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Gay (ouple who complained of
fake Internet ad to sell B&B
By Angela Geralds
Staff Reporter
Late last week, the East Texas men who
were the focal point of controversy over a gay
sex Internet ad said they are selling their bed
and breakfast and probably moving to another
town.
Tim Carmichael and Paul Bear, partners
who own Thee Hubbell House in Winnsboro,
decided the stress of their current situation is
outweighing the rewards.
Carmichael has Meniere's Disease, which is
aggravated by stress, he said.
"It causes my hearing to shut down, and
the vertigo is so bad, I have to stay in bed and
medicate myself constantly," Carmichael said.
Bear, an Australian, has to maintain full-
time student status to stay in the country and
pay international tuition, Carmichael said.
Carmichael's daughter lived with the cou-
ple, helping with the bed and breakfast while
Bear was in class, but she recently moved out.
Her ex-husband was threatening to take
her back to court for custody of their son, and
Carmichael believes in rural east Texas his for-
mer son-in-law could have easily won the cus-
tody battle.
Bear is enrolled at the University of Texas'
Tyler campus, so the couple may rent an apart-
ment or home in that area until he graduates.
In August, the couple said they were
informed that an advertisement for someone
to join them in sex had been posted on
www.glimpse.com.
The ad was removed after several calls to
the site, Carmichael said, then Winnsboro News
editor Tom Pendergast mentioned it in an Aug.
21 editorial.
Pendergast, who objects to the couple's
stance favoring tax breaks to bed & breakfasts
that are designated as historical sites, penned
an editorial saying the Internet personal ad
"contained such vivid descriptions of homo-
sexual acts that they cannot be printed in a
family newspaper."
Norma Wilkinson, owner of the town's
other bed and breakfast, said most citizens like
the couple and don't care that they're gay.
Tim Carmichael said he and Paul Bear
planned to sell Thee Hubbell House in
Winnsboro.
Todd Nelson, spokesperson for global dat-
ing network Matchnet, which owns
glimpse.com, said it should not have taken
several phone calls to get the ad removed.
The company, takes privacy issues very
seriously, Nelson said, and the ad should have
been removed after the first call.
Matchnet has no way of verifying who
posts what ads on their sites, Nelson said.
"There really is no way to prevent someone
from coming on and saying they're someone
else," Nelson said.
Nelson said he finds it hard to believe that
an explicitly sexual advertisement made it
through the company's screening process.
Matchnet is "relationship oriented," he
said, and "by Internet standards, is a very
clean site."
Nelson said he does not know if the couple
contacted the site, but no accounts are listed
under their business e-mail address. ▼
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