutumn, either something is missing or there are extra words in it.
Changed to…
Oh you grammar police you!
Those who have eyes and do not seeAutumn, you definitely got the better of him in this exchange, predictably showing LaBarbera to be a very small man, whose ideology and bitterness have utterly blinded him spiritually. I am sure he would wish to deny you access to VA facilities and care, all in the name of a truly sad and misguided quest to deny someone, somewhere, anywhere, their happiness and liberty.
We can only wait for the time when a son or daughter, grandchild, nephew, niece or dear friend comes out personally and shakes his certainty to the core of his house-of-cards foundations. I think it’s the only way that some people’s minds are changed, and unfortunately even it’s by no means a 100% effective cure for bigotry and cruelty to fellow humans.
Why he attacks you.I feel sorry for him really. He’s a joke and it’s clear he knows it. Why else attack you but ignore me? Because YOU have fame. I mean seriously, he’s proved he’s an attention whore. I know he sees my tweets because he has yet to block me. But he NEVER replies, NEVER acknowledges me, and NEVER attacks me. Why? No widespread attention to be gained. My blog has all of 34 followers. You’ve been on national television. Which of us is more likely to get him decent free press?
Hell, when Truth Wins Out hat-tipped me for catching him hiding his tweets, he STILL didn’t acknowledge me, he mocked Evan. The article with the screencaps of his twitter account were clearly linked to and credited to me, but he mouthed off at Evan. Why? Because like you Evan can get him more press than I can. And that my dear, proves he’s a pathetic attention whore.
Anyone he can’t piggyback to notoriety on isn’t worth his energy.
So take it as a backhanded compliment Autumn luv. He sees you as famous and respected enough for him to use to get his name in the news and get some pageviews for his lie machine website. Until I have an audience like yours, he’ll never acknowledge anything I say, because he’s not going to get any real press or website traffic out of calling me a confused freak of nature. But calling you a confused man in a dress? Well there he is on the Front Page of Pam’s House Blend love. You did EXACTLY what the lying little sleazewad wanted.
Some pathetic windbags really are best ignored. Hell, the religious right generally ignores him. 90% of his press comes from people like us talking about his idiocy. If we all ignore him and focus on the ones who actually have any credibility among the sheep they preach to, he’ll have no outlet to get a free ride on our backs and his already fragile ego will crumble.
What buddies?Do you think Porno Pete has any real friends? He’s a seriously disturbed creep who makes his pathetic living off trying to deprive his fellow human beings of their rights, liberties and pursuit of happiness. The sad thing is, his homophobia comes from his refusal to face his own truth. I think his life will end in suicide.
One more correction“Americans” For “Truth” About Homosexuality.
I don’t follow his Twitter feed,so I don’t know who gives him positive RTs and mentions or support for his views. I meant fellow bigots who are too cowardly to face actual humans they are demonizing or consider any point of view outside their own.
Sad & PitifulHe is filled with hate, but most of his behavior stems from the fact that the vast majority of the hate is saved for himself.
I’d really like to knowwhat Peter sees when he looks in the mirror. Probably not the venomous reptile the rest of the world sees (excepting his boyfriend Bam Bam and other members of his sick cult). Seriously, I know there’s a lot of money to be made spreading hate, but exactly how empty a human being do you have to be to build your entire life and career on a desperate attempt to hide your own true nature by attacking other people and tearing down the lives of a community you’ve never bothered to try to understand? In a finer age, this man would have been strapped into a straightjacket and locked in a padded cell years ago.
prayer for peteyI pray that useless pond scum from the shallow end of the gene pool gets a LIFE OF HIS OWN, sometime before he takes his dirt nap.
Peter LaBarbera is a sociopathLook it up on Wikipedia and count the ways that his behavior meets the criteria. He’s a sick individual that needs serious psychiatric help.
The Peter…is a Bucking Fastard, and a tool.
Nothing more. Isn’t there a wayt to block the blowhard?
Different Bible VerseThe hell with Luke. The only response to these guys is Mark 16: 15-18.
He should prove he’s a Christian, or shut up.
Shun PeterWant to do something that will really hurt Peter La bigot? Boycott him.
For 60 days block all of his tweets. Let’s get the entire LTBG blogosphere to do a total blackout on reporting anything at all about Mr. LaBarbara unless it is a legitimate news story about him being arrested or something.
After all what is there really to report about him? It’s always the same old shtick: he tweets or blogs something outrageously bigoted, hateful and/or hypocritical; the blogosphere reacts with derision and ridicule and he gets to stroke his fragile ego by seeing how many Google hits there are on his name this week.
Peter is a one-trick pony and a professional Internet troll pushing peoples’ buttons just to give himself a petty sense of power when they react.
When you Google him, 95% of the results are from LGBT sites. If we stop writing about him, he would virtually cease to exist in the online world.
So I would like make a proposal that between now and, say, June 30 all LGBT blogs join together in a conspiracy of silence and deny the existence of Peter LaBarbera. Let’s take the wind out of his sails, rob him his Internet cred as an effective homo-antagonist and at least temporarily banish him to obscurity with no existence outside of his own crackpot website.
You are so rightI completely agree. It should be a coordinated effort. It’s like starving the vascular supply (or, in this case, narcissistic supply) of cancer cells.
You’ve got to keep in mind his definition of Homophobic and TransphobicIn The Peter’s view he’d be Homophobic or in your case Transphobic if he endeavored to kill you personally.
Encouraging others to do so is perfectly OK in his tiny world.
Thank you.
Honestly……these read like he was drinking or otherwise intoxicated. Probably to numb all the self-loathing we know is in there and that he has to keep repressed. I think this is more evidence of his need of YEARS of therapy than anything else.
I mean, I know he’s horrible, but this is just one of those cases where his own inner hell is so readily apparent that I can’t help but feel sorry for the guy. I hope he figures it out eventually.
WMD’sWhat an ass!!! Reminds me of my “Christian” uncle who used to send me Christmas cards just so he could weaponize my former name. He finally stopped when my brother told him to stop using “the Lord’s birthday” as an opportunity to disrespect me.
I guess he is misunderstanding “drink deadly poison” to mean “spew deadly poison”.
Here’s a thoughtI’m getting the impression that Pete is really a closeted trans-fan. Autumn, The Peter is warm for your form. It seems he follows your every move. He hangs on your every word. There is lust in his heart and it has increased every since you lost all of that weight. He wants to put a male name to you so it will enhance his masturbation. All the signs are there.
The next time you have a Tweet exchange with him, you can say, “I know you want me, but I don’t date men.” Of course, you don’t have to tell him the whole truth, because that could also be used as a weapon.
He wants you, but since he can’t have you, he wants to destroy you so no one else can have you. Very Shakespearean.
He is a profound narcissist.No question. Read this link, and note especially the section beginning with, “Does the narcissist want to be liked?”
http://samvak.tripod.com/faq76…
The best way to deal with him is to refuse to cover any of his desperate shenanigans.
Also…Also, look at the section called, “Could negative input serve as Narcissistic Supply (NS)?” Oh, yes indeedy.
The name says it allthe meaning of Barbera is “foreign woman”. La of course being the feminine word for “the” and Peter is slang for …
I always get a chuckle when I see “Dick the foreign woman”.
I never realized It seems that besides wanting to get his ass whacked in a leather outfit, the pornmeister is also obsessed the whole transgender concept. We’ll know for sure when he starts asking for details.
Love,
Rick