04/12/2006
Laker Date #2
I'm sure it's all very platonic. After all, it's basketball, not fishing!
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Rep: Jake Gyllenhaal and Austin Nichols Not a Gay Couple [tr]
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I hate it when we insist that someone is gay. It's two guys at a game!! We can't have it both ways. We get mad when people cat call at us because we are gay and then we cat call at other people when we think are gay...thats just wrong.
Let be. Let be.
Posted by: james | Apr 12, 2006 4:08:07 PM
Of course they're just friends, but it's just a fantasy. How many straight guys pretend they're getting it on with Pamela Anderson? Or that Brittany and Madonna are really lovers? When those stories pop up no one bats an eyelash, but as soon as The Gays start going ga-ga over Jake and another guy we're all assholes and told to let it be.
Too funny! Double standards within our own ranks once again. You guys are just too much!
Posted by: wayne | Apr 12, 2006 4:12:30 PM
TEAM Jake/Austin
Posted by: MikeDew | Apr 12, 2006 4:18:58 PM
Maybe the world would see more gay movies and actors would more easily play gay roles if our community would not obsess about the people that play the gay roles and make them so afraid of this exact kind of publicity. This is shameful - leave the HOT guy alone already.
Posted by: William | Apr 12, 2006 4:26:39 PM
Only reason I am obsessimg is cause Jake G is so EFFEN HOT!! I couldn't care less of his sexual orientation - not like I will ever have a chnace with him - he is sex on a stick PERIOD!!!
He is a big boy he can handle net gossip. Comes with the territory brothas & sistas.
Posted by: MeinBigD | Apr 12, 2006 4:37:21 PM
Wow, insinuating Jake is gay because he has a close male friend is really lame.. how embarrassing.
Posted by: Greg | Apr 12, 2006 4:42:36 PM
This perpetual conversation about leaving the poor celebrities alone is too comical. They all make obscene amounts of money and their fame only adds to their wealth. Besides the fact that Toothy Tile used a gay themed movie to further his own fame. So if we want to speculate on anything aobut their lives, who gives a fuck? It's just gossip y'all!
Posted by: suckubus | Apr 12, 2006 4:46:02 PM
Oh, to be the spout of Jake's water bottle.
Posted by: Liam | Apr 12, 2006 4:49:20 PM
Suckubus: right on! (Do people still say that?) I will say, though, that Mr. G. is so hot that no self-loving gay man could help but wish/wonder/want.
Posted by: JT | Apr 12, 2006 4:52:15 PM
Gay or straight or bi, they look very, very nice together, whatever they are. And gossip is inevitable, that's the nature of the beast.
Posted by: CJ | Apr 12, 2006 4:54:56 PM
Oh, and yeah, Jake indeed is very, very hot. I know that's not a deep observation, but I can't help myself. ;)
Posted by: CJ | Apr 12, 2006 4:56:07 PM
The rumors about Jake's sexuality started a while before BBM. Ted Casblanca has been printing blind items about "Toothy Tile" for over a year. Many believe he practically outed Jake right after the Oscars with his latest Toothy item:
http://tinyurl.com/j6ohq
It's anybody'd guess.
Posted by: Anna | Apr 12, 2006 5:07:10 PM
Pathetic. Truly pathetic. Makes me embarassed to be a gay man.
Posted by: Scott | Apr 12, 2006 5:09:13 PM
Oy, is Austin STILL wearing that ring?
Was his zipper down in this series of pics?
Posted by: hadassah weinreb | Apr 12, 2006 5:24:57 PM
We all know that Jake is straight - but it is fun to pretend that he's one of our own.
Jake is really a beautiful person, and to be honest with y'all I'd love to get my hands on him. He is of that dark-haired, soft eyed type that really does it for me. I even loved him in 'Bubble Boy' where he looked pretty goofy - and really liked him in that awful 'Day After Tomorrow'.
Too bad that some female will get the chance to be in the arms of dear Jake. He just doesn't really know what he's missing.
Posted by: Jonathon | Apr 12, 2006 5:29:24 PM
You know,this is why I'm so jealous of lesbians.Cynthia Nixon and Portia de Rossi can freely admit that they are dating women without any fear.gay men don't.
Posted by: JudeMillsy | Apr 12, 2006 5:33:48 PM
I am down with Wayne's comment. Why are gay men to feel shame over speculating/hoping/whatever over whether Jake or anyone else is gay? Someone mentioned we make actors nervous about playing gay because of this speculation. Well, too bad. If you're afraid of playing a gay guy because gay guys will find you attractive, well boo fucking hoo. I hear and see str8 guys oogling girls or talking about them all day, but I am to keep my desire to myself, ewven if it is a fantasy between me, Jake G. and a tub of strawberry ice cream? bite me. I ain't ashamed of who i am anymore and I refuse to be demure about my sexuality.
ok, i've babbled enough.
Posted by: MARCO | Apr 12, 2006 5:44:52 PM
Well I think this is fun, its just gossip. And yeah I think Jake is gay and Austin is his lover. Its one thing to hang out with friends but this guy is always with the same man all the time.
Posted by: Jack Twist | Apr 12, 2006 5:48:30 PM
"Why are gay men to feel shame over speculating/hoping/whatever over whether Jake or anyone else is gay?"
Oh, I don't know. Could it be self-loathing? I thought we had progressed beyond that. Some of you act as if being called gay is the worst thing that could happen to you.
Posted by: Mike in the Tundra | Apr 12, 2006 6:18:01 PM
Oh, who cares? He`s grown a beard. How truly fabulous.
Posted by: Peter Rivendell | Apr 12, 2006 6:51:30 PM
CNN.com says Gyllenhaal's engaged to Peter Sarsgaard (they were drawn together by the 'aa') and that they're going to have a baby!!! Oh wait, that's Maggie.
Posted by: basis4insanity | Apr 12, 2006 7:52:22 PM
I was an extra in the movie "October Sky". They used my sister's classroom in a scene. He flirted without shame with every female around,(including my sister), there didn't seem to be anything gay about him! However I was wanting him bad!!
Posted by: dave | Apr 12, 2006 8:56:23 PM
"Um...Jake...Hi, it's me...your razor...well, I'm stuck on the 405...won't be home till 2007".
Posted by: Sean | Apr 12, 2006 10:04:09 PM
I don't need him to be gay. Cute will do.
Posted by: Chad Hanging | Apr 12, 2006 11:07:12 PM
Jake flirts with everybody... Who he sleeps with is a different question. Most likely Kirsten once upon a time and maybe now Austin. Whatever, at least you know he's getting some. Good for him.
Posted by: kc | Apr 12, 2006 11:28:44 PM