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Thursday, August 26th, 1999

Ginger Lynn Snorted Coke With George Bush Jr?

Luke faces a dilemma this evening - should he go to Ginger Lynn's signing at the Hustler Hollywood at 6PM or just go straight to Temple Sinai in Westwood which is launching the new book of its Rabbi Wolpe, about suffering ("Making Loss Matter: Creating Meaning in Difficult Times")?

Luke will, as always, prefer suffering.

Hustler Erotic Video Guide editor Mike Albo left this message on Luke's answer machine at 3:45 PM: "Luke, I understand that you are planning to go to the Ginger Lynn thing tonight. Let me give you a bit of advice. Do not show up. Do not show up. You've been warned, punk."

An anonymous source has told Luke that in 1987 Ginger Lynn snorted cocaine with George Bush Jr. in a Dallas, Texas gentleman's club. Says Annie, "GB had a small cock... He did so much blow that he scared Ginger... He kept mixing it with baking soda and baked up rocks...They went to a hotel. There was security all the time. The girls were afraid to leave. Little Geo had to shoot up his cock and it wouldn't work after the blow.

"He wanted to f--- her up the ass and she didn't want to as her ass was recovering from a previously prolapsed rectum. A gay hustler was there and f---ed him up the ass. Gay men in power are often bottoms in the bedroom.

"So he cried like a baby and then went into a violent rage and tore up the hotel room which made the girls really nervous. And they were escorted into another room where they heard him crying and breaking things. Then he went out and wrecked his car.

"Lynn and the other chicks were eventually paid off to keep quiet."

Paulina writes: "I heard pretty much the same story, except that I heard that Ginger wore a strap-on and f---ed George up the ass."

Luke: "Ok, I admit it. I made the story above up."

LFP Shakeout

Larry Flynt Publications has closed three of its magazines - Jail Babes, Honey Buns and Black Sugar. Numerous staffers have been fired.

LFP employees found out last week about the closings. Jail Babes editor Mark Cromer was shocked and fired (or fired and shocked). His magazine earned tons of publicity but only dribbles of male seed. Luke bought two issues and never jerked off once to them.

XYZ: "Larry Flynt went to Vegas a couple of months ago and dropped four million dollars gambling... A few weeks ago, the paper showed a picture of Larry getting a million dollar check from the Hilton. Then they fired the Hilton's head of publicity... When he's gambling, he says, this is better than sex. He bets $45,000 a hand.

"Marc Wallice did gay escort work. He loved to get f---ed in the ass. All those guys, Peter North, Tom Byron, Paul Thomas... PT did gay f---ing movies before he even got near the girls."

XCX: "This is standard operating procedure. LFP starts and kills magazines all the time. They killed the golf magazine Backspin while they were still doing focus groups. Even though they had hired staff for the golf magazine, once they had bad focus groups, they decided to kill it.

"With Jail Babes, even though they got a ton of national publicity, there was no trend towards growth. The numbers did not reflect adaquate profitability. That's all that matters."

Luke: "The media can go wild about something that ordinary people couldn't jerk off to."

XCX: "It was paradoxical and ironic, this whole notion of Jail Babes. It made good copy. At heart these are masturbation magazines, strictly utilitarian and if people aren't going to use them that way...

"There's a new book Code, about black man's fashion. It's to compete with GQ. They poured money into it and now it is doing well. Tons of ads."

JFK Jr Gone In A Poof

How is JFK Jr like a penguin? Both are cute but can't fly.

From Luke F-rd Wire Services, Ltd:

Was JFK Jr. Bisexual? Some stories are too true to be good--which is why the tale of JFK Jr.’s “secret” life had to wait until Camelot’s crown jewels were scattered forever upon the high seas. l-keford.com obtained the documents that follow from a former supermarket-tabloid operative who was a visible presence--with at least one bylined JFK Jr. story to his credit--on the early-Nineties JFK Jr. newsbeat. It is l-keford.com’s postition that these remembrances of JFK Jr. adhere to enough principles of contemporary journalism--as practiced in, say, New York Magazine’s “Intelligencer” column--to warrant publication...if only as a colorful artifact of a vanished era. John-John, we hardly knew ye!

According to George Wayne, a longtime columnist, photographer and nightlife arbiter elegantiae of Paper magazine and Vanity Fair, "John Kennedy Jr is one of the most gender-confused personalities of our time. His bisexuality is legendary in nightlife circles up and down the Eastern seaboard, in Manhattan, in the Hamptons, on Cape Cod. The only reason this fact has never come out in the media is because there are other reputations at stake besides John's. These scenes are heavily populated by other switch-hitters like John, who also come from prominent families and occupy positions of power and influence. It's a social climate where everybody's got something to hide. You know what they say about Catholic boys who get sent away to expensive boarding schools? Well, it's all true. And that's why you find John in clubs like the Underground--last known hangout of [homosexual] Malcolm Forbes--and Rex, where the scenes are awash in erotic ambiguity. The press is always speculating that John likes these places because that's where the fashion models and covergirls are. But it's a cardinal rule of nightclubs that whereever you find models, you'll also find gay men. You do the math. I happen to know for a fact that John had a three-way orgy with two friends of mine--a bisexual man and woman ---in the Hamptons two years ago. No, I'm not going to give you their names. But I was told that John had sex with both the woman and the man, although, in the case of the man, John just kind of lay back and let the man service him. It's no lie."

January 8, 1991

Gay terrorists are threatening to accuse John Kennedy Jr. of being a homosexual in a shocking campaign that has already targeted such allegedly homosexual celebrities as Merv Griffin, John Travolta, Tom Selleck and Jodi Foster. A shadowy group of gay guerrillas known as "Outpost" are plastering New York City with posters that parody the Absolut volka advertisements, except that, instead of a vodka bottle, the gay ads feature celebrity pictures along with the words "Absolutely Queer". Within weeks, the gay pranksters warn, Absolutely Queer John-John Kennedy posters will be going up all over Manhattan.

"John Kennedy Jr.'s homosexuality is one of New York City's best kept secrets," declared Dr. James Serafini, an openly gay psychiatrist who is a co-conspirator in the Outpost scheme. "And now we're going to share it with the rest of the world. Our poster campaigns against other gay celebrities have gotten nationwide attention, and now, whether he likes it or not, John-John is about to be dragged out of the closet. He'd better brace himself."

New York City homosexuals are gleefully awaiting the smear campaign against Kennedy. Said Lou Malebta, who operates the pornographic Gay Cable Network: "This John-John Kennely zap has been a long time coming. It is shocking and insulting to the gay community that, in the midst of a deadly epidemic, a gay man of his power and influence would turn his back on his gay brothers and sisters. He has taken refuge in shame and secrecy, and now the gay community intends to reveal aim as the homosexual that he really is. There's nothing like a Kennedy story when it comes to getting results."

Here are just a few of the astonishing charges that sources throughout the gay community have leveled at John-John:

--That he frequents the same, gay nightclubs as homosexual billionaire Malcom Forbes.

--That he engaged in an orgy with another man and a woman... And that he performed a homosexual act with the man.

--That he is frequently sighted on an East Hampton gay beach.

What's more, John John is continually being courted by his many gay admirers. Revealed another member of the OutPost: "Last year, when John Kennedy passed the New York and Connecticut bar examination, he was besieged by gushing congratulatory letters from his many gay fans."

And in a shocking homosexual love poem called "Some Adventures of John Kennedy Jr.," prominent gay author Dennis Cooper describes the pornographic fantasies that John-John inspires in gay males. Said a gay publishing insider: "Tens of thousands of gay readers have encountered John-John as a gay object of desire in Dennis Cooper's book."

Amazingly, the Outpost views the Absolutely Queer Kennedy poster as a tribute to their hunky hero. "We're not doing it because we hate him," said gay psychiatrist Serafini, "but because we adore him, and want to claim him as one of us."

Walter Hardgraves, an activist art historian with close ties to the gay radical community, says: "John Kennedy Jr. has been on the OutPost hit list for almost a year now. Their strategy has been to first concentrate on the more obvious closet-case personalities like Sandra Bernhard and Merv Griffin. This has enabled them to refine their techniques and gauge the media responsiveness. And now that they've created a familiar, virtually trademarked, context - they will be going forward with the John Kennedy Jr. campaign.

"A lot of preparation and research has gone into the Absolute-Kennedy posters. The radical gay community reserves a special contempt for Kennedy because he is the absolute - no pun intended - embodiment of the hunky homo hypocrite who wants it both ways. The Kennedy posters will be appearing all over New York City in the next few weeks. Thousands of them are already being printed. I've seen the proofs, and I can assure you, when the posters go up, they won't pass unnoticed. By the time OutPost finishes zapping John-John, the Palm Beach scandal will look like a picnic."

John Winkleman was, at the time of this interview, a members of Homos Against Hypocrisy (HAH), a militant cabal of gay media activists dedicated to exposing clandestine gays in high places. HAH would later materialize as OutPost, perpetrators of the notorious Absolut-Vodka inspired posters skeweering encloseted celebs like Jodi Foster and Merv Griffin.

Winkleman: "JFK Jr. is definitely one of the celebrity closet cases who we've targeted for public humiliation. He's definitely in that same league of high-rolling homo hypocrites that also includes Merv Griffin, Jodi Foster and Sandra Bernhard... In the near feature, we intend to blanket New York City with thousands of Absolut-Kennedy posters accusing John-John of crimes against the gay community. Instead of hiding behind Darryl Hannah's skirts, he should be serving as a role model of gay pride. Not only is he the sexiest male on the planet, he's all ours.

"A friend of mine who works for a gay-managed courier service told me that last year when John Kennedy passed the Connecticut and New York bar examinations, he was besieged by gushing congratulatory letters from various gay admirers (my courier friend admitted that he couldn't resist peeking at unsealed correspondence addressed to Kennedy).

"It is also a matter of public record that John Kennedy appeared in solidarity with his gay brethren at an Act-Up protest in downtown Manhattan last year. Of course, it would have been unseemly for an assistant D.A. to be caught up in a civil disobediance scenario a block from his own office, so when Kennedy began to attract too much attention, he slipped away."

Reliable sources also have it that Kennedy shared a hotel room for a weekend last winter in Miami Beach with an attractive young man named Kemana. Amazingly, the two checked out together and returned to New York on the same plane. While the particularities of John-John's taste in men is not altogether clear - since he is typically found in the presence of other preppie bisexuals like himself - it is the consensus of insiders, deep insider, that John-John, like LFP's Mike Albo, likes young Asian boys. But then again, who doesn't?

"John Kennedy's here, and he's queer - so get used to it."

Camelot just isn't what it used to be.

JFK Jr.'s homosexual tendencies are one of New York City's best-kept secrets. But among night-life insiders - both hetero and gay - reliable sources confirm in detail JKF's aberrant appetites.

Prominent Manhattan personality, author, art critic and longtime Kennedy family acquaintance, Baird Jones, says: "I've worked the door of clubs that were either gay or at least 90% gay, places where even the women were there only because they were fag hags who liked to hang out around gay men. Quite frequently I've worked at gay clubs where I was either a promoter or I was the door person. These included Private Eyes, Studio 54 and the Underground - some of the best known gay nightclubs in the city. And in that context, one of the people who turned up time and again was John Kennedy. In fact, he would turn up so often that his presence no longer shocked anyone. I also remember how, at the Club Horatio 113 in Greenwich Village, on the nights that were gay - in other words, on the nights there was a gay promoter bringing in a predominantly gay crowd - that John Kennedy was a regular there. I believe these appearances were noted in the paper with some frequency. The promoter who springs most to mind for these particularly events was Scott Curry, known for his flagrantly gay nightclub following.

"The Underground in Union Square had a gay night, Tuesday night. And John Kennedy would show up. Of course, he wasn't so stupid as to turn up with some effeminate gay guy. He'd be with some prepped out macho yuppies instead. And Kennedy would just kind of hang out and drink beer. Rolling Rock. You might say that John Kennedy likes to watch.

"A case in point: In the Hamptons, John Kennedy spent an inordinate amount of time on the gay beach, ostensibly jogging. How do I know this? I've orchestrated many events in the Hamptons, where I've been known as a black-tie party giver for many years. And my friends in the Hamptons have told me that John Kennedy was a regular in terms of running on the gay beach. Specifically: he would run on the gay beach. I believe it's called Elbow Beach or something. Talk to George Wayne at Paper magazine about that, because he's written extensively on the Hamptons. The gay beach incidents were also reported in the NY Post. [JFK's excuse was he "got lost" on the beach.]

"John Kennedy would turn up at the gay clubs wearing very formal clothes... He'd usually be in a suit or at least a sports jacket, although not always with a tie. Let's face it: He's a preppy.

"I know people who knew John Kennedy in prep school and grammar school. One of his friends - in fact his best friend at Collegiate - ended up being gay. His name was Jason Beghe. He's a muscle man who became an actor in Italy. He stars in a lot of these low-budget spaghetti westerns, horror movies and monster films.

"In the old days - '76, '77 and '78 - John and Jason hung out together all the time. I was at John Kennedy's house hanging out with these guys. Jason started making out with another man at the Collegiate graduation party at their house on 1041 Fifth Avenue, which is where John lived in 1977. It's Jackie O's place now. It's just a few blocks from my house on East 96th Street, so I was there all the time."

Lou Maletta is chief operating officer of Gay Cable Network. He says: "I have just spoken with Jim Serafini - who wants his name kept out of this - and he confirmed the fact that John-John Kennedy will be the target of an upcoming OutPost campaign. Serafini is one of the primary OutPost figures, so you can be sure he means what he says.

"This Kennedy map has been a long time coming. It is shocking and insulting to the gay community that, in the midst of a deadly epidemic, a man like John Kennedy, whose fame and influence could be used for good..."

David Aaron Clark is a prolific writer and expert on alternative sexualities who has assisted the Weekly World News on one story ("Benji Died of AIDS") and the Enquirer on another ("Schwarzenegger Was A Male Hustler", edited by Ed Susman and later killed). The former associate editor of the weekly Screw and, writing under the name Dante Foucalt, was managing editor of the now defunct homosexual tabloid HOMO, later renamed RAMROD.

Clark says: "As an editor at the world's only weekly sex newspaper, I have heard innumerable reports detailing John-John Kennedy's homogenic comings and goings. Not only is John-John a fixture on the gender-bending nightclub circuit, where you can't tell the tight ends from the wide receivers without a scorecard, but there are also stories which address Kennedy's carnal quirks with great specificity - like his continual presence on a gay beach in East Hampton and his submission to another male in a three-way romp with a woman.

"When the Kennedys are concerned, anything is possible. The testicular talents of John-John's father are legend, and the apple hasn't fallen far from the tree - although in John-John's case, the apple may have been bruised a little when it fell. But a kid who's seen his father blasted by a sniper when he was only a toddler is bound to turn out a little unusual. Especially when he's got an overbearing mother and sister. You can't really blame the kid.

"John-John is yet another instance of how the Kennedy myth has reached into every corner of American life, not to mention lowlife. It was only a matter of time before a Kennedy would be touching America's gay inhabitants as well. One has only to look at prominent gay author Dennis Cooper's book of gay erotic poems, Idols, to realize the extent to which John-John has become a part of America's gay brotherhood. There are tens of thousands of editions of the book Idols circulating throughout the nation, meaning that countless homosexual men have joined with Dennis Cooper in celebrating John-John Kennedy as an object of male sexual desire. And from what I understand, John-John isn't bothered one bit by the attention they are giving him."

Photographer Jack Pepper

Havana writes: Hey Luke, could use your help. A guy from Atlanta named Jack Pepper comes into the club where my friend works. He says that he wants to photograph her and another girl in a playboy, lesbian, artsy style, as well as put her in his awards show he says he setting up for Las Vegas with Penn and Teller, and has Pauly Shore hosting. If you could find out the truth, it would be greatly appreciated. Next time I'll tell you what happened when Tyfanny Mynx featured there a little while back.

Luke: Jack Pepper has mob ties. Be careful.

In Praise of Jenna Jameson

AJB writes on the newsgroup rec.arts.movies.erotica: RAME folks aren't quite the typical porn viewer, pretty much the same way hardcore mainstream film buffs a largely a different species compared to the typical movie goer who likes Titanic, Waterboy, SW: Phantom Menace, etc. As for myself, I've enjoyed having girlfriends blow me while I watched Jenna Jameson taking facials and making phony f---ing noises -- but these same girlfriends wouldn't want me to rent Rob Black vids or Private Euro-vids until months had passed and I corrupted their tastes sufficiently. This is probably the story of many male porn viewers with significant others: you REALLY want to rent the German fisting video or "The 20 Clones of Peter North Do Bukkake" but you have to cultivate the tastes of your lady first by saying (teeth gritted), "Hey, you remember that girl from the Howard Stern movie, Private Parts? You wanna see her DO IT?"

I've seen Jenna Jameson at two different venues several months apart and can't complain much. She was somewhat remote from the fans but she and Nikki Tyler chatted with me pleasantly for a few minutes when I saw them at Toronto's Deja Vu -- I asked her about what she thought of Traci Lords, what Jeanna Fine's pussy munching skills are like, how did Canada customs treat her, etc. She wasn't bursting with friendliness but she wasn't a cold bitch either. I wonder, out of curiousity, what would change the mind of the anti-Jenna crowd? If she did DP with a smile and ate leggo blocks out of Mila's "ass colon" would that do it? What's a girl gotta do to redeem herself?

Sparky: The industry is all about shifting product, and this is precisely what Wicked do. You may have watched it for free, but the buyers and renters have had to shell out the $$. Though it may not be to your taste, the fact that Jenna films are shifting, is because she is popular. Why bother employing a contract star that nobody rates. No popularity = no sales. Jenna = BIG sales.

The fact that Jenna (in your words) 'is the definition of porn to the mainstream' is because she is the most popular and most recognizable. Try mentioning any of the other girls you named to a 'mainstream' audience, and see how many people know them. They may work hard, or care about their fans, or be more appealing... but to whom?? To their own small fanbase or to porndom itself. Jenna has become more mainstream because of her work outside of the porn industry. The fact that companys like Abercrombie & Fitch book modelling shoots with her is because of her physical appearance... and not because of her on screen action. Same goes for her appearances on E! and her appearance in Private Parts. This mainstream appeal of course, owes a lot to her publicity agent. How many of these other girls employ a publicity agent...? If they dont, is it any wonder that no-one knows them outside of porndom?

Respecting Women

SteveHi: do you find it hard to respect a woman after you have flooded her colon with semen? Luzdedos1: sometimes SteveHi: i sure do SteveHi: i assf---ed an old squeeze last night SteveHi: i had to leave right after SteveHi: she disgusted me SteveHi: like watching a rabbi eat scallops wrapped in bacon

Kendra Jade and Rob Spallone tell their fans to use Dr. Jim Bonura's Family Medical Clinic at 12629 Riverside Dr in North Hollywood, 818-487-1987. Open seven days.

Poof Caught Snuggling With Brandy Alexandre

Brandy Alexandre writes: It has always been sort of a quest of mine, a public service if you will, to be "caught" with a Hollywood celebrity who is supposedly gay. What a scandal! Forget pairing the alleged homosexual with an ordinary actress, the ruse just doesn't work anymore. But pairing them with a pornstar! Yikes! What a stud. ;) Even better, with one of the guys in one of the alleged scam marriages. When he cheats he cheats with a girl! =:o So when you see it splashed about in the tabloids that Brandy Alexandre was seen noodling in an intimate corner with, oh, let's say the ever-plagued Tom Cruise or even David Hyde Pierce, be afraid. Be very afraid.

Hollywood's Homosexual Mafia

Gary writes on the He-She Gay Page 8/14 [Luke as usual can not vouch for the truthfulness of newsgroup postings]: Here are some arranged relationships for your entertainment.

1.Michael J. Fox and Tracy Pollan. Years ago they actually tried to pass Fox and the very butch Nancy McKeon off as a couple before deciding the public deserves a little credit. A long time Hollywood rumor has Fox being caught in the act with Bruce Willis in the back of a limo some years ago. Though they were definitely good friends some say its just a gere-gerbil rumor although I've talked to a few who swear it's true.

2.Kevin Bacon-Kyra Sedgewick. Bacon and Pollan bearded pre-Fox so Tracy had a test run. Bacon is notorious for his runaway libido.

3.Woody Harrelson and his personal assistant. Woody was also in the Fox-Willis clique along with John Goodman. He's always stoned,what a shock.

4.Bruce and Demi. Duh. Never met her but shes apparently a bit of a bull dyke.

5.Burt Reynolds and Loni Anderson. In person he's short and creepy and always wired on pills.If your in a pool to see which famous person dies of AIDS put your money on Burt. And if you see a blind item about a star who likes getting roughed up by rent boys he's your girl.

6.Julia Roberts and her latest fraud. Give her credit she puts in alot of effort to maintain the front.

7.Liam Neeson and Natasha Richardson. Its almost a tradition in her family of course. Grandpop died of AIDS, mom in a fraud with Timothy Dalton. Liam of course once dated Brooke Shields and I have it on good authority that he actually saw her naked. He rented Pretty Baby.

8. Brooke and Andre. One of those where they actually lived apart and people still buy it. Pete Sampras is also family. His longtime coach is in jail for abusing boys which may explain why hes so morose. I presume he may have, you know, issues.

9.George Clooney and that French waitress.Clooney lives with his "buddies" in the Hollywood Hills. She stops by to pick up the cheque.

10.Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan. Sweet little Meg is not so sweet in person-a truly nasty woman. Classic case-make a movie together, what the hell, lets beard. Same goes for Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger not to mention those old warriors Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. Stories that Newmans son, who killed himself,would call the old man a fag when drugged up.

11. Matthew Broderick and Sara Jessica Parker. He's a well known bottom, she bearded for Robert Downey(a beards not going to do him any good where he is now), JFK jr.(sorry).

12.Winona Ryder and anyone. That whole crew is a joke, Matt and Ben and Gwynny and Winona etc. They really should mix it up a bit. And yes, Matt and Ben were not only a couple but are said to still be in love. Unlike Matt Dillon and Tommy Cruise who coupled years ago on that Copolla movie. Now you know what people do on movie sets to kill all that down time.

RealGirl: My grandma lived next door to a maid, OraLee, who told us that when she was working at the BH Hotel (the pink hotel) that she "accidently" went into a room where Paul Newman was doing it was another man and she said she was so shocked and also that he hadn't left one of those "do not disturb" signs on his door.

Giggle writes: In my opinion Homosexuality is very big in Hollywood, but I don`t think it is THAT big. Many actors are only willing to be big movie-stars, but all the powerful positions in Hollywood are ruled by men. So an upcoming actor, who wants to be a movie star (as quick someone can say "cheese"), rather pulls down his pants and bent over the casting couch than using his "other talents". Gayness in Hollywood is mainly the abuse of power (someone with power) over somebody who begs for some (power). So many fear they might loose their power (popularity), when their true sexuality would come out. But I think most actors fear it would come out, how they became such superstars (remember "cheese" - above this comment ? giggle).

Garry: When Charlie Sheen is sober he manages to be discreet, but when he falls off the wagon he lands on pretty young boys.

NT: Mmmmm... Jennifer Aniston dates Brad Pitt, and Brad used to date Gwyneth Paltrow, who used to date Ben Affleck, who dates Matt Damon, who used to date Winona Ryder... Why do I get the feeling that Hollywood is overrun with closeted gay men and their beards?

Gilbert: From Ted C.'s column on Eonline: "Over the makeup chairs, I fill up on Playboy Mansion dish from that badass dude Hal Sparks: requisite boob-enhanced boobies, and then a pajama-clad Steve Martin hit the infamous grotto, which Leo D. (in a ridiculously pulled-down baseball cap)didn't have time for, nor did he the aforementioned babelicious babes, being that he only had eyes for his ubiquitous boy-posse." I also read somewhere that King..er Queen Leo has much of his best buds working for him. I guess when your friend is a big star, and you travel with him all over the place, get paid alot of money by him to fetch his coffee, makes it easy for you to keep your mouth shut while he asks you to play 'hide the sausage'.

Gary: As someone who has worked behind the scenes in Hollywood I'm somewhat surprised at the sophistication you so called civilians show pertaining to the sexuality of the talent. Practically the first thing you learn when you break into the business is how few straight actors there really are. The usual suspects who are mentioned here are all correct and then there are names who I wouldn't even mention since they are people that seem so ridiculously straight that you wouldn't take it seriously. All I can tell you is what an agent told me about why some gay stars go to incredible lengths to appear straight.(ie. Charlie Estevez) He said that its because they like one thing even more than sex, and thats being a movie star.

NT: Soooooo many actors, esp. on Broadway, are gay, it would make your head spin. Most of us just assume an actor's gay or bi until we find out otherwise. And you'd be amazed at what some so-called straight actors will do in this business. There's soooo much cut-throat competition, that most actors who have had to claw their way to the top, as oppossed to the very few who have had it given to them on a silver platter, have fallen to their knees sometime or another. There are just too many gay men in positions of power, and one common way to tip the scale to your side, is to give them something special to remember you by. And the one's who refused to? They're back in New Castle doing community theatre. That's the way it goes.

Try to keep in mind that gay men have always been drawn to the performing arts. Always have been, always will be. So many name actors are gay or bisexual, it's unbelievable. And the straight American public could not handle the truth if it knew it. I'm not so sure the gay public could handle the truth, either. People would really have to reevaluate this whole Celebrity Culture we've built up. Can you just imagine how many teenage girls would have to tear down pictures from their bedroom walls... of Matt, Ben, Brad, Leo, Tom, plus the Boy Groups? It goes on and on and on...

Sid on Joseph Fiennes: More like bisexual and not out. He's British, you know and most (not all) British actors tend to swing both ways--at least that's been my experience.

Babe: Have you ever wonder what qualities start gaydars pinging? Is it some psychic energy. Is it because the spirit of the individual has been unsullied by thr opposite sex? Why does Teresa Witherspoon (WNBA) and Martina Navaratilova ping, and Sheryl Swoopes and Chris Everett don't? Jodie Foster pings and Pam Anderson doesn't, so it's not kids. Sporty pings and Posh doesn't. They same applies to gay men. What is that elusive quality that gets the ping-ponging started?