• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • Advertise
  • Contact Us
  • About Towleroad
  • Towleroad on Social Media
  • Privacy Policy

Towleroad Gay News

Gay Blog Towleroad: More than gay news | gay men

  • Body
  • Daily Resist
  • POLITICS
  • Travel
  • Music
  • Theatre
  • Film
  • TV
  • Sports
  • Business
  • Men
  • Marriage Equality
  • Space
  • Trans Rights
  • Books
  • Science
  • Gay Iconography
  • TowleREAD

St. Louis Couple Who Pointed Guns at BLM Protesters Once Fought to Exclude Gays from Neighborhood

July 10, 2020 by John Wright Leave a Comment

st louis couple guns black lives matter

Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the St. Louis personal injury attorneys who infamously pointed guns at peaceful Black Lives Matter protesters outside their mansion last month, once allegedly fought to exclude gays from their ritzy neighborhood, Portland Place.

The McCloskeys sued Portland Place’s trustees, demanding that they enforce neighborhood rules known as the Trust Agreement, including one that prohibited unmarried people from living together. The couple unsuccessfully appealed the case all the way to the state Supreme Court.

“Several neighbors said it was because the McCloskeys didn’t want gay couples living on the block,” the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Friday evening in an exposé about the couple’s disturbing history.

“The trustees voted to impeach Patricia McCloskey as a trustee in 1992 when she fought an effort to change the trust indenture, accusing her of being anti-gay,” the Post-Dispatch reported. “Mark McCloskey clarified in a deposition much later that the trust agreement barred unmarried people living together, regardless of their sexuality. ‘Certain people on Portland Place, for political reasons, wanted to make it a gay issue,’ he said.”

Mark McCloskey made the statement in a deposition after the Portland Place trustees sued the couple in 2002 to foreclose on their house, because they weren’t paying their neighborhood dues. He said in the deposition that the couple had declined to pay the dues because the trustees “weren’t doing something, which was their obligation under the Trust Agreement.”

The lawyer questioning McCloskey asked, “Was it possible the issue was the trustees were allowing a gay couple to live there?”

Mark McCloskey responded that he didn’t know.

“I know there has been an ongoing issue about the definition of single family in Missouri law, and that the (agreement) calling for exclusively single family residences wouldn’t allow, technically, unmarried heterosexual people to live on Portland Place,” he said.

Read the full story here.

Filed Under: Featured, towleroad Tagged With: Black Lives Matter, gay marriage, gay rights, George Floyd, Mark McCloskey, marriage equality, Patricia McCloskey, same-sex marriage, St. Louis

Recent Posts

  • Lindsey Graham Says Impeaching Trump Post-Presidency is Wrong: ‘Why Don’t We Impeach George Washington? He Owned Slaves’ — WATCH

    Lindsey Graham Says Impeaching Trump Post-Presidency is Wrong: ‘Why Don’t We Impeach George Washington? He Owned Slaves’ — WATCH

    21 mins ago
  • This Heartwarming Viral Gay Doritos Ad Needs No Translation: WATCH

    This Heartwarming Viral Gay Doritos Ad Needs No Translation: WATCH

    1 hour ago
  • Tilda Swinton: ‘I Always Felt I Was Queer … It’s My World’

    Tilda Swinton: ‘I Always Felt I Was Queer … It’s My World’

    2 hours ago
  • QAnon Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) Vows to File Impeachment Articles Against Joe Biden on His First Day in Office: WATCH

    QAnon Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) Vows to File Impeachment Articles Against Joe Biden on His First Day in Office: WATCH

    2 hours ago
Previous Post: « Maskless Walmart Shopper Tells Women Filming Him: ‘Lick My Ass! Why Don’t You Burn a Monument Down?’ (WATCH)
Next Post: Trump Defends Commuting Sentence of Longtime Associate Roger Stone »

Primary Sidebar

  • Lindsey Graham Says Impeaching Trump Post-Presidency is Wrong: ‘Why Don’t We Impeach George Washington? He Owned Slaves’ — WATCH

  • This Heartwarming Viral Gay Doritos Ad Needs No Translation: WATCH

  • Tilda Swinton: ‘I Always Felt I Was Queer … It’s My World’

Recent Posts

  • Lindsey Graham Says Impeaching Trump Post-Presidency is Wrong: ‘Why Don’t We Impeach George Washington? He Owned Slaves’ — WATCH

    Lindsey Graham Says Impeaching Trump Post-Presidency is Wrong: ‘Why Don’t We Impeach George Washington? He Owned Slaves’ — WATCH

    21 mins ago
  • This Heartwarming Viral Gay Doritos Ad Needs No Translation: WATCH

    This Heartwarming Viral Gay Doritos Ad Needs No Translation: WATCH

    1 hour ago
  • Tilda Swinton: ‘I Always Felt I Was Queer … It’s My World’

    Tilda Swinton: ‘I Always Felt I Was Queer … It’s My World’

    2 hours ago
  • QAnon Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) Vows to File Impeachment Articles Against Joe Biden on His First Day in Office: WATCH

    QAnon Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) Vows to File Impeachment Articles Against Joe Biden on His First Day in Office: WATCH

    2 hours ago
  • Siegfried & Roy’s Siegfried Fischbacher Has Died at 81, Eight Months After Losing Roy Horn

    Siegfried & Roy’s Siegfried Fischbacher Has Died at 81, Eight Months After Losing Roy Horn

    3 hours ago
  • Lady Gaga to Sing National Anthem at Biden Inauguration

    Lady Gaga to Sing National Anthem at Biden Inauguration

    3 hours ago
  • Trump Issues Lie-Filled  Video Statement After He is Impeached for Second Time: WATCH

    Trump Issues Lie-Filled Video Statement After He is Impeached for Second Time: WATCH

    3 hours ago
  • Klete Keller, Eric Trump, Bobby Christine, Prince Harry’s Ponytail, Ellen’s COVID, Adam Newbold, Mo Brooks, Paul Gosar: HOT LINKS

    Klete Keller, Eric Trump, Bobby Christine, Prince Harry’s Ponytail, Ellen’s COVID, Adam Newbold, Mo Brooks, Paul Gosar: HOT LINKS

    21 hours ago
  • Brendan Fraser to Play Reclusive, Morbidly Obese Gay Man in Darren Aronofsky’s ‘The Whale’

    Brendan Fraser to Play Reclusive, Morbidly Obese Gay Man in Darren Aronofsky’s ‘The Whale’

    1 day ago
  • New Video Shows Insurrectionists Discussing Layout of U.S. Capitol, Coordinating Plan of Attack: WATCH

    New Video Shows Insurrectionists Discussing Layout of U.S. Capitol, Coordinating Plan of Attack: WATCH

    1 day ago

Most Commented

  • Advertise
  • Contact Us
  • About Towleroad
  • Towleroad on Social Media
  • Privacy Policy

Footer

Copyright © 2021 · Log in