bye bye bye to the closet

July 26, 2006 6:36 AM

"I'm Gay"
posted by tsarfan (151 comments total)

I'm shocked.
posted by ColdChef at 6:39 AM on July 26, 2006

I'm disinterested. (Or is it uninterested? No, dis-.)
posted by kittyprecious at 6:40 AM on July 26, 2006

Holy flurking schnit! For a moment I thought it might be Tom Cruise. *sigh*
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 6:42 AM on July 26, 2006

posted by mr_crash_davis at 6:43 AM on July 26, 2006

I'm still wondering what's up whith this dudes hair:


posted by DragonBoy at 6:45 AM on July 26, 2006

Consider my mind *BLOWN*
posted by QuarterlyProphet at 6:45 AM on July 26, 2006

First George Michael and now this. Is there no end to it?
posted by ewkpates at 6:46 AM on July 26, 2006

Wow. Knock me over with a feather. Ya think?
posted by kalessin at 6:47 AM on July 26, 2006

Here is a guy playing the "Star Wars" theme on a banjo.
posted by ND¢ at 6:49 AM on July 26, 2006 [4 favorites]

Since we're not ashamed to admit awareness of 'NSYNC (or however you punctuate it) in this thread, can I just take the opportunity to state that Joey Fatone isn't a half-bad actor? I quite enjoyed his turn in The Cooler.
posted by Faint of Butt at 6:50 AM on July 26, 2006

Dude's already got a name that sounds like a gay porn alias. I guess he might as well play the cards he was dealt.
posted by Optamystic at 6:51 AM on July 26, 2006

um, duh? Who didn't know that?
posted by jaded at 6:53 AM on July 26, 2006

I don't really know who this guy is and I'm not surprised
posted by ob at 6:54 AM on July 26, 2006

I heard Rock Hudson is gay too.
posted by geoff. at 6:55 AM on July 26, 2006

"I'm Gay"
posted by tsarfan

Congratulations, tsarfan. You're very brave to have come out after all these years of fevered speculation.
posted by Optamystic at 6:55 AM on July 26, 2006

Good for him.

But just once it would be nice as if announcements like this weren't given the three-ring-circus treatment, where the entertainer is redefined in a publicity stunt much like a ritual rebirth, as not just a person who entertains, but a gay person who does it. As if it should surprise us that out there on our tv or on the radio there are people who look just like normal people...but they're gay.

I hate the whole tee-hee, you little girls loved him, but he was gay! Surprise!

Gay shouldn't be sensationalist news, and he shouldn't let them turn him into a circus act.
posted by FunkyHelix at 6:57 AM on July 26, 2006

I guess that makes you nay-sayers of his outer-space ambitions homophobic now.
posted by Mach3avelli at 7:00 AM on July 26, 2006

I'm much more shocked by the photo with the story than anything in the story. [insert tasteless aspersion based on stereotypes regarding gay men and grooming abilities]
posted by lodurr at 7:01 AM on July 26, 2006

Oh, sure; save this up for *after* the reflected glare can do Meredith Edwards any good...
posted by baylink at 7:04 AM on July 26, 2006

Wait, wait I got it! Okay, wait. Wait, no, wait here it is: "When he kept saying that he wanted to explore the dark void, you all thought he meant he wanted to go into outer space!!!" HA! Yep. That will be Jay Leno's opening joke in his monologue tonight.
posted by ND¢ at 7:04 AM on July 26, 2006

OMG this changes EVERYHTING!!1
posted by the painkiller at 7:07 AM on July 26, 2006

In other news, water is wet, hair is hairy, and Peter O'Toole enjoys the occasional beverage.
posted by jonmc at 7:15 AM on July 26, 2006

I feel like I am finally able to exhale a deep breath that I inhaled in 1997.
posted by hermitosis at 7:16 AM on July 26, 2006

I just mentioned this to my boss, who's gay and he said:

Thanks, but really you can keep him.
posted by jonmc at 7:16 AM on July 26, 2006 [1 favorite]

I ask this question in all seriousness: To public knowledge, has there ever been a gay person in space? Coming out after returning to Earth counts.
posted by Faint of Butt at 7:17 AM on July 26, 2006

Wow. He's literally willing to publicly suck dick to get back in the spotlight.

Fame's (a) bitch.
posted by Optamystic at 7:17 AM on July 26, 2006

To public knowledge, has there ever been a gay person in space?

While we're on the subject, has anybody, straight or gay, had sex in space? You gotta figure somebody would just to be the first. Although the zero-gravity could create some unforseen problems, I guess.
posted by jonmc at 7:19 AM on July 26, 2006

Somewhere, Justin Timberlake is wondering if he might be next.
posted by jimmythefish at 7:19 AM on July 26, 2006

Honestly. A one-link FPP to People Magazine? About a boy band boy coming out of the closet? Puh-LEAZE let's create a parallel site called, erm, PorousFilter or something.
posted by CynicalKnight at 7:20 AM on July 26, 2006 [1 favorite]

It would have been better if he had said it during a Barbara Walters special and cried. Then we could better see his human side, instead of the annoying, aging boy band member that we would like to punch in the throat for being so annoying a few years ago.

Then after he wiped his tears, Barbara could have cut to the clip that Lance brought -- a shot-for-shot re-enactment of the "I'm Gay!" segment from Brain Candy starring himself.
posted by Mayor Curley at 7:21 AM on July 26, 2006

jonmc, I seriously doubt that anyone's accomplished that. Can you imagine the self-control it would take to keep something like that a secret? Whoever does it first will be famous for it, mark my words.
posted by Faint of Butt at 7:22 AM on July 26, 2006

Clearly, this is not tearing up anyone's heart.
posted by dw at 7:24 AM on July 26, 2006 [3 favorites]

FOB, come on, we've had manned spaceflight for over 40 years now. The Russians musta done it. Some suave cosmonaut went into the cabin and said, 'C'mon Svetlana, you know you want to. I brought vodka...'
posted by jonmc at 7:24 AM on July 26, 2006

This post is gay.
posted by Joeforking at 7:24 AM on July 26, 2006

Meh.
posted by Devils Slide at 7:25 AM on July 26, 2006

Did they ever do a five-way on their tour bus? That would be like, totally hot.
posted by fungible at 7:30 AM on July 26, 2006

Y'know, on the one hand it's important for closeted little gay boys everywhere to see that they're not alone.

On the other hand, they're also being taught that they have to hide to be successfuk--a self-fulfilling prophecy if ever there were one. (Please don't mention Rupert Everett et al; he only gets to play gay characters, or those who might as well be. Why can a straight actor play gay, but not vice versa? Pisses me off).

On the gripping hand, I wish for a day when nobody gives a damn.
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 7:31 AM on July 26, 2006 [1 favorite]

Did they ever do a five-way on their tour bus? That would be like, totally hot.

Ugh, no. I'd happily tag-team Lance & Justin though.
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 7:32 AM on July 26, 2006

Hey cool. He's dating Reichen.
posted by kimdog at 7:35 AM on July 26, 2006

On the gripping hand, I wish for a day when nobody gives a damn.

I believe you may have gotten your wish.
posted by Optamystic at 7:35 AM on July 26, 2006

Hear, hear, FunkyHelix. I came into the thread planning on saying pretty much what you did.

Really, it's 2006. We should be used to the fact that, OMG, some people are gay and willing to acknowledge it. Should be, that is. Since the 'defense of marriage' holy war began a couple of years ago it, once again, takes courage to say, "I'm Gay."

Good for you Lance.
posted by djeo at 7:35 AM on July 26, 2006

they're also being taught that they have to hide to be successfuk

I think successfuck is the best new word I've learned today.

suc·cess·fuck (suk-sĕs'fuk)

verb.

Intercourse with a desireable or famous person due to one's career success. After patenting silent Velcro, Jimmy successfucked Lindsay Lohan in the back of a limo at the trade convention.

successfuck suc·cess'fuck noun.
successfucked suc·cess'fucked adv.
posted by jimmythefish at 7:44 AM on July 26, 2006 [14 favorites]

On the gripping hand, I wish for a day when nobody gives a damn.

This has long been my wish: One day homosexualists will be just as boring, homely and unremarkeable as us breeders.

Which makes Ellen a veritable MLK jr., I suppose.
posted by docgonzo at 7:45 AM on July 26, 2006

One day homosexualists will be just as boring, homely and unremarkeable as us breeders.

As someone who works in a predominantly gay area of manhattan, I can tell you that's more or less true. But this is Lance Bass. We're not goofing on him cause he's gay, we're goofing on him cause he's lame.
posted by jonmc at 7:47 AM on July 26, 2006

Well duh, Lance.

Either that or you have sex with fish, you know lancing bass with your pole? Har, har, har.
posted by fenriq at 7:49 AM on July 26, 2006

NO ONE CARES ANYMORE
posted by mkultra at 7:49 AM on July 26, 2006

I'm feeling kinda happy. Can this be shouted from the front page of MeFi, too? Or is this something that's only important if you're a washed-up manufactured entertainment "star"?

What a stupid subject for an FPP.
posted by five fresh fish at 7:50 AM on July 26, 2006

dirtynumbangelboy, Rupert Everett's character sure wasn't gay in Dellamorte Dellamore.
posted by Faint of Butt at 7:57 AM on July 26, 2006

The secret reason that they wouldn't let him go to space?
posted by unknowncommand at 7:59 AM on July 26, 2006

This just goes to show how important punctuation is. If the ! had been replaced by a ?, the entire tone of the article would have changed from some washed up popstar claiming his last fifteen minutes to the same washed up popstar's introspective journey of self discovery.

Let's all close our eyes and imagine that reality for a moment.
posted by robocop is bleeding at 8:00 AM on July 26, 2006

"Why can a straight actor play gay, but not vice versa?"

Uh... Rock Hudson? The multitude of out to friends but not to the public actors? The chick from Sex and the City?
posted by klangklangston at 8:01 AM on July 26, 2006

The chick from Sex and the City?

I don't think she came out until after she had a steady paycheck from the show.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 8:05 AM on July 26, 2006

I wish I could find the Braincandy clip.
posted by klangklangston at 8:07 AM on July 26, 2006

"Why can a straight actor play gay, but not vice versa?"

Tom Selleck?
Jim Neighbors?
Ellen Degeneres?
Jody Foster?
Don Knotts?
posted by squirrel at 8:08 AM on July 26, 2006

Tenth rate nobody in defunct tenth-rate boy band finds the balls to come out in order to get a last gasp of the thin oxygen of has-been publicity?

Hang on while I pick my jaw up from the floor, here.
posted by Decani at 8:09 AM on July 26, 2006

'C'mon Svetlana, you know you want to. I brought vodka.'

"C'mon Svetlana, you know you wanna" would make one hell of a pop number.
posted by George_Spiggott at 8:14 AM on July 26, 2006 [1 favorite]

I think lancing a bass is a crime. Check with the ASPCA on that one. And it has NOTHING to do with being gay.

Unless you mean happy. Not that there's anything wrong with being happy.

Unless you're happy that some fish fucker's career is over and he's exactly that desperate to get back in the news. That's not happy. That's just sad.

What are we talking about again?
posted by JWright at 8:16 AM on July 26, 2006

"I'm Gay" is the new "I'm in rehab!"
posted by KevinSkomsvold at 8:24 AM on July 26, 2006

"Why can a straight actor play gay, but not vice versa?"

Tom Selleck?
Jim Neighbors?
Ellen Degeneres?
Jody Foster?
Don Knotts?


Alright... an out gay actor--which you know very well is what I meant. Not a single one of those actors has played a straight role in any major film or TV appearance since they came out.
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 8:24 AM on July 26, 2006

Gay, and crosseyed, good for him!
posted by antifuse at 8:25 AM on July 26, 2006

If Tom Selleck is gay, he's certainly not out. Same for Jody Foster. As for Don Knotts, WTF?
posted by Optamystic at 8:27 AM on July 26, 2006

As for Don Knotts, WTF?

You obviously never saw the 'lost episode,' where Barney 'acidentally' locked himself in the cell with Otis...
posted by jonmc at 8:31 AM on July 26, 2006

Huh! When Darren Hayes made his announcement (about his marriage to his boyfriend of 2 years), someone had commented "Lance Bass, are you paying attention?" And now this.

Is Lance Bass stalking the Internet or something?
posted by divabat at 8:33 AM on July 26, 2006

Read me my rights as if I didn't know this
Threw me in the tank with a drunk called Otis
With his 5 o'clock shadow he smelled of 3 day old beer
My man turned to me and said, "Why are you here?"
I said I'm charming I'm dashing I'm rental-car bashing
I'm phony-paper passing at Nick's Check Cashing
posted by Optamystic at 8:37 AM on July 26, 2006

Hey, all the cool kids are doing it! Half expecting A-Rod and Derek to make their official announcements any day now.
posted by CodeBaloo at 8:39 AM on July 26, 2006

Colin Farrell has been sober for six months?
posted by La Cieca at 8:41 AM on July 26, 2006

There's a sale at Penney's?
posted by jonmc at 8:44 AM on July 26, 2006

While we're on the subject, has anybody, straight or gay, had sex in space? You gotta figure somebody would just to be the first. Although the zero-gravity could create some unforseen problems, I guess.

I'm pretty sure there was a married couple on one of the shuttle flights a few years back.
posted by Cyrano at 8:45 AM on July 26, 2006

In a related story, I'm not gay, but my boyfriend is.

Whoa, Tom Selleck? Don Knotts?
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 8:49 AM on July 26, 2006

Here's why this post has validity. It allows all you fine people here to really flex your snark muscles. I mean, if a post had some depth and importance, we'd really have nothing funny to say.
posted by Parannoyed at 8:49 AM on July 26, 2006 [1 favorite]

also, Jonmc wins with the Peter O'toole reference.
posted by Parannoyed at 8:50 AM on July 26, 2006

His eyebrows gave him away, I think.
posted by black8 at 8:50 AM on July 26, 2006

Not to mention the Airplane reference!
posted by TwoWordReview at 8:57 AM on July 26, 2006

Almost as earth-shattering as when Nathan Lane came out.
posted by wfc123 at 9:02 AM on July 26, 2006

Oh yeah, I've heard the "Tom Selleck is gay" thing, too.

Ben Affleck, too.
posted by wfc123 at 9:04 AM on July 26, 2006

Nathan Lane is GAY!? What?
posted by monju_bosatsu at 9:07 AM on July 26, 2006

That's nothing. I heard that Ben Affleck is an Oscar winning screenwriter.
posted by Optamystic at 9:08 AM on July 26, 2006

Dirtynumb— I'd imagine that after a decent part of a career playing straight people, gays who are publicly out would rather not have to pretend to be straight anymore.
posted by klangklangston at 9:08 AM on July 26, 2006

Weren't they all gay?
posted by Astro Zombie at 9:11 AM on July 26, 2006 [1 favorite]

successfucked suc·cess'fucked adv.

Adverb? ADVERB?!?! Are you successfucking kidding me? Maybe successfuckedly would be an adverb, you successfucking moron.

Phew, I'm getting tired just typing it. I think I'll stick to the monosyllabic profanities.
posted by Plutor at 9:12 AM on July 26, 2006

Dirtynumb— I'd imagine that after a decent part of a career playing straight people, gays who are publicly out would rather not have to pretend to be straight anymore.

They're actors. Pretending to be things they aren't is their job.
posted by jonmc at 9:18 AM on July 26, 2006

Always thought all the guys in N'SYNC were gay.

Lance interviewed in bed with Sharon Osborne.(YouTube)

Poor Lance: Girls doing body shots off him(YT). He is a hottie (YT).
posted by nickyskye at 9:21 AM on July 26, 2006

"They're actors. Pretending to be things they aren't is their job."

They still pick and choose their roles. If Angelina Jolee just did whatever was offered to her, I have a feeling we'd have seen her giving many more blowjobs on film.
posted by klangklangston at 9:27 AM on July 26, 2006

He was outed as being in Provincetown with Reichen--that's why he came out.

July 14, ABC News: How much privacy should onetime *NSYNC star Lance Bass expect when he visits a prominent gay bar with a prominent gay star?
On Wednesday, The New York Post's Page Six column reported that Bass had been spotted with "Amazing Race" star Reichen Lehmkuhl at Atlantic House, a gay bar in Provincetown, Mass.
Following the Post report, a blog on the Washington Blade, a leading newspaper for the gay and lesbian community, said that Bass had been outed.
Through his spokeswoman, Cindy Owen, Bass, 27, declined to comment on the report. Lehmkuhl's spokeswoman, Mara Santino, also declined to comment on the Post report. ...
posted by amberglow at 9:31 AM on July 26, 2006

If Angelina Jolee just did whatever was offered to her, I have a feeling we'd have seen her giving many more blowjobs on film.

And how would this be a bad thing?
posted by Astro Zombie at 9:33 AM on July 26, 2006

It would be a great thing, expanding her audience from just my subconscious to all of mankind. But it's not a reality (not yet... Call me, Angelina!).
posted by klangklangston at 9:35 AM on July 26, 2006

Wow. He's literally willing to publicly suck dick to get back in the spotlight.

Okay. And this makes him different from Paris Hilton, Beyoncé Knowles, Sandra Bullock, Tom Cruise, Adam Sandler, and every other famewhore — how, exactly?
posted by blucevalo at 9:38 AM on July 26, 2006

Well hrm, Ian McKellen has managed to avoid being typecast. Nathan Lane has been typecast, but certainly the characters of Max Biallystock, and Nathan Detroit must count for something.

In regards to gay actors wanting to avoid playing straight characters. That actually sounds fairly ludicrous. Most straight roles involve faking the on-screen relationship no matter who is playing the roles.
posted by KirkJobSluder at 9:39 AM on July 26, 2006

from the People link: As for why he's talking about this now Bass says, "The main reason I wanted to speak my mind was that (the rumors) really were starting to affect my daily life. Now it feels like it's on my terms. I'm at peace with my family, my friends, myself and God so there's really nothing else that I worry about."
He means being outed by the Post and Blade. They weren't rumors, and him coming out confirms that they were truth--truth that he didn't want to see come out. It wasn't on his terms at all, and that's the pity. Reichen came out without having to be outed--did Justin want to come out but was being persuaded not to? did he not want to? It's not like Nsync was still around. That's the real story (but we won't hear it from People).

(His eyebrows are horrendous, btw) ; >
posted by amberglow at 9:39 AM on July 26, 2006

plutor,

adj, forgot to change it from the dictionary.com website. crap.
posted by jimmythefish at 9:41 AM on July 26, 2006

So, who's the other one?
posted by mr_crash_davis at 9:43 AM on July 26, 2006

and Boy bands and closetcases (and stories of abuse too, i hear) have a very long history--Menudo, and a bunch of the UK ones have had gay members who are now out (but not Ricky yet).
posted by amberglow at 9:44 AM on July 26, 2006

To public knowledge, has there ever been a gay person in space?

While we're on the subject, has anybody, straight or gay, had sex in space? You gotta figure somebody would just to be the first. Although the zero-gravity could create some unforseen problems, I guess.

New book out dealing with just this question:

http://www.woodmansee.com/ (third book from left).
posted by Zinger at 9:45 AM on July 26, 2006

that's UK, crash, so it might be Westlife or something--one of theirs.
posted by amberglow at 9:46 AM on July 26, 2006

Lance's choice, Reichen Lehmkuhl, is a hottie too.
posted by nickyskye at 9:49 AM on July 26, 2006

mkultra: NO ONE CARES ANYMORE

How did this guy not make the list?

Mayor Curley: Then after he wiped his tears, Barbara could have cut to the clip that Lance brought -- a shot-for-shot re-enactment of the "I'm Gay!" segment from Brain Candy starring himself.

klangklangston: I wish I could find the Braincandy clip.

Ah, the end of that scene pretty much sums up my feelings on this post:

"I'm GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY!!"
"WHO CARES?!"

...to bring it back to the top of the post, because, you know, life is circular.
posted by Brak at 9:59 AM on July 26, 2006

That's nothing. I heard that Ben Affleck is an Oscar winning screenwriter.

Well played.

And it brings me to a hypothesis: The Affleck-insulting non sequitur represents the Godwinization of a snarky celeb-culture thread.

If so, why is that? I mean, yes, he's not particularly talented, but that's not unique. And there are certainly much more loathsome fame whores. Is Affleck some kind of Sin-Eater for the Us Weekly age? Or just an easy mark?

I'll expect 2,500 words on this by the end of the semester. Do be sure to do the assigned Christopher Lasch readings. Bonus marks for working in a really good Ben Mulroney dis. No extensions.
posted by gompa at 10:04 AM on July 26, 2006

Ellen Degeneres?
Jody Foster?
Don Knotts?

Alright... an out gay actor--which you know very well is what I meant.

Well, I didn't know that stipulation.... but... *mind wheeling* Shucks, you have a point there, dnab!
posted by squirrel at 10:35 AM on July 26, 2006

Hey, don't you be dissing my girl Beyoncé.

She's hot talented for realz.
posted by jokeefe at 10:40 AM on July 26, 2006

Moreover, squirrel, it's just rumours about Jodie.
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 10:41 AM on July 26, 2006

While we're on the subject, has anybody, straight or gay, had sex in space?

Outer-space sex carries complications --
"Experts say new devices and data would be needed to hit the zero-G-spot."
posted by ericb at 10:44 AM on July 26, 2006

That braincandy skit is the first thing I thought of.
"I'm gay!"
"He's gay!"
posted by bob sarabia at 10:55 AM on July 26, 2006

Wendy's has a spicy chicken sandwich?

posted by mischief at 10:58 AM on July 26, 2006

Moreover, squirrel, it's just rumours about Jodie.

You sure? She's been on the cover of Out and On Our Backs...
posted by squirrel at 11:03 AM on July 26, 2006

He was outed as being in Provincetown with Reichen--that's why he came out.

Yeah -- they were "out-and-about" in P-town over the 4th. of July weekend.
posted by ericb at 11:05 AM on July 26, 2006

So what about Oprah? Is she gay?
posted by Astro Zombie at 11:10 AM on July 26, 2006

i don't know about Oprah, but Steadman is, supposedly (like Star Jones' "husband")
posted by amberglow at 11:28 AM on July 26, 2006

Hey, don't you be dissing my girl Beyoncé.

She's hot talented for realz.

No, you need to upgrade to Prince's protege Tamar, way hotter and more talented to boot. Mmmm-mmm, she be fine.
posted by jonmc at 11:36 AM on July 26, 2006

I'll expect 2,500 words on this by the end of the semester...

No problem. I'll just ask Mr. Weinstein to get on the horn to William Goldman. You'll have a first-rate paper first thing Monday.
posted by Optamystic at 11:40 AM on July 26, 2006

I kinda suspected when I saw him all friendly with Kathy Griffin on her Bravo show.
posted by Sprout the Vulgarian at 12:03 PM on July 26, 2006

Everybody is gay.
posted by Pendragon at 12:06 PM on July 26, 2006

And it brings me to a hypothesis: The Affleck-insulting non sequitur represents the Godwinization of a snarky celeb-culture thread.

O RLY? What does any of this have to do with Nazis?
posted by ninjew at 12:09 PM on July 26, 2006

YS RLY!
posted by gompa at 12:13 PM on July 26, 2006

Homosexuals are gay.
posted by xod at 12:18 PM on July 26, 2006

"What does any of this have to do with Nazis?"

Ben's a Jew, duh.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 12:19 PM on July 26, 2006

Ben Affleck, too.

No. He's straight.

But Matthew McConaughey is gay. I'd say that is a MUCH bigger win for that team.

And people do care. Because there is a TON of money involved.

The average movie/concert ticket purchasing 14 year old girl —THE market for male stars— cares. She cares that her fav star is straight or not —not because she is bigoted— but because it's part of the adolescent fantasy of having him as your future husband. Not the guy who goes shoe shopping with you. The guy who sweeps you off your feet.

It's not about the character he plays. It's all the fantasy. If he marries he just as "out" as if he is gay.

Action stars... yeah. It matters. And that IS bigoted. Kind of. What with popular cliches involving what IS masculine, etc.

OT: I used chuckle to myself when some of my training partners make broad pronouncements about homosexuals and how NOT tough they are, etc.

I didn't have the heart (or the right) to tell them that one of the biggest, toughest, fighters in the Gym is 100% Gay McGayerson from Gayville. He usually makes his point in the ring with the homophobes.

I always wanna say "Look. Dudes. What kind of guy is going to like rolling around on the mat and in the ring with half naked men more? Who is more likely to get GOOD at it? Your average straight guy? Or a gay guy?"

Anyway.

It's different with male movie fans who find out a the chick star they like is a lesbian. Hell. That UPS the ante.
posted by tkchrist at 12:22 PM on July 26, 2006

Are you sure McConaughey is gay and not just, uh a stupid stoner? Well I take that back.
posted by geoff. at 12:36 PM on July 26, 2006

Are you sure McConaughey is gay...

But what about all those high school girls...
posted by jonmc at 12:47 PM on July 26, 2006

Are you sure McConaughey is gay and not just, uh a stupid stoner?

70% sure. And the dude isn't dumb at all. Wierd maybe. But not dumb. Frankly, I admire and envy his slacker lifestyle.

Coming out (or not) for these stars is a financial descision. Who can fault them for that? They have to cash in while they are young and hot.

Maybe one day it won't matter.
posted by tkchrist at 12:47 PM on July 26, 2006

Maybe one day it won't matter.

Hopefully. It's never too late to 'come out' publicly.


posted by ericb at 1:02 PM on July 26, 2006

Tab Hunter, Lance Bass, Sal Mineo...

Sensing a pattern? No straight guy could be that pretty.
posted by jonmc at 1:05 PM on July 26, 2006

Tab Hunter was in? I mean, sometime after 1965?
posted by lodurr at 1:06 PM on July 26, 2006

Unfortunately, this doesn't answer the burning question of Which Backstreet Boy Is Gay.
posted by witchstone at 1:08 PM on July 26, 2006

In real news, WA state ruled against samesex marriage--bigots
posted by amberglow at 1:45 PM on July 26, 2006

one of the biggest, toughest, fighters in the Gym is 100% Gay McGayerson from Gayville.

More evidence for the casual axiom long favoured by docgonzo &co -- what's more manly than a gay man and hotttTtt man-on-man manlove?
posted by docgonzo at 1:51 PM on July 26, 2006

But what about all those high school girls...
posted by jonmc

"That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age."
posted by ninjew at 1:56 PM on July 26, 2006

Well, it must have been hard for him, but I never listened to "his" music on my own volition and this is not the best of the web.
posted by hoborg at 2:10 PM on July 26, 2006

"I'm Gay"

yes, lance. you certainly are.
posted by quonsar at 2:18 PM on July 26, 2006

Coulter opens her piehole again:

ANN COULTER: I think that sort of rampant promiscuity does show some level of latent homosexuality.

DONNY DEUTSCH: OK, I think you need to say that again. That Bill Clinton, you think on some level, has — is a latent homosexual, is that what you’re saying?

COULTER: Yeah.

posted by ericb at 2:36 PM on July 26, 2006

I don’t know if you read the Starr report, the rest of us were glued to it, I have many passages memorized.

Oh, Ann, you dirty girl.
posted by jokeefe at 2:42 PM on July 26, 2006

Maybe one day it won't matter.

Correction: one day is certainly won't matter.
posted by squirrel at 3:03 PM on July 26, 2006

ericb: Which just goes to show what a massive troll she is, because both Clinton's less-than-progressive base and lesbigays would be offended by that statement.
posted by KirkJobSluder at 3:09 PM on July 26, 2006

N'Out.
posted by fandango_matt at 3:46 PM on July 26, 2006

To bad he never made it into space. He could have been a big gay in space. A spacegay.
posted by delmoi at 4:10 PM on July 26, 2006

lesbigays

lesbigays sounds like a species of bird.
posted by jonmc at 4:13 PM on July 26, 2006

If Lance moves to Boston, marries T. Coraghessen Boyle and adopts his name ...
...will the NYTimes "Weddings" section cover the nuptials?
posted by rob511 at 4:23 PM on July 26, 2006

N'PINK
posted by squirrel at 4:33 PM on July 26, 2006

rob511, I went to high school with a Lance Boyle.

Swear to God.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 4:53 PM on July 26, 2006

I can honestly say, I've never been less titillated. It's not the horrible eyebrows, or the horrible band, it's the idea of Lance Bass as a sexual being.

Now his boyfriend, while not my type, is totally hot. At least the boy from the band has some good taste.
posted by gesamtkunstwerk at 5:15 PM on July 26, 2006

ericb writes "Coulter opens her piehole again:"

My (gay) boyfriend just said, "So Bill Clinton's gay because he gets a lot of pussy?"
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 6:56 PM on July 26, 2006

I Fucked Ann Coulter in the Ass, Hard.
posted by ericb at 7:50 PM on July 26, 2006 [1 favorite]

I'm crooked.
posted by ZachsMind at 8:17 PM on July 26, 2006

Um, so am I. Whoopty.


posted by moonbird at 8:59 PM on July 26, 2006

"uh, Mom? Dad?"

"Yes, son?"

"Um... that is to say... well, okay... I'm vapid!"
posted by trip and a half at 11:17 PM on July 26, 2006

Mr Crash, a friend of mine used to do business with a guy named Richard Stilhard.

He goes by 'Dick.'

He said, 'Why fight it? Just deal with it head on.' Or at least, that's how he was quoted to me...
posted by lodurr at 7:31 AM on July 27, 2006

In Phoenix, our company used to have a vendor that came by the office every now and then.

Name of Richard. Richard Siemens.

His company? Trojan Specialty Packaging.

You can imagine all kinds of fun our receptionist had with that one.
posted by darkstar at 8:10 AM on July 27, 2006

maybe Ann was really outing herself? ...On the romantic front, Coulter seems to flit from one relationship to the next. After moving here, she dated a Democratic Senate staffer whose legislative efforts she opposed. Then she began seeing Bob Guccione Jr., the controversial founder of Spin magazine, until becoming disenchanted in March. Now she's involved with an FBI agent. ...
posted by amberglow at 9:14 AM on July 27, 2006

My big question about Annie the C is why any healthy heterosexual male would be interested in her. The bony skinny thing I could handle (I used to have the hots for Shelly Duvall); it's just that she's, well, kind of ugly...

Must be the hair.
posted by lodurr at 9:26 AM on July 27, 2006

It's the adam's apple and man-hands--she attracts all the "latent homosexuals" i guess ; >
posted by amberglow at 5:11 PM on July 27, 2006

"I don't know if he's gay. But Al Gore -- total fag."

I bet that talk makes Ann feel like a real man, alrighty.
posted by amberglow at 5:27 PM on July 27, 2006

My father (beelzbubba) just remebered a joke that he was going to post here about a month ago.

"Lance Bass. Ass-tronaut."
posted by klangklangston at 6:40 PM on August 20, 2006