Out in Reality TV: September 2006 Archives

Well, "Big Brother All Stars" finally ended last night with Mike "Boogie" winning the grand prize over Erika. Marcellas Reynolds, the only openly-Gay contestant this season, was part of the jury and the only one to vote for Erika to win the grand prize.

The terrific Website, AfterElton.com, had an interview with him. I've excerpted some of the stuff about being a gay man in the house and stuff about Howie, the studly and often obnoxious member of the house who is a flirt with men and women:

AE: I've got one more question about Howie, then we'll be finished with him. For a while Howie was really flirting with Will, really coming on to him. How did it feel seeing him use gay sexuality as a strategy?
MR: You know, Mike Boogie thought I was basically a bitch in the house because I wouldn't talk about sex and I wouldn't play that game. I think that when you're a gay man, gay people are sort of thought of as these hedonistic, sexual, crazy, do it to me, sock it to me, I'm going to have sex all the time people. So for me, I can't play that game because I don't want that image out there of us and, specifically, of me.

So, yes, there was a night that Boogie got pissed off at me because I wouldn't make out with him so that two girls would make out. Somebody was like, well, if you kiss Marcellas then Diane – I think it was Diane and Erika – if you kiss Marcellas, then we'll make out, and Boogie was like okay, Marcellas, you can kiss me on the cheek and blah blah blah. I was like, I'm not kissing you! First of all, I don't want to kiss you, and secondly, that's... no, I'm not going to do that. He was like, why are you being so...? And I was like, you know what? Why would I kiss you? Why would I make a spectacle out of myself in that way?

Okay, without pulling any punches, I think that Howie (pictured with crush, Will, above) would go there. I'm not saying that he's gay, but Howie seems like the kind of person that's a swinger. You know how swingers would do anybody? They'll just take sex from where ever they can get it. I was on the receiving end of a lot of inappropriate comments from Howie, a lot of inappropriate touching and that phony kissing that he does and I didn't like it. Those are the kind of things that I don't find funny and I don't think should be played with.