Quentin Hubbard
Vorlage:ScientologySeries Geoffrey Quentin McCaully Hubbard (6 January1954 – 12 November1976), was the son of L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of the Church of Scientology. His father had groomed his son to take over the organization for him[1]. Quentin was discovered by police October 28, 1976, unconscious from an apparent suicide attempt, and died two weeks later without having regained consciousness.[2]
Life
Geoffrey Quentin McCaully Hubbard was born on January 6, 1954 as the son of L. Ron Hubbard and Mary Sue Hubbard. Quentin wanted to be a pilot as a child but later was happy to dedicate himself to the Church and rising through its hierarchy.
Sources close to him have asserted that his homosexuality[2][1][3] caused him a great deal of personal torment due to the homophobia of the era and his father's creation of a new religion that officially categorized homosexuals as "sexual pervert[s]" and "quite ill physically".[4] Another source close to him claims that his alleged homosexuality was an act. [5] His unrealized dream was to become an airplane pilot.[2][5][6][7]
Death
Quentin's severe depression led to his first suicide attempt in 1974[2]. In 1976, he disappeared from his home in Clearwater, Florida and he was later found in a car in Las Vegas. It is believed that he committed suicide in his car through carbon monoxide poisoning, although his toxic screen came back negative for drugs and carbon monoxide in his body. [8] His wallet was gone, and the license plate of the car was missing and found under a rock some distance away. [9] A former Scientologist later stated that, under the instructions of the Guardian's Office, he and another Scientologist had illegally removed Quentin's medical records from the hospital where he had died, over concern that they contained evidence of a homosexual encounter shortly before his death.[2]
Controversy
One source critical of the Church of Scientology suggested that Quentin was murdered by Scientologists because he was homosexual and was planning to leave the Church to go to flight training school. [1] [2].
References
- ↑ a b Jon Atack: [[A Piece of Blue Sky]]. Carol Publishing Group, 1990, ISBN 0-8184-0499-X, Chapter 6 - The Flag Land Base.
- ↑ a b c d e Miller, Russell: [[Bare-faced Messiah]], The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard. First American Edition Auflage. Henry Holt & Co, New York 1987, ISBN 0-8050-0654-0 (clambake.org).
- ↑ Interview with Kima Douglas, Oakland, California, 27 August 1986
- ↑ L. Ron Hubbard: Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. 1985 edition Auflage. Bridge Publications, Los Angeles, CA 1985, ISBN 0-88404-219-7, Part 2, Chapter 5, S. 140: „The sexual pervert (and by this term Dianetics, to be brief, includes any and all forms of deviation in dynamic two such as homosexuality, lesbianism, sexual sadism, etc., and all down the catalog of Ellis and Krafft-Ebing) is actually quite ill physically.“
- ↑ a b Monica Pignotti's account of her time in Scientology: "Quentin and I came very close to getting involved sexually, but we didn't because he told me that several years earlier, he had become sexually involved with a young woman and she had been sent off the ship when his father found out. He didn't want to get me into that kind of trouble, so we remained good friends."
- ↑ Hana Eltringham Whitfield Remembers Quentin
- ↑ Secret Lives - L. Ron Hubbard, Channel 4, November 19, 1997
- ↑ Affidavit of Hana Whitfield, April 4, 1994
- ↑ Affidavit of Robert Vaughn Young, April 4, 1994