UPDATE: The art was not owned by Lee LaHaye. It was part of the estate sale, but was being sold on consignment for another seller. The painting, “Untitled (Double),” by British artist Kitty Blandy, remains for sale.
When journalist John Aravosis stopped by an estate sale in Washington DC, he was shocked to find a gay erotic painting hanging in the living room. But when he found out who the now-deceased owner of the condo was, he was blown away.
The “Matisse-like” painting features three men having anal sex. Hanging in the home of Lee LaHaye, the former Chief Financial Officer for the virulently anti-LGBT organization Concerned Women for America, the painting was for sale along with belongings from LaHaye’s estate.
LaHaye was the youngest son of the organization’s founder and chair, Beverly LaHaye, and Timothy LaHaye, the author of the apocalyptic Christian horror Left Behind books.
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LaHaye’s husband, a 30-something man he met and married last year, wasn’t at the home during the sale. Sadly, LaHaye never came out publicly but never denied his sexuality either.
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