Not all "People" part of hottest bachelors issue..

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I'm obviously not going to quibble with People Magazine selecting Matthew McConaughey as its hottest bachelor and featuring him shirtless and splashing in the water on its cover. I blogged about the inclusion in the issue of such hotties as Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Evans, Ryan Reynolds, Gerard Butler and Maksim Chmerkovskiy - all of whom I have posted pics of over the months.
matthew-mcconaughey-hottest.jpgBut here's my issue with People Magazine: If you can proudly display Lance Bass on your cover with the headline "I'm Gay," why can't you include him and other single gay celebrities prominantly in the bachelor issue? T.R. Knight is single and every bit as cute as Zach Braff who you DO feature. I'm not sure if Robert Gant is single but surely he is more handsome than a lot of the guys featured. What about Kyan from "Queer Eye" or Nate Berkis? John Amaechi? J.P. Calderon?
I'm wondering, did the magazine even TRY to be inclusive?
The gayest they get, from what I can see, is including aa driver's license sized picture ofout actor Rex Lee ("Entourage") amid 19 other pictures of other men under the headline "Funny Guys Tell Us Their Funniest Words." For the record, Rex's word is "Shrimp."
Umm, OK.
Now there are a few actors in the magazine who have been widely-rumored to be gay and I understand that People would not out them (that's the job of Perez Hilton and, apparently, Out Magazine) but why even include them when it is clear they are playing the PR game.
31.jpgAnyway, the best People could do was include some actors who have at least played gay at one time or another in their career: Hugh Grant ("Maurice"), Ryan Carnes ("Desperate Housewives," "Eating Out"), Jason Ritter ("Happy Endings"), Ryan Phillippe ("One Life to Live"), Jesse Bradford ("Heights"), Gael Garcia Bernal ("Bad Education"), Joseph Fiennes ("Running With Scissors"), Michael Vartan ("The Next Best Thing"), John Stamos ("Wedding Wars"), Braff ("The Broken Hearts Club") and, of course, Gyllenhaal in "Brokeback Mountain."
This is 2007, famous gay men are all around and many are single. They are hot bachelors. People magazine, take a cue from MTV and start getting REAL!

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doncarter said:

totally agreed... check Ryan Carnes out in
Surf School Movie... lightweight fun but he's perfect in it...

www.surfschoolmovie.com

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