Rufus Wainwright's speech at the GLAAD Media Awards last weekend was so honest and meaningful. I gained a lot of respect for this artist - regarded as one of the great male vocalists and songwriters of his generation - who I didn't really know very much about before. I was winging it during our red carpet interview:

Q. Sharon Stone is presenting your award. Wow!
Rufus: I asked her to so when she accepted I was extremely honored and felt somewhat almighty in my gay celebrity back pocket situation (laughs). We'd hung out a couple of times, not extensively but we will after this for sure.
Q. How do you feel about being honored tonight?
Rufus: "I'm honored to be honored. I must say though that I've been gay for a long time now and I understand why they are doing so. I've always made a real effort to be completely honest about who I am and to sing about boys and about my life as a homosexual so it's the right match.
Q. There are a lot more artists who are out now so you were maybe something of a trend-setter.
Rufus: I was technically, if not the first I was one of the first gay singer-songwriters who was out from the very beginning.
Q. Are you happy to have some company now?
Rufus: Yes, very happy. It is wonderful.

Then, during his acceptance speech, he said: "An artist's decision to live an authentic life should go hand-in-hand with success. The more honest you are and more willing to share, the more gratifying it will be for your audience."

He also touched on something that I have heard friends of mine express and I to some degree also feel (but much less so after my years of therapy!): "We have to work so hard to be so brilliant and be so fabulous all the time, we often forget that we are damaged and we are hurt. To allow gay people to think everything is fine - it's not."

I love how this man has been true to himself from the very beginning and has such openness and honesty.

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In the last three days alone, I've interviewed dozens of stars after three consecutive nights of party coverage. I'd like to think I was calm and cool during all of it.
I'd like to think.
When Natalie Cole walked up to me on the red carpet of last night's Los Angeles Confidential Party at One Sunset in West Hollywood, I greeted her with a big ol' gush.
Me: "It's so great to meet you! I've loved you ever since "This Will Be" came out!"
Natalie was very gracious ("That's so sweet!") and appreciative but I am now cringing a bit at the memory. Still, we had a terrific chat and here are some of the highlights:
Natalie guest-starred on "Grey's Anatomy" last season and would like to do more acting: "I've had some really wonderful experiences with television and I'm really looking forward to making the jump to film and that's whart I'm working on right now. [Music] does take up a lot of my time so I have to put the music thing aside to do the acting like if I want to do a movie, I'm going to have to basically be down for 3-4 months which isn't a problem, it's just a matter of planning."

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This is a continuation of my conversation with Ari Gold. Part One was posted yesterday. One of the things we talked about was ambition and success: "I had my first demo when I was 12 years old and I basically thought then that I'd be as famous as Madonna - my ambitions have remained pretty grand over the years. I won't be happy until I'm on the cover of Rolling Stone (laughs). But I've never been more proud of my work, lyrically, musically and artistically as with this album. There's a feeling about this album that's just great because I'm so proud of it. The album is called "Transport Systems," it's about movement and progesssion so there's definitely the hope that it's going to move me forward to the next level where I need to go."
The first single on the CD is "Where the Music Takes You" which Ari says is really about being true to yourself.
"The song came out of my own experience of just going where the music took me, wherever I could fund a situation to record, find collaborators or co-producers, I'd pick myself up and go there. I didn't have a major label to help me out and say, 'OK, work with this top producer right here, it's something you have to create for yourself."
He also does a cover of "Human" by the Human League and in it her collaborates with a heterosexual hip-hopper, shades of Elton John and Eminem: "We came together to make this song. The original song was about a guy cheating on his girlfriend and saying, 'I'm only human.' I reworked the song and the verses and the bridge and made it more into a human rights anthem. I think the essence of the song has a really strong message that could be stronger than just cheating on your girlfriend. For me and this rapper to come together for this song about human rights, it's a powerful message."
Gold is also particularly proud of the song "Love Wasn't Build in A Day" which features jazz great Dave Koz.
"After he came out on the cover of The Advocate, I read the interview and thought, 'I just have to collaborate with this guy. We met and were in touch for like a year. He had a crazy tour schedule and at one point it didn't look like it was going to happen but I didn't give up. When we were in LA at the same time, he was like, 'OK, I'm here. I've got my saxaphone in the car and I'm coming over.' I cried when he played on the song. It was one of those things where you have an idea in your head and it comes to fruition. He told me he was really glad I was a pushy Jew about the whole thing. And he's a Jew so he can say that!""
Gold's news CD will be released just days after he appears on the LOGO channel on Sept. 30 as host of the "New. Next. Now" video show. He is hoping his CD with its positive themes, gets the attention it deserves.
"We give a lot of attention to artists like Eminem and 50 Cent but if we're going to rally in support of them for freedom of speech, then it's important to pay attentiion to artists who are saying a message that counters their message. There is homophobic lyrics and masogynist lyrics in their stuff, let's hear from people who are pro-women and pro-gay."

Fit and muscular, the currently unattatched Gold is not shy about flaunting his sex appeal: "I don't have a big machine behind me that's telling me what my image should be. Everything that's out there is because I put it out there. I put out a sexy image. At the end of the day, there's a lot of things about being gay that don't have to do with same-sex, bit it is our right to have sex with who we want to and love who we want to love. So I'm not trying to de-sexualize myself to make myself more palatable to people. I am a sexual human being and I think it's important for gay men to celebrate their own sexuality. The music is sexy and it's a part of what I do. There's nothing wrong with it as long as it;s done respectfully and tastefully."

I'll say.

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As i mentioned a few days ago, had a nice breakfast interview this week with Ari Gold. No, not the agent on "Entourage" played by Jeremy Piven. This is Ari Gold, the talented and sexy singer-songwriter whose latest CD, "Transport Systems," will be released Oct.. 2. His music can best be described as "political pop" and Gold has never shied away from comes from the perspective of an openly gay man.
In this first part of our conversation, we talked about the new CD, his third, which includes a collaboration with Dave Koz ("Love Wasn't Built In A Day") as well as the song "Human" withy guest-rapper Mr. Man.
Explains Gold: "Transport Systems" is really all about we're everywhere now but how do we move forward" How do we move to a place where we're not just there to make straight people look better, that's not our only function. We're actually full-fledged, multi-faceted individuals with our own interior lives. How do we move forward in order to accept ourselves better? Most of us didn't grow up feeling it was OK to be gay so I think we internalize a lot of that. How do we learn to love ourselves better and treat each other better? That has to happen before we can expect the outside world to."

Gold was born and raised in a Jewish Orthodox household in the Bronx and became a child performer with credits that included the lead role on the CBS children's recording "Pot Belly Bear: Songs and Stories." As a child vocalist, he sung over 400 jingles and even sung with Diana Ross on her "Swept Away" album.
But once he began to come out of the closet as a teenager, his sexuality naturally impacted his work.
"I had my first demo when I was 12 and been writing songs since I was 14 and I always wrote about what was going on in my life, my personal experience," Gold says. "So as soon as i came out of the closet, I was very passionate about it. Once I came out to my family and in college, I was very proud and I wrote my parents and my brothers an 18-page coming out letter, sat them all down, handed them copies and read this out loud to them and basically held them accountable for their own homophobia but I did it in a nice way. They made me feel like it was not OK to be gay. But at the end of the letter, we all started to cry and my dad said, 'The only reason we're crying is because of all the pain we caused you. And after that, it was a journey. I knew they loved me. Unfortunately, not all parents are like my parents. I just wrote back a fan the other day telling them, 'You know, sometimes it just takes time.'"
It's been a challenge trying to gain a commercial foothold as a gay artist even when your music is embraced by the critics: "I hate to say it, but sometimes the gay papers and magazines, we put a lot of straight people on the cover. You don't see black culture magazines putting white people on their cover. It can start with us...With my last album, I was really trying to figure out,'Where do I fit in as a gay man in this world? As a gay artist? As an out artist? Where do we fit in because we were getting a lot of visibility and as a people we were no longer in the closet.""
Gold feels the time is right to be openly gay and to record and perform songs with gay themes. He's grateful to those artists who he feels helped pave the way: "All the artists like George Michael and Elton John and K.D. Lang and Melissa Etheridge, all those artists who came out of the closet mid-career or after they were already successful, all of those artists paved the way for someone like myself to be out at the beginning of my career. There's no reason today why people need to be coy or vague or closeted."
Ari, pictured here with me after breakfast at Kokomo at the LA Farmer's Market, also talked about using his sexuality to gain attention like posing for magazine covers without a shirt etc. So check back Friday for part 2 of our conversation.

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...for canceling an interview with me this morning. A few hours before our scheduled chat, got an email from his publicist wanting to reschedule. Then I read this on Towleroad.com: Singer Darren Hayes was arrested Friday night for an alleged racist verbal attack on a waiter at a Thai restaurant in London last month, the Sydney Morning Herald is reporting:

"Hayes fronted police in London last Friday night, where he was arrested for racially abusing a member of staff at Busaba Eathai in Wardour Street on July 22. The attack did not involve physical violence, but is believed to have been directed at a male member of staff. Hayes was released on bail. A Scotland Yard spokesman said: "We can confirm that a 35-year-old man was arrested by Westminster police on suspicion of racially abusing a member of staff. 'He was arrested after voluntarily attending a Central London police station by appointment. He has been released on bail pending further enquiries, until the 21st of September.' The spokesman would not comment further."
Hayes' new double album, This Delicate Thing We've Made, came out in the U.S. today.
Hayes lawyer released this statement on his MySpace blog today: "Darren is unable to comment to any extent as the incident is presently under investigation by the police, with whom he has cooperated fully. However he is deeply upset at the allegation which he strenuously denies and anyone who knows Darren will recognise that the particular nature of the allegation is totally abhorrent to him and contrary to everything for which he has stood"
We are gonna chat after my vacation...sounds like we'll have lots to talk about!

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Had breakfast at the LA Farmer's Market with singer/songwriter Ari Gold who has had the name since birth - well before Jeremy Piven assumed the name on "Entourage." My three-part interview with Gold, who has been openly gay his entire career, begins running on Wednesday. He has a lot to say, is very talented, and quite easy on the eyes huh?

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Excuse me while I quote Nancy Kerrigan when she got her knee clubbed (thanks alot Tonya) at the 1994 OlympicTrials: "Whhhhyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?????????"
I usually have "The Today Show" on in the morning as background noise as I blog or try to semi-sleep. But this morning, I did not. That means I missed the performance of Maroon 5 and their sexiy frontman Adam Levine who makes me weak in the knees. And he wore his skinny jeans and that tight black T-shirt just for me.
Oh well, here are some images via JustJared.com of the band performing “Wake Up Call.” It’s from their sophomore album “It Won’t Be Soon Before Long.”
Sigh...

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So I was at LA's the Standard downtown last night for this X Games party tied to the DVD release of "Disturbia." We were promised Taye Diggs and Shane West, among others, but they were no-shows. But I did interview the lovely Carrie-Anne Moss who is such a natural beauty and strolled in wearing a $25 dress from Target looking better than just about anyone in the room. And also met Dave Navarro, the guitarist from Jane's Addiction who was recently divorced from Carmen Electra. He talked about how important the internet is to him as an artist and a public figure. Unlike Elton John, Dave does not want to ban it!
"I've been blogging and using the internet since the early 90s. In this society today, you have to have a voice, especially if you're in the public eye, in order to counter some of the opinions that get put out there. So, it's nice for the true fans to be able to come to the source and get the real deal, get the real scoop as opposed to second or third-hand information."
This guy is covered with tatoos but they don't cover the fact that he is buff and very youthful looking for a man of 40. I asked if he had a portrait of Dorian Gray in his attic or something?
"There actually is. There's a painting in my addict that's deteriorarting each day. That's a fantastic movie." Then he added: "It's about no drugs, no alcohol. I hit the gym a couple of times a week, drink plenty of water. And for me, what's most important is the attitude."
Dave seemed pretty cool. What's even more cool was this photo I just found of him kissing Donovan Leitch onstage at the Roxy. Not sure of the date though...

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Sir. Elton has gone on another rant. I usually enjoy them but not this one. He wants the internet CLOSED DOWN!!! He says it's destroying good music and basically, the world.
“The internet has stopped people from going out and being with each other, creating stuff. Instead they sit at home and make their own records, which is sometimes OK but it doesn’t bode well for long-term artistic vision. It’s just a means to an end. We’re talking about things that are going to change the world and change the way people listen to music and that’s not going to happen with people blogging on the internet. I mean, get out there — communicate. Hopefully the next movement in music will tear down the internet. Let’s get out in the streets and march and protest instead of sitting at home and blogging."

Hey, Sir. I don't always sit home and blog. Sometimes I do it from the newsroom, sometimes Starbucks.I get out, I mix.

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Second of two parts..If you missed it, start with PART ONE.
Thelma Houston has a mutual love going on with the gay community which has stuck by her through thick and thin. She has repaid that love so many times over by appearing in countless pride parades and festivals and on behalf of many causes, such as the AIDS Project Los Angeles gala on Saturday.
"I've loved them forever and it''s mutual. I love them. My strongest base of support has been the dance market, They've always been very, very supportive of Thelma Houston."
And her dedication to such groups as the APLA and the Pediatric AIDS Foundation runs deep: "The reason is because I lost so many friends - who I call close, close, close supporters from back in the day - to this horrible disease. They didn't even have a name for it back then. Then things got more organized and there was more focus on putting money to do certain things. We're not perfect but we've come a long way. People are able to live and the quality of life is so much better for patients with HIV. But there are still people who can't afford the treatments, like in Africa. The medications are there, but they can't afford them."
"Whenever I can, I do whatever I can. Even if I'm in a smaller club in the Midwest where they like to give you tips, I take the money and give it to an AIDS hospice."
She will be doing about 30 minutes of songs at the APLA gala including the classic "Don't Leave Me This Way" and some numbers from her first new album in 17 years.

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What a treat it was to interview singer Thelma Houston yesterday.
Of course, gays everywhere best know her for her monster 1977 hit "Don't Leave Me This Way" which for three decades has continued to be a mainstay on the dance floor. Ever since our interview, I've been singing and humming the tune and driving people nuts.
Anyway, the Grammy winner will release her first new CD in 17 years, "A Woman's Touch" on August 14 and on Saturday, performs at the annual AIDS Project Los Angeles event. The new CD has the singer peforming covers of songs all originated by male artists including Sting, Al Green, Marvin Gaye and Luther Vandross. I'm especially excited about her rendition of "By the Time I Get to Pheonix."
"When they told me it had been 17 years since my last album, I said, 'You better check that again because it hasn't been that long.' But it turns out it has been since 1990."
Houstin's hiatus from recording was not intentional. She got called into MCA to talk to executives about what she thought was about future projects. Instead, she was told she was being dropped by the label.
"It was a very r\ude awakening. I always thought if you sing and get a record deal and are happy to promoite and happy to do what is requested of you after you have a big, huge hit, you can keep good vibes around you all the time. It never occured to me that I wouldnt't have a record deal."
But something very liberating happened for Houston after what could have been a low point for most.
"I discovered I could have a career without a record and it opened up possibliites of working internationally in places like Australia, all over Europe, South America and Africa. The dates kept coming and people really wanted me to work."
Houston never tires of singing her mega-hit.
"I just keep singing and they ask me if i ever get tired of doing it and i really don't. This record, "Don't Leave Me This Way" was born through the dance market. I was on Motown at the time and Suzanne DePasse, a very bright woman who had a good sense of what sounds good and what will work, she is the one who found the song. She said, "I think that will be perfect for you.' It was very melodic and it swelled and it built up. I thought it was very dramatic and great."

TOMORROW: Thelma Houston tells Out In Hollywood about how her new record deal came about, discusses her loyal gay fan base and shares why she remains committed to the fight against AIDS/HIV.

Be sure to check out the singer's OFFICIAL WEBSITE.

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Enrique Iglesias sure knows how to win over gay fans a lot better than that Mika person. In an interview wirth the HX site, he chats about his headline-making appearance at London’s G-A-Y nightclub where he sang his love song "Hero" to a gay fan, about his gay friends, addresses rumors about his sexuality and says George Clooney, not Ricky Martin, would be his type if he were into men.
Here are some excerpts for you to enjoy:
Q. Tell me about your performance at G-A-Y nightclub in London.
A. To tell you the truth, I was surprised it was such a big deal. I’ve read a few things, and even when the owner called us up to ask us, he kind of had that attitude of, “I might as well try, but I don’t think he’s gonna do it.” I was like, “Yeah, it’d be cool to do it!”

Q Was that the first time you’d actively gone after your gay fan base?
A. It wasn’t so much going after the gay fans. I just like doing stuff that’s different. In my career I don’t want to do the same thing all the time and bore myself. What really drew my attention was that the owner said, “Look, this is the biggest gay club in London, and you’re going to see one of the best crowds you’ve ever seen in your whole life.” And that made me really, really want to do it. I didn’t care if it was gay or straight. It was about playing in front of a great crowd. When I got on top of the stage and started to sing, I’m telling you, the guy was completely right. They were singing so loud, the next day my left ear, where I had my ear monitor, was ringing so much. It was absolutely crazy.

Q. How did you choose the guy you sang “Hero” to onstage?
He was up on top of another guy having a good time, so I could clearly see him way, way back in the crowd. But if A. I ever pick out anybody at one of my concerts, I really just go with my instinct.

Q. Was that the most intimate you’ve ever been with a guy?
A. Yeah, that was probably the most intimate that I’ve been with a guy. [Laughs] I’ve never serenaded a guy before, I’ll tell you that much.

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A few weeks ago, I wrote about how my buddy Alejandro and I met this Aussie singer named Clint Crighton and his manager Anita Heilig at a pizza joint called Zano's. They invited us to a gig on Tuesday night at the popular neighborhood bar Pick Wick in Woodland Hills. Alejandro was out of town but I attended and was blown away by Clint's music. He plays guitar, has a strong voice that suits both rock and ballads and, get this, he writes his own songs - lyrics and melody. Two of my favorite originals of Clint's were "Afraid to Love" and "Walk On" but I don't think there was a dud the entire night. He also did covers of Bob Dylan, U2 and a wonderful rendition of the Bee Gees' "To Love Somebody." Clint had to explain to two young girls sitting up front exactly WHO the Bee Gees are. Clint might only be 22, but he knows his music history and has been touring since he was 14 - mostly in his native Australia where he's released two CDs that have gotten airplay. He's also played in New York and toured in Beijing and Hong Kong.
Clint sat with me between sets and we had a nice gab about music and what his ambitions are. He wants to establish himself in America which would be great for us! What I didn't know was that Anita met Clint and his brother a year or so ago backstage at a Toto concert. She was managing the band at the time (and now manages Leann Rhimes!) and Clint had managed to get backstage where he charmed everyone (he is very charming in that wonderful Aussie way) and eventually sent Anita a demo. He took awhile because he wanted her to have some of his newer material. So now they go about getting Clint signed. He is doing a five-song set at House of Blues in West Hollywood on Monday night and, get this: Clint is featured as The Artist of the Week on XM Satellite Radio this week on XM rock Channel 43, The Radar Report. The station features the best up and coming unsigned artists and Clint was one of only 13 bands that were chosen to be featured for the week.
His segment began airing tonight on Ch 43 at 7pm PST. Since I'm tardy with this post, don't worry, you can also catch it Friday at 11am and again on Saturday at 3am. If you dont have XM you can go to XM Radio Online for a free trial and listen online.
Trust me, this guy is good! I'll be very happy to be able to say I knew him when.
For more info on Clint, visit his HOMEPAGE and his MYSPACE site.

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Friday night marked the debut of the True Colors Tour in Las Vegas. In the finale, ABBA's "Take a Chance on Me," the Dresden Dolls, the Indigo Girls, Margaret Cho, Erasure, Rosie O’Donnell and Cyndi Lauper all took to the stage.

For the final finale number, Lauper and her guitarist perfomred an almost acoustic version of "True Colors," which all of the acts joined in on. This sounds wonderful and what I love is the tour is has teamed up wit the Huiman Rights Campaign to raise awareness for LGBT issues and rights.
Love you, Cyndi Lauper.

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This kids bugs me. I don't much care if he's gay or not but I find his coy act beyond annoying...

So Mika graces the cover of Out Magazine...but he's not out! Well, neither were Jodie Foster or Anderson Cooper so I guess that doesn't really matter. So this is what Mika tells the mag regarding all the speculation:"Anyone can label me, but I'm not willing to label myself...Anybody who says that I don't talk about sexuality or that I don't politically sexualize my music because of taboos, because of being afraid of [not] selling records, is completely wrong. I've made a record that doesn't compromise in any way what I'm allowed or not allowed to say in my lyrics."
Uh, OK. So you gay or what?
Towleroad.com reports that OUT originally requested Mika for the cover of their April issue, in order to coincide with the release date of his album in the U.S., but were refused. According to their source, Mika's "handlers" wanted to do a cover but only if it came out a few months down the road, because they were concerned about breaking into the mainstream market were Mika pigeonholed as a "gay artist" right out of the gate.

I see. They sounds like absolute geniuses.

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So my pal Alejandro and I are having a slice of pizza at lunch today at this cool little place called Zanos in Woodland Hills and in walks a tall, exceptionally good looking guy with an attractive blonde woman. I almost drop my slice as I stare. Then I go back to gabbing away between bites when the owner of Zanos puts on a CD and tells us that it is the music of the guy sitting in the corner. Then he goes over to the guy in the corner and says, "That guy writes about entertainment for the Daily News." Next thing I know, I'm over at theiir table exchanging information and find out that his name is Clint Crighton and he's here from Australia doing a little tour here and in NY and many other places! He was awfully nice, (great Aussie accent), and asked me to check out his MySpace page which I just did.
I'm hoping to catch one of his LA gigs and will let you know how it is...
p.s. I don't think that's Clint's Grammy!

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I'm a sucker for Maroon 5 ever since seeing them on The Today Show not too long ago. Obviously the handsome lead singer Adam Levine is to die for but I also like their music. And I'm not alone: the group's second studio album: "I Won't Be Soon Before Long" debuted at number one on the sales charts, selling 429,000 copies. It has been driven by the hit single "Makes Me Wonder" which is currently topping the singles chart thanks to 243,000 downloads sold. In addition to "Today," Maroon 5 also appeared on "The Tonight Show" and "Saturday Night Live" before the album's release.
Also, the straight but gay-friendly Levine recently did an interview with The Advocate and also spoke with Insintct magazine for its current issue. I like what he had to say about gay marriage: "Oh, it's the most silly, ridiculous law I know of. Honestly, people should really get their heads out of their asses. Is anyone really hurting anyone else if they choose to marry someone of the same sex? I don't believe they are. It's just so archyaic and ludicrous."

Well said Adam!

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Adam Levine, front man for the Grammy-winning Maroon 5, is the focus of the "Big Gay Following" in the new issue of The Advocate. First, I want you to enjoy all these pictures of this handsome singer then I will share some of the answers he gave to some interesting questions...

Q. Do guys ever hit on you?
A. Not outwardly. Not, 'Hey, you wanna make out?' It doesn't happen to me. I don't know why. But I never really pick up on when I'm getting hit on anway - unless i'm into it, and then I just convince myself that they're hitting on me...I'm not into d***. I wish I were. It would be so much easier. Because, you know, men have a certain camaraderie with each other that's easygoing and kind of simple, when you think about it. Sometimes men and women clash mentally, although physically it works out."
Q. If you were intio guys, who would be your type?
A. Oh, there are beautiful men out there. Antonio Banderas is gorgeous. Well, maybe not so much anymore. He peaked around 'Desperado.' I mean, every male secretly wants to have sex with Brad Pitt, but that's a given."
Q. You've been friends with Jake Gyllenhaal since childhood. Why do we never see you hanging out with him, Lance [Armstrong] and Matthew McConaughey?
A. I don't know. i'm noit a cyclist.

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When I was working on my cover story on American Idol for The Advocate, Mario Vasquez's representatives did not respond to my requests for an intervew or for comment on the sexual harassment lawsuit that has been filed against Vasquez by a male former employee of the show's production company.
The lawsuit broke as the story was in its final stages and Vasquez ended up on the cover of the current issue of the magazine!To read an exclusive excerpt of my American Idol cover story in The Advocate, click HERE.

Vasquez has not given ANY interviews since the lawsuit was filed but prior to that, he did speak with ArjanWrites.com and he was asked about his sexuality and about why he quit the most popular show in America that has been a launching pad to stardom for such arists as Clay Aiken, Kelly Clarkson, Jennifer Hudson, Carrie Underwood and others.
Vasquez said quitting the show "had a lot to do with artistic reasons. It was the number one priority for me to have artistic control. I realized that creating my own sound was a major thing for me. When I started out with Idol I didn’t think about it that much. But when Idol progressed, there were more lenient opportunities towards things that I wanted to do as an artist. I wanted to be more in tune with what I wanted to sing and perform. The people at charge [at America Idol] would assume or help me create a certain image. But I’m very specific about what I wanted. It was important to me to be versatile as an artist. I think with my debut album I’ve accomplished that."
On the gay rumors: " I'm not gay. But I want people to know I'm very tolerant of [gays]. I grew up with gay people. Growing up in New York City and growing up in the world of arts, it is something that’s there and I don’t even have a second thought about it."

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Diana Ross (doesn't she look unbelievable in this picture?) performed at Madison Square Garden over the weekend and I wanted to share a few of the reviews with you!

Here is part of what the New York Times had to say:
The word queen came to mind: beauty queen, disco queen, fashion queen, queen of Motown, fairy queen, queen of the mermaids (in the skin-tight salmon outfit chosen for her grand entrance to the strains of “I’m Coming Out”). Flashing her Miss America smile and brushing back the forest of jet-black hair that has been her tonsorial trademark since the 1970s, Ms. Ross graciously bestowed her royal blessings on her besotted subjects, one of whom kept shouting at the stage, “You look 35!” And she did.
Talk about illusion. On March 26 Ms. Ross turned 63. Not since Marlene Dietrich has a pop diva staked so much on maintaining a fixed image of time-resistant, hard-shell glamour...Her perfectly groomed beauty was as reassuring as the parade of Supremes hits that she performed with an efficient band and two backup singers. As long as we can sing along with “Where Did Our Love Go?,” “Baby Love” and “Stop! In the Name of Love,” and shake our collective flabby booty, we are all forever youthful in the Sound of Young America.
...Ms. Ross’s most revealing performance on Friday was her version of “It’s My House,” from the 1979 album “The Boss.” While singing this curt expression of self-empowerment, she coyly shimmied and did some discreet bumps and grinds. The song may be about real estate, but Ms. Ross transformed it into an expression of physical self-possession, a celebration of the body beautiful. I imagine that she will be singing it into her 80s and that — with the help of makeup, costumes and lighting — she will still look approximately the same as she did on Friday: as the man said, 35.
Here is part of the Newsday review:
Diana Ross knows how to give her fans what they want. In her 75-minute set, she packed in 19 songs, five glamorous gowns (including one seemingly inspired by the Li'l Kim MTV Music Awards outfit she liked so much), four costume changes and enough diva hair flips and dramatic spins to keep everyone happy until the next time. She entered to "I'm Coming Out." She paid tribute to her Supremes days with "Where Did Our Love Go" and "Stop! In the Name of Love." And she recalled Disco Diana with "Upside Down" and "Love Hangover" -- which, like most of her songs, were done in nearly the exact arrangement that made them hits 25 or 30 years ago.
In fact, aside from the title track from her new album "I Love You" (Angel), all the material was tried and true. Even her choice of a cover that isn't associated with her -- Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive" -- wasn't much of a stretch.
None of that should really matter much. Ross is far from the only veteran artist out on the road steeped in the good-old-days and offering up nostalgia for around $100 a head. And unlike so many of her contemporaries, she can still hit all her notes and look good doing it.
"Not bad for an old broad, huh?" asked Ross, who turned 63 last month, after showing off some bootylicious Beyonce moves during "It's My House."

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The new issue of The Advocate (dated April 24, 2007) is just hitting the stands and arriving in homes and I'm excited because I wrote the cover story! It's called "American Idol's Big Gay Closet." The article asks whether an openly gay singer could ever win. It should seem possible on a show with sappy songs, flamboyant contestants and a metrosexual host. All this combines to make "American Idol" the campiest thing on TV.
I interviewed season one finalists Jim Verarros and RJ Helton, who both came out after the show, Tom Lowe - an openly gay contestant whose failure to reach the top 24 this season raised eyebrows, and various others including Lance Bass and Erasure's Andy Bell about the the show and, I think, it's compelling reading!
Will eventually post the entire article for Out In Hollywood readers but, for now, will offer you just a taste of the article so you will go out and buy a copy of The Advocate!
AMERICAN IDOL'S BIG GAY CLOSET
By Greg Hernandez
Divas like Fantasia, Kimberly Locke and Jennifer Hudson attractlegions of gay fans. Judge Simon Cowell and host Ryan Seacrest seem to be flirting as they delight in challenging each other’s sexuality. And each season, at least a few finalists - most notably Clay Aiken - seem to set off everybody’s gaydar.
American Idol is not only the most popular show on network television with an average of 32 million viewers each week, it is also clearly one of the gayest. But there seems to be some kind of unwritten rule that contestants should not be out while competing for the title.
Season one contestant R.J. Helton, who finished fifth, came out publicly last October but struggled with being in the closet while he was on the show.
"I did tell some of the assistant producers because I felt like it was eating me alive," Helton says. "But I was advised to just keep it to myself. The reason they gave me was that it wouldn’t be a good idea for my career. I wasn’t prepared to be out then anyway, I wasn’t comfortable with myself at that point."
Fox spokesman Joe Earley says he was not aware of Helton confiding in anyone on the show about his sexuality and if someone did indeed encourage Helton to remain closeted, that assistant producer was
speaking on their own behalf and not for the show.
"Since season one, when it became clear that people’s personal lives were going to become public, the gay contestants have usually declared early in the [background check] process how comfortable they were with their own sexaulity," says Earley, who is out. "I’ve been intimate in this process and there is no fear coming from
producers or the network about a contestant’s sexuality as it relates to being gay."
Helton’s fellow season one finalist, Jim Verraros, got a lot of attention for coming out shortly after competing on the show (he finished in ninth place) and appearing on the American Idol tour.
"I was more concerned about how America would perceive me than the producers," admits Verraros. "Even on tour, I definitely toned it down, making sure my voice dropped an octave. Now, I don’t give a
fuck. But at the time, I thought, ‘You have to appeal to everybody and be as mainstream as possible.’"
Verraros, 24, was the first fellow contestant Helton felt he could confide in.
"I didn’t tell any of the contestants although I’m sure a few knew just by living with me," Helton says. "Jim was the first person that I talked to about it all with. We came back for the finale show and were about to go on tour. We were in the front lobby of the hotel and I said, ‘We have to talk.’"
By the time Helton, 25, did an interview on Sirius radio last October in support of Idol Rewind, a syndicated rerun of the show’s first season, he was far more comfortable with himself and decided to come
out publicly.
Some believe the show tries to project an image of wholesomeness in order to preserve its monster ratings and appeal to virtually every demographic and geographical region in the country.
Many wonder if preservation of that image was the reason behind the mysterious departure of season four finalist Mario Vazquez who had set some gaydars off during his journey to the top 12. Vazquez was
never voted off the show but made the unprecedented decision to quit after making the finals citing "family reasons."
Vazquez, has never discussed his sexuality but he is now at the center of one of the bigger scandals in the show’s history. Magdaleno Olmos, a former assistant accountant for Fremantle Media which produces the show, filed a wrongful termination lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court against the show in March accusing Vazquez of
sexually harassing him.

-- to be continued...

[The Advocate is on newstands now!]

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Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Went, 27, is the focus of the Big Gay Following feature in the new issue of The Advocate and had some interesting things to say. Here are some appetizers for you:
The Advocate: You made a lot of gay fans happy when you admitted that you'd kissed boys because "anything above the waist is fair game."
Pete: [Laughs] I actually mean it. That's just kind of how I am. I'm a little bit of a make-out bandit. I don't discriminate too much.
The Advocate: What's the closest you've ever come to taking the boy-on-boy action to the next level?
Pete: I haven't really gotten that close, 'cause honestly, I'm not a real big fan of penises. Like my own, whenever I look at it, I just don't find anything attractive about it. I can't believe girls are into it.
The Advocate: Penisis aside, any dude crushes?
Pete: I don't have an issue finding guys attractive. I was with my friend last night watching "The Prestige" and she's like, 'Christian Bale is so hot' And I'm like, 'Yeah, that's a good looking dude.' There's nobody specific but if you just named off dudes I could tell you if I thought they were hot or not.
The Advocate: I'll spare you. You've also said that people who aren't fans of yours will sometimes call you an antigay slur. Why is that?
Pete: I don't know. I think it's a real cheap, easy word. At some point when we were doing this band I was like, "You know what? I'm going to be the most androgynous person that I can possibly be. I'm going to wear girl pants and makeup." I looked to David Bowie, Mick Jagger, and people like that, and I was like, "That's what's missing in all the bands that we're playing with right now! You need this effeminate edge." Did Mick Jagger and David Bowie make out? Probably. Who knows? And that's kind of what I was going for, but people took that to the next level. ...I think sexuality is a lot more ambiguous and more blurred than people make it out to be.

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A friend of mine asked me over dinner earlier this week what I meant when I said "straight allies." I went into this blah, blah, blah explanation and now realize I could have just said two words: Cyndi Lauper. God bless this ultimate straight ally.In the upcoming music issue of The Advocate, Cyndi talks to writer Brantley Barin about her True Colors tour, which aims to be an annual Gay and Lesbian Pride Month concert (think Cyndipalooza) that will travel to 15 cities and offer five hours of music! Cyndi will be joined on the bill by Erasure, Debbie Harry, the Dresden Dolls, the Gossip, and the Misshapes. MTV's Logo network is the presenting sponsor and will give $1 made from every concert ticket directly to the Human Rights Campaign.
You should run out and buy The Advocate to read the full Lauper interview (plus, I wrote the cover story called "American Idol's Big Gay Closet") but here are a few excerpts of what Lauper says about the tour and her reasons behind organizing it:
"It's something I've wanted to do for a long time. And this way, you get to get AND give. That's why when they said, 'We'll make it the True colors tour,' I said, 'Well, then we should include the Human Rights Campaign.' - because the song "True Colors" means so much to the LGBT community and you can't ignore that. I've read letters on the Internet and when when people say a song made them feel like they could get through it after they'd been disenfranchised by their friends, their family, their jobs - and they're suicidal- well...
You shouldn't be made to feel badly about who you are. You're born that way. For God's sake, come ON already! That's why our grandparents came here, just to get a fair shake. I have every right and you have every right to be who you are."

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Was your invitation to elton John's 60th birthday party lost in the mail like mine? Well, I'm not bitter...much. And at least we can watch his Madision Square Garden birthday concert tonight! "Happy Birthday Elton" airs at 8 p.m. on MyNetworkTV. (You know, the channel with all the cheesy soap operas with really hot men in them. You know you watch!)

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Australian Idol singer Anthony Callea has given his first interview since coming out to the world last week.In the interview which I found via Towleroad.com, aired this morning on Sydney’s 2Day FM radio show, Callea responded to the hosts’ cries of “congratulations” with modesty. “Congratulations for what? I don’t need to be congratulated for it, it’s just the way it is.”
Callea said the accidental outing by traffic helicopter-man Vic Lorusso several weeks earlier was a blessing in disguise. “To tell you the truth, at the start of the year I was in Brisbane and I was speaking to my manager about it and I said ‘I think I’m comfortable within myself now to make that next step’ and we were talking about it for quite a few weeks. And then this whole thing with Vic Lorusso came out and I thought it was just something telling me that this was the right time.”
Was he upset about being outed? “I think I was more upset with the way it was blown out of proportion. But things are always going to be blown out of proportion, as long as I know the truth.”
It’s the reaction to Callea’s outing, that has been covered all around the world and through every media outlet in the country that has most surprised Anthony. “It’s really weird because a few days ago when I went to the airport and was going through the security, there were three security guards there. One of the them stopped me and said, “good on you”, and then I got through the actual security thing and the next one tapped me on the shoulder and said “that’s really good, good on you,” and then the next one tapped me on the shoulder. I was going, ‘what’s going on?’, I’m still exactly the same person.”
Yeah, but now you're OUT Anthony! People feel they know you now...
Callea finished off the interview by confirming he’s been with his boyfriend, Paul, for the past three years (pictured with Anthony in “Woman’s Day”, above right) and was “very happy” with his relationship. “At the end of the day, it shouldn’t matter who you love or who loves you, as long as you know what love is.”

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Remember way back when when Ricky Martin was all that and Barbara Walters flat-out asked hom on one of her celeb specials about the speculation that he is gay?
As I recall, Ricky dodged the question - more charmingly than Clay Aiken did in an interview with Diane Sawyer last year - but dodged it all the same. So Martin's comments about Mexican singer Christian Chavez, who came out publicly earlier this month, are interesting.
''Life is too short to live closed up, guarding what you say." Christian ''has to be free in many aspects. I wish him much strength.''
Well, whatever. Good to have him supporting Chavez who has been so amazingly honest and heartfelt in his public coming out. I feel like I know him a little bit. Ricky Martin? I don't feel like I know him at all.

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"Celebrity Duets" may not have been in the league of "American Idol" or "Dancing With the Stars" but it did give "Queer Eye" alum Jai Rodriguez (he was the culture expert) the opportunity to show the world that he can sing - and sing quite well. So congratulations to Jai for sigining a record deal with Airgo Music. His first single, "Wake Up Call," is scheduled for release in June.

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There's a new pop sensation in town and his name is Mika! His debut CD, "Life in Cartoon Motion" was released on Tuesday and Lance Bass was among those on hand at the release party held at West Hollywood's Mondrian Hotel Sky Bar. There has been much speculation about Mika's sexuality but he has made clear that he chooses not to discuss his personal life - entirely his right.

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The delicious Dolly Parton, deservedly awarded with the Kennedy Center Honors in December, had some surprising things to say when interviewed by a British newspaper recently. Dolly has been married for a million years to the same man, Carl Dean, who is rarely seen in public.
"When I have sex with my husband these days, I fantasize I am with someone like KEITH URBAN or a petite, hot young woman.”
COOL!!!!
She also says he first crush was on a Tennessee hooker who “I thought she was beautiful. She had more hair, more color, more everything.”
Well, there are at least two things that NO ONE has more of than Dolly!

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Oops! I squirreled away these pictures from Elton John's concert at Madison Square Garden Sunday and his star-studded birthday party Saturday night in NYC but forgot to post them! Well, it's never too late to enjoy party pics!
I won't bother with captions for the pics because if you don't know who people like Keifer Sutherland, Pierce Brosnan, Barbara Walters, Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne, Emma Thompson and Diane Sawyer are, there is no hope for you! Gee, none of those people came to MY last birthday party! What does Elton got that I don't got besides money, immense talent, hair (his isn't real but still!) and millions of adoring fans?
Meanwhile, I'm gonna hit Best Buy after I leave the office to pick up his new CD "Numbers Ones" and listen to it on the way home.

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The British tabloid The Sun has a long memory and on the occasion of Elton John's 60th birthday on Sunday, the paper decided to dig up six dozen of his most memorable quote. Some of them are, well, a little bitchy but hey, this is the man who wrote "The Bitch is Back."

On The X Factor: “It is a cruise ship show. I’ve got nothing against the people who go on – good luck to them. But I hate how they’re treated. The record companies sell a lot of records and those people are gone. It’s f***ing cruel.”

On Hear’Say: “They have to be the ugliest band I’ve ever seen. If you’re going to have a boy band or a girl band then they’ve got to be good-looking. The guy Danny looks like Shrek. I feel sorry for them.”

On florists: “I loathe flower arranging – it’s a hideous profession.”

On Grammys, while reviewing a Stevie Wonder video on a kids’ TV show: “Grammys only go to disabled people.”

On Madonna’s victory at the Q Awards in 2004: “Madonna Best Live Act? Since when has lip-synching been live? Anyone who lip-synchs on stage when you pay £75 to see them should be shot. That’s me off her f***ing Christmas card list, but do I give a toss? No.”

On The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King winning 11 Oscars in 2004: “It was the most boring Oscars I have seen. I thought there might be one surprise in the song category but even there The Lord Of The Rings won. And I don’t think it deserved to.”

On pop music: “The Backstreet Boys, NSYNC, Britney Spears, S Club 7, Steps – the music is like packets of cereal. There are too many of them, too many of them are just average and mediocre.”

On appearing on Chris Moyles’s breakfast show: “I haven’t been to the BBC for so long, I almost went to the other building. But I saw Tony Blackburn on a walking stick and I thought, ‘No, it’s the wrong f***ing place’.”

On George W Bush: “The worst thing that has ever happened to America.”

On Cherie Blair’s lifestyle guru Carole Caplin: “Who’s that stupid cow who advises the Prime Minister? Carole Chaplin, Caplin – whatever her name is. She’s a mindless f***ing turd.”

On his football club Watford FC: “I’ll be fine if I don’t get an Oscar. I was chairman of Watford FC so I know what it’s like to lose.”

On Tony Blair and the Iraq invasion: “You lied to us, Tony. The Hutton Report made me wanna spit. It was like, these idiots think they can get away with anything. I voted for Tony. He’s basically a nice guy. What happened? Is it because power does that thing to you, that you isolate yourself? It enrages me that people can just smirk their way through it.”

On his grandma: “When she was visiting me in LA I’d just taken a load of pills and was threatening to throw myself in the pool. I told her I’d be dead in two hours and she replied, ‘Oh, I better go home then’. ”

On pseudonyms: “In hotels I use names like Binky Poodleclip and Sir Horace Pussy.”

On HIV: “America is my second home. I slept with half of it and came out HIV negative. I’m a lucky, lucky person.”

On ex-wife Renate: “The nicest person I have ever met. I don’t have one negative thing to say about her.”

On his mum Sheila: “I’ve always been a mummy’s boy.”

On Simon Cowell: “I am on the side of the artists. I am not on the side of someone like Simon Cowell, who sees them as another Mercedes Benz in his pocket.”

To a critic who slated his duet Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word with Blue: “Sorry happens to be a beautiful song sung by Frank Sinatra, among others. As a musician, I know this. As a w***er, you wouldn’t. Have a nice day.”

On the Diana Memorial Fountain: “It’s purely ugly. It looks like a sewer.”

In a tirade to photographers and police waiting at Taiwan airport in 2004: “You are rude, vile pigs. Do you know what that means? Rude, vile pigs. That’s what all of you are.”

On David Beckham: “David’s adorable – he’s a great role model for young people now he’s calmed down. He loves his wife, adores his kids, he’s a modern father who isn’t racist or homophobic. He loves his fashion. I really don’t think there is a single bad bone in his body.”

On women: “I can be driving along and see a woman and think, ‘Phwoar, she’s gorgeous.’ I don’t just fancy men.”

To a female photographer who tried to snap him leaving Liz Hurley’s house: “I hope you die of cancer of the clitoris.”

On Robbie Williams: “I keep my eye on him from a distance. I worry about him. I always feel he’s a bit of a loose cannon. He has that look in his eye.”

On Geri Halliwell: “Whenever you see her she clings on to you. She’s good company but she and Robbie just seem to be so obsessed with their careers.”

On Rod Stewart: “When we get together I truly believe we are the funniest two people in the world. We just insult each other – but in a great way.”

On Oasis: “They could have been the biggest band in the world but they blew it. It all came down to the fact that they were not prepared to work. And the drugs didn’t help during their abortive trips to America.”

On cocaine: “I have dreams when I have a white nose and it’s all round my mouth and I’m trying to get it off my nose and my mother’s coming in the room.”

And cocaine again: “Sometimes when I’m flying over the Alps I think, ‘That’s all the cocaine I sniffed’. We once tried to figure out how much money we spent on coke and alcohol. We were so disgusted that we stopped.”

On himself in the 1997 fly-on-the-wall documentary Tantrums And Tiaras: “She’s an absolute cow! I had to laugh. I was just impossible.”

On agents: “An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90 per cent of what they make.”

On success: “I cannot bear successful people who are miserable.”

On sex: “There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex. People should be very free with sex – they should draw the line at goats.”

On the English: “People in England are so bloody nosy.”

On his real name, Reg Dwight: “I was making a record and I had to choose a name because they said, ‘You can’t make a record under the name of Reg Dwight, because it’s not attractive enough’.”

On gadgets: “I was more ashamed that I couldn’t work the washing machine than the fact that I was taking drugs.”

On being gay: “I am the most well-known homosexual in the world.”

On the 2006 World Cup: “I love football but I’m sick of the World Cup. Who cares about Angola versus Portugal? I don’t even care about England.”

On George Michael: “My fear is he just smokes too much dope.”

On Brian McFadden’s solo single Irish Son: “I nearly died when I heard it. I absolutely hated it. I had to take it off in case I committed suicide.”

On his tantrums: “I think it is an Aries thing. I don’t like it, but what can you do?”

On Ozzy Osbourne: “We have so much in common, apart from the hair. Mine is bought. His is real.”

On the Bible: “I’m a mad shredder. I get these Bibles sent to me saying ‘Repent now’ and I shred them.”

On playing at the private parties of German businessmen: “I sing Rocket Man, Candle In The Wind and Happy Birthday Dear Gunther – and get paid tens of thousands.”

On the present he would give Liza Minnelli to celebrate her 2002 wedding to David Gest: “A heterosexual husband.”

On singer Craig David in 2001: “If there’s a better solo singer in the UK than Craig David, I’m Margaret Thatcher.”

On spending £2million in a month: “I’m not a nest-egg person.”

On Old Blue Eyes: “Sinatra was simply the best. No one else even comes close.”

On himself: “A review in the Financial Times said I was an extremely funky pub pianist. That was a good summing-up of what I am.”

After a fan said hello to him while he was on holiday in the South of France: “I’m supposed to be on f***ing holiday. I’m never coming here again. Get me on a plane tomorrow.”

On his refusal to sell pictures of his wedding to David Furnish to a celebrity magazine: “Our relationship isn’t up for grabs. Our love is sacred to us. It doesn’t come with a price tag.”

On film Billy Elliot: “I could barely watch it I was crying so much. It moved me because I could see myself in Billy. It was like my own childhood and how I broke out into my dream.”

On his body: “I’m stocky. I’ve always had a body-image problem. No self-esteem. And that will never, ever leave me. It’s improved, but I’m hypercritical of myself and the way I look.”

On his music: “The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.”

On David Furnish: “I took hostages and prisoners and expected them to adapt to my lifestyle. This relationship is very 50-50.”

On Live 8 2005: “I thought it was a bit of an anticlimax, to be honest. The thought behind it was fantastic but Hyde Park is a charisma-free zone. There was no sense of occasion and, from a musical point, I didn’t think there were too many highlights. I was very pleased to be a part of it but I didn’t think it was anywhere near as good as the first one. How could it be?”

On Posh’s attitude to husband David’s alleged affair with Rebecca Loos: “I don’t think they handled it very well.”

On his own indiscretion: “I haven’t got Tourette’s syndrome but I can’t censor myself. Why should I?”

On aggression: “I’ve always wanted to smash a guitar over someone’s head. You just can’t do that with a piano.”

On songwriting: “At my age you’ve just got to make a decision about whether you are going to write for yourself or for the radio. I mean, how many f***ing hits can you have?”

On trying to live a normal life: “Well, I’m not ordinary, so it’s not a struggle trying to be.”

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Anthony Callea, whose No. 1 hit "The Prayer" is the highest-selling single in Australian chart history. has ended years of speculation by confirming he is gay. The Australian Idol star told the Herald Sun he had reached a point in his life where he was comfortable enough to reveal his sexuality.
Yes, I am gay," Callea said yesterday. "I have no issue with my sexuality now, but it's taken time to become confident with who I am and happy with who I am. I'm looking forward to living a life with no barriers and not having to worry about saying the right thing."
Callea, 24, said he was planning to come out before a Sydney radio announcer accidentally did it for him this month.
"I'm comfortable enough to come clean now. It's a weight off my shoulders," he said.
"He also suspected many of his fans wouldn't be too surprised.
"I don't think it's a big issue. Who cares? If people have an issue with it, it's their issue. It shouldn't really be relevant to me being a singer and a performer."
Callea said he regretted denying he was gay during an interview in 2004 in the early days of his Idol experience.
He feared being outed may have harmed his chances in the contest.
"You learn from your mistakes. I was 21, 22 at the time," he said. "I didn't want to be known as just the gay contestant from Idol. It was a very confusing time."
Callea says no one in the Idol camp, his record company Sony BMG or his management insisted he hide his sexuality. But he said growing up as a gay Italian teenager was difficult:"I went through a stage of major depression," he said. "I hated myself. "I had to see a psychologist. I wasn't talking to anyone. My parents didn't know what was wrong with me. But getting through that makes you a stronger person, it allows me to do what I'm doing now and not be affected by what's said."
Callea said the support of his partner Paul had been invaluable. The singer met Paul while working on Idol.
"I'm being honest but I still have a personal life I'm going to keep private," he said.
Callea said while he has no problems with his revelation, he is concerned about the impact it may have on his family, who live in Melbourne's western suburbs.
"I'm strong enough to cop any flak that might come my way, but I care about the comments that might come to my family and friends," he said. "I'm not ashamed of being gay, but it's not in my nature to go out and promote it," he said. "I want to be known as a singer and as a performer. This shouldn't change anything. I'm happy to be judged on my music, but I don't think it's right to judge people on their sexuality or their religion or their race or anything."

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The Rocket Man landed at Madison Square Garden on the night of his 60th birthday Sunday which also marked his 60th performance at the Garden - more times than any single artist.
Elton was introduced by fellow baby-boomer icon Bill Clinton, who congratulated the singer on "joining my favorite club — the 60-year-olds."
Elton let loose a string of golden oldies, beginning with, fittingly, "SixtyYears On" and the title track from "Madman Across the Water." The set list was filled with such fan favorites as "Levon" and "Daniel."
After his performance, Elton was joined on stage by Whoopi Goldberg and Robin Williams, who provided a cheeky tribute. Noting John's understated dress, Williams quipped that the singer "used to make Liberace look Amish." Then another surprise guest appeared: John's partner in music for 40 years, Bernie Taupin, and he led the audience in singing "Happy Birthday to You."
The concert will be broadcast April 5 on MyNetworkTV. The two-hour special, "Happy Birthday Elton," also will feature celebrity interviews.
The concert came the day after a Saturday night black tie affair, hosted by Elton's hubby David Furnish, held at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in uptown Manhattan. The guest list was high-wattage: musicians Tony Bennett, Lou Reed, Brian Wilson, Bette Midler, Mary J. Blige, Yoko Ono, Kid Rock, John Legend, Lenny Kravitz, James Blunt, and Ozzy Osbourne; actors Richard Gere and wife Carey Lowell, Elizabeth Hurley, Michael Caine, Pierce Brosnan, Kiefer Sutherland, Liv Tyler, Anne Hathaway and Chloe Sevigny; designers Donna Karan and Donatella Versace; media personalities Diane Sawyer and Barbara Walters; and tennis great Billie Jean King who has been Elton's close friend for more than 35 years..
Furnish introduced a tribute of film clips with messages from singers Paul McCartney, Billy Joel, Rod Stewart and Celine Dion; actors Jim Carrey and Billy Connolly; and designer Tom Ford.

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In Touch Weekly reports the following bombshell: Simon Cowell's ribbing of Ryan Seacrest about his sexuality this season had lots of American Idol fans wondering. But Ryan's ex-girlfriend Shana Wall, who he dated for a few years, says he's been telling the truth when he says he's straight. "Ryan is not gay, nor is he bisexual," Shana, who produces and hosts the online cooking show, The Hot Dish with Shana, tells In Touch. "We had an amazing and passionate relationship for a few years, and we are still very close."
Well then, that's that. Ryan is 100 percent heterosexual now.Are there any doubters left out there NOW?

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I've casually watched 'American Idol" here and there this season but didn't go out of my way for it. But Tuesday night, I became a Season 6 addict. Had a nice dinner with my friend Ted at Mani's Bakery and was preparing to head out to West Hollywood to attend Bravo's kickoff party for the new season of "Workout." Had the TV on and thought, I'll just watch a few songs. Two hours later, I had seen every performance and was on the phone with a friend predicting who would be eliminated. So last night, I made sure I had no plans and watched the results show with more nervous anticipation than I should admit. I never in a million years thought it would be Stephanie Edwards,who is a terrific talent with great presence, going home.
Anyway, what's fun about being an addict is talking about it with everyone. My sister and I were gabbing as I drove to work this morning about how horrible Simon was to Lakisha Jones who we both thought was absolutely terrific singing "Diamonds are Forever." We were really steamed. "He just went too far!" my sister huffed. My little 8-year-old neice, home from school with a sore throat, says in the background: "Simon just says things the wrong way."

I get to work and talk to three different people about the results and we are completely into it, talking about Sanjaya's comeback, the little girl who kept crying in the audience (didn't she look like Marcia Brady during the first season of "The Brady Bunch"?) and about how surprising it was to have Chris Richardson (not to mention Stephanie!) in the bottom two last night.
So my favorites? I think it will come down to the brilliant Melinda Doolittle (I would buy a CD of hers anytime) and the very appealing and talented Blake Lewis who really has star quality. But I think Lakisha will be in the top three and should be. She is the bomb.
And who's next in line for elimination? I think Sanjaya is safe for another week or two (he does have a certain appeal) and am betting that Phil Stacey, who completely leaves me cold, will be the next to say goodbye and that Haley Scarnato will not be far behind.
Whatever happens, I'll be watching!
God help me.

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Singer Anthony Callea, a former runner-up on "Australian Idol" is receiving strong fan support after being outed on the radio. Eye in the Sky reporter Vic Lorusso seemingly outed the singer after mentioning meeting Callea while discussing an old school mate on TheEdge's morning show.
"You wouldn't know him. He's a nice guy but his partner, which is Anthony Callea, didn't want to know anything about anybody," he told host Christo.
A spokeswoman for the show claimed Lorusso had not been taking a pot shot at Callea: "Vic had no idea that it wasn't common knowledge."
Readers of The Daily Telegraph were quick to back Anthony.
"This was being talked about on radio during his time in Australian Idol & it did nothing to dent his popularity, so why should this? There is nothing wrong with this, said Karen of Sydney. Lea of Tasmania said:"I don't know whether the man is gay or if he isn't, nor do I particularly care... that has no bearing on his talent, but what a great shame if he is and was not granted the right of any other gay person to decide for himself when or even whether to
'come out' . Anthony, a fan in Melbourne said:"I'm proud to say i'm an Anthony Callea fan, he's an amazing singer, songwriter & is very talented. His sexuality has nothing to do with it."

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Melissa, Tammy and the babies...

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Before today, I had not heard of Christian Chavez, a singer for the Mexican pop group RBD. But now I have after he announced that he is gay after photographs showing him marrying' another man showed up on the Internet.
''I don't want to keep on lying and lie to myself because of fear,'' Chavez said in a statement posted on the group's official Web site. ''I feel bad for not having shared this with all my fans before, as they are the ones that worry and it is because of them that I decided to be honest.''
That is such a wonderful statement don't you think? It has a lot of heart.
A series of photos had appeared on the Web site www.latingossip.com showing the 23-year-old star, known for his ever-changing hair colors, with another man with short black hair. The photos were taken in Canada in 2005 and show the two signing documents, exchanging rings and giving each other a kiss. Canada became the fourth country in the world to legalize gay marriage in July 2005.
Chavez stated that the photos ''show a part of me, a part that I was not prepared to speak of in fear of rejection, of criticism, but especially for my family and its consequences.''
''Although I'm scared and filled with uncertainty I know that I can rely on the support of my fans,'' he added. ''Their love is bigger than all of this. I ask them from the bottom of my heart, not to judge me for being honest and to feel proud of who they are and never make the same mistake I did. Tolerance to diversity!''
Good for Christian Chavez! I think he'll be a lot happier now and probably gain a lot more gay fans!

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I can't find the cover art yet but USA Today reports that Elton John has yet another greatest hits compilation set to hit stores March 27. The release of "Rocket Man" Number Ones" comes out just two days after Sir. Elton's 60th birthday and his record 60th performance at Madision Square Garden.
The new CD will include 13 chart-toppers from the singer's 35-year-recording career and will include so many uptempo gems and classic ballads: "Rocket Man," "Daniel," "Tiny Dancer," "Crocodile Rock," "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting," "Can You Feel the Love Tonight," "Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word," "Candle in the Wind 1997" (tribute to Diana, princess of Wales), and "Your Song." There also a few terrific duets: "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" (w/Kiki Dee) and "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" with George Michael.
I.Want. This. CD.!!!

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I love the three nominated songs from "Dreamgirls" but if they end up cancelling each other out, I would love to see Rock goddess Melissa Etheridge walk off with the Oscar for best song.
Etheridge was nominated for the anthem ''I Need to Wake Up'' from the global-warming documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth" starring former veep Al Gore.
''That was part of my dream, being a rock star and all that stuff,'' she says on OutZone. ''And, 'Oooo, someday, I want to have Oscar: best song.' Of course that's out there. Never, when I was presented with this -- this was a slide show. I had no idea it was going to be a film and it was going to be that sort of thing.''
Turns out, it was Al Gore himself who asked Etheridge to write a song for the film, which she said was no easy task -- even for the Grammy-winning songstress.
''Because, what do I write? Help! What do we do? 'Give a hoot, don't pollute' or something?''' she recalls. ''And that got to be overwhelming to a point until, actually, (to) my partner, my wife, Tammy, I said, 'Help me. I am trying to find my way to write a song.' She says, 'Just do what you do. You write about what you feel. Tell people how you feel.'

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Diana Ross appeared on Bravo TV’s Inside The Actors Studio on Monday and with host James Lipton, reflected on the way life used to be. Although she is an Academy Award-nominated actress for "Lady Sings the Blues," Ross has made only five movies. And since this was a two-hour show, there was much discussion of her legendary music career.
Here are some excerpts:
ON HOW SHE GOT INVOLVED WITH THE PRIMETTES: "Florence Ballard and Mary Wilson, they wanted to put together a girls group and they came and asked my parents if I would sing with the Primettes. They heard I could sing and asked if I would sing with the group."
ON BECOMING THE SUPREMES: "They were trying to find names that were really catchy, they asked us to go away and come up with something other than the Primettes because they didn't think that had the right ring to it. Florence [Ballard] was the one who came back with the name The Supremes.
ON BERRY GORDY BEING A MENTOR: "He was the person who gave everyone inspirations. I wouldn't be here today if he didn't believe in me. Not only as a performer but also as an actress"
ON FINDING FAME AT A YOUNG AGE: "I don't think we ever tried to figure out how many records we were selling. It was just something you never really imagined was going to happen to your life."
ON BERRY GORDY'S PROFESSIONAL FOCUS ON DIANA ROSS: "As time went on it was expressed that it did put a strain on the group. At the time I didn't think that it did. I felt like we were all growing in different directions. I don't really know if it was Berry's focus on me, I think it was just time, it was part of growing."
ON LEAVING THE SUPREMES TO PERSUE HER SOLO CAREER: "It was like stepping into the darkness, not knowing really if it was the right thing to do or not."
ON PREPARING FOR THE ROLE OF BILLIE HOLIDAY IN "LADY SINGS THE BLUES": "I read a lot, I watched everything I could about Billie Holiday. No one taught me this. I had to learn this all on my own. All I listened to was Billie Holiday so it just became a part of me like osmosis or something."
ON HER CAREER TODAY: "The record industry is changing so much. They don't have time for veteran artists. And I guess that's the way it is, we are supposed to move over for the younger artists. But I think that until they drag me off the stage, I want to continue!"

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I've seen Diana Ross in concert three times: 1989, 1991 and 1996 and had tickets in 2000 to see her aborted Supremes tour. Just came across the U.S. dates of her upcoming tour in support of her "I Love You" album. My complaint: where are the Los Angeles dates? Say what you will about Miss Ross, but it must be acknowledged that she gives a TERRIFIC concert.
Here are some of the dates:
APRIL 5, 2007: MASHUNTUCKET, CONNECTICUT (FOXWOODS CASINO)
APRIL 6, 2007: NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK (MADISON SQUARE GARDEN)
APRIL 7, 2007: ATLANTIC CITY, NEW JERSEY (BORGATA HOTEL)
APRIL 9, 2007: RED BANK, NEW JERSEY (COUNT BASIE THEATER)
APRIL 11,12: NIAGARA FALLS, ONTARIO, CANADA (FALLSVIEW CASINO RESORT)
APRIL 13, 2007: MT PLEASANT, MICHIGAN (THE SOARING EAGLE CASINO & RESORT)
APRIL 14, 2007: CHICAGO, ILLINOIS (CHICAGO THEATRE)
APRIL 16, 2007: AUBURN HILLS, MICHIGAN (PALACE AT AUBURN HILLS)
APRIL 19, 2007: GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS (NOKIA THEATRE)
APRIL 20, 2007: HIDALGO,TEXAS (DODGE ARENA)
APRIL 21, 2007: BEAUMONT, TEXAS (BEAUMONT CIVIC CENTER)
APRIL 22, 2007: MARKSVILLE, LOUISIANA (PARAGON CASINO)
APRIL 24, 2007: ORLANDO, FLORIDA (HARD ROCK LIVE)
APRIL 25, 2007: MELBOURNE, FLORIDA (KING CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS)
APRIL 26, 2007: CLEARWATER, FLORIDA (RUTH ECKERD HALL)
APRIL 30, 2007: HOLLYWOOD, FLORIDA (HARD ROCK HOTEL)
After years mostly out of the performing spotlight, it's very cool to have Diana Ross back. In addition to the new CD and the tour, I want to point out a couple of other Ross-related items of interest: the new book "A Lifetime to Get Here" which provides a very favorable version of Ross' life and career. It's the the antithesis of some of the other books that have been written about her. And then there is a DVD of her performances with the Supremes which initially were her, Mary Wilson and Florence Ballard before Cindy Birdsong replaced Ballard in 1967. It would be fun to watch "Dreamgirls" then go home and play then DVD to see how it was really done!

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Marking the teaming of two generations of openly gay pop artists, Scissor Sisters' Jake Shears dueted with Pet Shop Boys' Neil Tennant at a special charity gig in London on Sunday evening. Jake and Neil performed "Loves Comes Quickly" (from Pet Shop Boys' 1986 album "Please") that morphed into a gorgeous rendition of "It Can't Come Quickly Enough" from Scissor Sisters' debut album.
Proceeds go to Body and Soul which supports kids and their families that are living with HIV. The concert will raise funds for Body and Soul’s new center in London.
The photos were posted exclusively on the music blog Arjanwrites.com.

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It looks like Melissa Etheridge is feeling better after a bought with the flu that caused her to miss the Grammys. The rock star andher wife, actress Tammy Lynn Michaels, took their tiny twins, Johnnie Rose and Miller Steven out for a stroll on tony Montana Avenue in Santa Monica on Thursday.
The twins were born in October. Etheridge has two children with former partner Julie Cypher, who conceived with sperm provided by rock legend David Crosby. The identity of the sperm donor for the twins is not publicly known.

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When Kenny Chesney and Renee Zellweger got their four-month marraige annuled with the Oscar winner citing "Fraud," it resulted in widespread speculation that the country singer must be gay. In an interview with Anderson Cooper on Sunday's edition of "60 Minutes," Chesney addresses the rumors:
"The only fraud that was committed was me thinking that I knew what it was like ... that I really understood what it was like to be married, and I really didn't. We thought the least harmful (stated reason) was fraud because it (is) kind of broad … doesn't specify. And boy … we were wrong...It's not true (that I'm gay). Period. Maybe I should have come out and said no, I'm not (gay), but I didn't want to draw any more attention to it … I didn't have to prove to anybody that I wasn't (gay) … I didn't feel like I really did...Even though I'd sit here and say I wish we'd gotten divorced instead of all that annulment stuff and saved me a lot of public humiliation … I still don't have any regrets. I loved her, you know? And it was real."

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OK, so here's the deal. I don't like to speculate about the sexuality of famous people. I know it's tempting but you gotta draw the line somewhere. But if a famous person issues any kind of statement responding to speculation about the subject, it seems to me to be fair game.
That said, there are plenty of people wondering if former NSYNC band member JC Chasez was hitting on a guy last week. According to the New York Daily News, the following occured and I quote the paper's item verbatim: "JC Chasez seemed very interested in meeting a particularly handsome young gentleman during Fashion Week. Of course, the poor bastard had to pick a guy who was friends with a gossip columnist. "[His publicist] was like, 'JC is going to be at such and such a place later, and he'd love to hang out with you,' " sez the olive-skinned hunk, who declined to share his phone number. Chasez's rep says he does not recall that conversation taking place. "And if it did, it would just be to hang out in a group, because he's a cool guy, not like a setup," he explained. Snickers bar, anyone?"

Whatever the case is, he sure is CUTE!

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A few days after I met Dave Koz at a red carpet event in late November, a package arrived in the mail. Inside was his new CD, "At the Movies" along with a nice note from Dave! I am just now getting around to giving the CD an overdue mention but my timing is excellent because it was just released this week! I have so much respect for Dave, who came out publicly a few years ago, and great admiration for his talent as a world-reknowned saxophonist.
The CD has 12 timeless themes from classic films starting with "Over the Rainbow" which starts with Judy Garland's vocals set to Dave's sax. Barry Manilow does "Moon River" and while Audrey Hepburn's will always be my favorite (from 'Breakfast at Tiffany's"), Barry and Dave team up for a nice version of a wonderful song.
Eleven of the songs were Oscar winners or nominees and four of them appear in the Top 10 of the American Film Institute's list of 100 Top Movie Songs. They include Vanessa Williams singing on "The Way We Were," Johnny Mathis on "The Shadow Of Your Smile," the Oscar-winning song from the Elizabeth Taylor-Richard Burton film "The Sandpiper," Anita Baker doing "Somewhere" from "West Side Story" and it's Donna Summer doing a shimmering version of "A Whole New World."
Koz is a multi-Grammy Award nominee Koz, has two Gold albums and ten Top 5 hits to his credit.
"I'm happiest in a darkened theater with a tub of popcorn, a soda, a great movie and a friend," he says on his Web site. "I love that feeling of being transported to a moment in time. You get to turn off your own life and just disappear into this other world."
To read my interview witrh Dave Koz from a few months ago, click HERE. For more informartion and a listen, click onto Dave's Website today!

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It's hard not to go into a bit of a tirade over this because I have a close family member who was once a part of the Jehovah's Witness organization and I do not think highly of it - not one bit. But, I'll try and restrain myself and just report the following item.

Jacob and Joshua Miller are gay identical twins who practice the faith and who rose to a measure of fame this year on a LOGO reality show which followed their efforts to make it big with their band, Nemesis. By appearing on the show, they not only came out to the pujblic, but to their family - devout Jehovah's Witnesses. A meeting took place at a Kingdom Hall (that what the buildings where they meet are called) in their hometown of Kalispell, Montana and it was announced to all members of the Jehovah's Witness organization that they have been, as Jehovah's Witnesses would say, "disfellowshipped" (excommunicated) because of their homosexuality and their participation in "Jacob & Joshua: Nemesis Rising," on LOGO.

According to Jehovah's Witness doctrine, being "disfellowshipped" means that the twins have been found guilty of "unrepentant gross misconduct" and their immediate family is to have limited or no contact with them and all other practicing Jehovah's Witnesses around the world are not to speak with them ever again.

Boy, can't you just feel the love? Ugh.

Here is what the twns had to say in a statement: "Although we are no longer Jehovah's Witnesses, we have nothing but love for those individuals who have been asked to shun us. We will continue to be in contact with our family and those who truly love us unconditionally as long as they're willing. We find it ironic that a religion whose members are asked to knock on the doors of strangers with a message of acceptance into paradise on Earth will not accept two of its own children for who they really are. Our wish for them is one of tolerance and understanding and we send to all of them a message of peace and love."

Well said boys. Keep on singing!

BTW: The reality show wrapped up its run of original episodes early this month but, according to the twin's homepage, the entire season can be viewed on iTunes.They have a new CD coming out soon called "Rise Up" but not sure if the series will hit DVD.

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I gotta say, I've always thought Deborah Gibson was a very talented singer and I was also aware of some of her film roles in small indie films like "Coffee Date" and "My Girlfriend's Boyfriend." But until I met her at the Ribbon of Hope Celebration, I didn't realize how utterly cool she is and how lucky gays are to have her love and care about us.When we spoke before the start of the event, Deborah was feeling a little heavy-hearted because she had written a song, "Unsung," for the event that she would sing as the names of people who have died from AIDS would scroll on a screen. She told me it was the first time she had ever been asked to extend a song—the disease had taken too many people and they needed more time to properly display their names on stage.
"We should just be aware of how many people are living with [HIV]. I remember when I was in 'Les Mis' and there was a guy I worked with who understudied the lead who had been HIV positive for a really long time. He was so incredible and such a great example of people just carrying on with their lives. It's important for people to feel support. Causes are trendy. When something's new, everyone's on a bandwagon and then when it's not bandwagon time, people kind of move on to some other trendy cause and they forget how prevalent it still is."

Gibson (pictured w.Eartha Kitt in a recent production of 'Cinderella") was just 16 when she exploded onto the scene as pop singer Debbie Gibson with the hit "Foolish Beat," "Only In My Dreams" went right to the top of the charts around the world and the #1 single "Lost In Your Eyes." She has sold over 16 million albums worldwide to date but is now far more focused on theater where her roles on Broadway and in London have included Sandy in "Grease," Eponine in "Les Miserables," "Belle" in Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" and Gypsy Rose Lee to Betty Buckley's Mama Rose in "Gypsy." That's not even all of the stage credits. An amazing career and goes to show you how far real talent can take you once the pop star thing fades (are you listening Britney Spears?).

She and Neil Patrick Harris did 'Cabaret' together on Broadway and she is impressed with how he and other male stars have handled coming out in recent months:"I can't wait until it's not front page news. That fact that it's still front page news is strange because in my world, it's like 'whatever.' An actor is an actor. I've had to act opposite lots of straight leading men who, were givin' me nothin. (laughs). I won't name names!

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Did more than a dozen red carpet interviews with an assortment of terrific folks at last week's Ribbon of Hope event and you'll be seeing them in the coming days (and probably weeks at the rate my transcribing is going). First up is world-renowned saxophonist Dave Koz who I first met at the GLAAD Awards a few years ago and whose life and career have been forever changed since he came out publicly as a gay man in April 2004.

"I didn't get pushed out, I just decided it was time. I turned 40 and thought, 'OK, it's time for me.' But the more high-profile people that come out - and they have to do it at their own time - the more that do, the less of an issue it becomes and it's just going to be a blip on the screen eventually. It kind of is that way now with the three I can think of in recent months (Neil Patrick Harris, T.R. Knight and Lance Bass) so there's momentum."

Dave says that since coming out, he's gained some gay fans and that after he came out publicly "that summer we had the biggest summer of concerts, ever. I had more people coming to the shows and more record sales and it was proof to me that you can never go wrong by being true to yourself. It's been a great lesson for me to learn and since then, things have just gotten better. No negatives. Zero. I'm very happy."

He's also very single.
"Because I came out, 'People' magazine put me in their most eligible bachelors issue and I had some many people say, 'Oh, now you're just going to [get dates] left and right and nope. Nothing. Not even a date!"
I then ask a tall, handsome man standing near Dave on the red carpet if he was his date for the night. His reply: "No, but I would be!"

Dave performed at the Ribbon of Hope Celebration 2006 which will air in April on the here! network. but before that, in January 2007, Dave will release "At The Movies," a lush, inspired collection of twelve timeless movie themes.
Guest artists include India.Arie ("It Might Be You" Tootsie), Anita Baker ("Somewhere" West Side Story), Barry Manilow ("Moon River" Breakfast at Tiffany's), Johnny Mathis and Chris Botti ("Shadow Of Your Smile" Love Theme From The Sandpiper), Donna Summer ("A Whole New World" Aladdin) and Vanessa Williams ("The Way We Were" from the film of the same name). The album also includes six instrumentals showcasing Koz's interpretations of the themes from "Casablanca," "Schindler's List," "Cinema Paradiso," "Pink Panther" and "Summer of '42" as well as a rendition of "Over the Rainbow" that leads off with a sample of Judy Garland's unforgettable vocal.

Sounds like a winner!

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Was flipping through the latest issue of Instinct magazine last night and came across an interesting sidebar to the cover story on Beyonce in which she shares her thoughts on her many gays: "I love my gay fans and I thank them for Destiny's Child and Kelly, Michelle and Solange from day one!"

The singer, sensational in "Dreamgirls," comes from a strong faith but does not believe religious beliefs should make you intolerant: "I grew up going to church, but I was raised by my uncle who passed away from AIDS a couple of years ago. He was my mother's best friend. He brought me to school every day. He helped me buy my prom dressz. He made my clothes with my mother. He was like my nanny. He was my favorite person in the world. And you know, I never really mixed Christianity with how I felt about him. I am about faith and spirituality more so than religion. Doing right by others and not judging.

What she would say to her child if he were gay: "That I love him for the person he is with no expectations back. That I support whatever he does. That who we are is from the inside out."

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Singer David Crosby, already a father of three, agreed to be sperm donor so his good friend Melissa Etheridge and her then-partner Julie Cypher could start a family. In his new memior, "Since Then," the member of legendary bands Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young writes about his decision to father not one, but two children for Etheridge and Cypher.

"To me it's a no-brainer. If two couples care about each other and one couple wants to help the other couple have kids, why wouldn't they do it? We were following our hearts, and our hearts told us that these were people...We believe in love."

Cypher carried both children and in an excerpt of the book in the new issue of "People," she tells of how Crosby once delivered the sperm: "We were having our house painted and this big, black Suburban pulls up while all the painters are eating their lunch. It's David, dropping off a paper bag with the sample in it. He's wearing dark glasses and looks like a drug dealer, comes in the door with the bag, gets back in the big black car and leaves."

The second time, Crosby met Cypher at a street corner, handed her the paper sack, and asked for a life to rehearsal and could she stop and pick Graham Nash up to?
"So I put the paper sack with this little thing of sperm in it between my legs to keep it warm and we go pick up Graham...I'm driving really carefully because the car is full of history if I get in an accident AND I've got this secret paper sack tucked between my legs."

Seven months after the world learned of Crosby's role via a cover story in Rolling Stone magazine, Etheridge and Cypher split up. Etheridge is married to actress Tammy Lynn Michaels who recently gave birth to twins. Cypher is married to Matthew Hale.

"It's discouraging how this worked out because one of the main reasons [wife] Jan and I did it was the love between Julie and Melissa, who have obviouly transferred that affection to new partners. But both women have brought the kids up here and been with me at different times...They're great kids: superbriught, extremely nice, beautiful, happy, wonderful children...They're very special people in my life."

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Some days are just a helluva lot more special than others and this one is kinda hard to top: I was one of about 200 people invited to watch Tony Bennett perform an eight-song set Friday and I will be in a good mood over it for... I dunno... the rest of my LIFE!

Tony, who turned 80 in August, looked no worse for the wear after his star-studded birthday gala last night at the Kodak Theater as he strode onto the stage singing "The Best is Yet to Come." My friend, Evan, and I were sitting on stools (the set resembled a swanky nightclub) about 15 feet away from Mr. Bennett. We could not believe it! He sounded as good as he ever did, moved like an old pro, and even scatted at the end. He is a man who loves what he does.

Bennett went on to sing "Cold, Cold Heart," "Just in Time," "The Good Life," "Steppin Out With My Baby" "I Got Rythm," and, best of all, "I Left My Heart in San Francisco."
"I thought it would be a local hit," Bennett said of "San Francisco." "But it's my signature song now and allowed me to sell out around the world since 1962."
Backed by a four-piece band, he was smooth, such a cool cat.

The set was interrupted by a short Q&A session and I loved Tony's answer to the obvious question about what seems to be enternal youth: "I've always had a passion to sing and paint. The older I got, the more disciplined I got. I just love what I'm doing. It doesn't feel like work to me."

Evan had to rush back to work but I stuck around for a real nice VIP reception (Me? Turn down free food?) and chatted up the music legend asking him how he is still topping the charts after all these years.

"I was taught at the Paramount Theater where we had to do seven shows a day because there were that many people coming in to see us, and the managers there, they said, 'In the morning you have your teenagers, in the afternoon you have your senior citizens, at night you have your married couples. Sing great songs. Don't ever just sing it to one group. If you sing to the whole family, it's like when Walt Disney made movies like 'Snow White' or 'Bambi,' the parents went to see it as much as the children. Everybody enjoyed it.So it's a bigger audience, economically, that's much more successful than just singing to one demographic group."

I also asked Tony (well actually, I call him Mr. Bennett) about his recent CD of duets which included a duet with his frequent singing partner K.D. Lang and other openly gay performers Elton John and Geroge Michael.
He said: "I believe that everybody is here on this planet and you should cater to all of them and not be bigoted."

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OK, so here it is, the truth. I think Donny Osmond is a babe, OK? And I think he's a wonderful singer and genuinely nice man. I interviewed him about the DVD set of the "Donny and Marie" variety hour shows released this month and will share it in a future post.

But as an appetizer, here is a funny thing that happened last night in NYC at a fundraidser for the Christopher Reeve Foundation when Donny (a grandfather now!) had some fun with the openly gay Tony Award winner Nathan Lane.
Here is the account from the NY Post's PAGE SIX:
Donny Osmond brought down the house when he coaxed Nathan Lane onstage and sang him a love song from "Beauty and the Beast" at the Christopher Reeve Foundation fund-raiser at the Marriott Marquis the other night. Lane, playing Belle to Osmond's Beast, deadpanned, "My God, I thought you were Mormon!"

Then, as Meryl Streep, Barbara Walters, Joan Collins and Miss USA Tara Conner watched, Osmond pulled Lane onto his knee for a mock marriage proposal. Streep, who'd earlier been asked to play Belle, told the crowd she'd made many important decisions in her career, and "not being part of that skit was one of them."

C'mon Meryl, it sounds like a lot of fun!

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This has not been a banner week for faded British pop stars who do drugs. First we are subjected to George Michael's whining that gay people don't like him because he's out (uh, right). Now Boy George, last seen cleaning up garbage in NYC as part of a sentence for filing a false burglary claim, is being slammed by his former Culture Club bandmates.
Two of the band's founding members told The Associated Press on Thursday that they're furious with Boy George, who recently accepted a songwriting award without telling them, labeled their new vocalist "dreadful" and, they claim, made their lives a misery.
"We've never said anything about George, because George has always been George," said Jon Moss, the band's drummer and Boy George's former boyfriend. "But this has gone too far."

Later this year, Moss, bassist Mikey Craig and keyboard player Phil Pickett will be back on the road as Culture Club Reborn. Boy George will not be joining them. The band found success in the 80s with such hits as "Karma Chameleon," "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me" and "Church of the Poison Mind" and androgynous George became an early MTV star and a global style icon. But his heroin addiction and flagging record sales led to a bust-up for the band. The band reunited with some success in 1998 but Boy George didn't want to tour again this year. The band recruited 29-year-old unknown Sam Butcher for a British tour that starts Dec. 7.

Boy George was not impressed, telling an audience at a music awards ceremony that he thought the new singer was "dreadful. I wanted to like it," he said of the group's new sound, "but I couldn't."

Moss, now married with three children, has a particularly volatile relationship with the singer. He and George were lovers at the height of the band's success, though the relationship was not made public at the time. In his autobiography "Take It Like a Man," Boy George said many Culture Club lyrics were about his feelings for Moss and claimed the band's breakup was driven by the collapse of their relationship.

Moss says the book is misleading.

"He says I was ashamed" of the relationship, Moss said. "I'm not ashamed of anything. My parents know, all my friends knew. There's no problem there."

He said George's claim the band split "because he was distraught and broken-hearted over our love affair" was "complete and utter cobbler's (rubbish). The only person George loves is George ... He's like a nightmare ex-wife."

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Now I've heard everything.
Apparently singer George Michael is convinced he doesn't have gay fans because he has been open about his homosexuality.
"Gay fans are only interested when you're 'in the closet," Michael said Tuesday on "George Michael - I'm Your Man: A South Bank Special show." "Once you're out, they don't give a toss."
Give me a break. This dude really has smoked too much pot! If he lacks fans, gay or straight, it most certainly has more to do with his pathetic public behavior which has included several run-ins with the law for such things as having sex in public places. The former Wham singer, 43, didn't even come out until April 1998 after he was arrested for "engaging in a lewd act" in a public restroom in Beverly Hills.
It's a total slap in the face for him to diss gays and I think shows that he has totally lost his perspective.

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As if Alanis Morissette isn't already lucky enough to be with beefcake Ryan Reynolds off-screen, the singer will appear in the first of three episodes of "Nip/Tuck" as Poppy, the anesthesiologist lesbian lover of Roma Maffia's Liz. Cool! At least they will have a real same-sex relationship instead of this tease Julian McMahon's character has been engaged in this season. McMahon got a magazine cover over all of this so he should at least put out! Sheesh.
Anyway, Morissette's character will be encouraging Liz to undergo liposuction

"She wants me to be my best me, to reach my full potential," Maffia tells TV Guide's Mary Murphy. ""But when I go under the knife, we will see just how much she wants me to have done. She is a control freak."

Murphy also spoke with Morisette - who played a lesbian on an episode of "Sex in the City" and kissed Sarah Jessica Parker - about her latest acting gig on the F/X drama..
"This is definitely against type," the edgy rocker says. "I feel like Poppy is my shadow self, everything that I try not to be — controlling, micromanaging, projecting all kinds of dysmorphic body issues onto your partner rather than owning your own self. "

She and Liz will share a kiss.
"The kiss felt so natural; there was nothing uncomfortable about it. We live in a homophobic culture — if it were two men they would be judged to the nth degree, but with women it is "hot." What I love about this is this seems real.

Morissette tells TV Guide that even though she and Reynolds ("Van Wilder," "Just Friends") have had an on-again off-again relationship over the past four years, she feels "like we are married already. We will most likely down the road actually do it."

Click HERE to read the entire interview on TVGuide.com.

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The great Elton John, who married his longtime partner David Furnish in the United Kingdom last year, has donated $20,000 to Fair Wisconson, a group trying to defeat a proposed constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage in Wisconsin. Voters will decide the issue Nov. 7.

Elton has been giving us memorable music for nearly 40 years now and as he has evolved as an openly gay man, he has become a real activist, raising many millions each year through his AIDS foundation and always speaking his mind on gay issues. It's great to see him putting some of his money where his mouth is!

For more info on Elton's donation, check out the Web site Towleroad.

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I gotta wonder why any staunch Republican go to a Barbra Streisand concert a week before an election. I mean, her music is terrific but her politics are VERY LIBERAL and she has never been one not to express her displeasure with the Bush adminsitration.
Gay icon Streisand was pelted by a beverage in hurled by a concert-goer during her Monday night concert in Sunrise, FL. The incident at the BankAtlantic Center came as Streisand was trading political barbs with a George W. Bush imitator, according to the Miami Herald. After her anti-GOP riff ended, another man in the crowd shouted at the singer and was escorted out of the center.

Streisand appeared to shrug both incidents off, saying some people would do better to buy her records than come to her shows.

Click HERE for an Out in Hollywood report on a similar incident at an earlier Streisand concert this month.

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Singer Melissa Etheridge and her wife, actress Tammy (Lynn Michaels) Etheridge became parents this week when Tammy gave birth to twins: son, Miller Steven, and daughter, Johnnie Rose..
 
According to Melissa's official Web site, both Tammy and babies "are in excellent health." The couple posted on their site: "The creation of life brings about immeasurable love, and pours hope into the future… The joy will help carry us through our upcoming sleepless nights."
 
Melissa, 45, and Tammy, 31, exchanged committment vows in a private ceremony in Malibu in September 2003. The twins are their first children together. Melissa has two children, daughter Bailey Jean, 9, and son Beckett, 7, born to her ex-girlfriend Julie Cypher. They were conceived through artificial insemination with the help of friend and singer David Crosby.
 
Tammy is best known for her role on the cult hit "Popular" as an evil cheerleader. She also appeared in the movie "D.E.B.S." as well as Showtime's "The L Word" and the short-lived NBC sitcom "Committed."

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Tony Bennett knows how to throw an 80th birthday party! His new CD "Duets: An American Classic" pairs him up with 18 different superstars and some of them are gay! He croons with Elton John, George Michael and his great pal, k.d. Lang, and those are three of the best cuts on this wonderful disc.

I picked it up Wednesday and listened to it all the way home from work. It was "Lullaby Of Broadway" (with the Dixie Chicks) down Ventura Blvd., "Smile" (with Barbra Streisand) and "Put on a Happy Face" (with James Taylor) while waiting in line at the In & Out Burger; "Rags to Riches" (with Elton), "The Good Life" (with Billy Joel), "Cold, Cold Heart" (w/Tim McGraw) and "If I Ruled the World" (w/Celine Dion) on the 101 Freeway before taking Coldwater Canyon and being accompanied by Tony and Diane Krall singing "The Best is Yet to Come," then Stevie Wonder and Bennett on "For Once in My Life" followed by he and k.d. Lang doing "Because of You." His duet of "Just in Time" with Michael Buble was playing by the time I got to Sunset Blvd. and I found myself in such a good mood, the stress of the day all gone.
The rest of the commute was highlighted by Bennett singing solo on his signature tune, "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" before the final song on the disc, "How Do You Keep the Music Playing?" with George Michael. Since you read more about George Michael having sex in public places than his career, it's easy to forget just what a terrific performer he is.

To read about the wave success Tony Bennett and other music legends are currently riding, read my story in today's LA Daily News!

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Singer Clay Aiken has a new CD out this week but what is getting the most attention is the speculation over whether or not he is gay. My policy is to not join in on this speculation. I think we should all respect people, famous or not, and let them decide when they are going to come out.
But since Clay did talk to Diane Sawyer about the topic today on "Good Morning America," I wanted to share his thoughts on the topic:

On the speculation about his sexuality: I've gotten to a point now where I, A., am tired of trying, and B., I feel it's kind of invasive, you know? What I do in my private life is nobody's business anymore."

Since his 2003 when he was the runner-up on "Idol," Aiken says people have assumed they have the right to ask, "Is Clay Aiken gay?"

"It's one thing to try to be open and talk to people and try to share as much as I can and, and of course I want to," he says. "But at some point it becomes just really rude, you know?"

Aiken says he doesn't understand the public's curiosity or Sawyer's: "I don't understand why it's any of your business," he tells the blonde newswoman. "I don't think you're rude because I figure, you know, people have a job to do."

"I'm not spending my time with this anymore," he adds. "This is a waste of my time."

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I don't really get Justin Timberlake.

Just a few weeks ago, he said some supportive things about his former 'N Sync bandmate, Lance Bass, coming out of the closet. But in an interview with Fashion Rocks magazine, the 29-year-old singer and aspiring actor doesn't sound so enlightened when discussing American Idol champ Taylor Hicks:

"If he has skeletons in his closet whatsoever; if, God forbid, he's gay; and all these people in Mississippi who voted for him are like, 'Oh, my God. I voted for a queer!' It's just too much pressure."

Huh?

The magazine also quotes Timberlake as saying that Hicks "...can't carry a tune in a bucket."

Timberlake's reps were saying Friday that the performers' comments "were taken completely out of context."

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Ashley and Mary-Kate they ain't. In fact, television has never seen twins like Jacob and Joshua Miller, two identical twin brothers from Montana who make up the pop/rock group Nemesis. On the new Logo reality series "Jacob & Joshua: Nemesis Rising" premiering Oct. 16, the twins will not only chronicle their move to Los Angeles for the launch their music careers but will also follow their lives as they come out publicly as gay artists.

Joshua is described as a free spirit, a party boy and exceedingly single while Jacob is focused, driven and involved in a long-term relationship.  As singers the duo harmonize perfectly with Jacob leaning more toward pop and Joshua a little more toward rock n’ roll. The series opens with the twins at a crossroads. They need a hit record or they face being dropped from their label. Breaking new ground in the pop music world, the twins will be marketed as openly gay artists necessitating their “coming out�? to their family, friends and fans.

Friends and fans are one thing, family is another. The brothers were raised as Jehovah’s Witnesses and coming out would mean the church will instruct their parents never speak with their sons again. Complicating matters further is that while Jacob is extremely confident about the decision to come out personally and professionally, Joshua vacillates, worried about the potential damage to their career and the potential loss of their family.

Complementing the series will be significant digital, wireless and online features, including episode availability on download-to-own services and interviews, diaries and other behind-the-scenes videos at LOGOonline.com.

Logo President Brian Graden said the show will "prove living a dream and being true to one's self are not mutually exclusive.�?

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While the first season of "American Idol" is mostly remembered for the discovery of Kelly Clarkson, another one of that season's top 10 finalists has been steadily carving out a career for himself and is doing so as an openly-gay singer and actor.

His name is Jim Verraros, a 23 year old who boldy came out after his stint on the show. Fans will be able to see Verraros (who finished ninth), Clarkson and the rest all over again when Fox begins re-airing the first season of this pop culture phenomenon this fall.

"They want to show how it all started," Verraros told me recently. "I hope I get to rekindle old friendships with a lot of the cast while I'm doing publicity for it."

Verraros didn't run his plans to come out by "American Idol" producers but reports "they were pretty good about it. It wasn't their decision, I didn't clear it with them. But I was openly gay with the staff and crew since day one."

"I came out in January 2003 in "The Advocate" after touring with the other contestants.I wasn't thinking long-term or whether this would hurt my career. I was 19 and I did it because I felt like it was the right thing to do. Not enough people kind of step up. I think we are coming out younger and younger. You do it to be true to yourself."

Verarros released his first CD, "Rollercoaster" after his season on "American Idol" which he said has gotten great support from gay fans. But he wants his next recording to "have a more controlled sound, edgy and sexy. On the first CD, I was trying to find myself and wanted to do it all."

Verraros, who lives in Chicago and has a boyfriend, is also star of the a funny comedy with an awful name; 'Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds" which is being billed as the first gay comedy sequel...ever! The first movie, a big hit on DVD, also starred Verraros but mostly got attention because of cast member Ryan Carnes who went on to play the boyfriend of Bree's sociopathic son on "Desperate Housewives."

"We have a strong cast and a strong script and we are in great position to launch off the success of the first movie. Ryan Carnes is not back but the movie's phenomenal," Verraros says of the sequel which screened at Outfest last month but does not yet have a distribution date. "We see in independent films how degraded we can be as a community, a lot of negative aspects of how difficult it is, the feelings of isolation. But we also want to show how great we are as a community and that shows through comedy."

He said he "hopes to have the kind of career" that Chad Allen has carved out for himself. Allen, now one of the most well-known and respected openly-gay actors, was outed by a tabloid when he was just a teenager on the CBS series "Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman."
"I can't imagine how tough it was to be on 'Dr. Quinn' and to have this awful secret. He's made a 180 degree turn and used it to his advantage."

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After several weeks of buzz, Lance Bass comes out publicly as a gay man in Friday's issue of People Magazine. Good for him!

Here are some excerpts from the exclusive People interview:

"I knew that I was in this popular band and I had four other guys' careers in my hand, and I knew that if I ever acted on it or even said (that I was gay), it would overpower everything," says Bass, referring to bandmates Joey Fatone, Chris Kirkpatrick, JC Chasez and Justin Timberlake.

"I didn’t know: Could that be the end of ’N Sync? So I had that weight on me of like, ‘Wow, if I ever let anyone know, it's bad.' So I just never did," he says speaking about his sexual orientation for the first time with PEOPLE.

Now, after years of keeping his personal life private, the Mississippi-bred, Southern Baptist-reared Bass, 27, is publicly revealing what he first shared with his friends, then his shocked family.

"He took years to really think about how he was going to tell everyone," says his close buddy Fatone, 29, who was the first 'N Sync bandmate to find out Bass is gay. "I back him up 100 percent." Adds Bass’s longtime pal, actress Christina Applegate: "I've always accepted him as who he is. It's about his own serenity at this point."

Having pursued acting, producing and – most memorably – space flight after ’N Sync went on hiatus in 2002, Bass now is looking ahead to new beginnings. He is in a "very stable" relationship with model-actor-Amazing Race winner Reichen Lehmkuhl, 32, and is developing an Odd Couple-inspired sitcom pilot with Fatone in which his character will be gay
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Mostly, though, he’s just enjoying the relief that comes with the culmination of a long, at times emotionally fraught journey.

"The thing is, I’m not ashamed – that’s the one thing I want to say," he explains of his decision to come out. "I don't think it's wrong, I'm not devastated going through this. I'm more liberated and happy than I’ve been my whole life. I'm just happy."

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."

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