01/24/2007
News: Brandon Flowers, Yale Tennis, Grant Show, Nigeria
Yale tennis team under fire for alleged initiation activites: "During dinner on Nov. 10, team members wearing women’s underwear and fishnet stockings posed as members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and entered several residential college dining halls, where they sang and danced on tabletops, students who saw the incident said. The witnesses said the team’s initiates had signs on their backs that read, 'I’m a fa**ot. Insert Here.' The captain of the men’s tennis team could not be reached for comment last night, but Director of Athletics Thomas Beckett said his department is investigating the incident."
Brandon Flowers wants to read your mind!
Gay man jailed in Nigeria for wanting sex with a man; tells court: "It is the work of Satan but I promise that I will not do it again."
Jonathan Plummer, the ex-husband of author Terry McMillan, says he plans to write a tell-all about the couple's bitter marriage and divorce. Said McMillan: "He is like a f***ing Duracell, and I want him out of my f***ing life, and he won't let me out of his life. I can't live like this."
Isn't it time gay people were part of the marriage discussion?
Scientology leaders have reportedly dubbed Tom Cruise the religious sect's "Christ" figure: "Tom has been told he is Scientology’s Christ-like figure. Like Christ, he’s been criticised for his views. But future generations will realise he was right."
Pop phenom Mika ships in Freddie Mercury's piano for acoustic recording of "Grace Kelly": "He felt totally inspired. He felt the spirit of Freddie surround him and Mika said he felt more creative than he ever had."
Former Melrose Place hunk Grant Show offers another dude his services on Dirt...
Lance and Reichen on the outs? Malkin: "The latest from the slopes of Sundance has it that they've called it quits. This is not the first time that the lovebirds of eight months have broken up. This time around, Bass showed up solo at last night's Blender Sessions party at Tao. Later on, a source spotted him sulking at a party at the Village at the Lift's Heineken Lounge. Bass left the bash around midnight after hanging there for a measly twenty minutes, the party-goer says. Another source reports that Lemkuhl is still in Park City, but has told friends he is cutting his trip short. He says he wants to get on the earliest flight out tomorrow morning."
Posted 12:45 PM EST by Andy in Brandon Flowers, Grant Show, Hazing, Lance Bass, Music, News, Nigeria, Pet Shop Boys, Scientology, Tennis, Tom Cruise, Yale | Permalink
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IMO, Plummer sounds like a gold digger who got cut off and now is trying to survive and McMillan comes off as a mentally unbalanced shrew.
Posted by: Will | Jan 24, 2007 12:57:46 PM
Tom Cruise is Christ? Hey I've got the hammer and the nails -- anybody got a cross?
Posted by: David Ehrenstein | Jan 24, 2007 1:20:08 PM
I've seen and heard a few similar news stories recently in which gay people figure into the demographics but are ignored. One was a story on the relative numbers of single men and women across the country. The story highlighted the surplus of single men in the large east and west coast cities, implying that single women in Indianapolis or Kalamazoo need only move to New York, Los Angeles, or San Francisco to find husbands. And the LA Times recently published an essay about 21st-century marriage trends among women. Throughout the story, when speaking of unmarried women, the writer used the term "not yet married," as though marriage was an inevitability.
Posted by: Tom | Jan 24, 2007 1:23:10 PM
"Lemkuhl.....has told friends he's cutting his trip short"....and "wants to get on the first flight out."
What friends?
Posted by: Mike | Jan 24, 2007 2:13:40 PM
Does that mean that the non-believers (i.e. us) get to crucify Cruise?
Posted by: Colin | Jan 24, 2007 2:15:22 PM
I'm surprised no one has caught the obvious lame joke, so here it is:
I think it's time for a Cruise-ifixion!
Posted by: Burnssuit | Jan 24, 2007 2:32:16 PM
So Reichen found someone else's gold to dig? didn't they break up already? yawn.
Posted by: Martin | Jan 24, 2007 3:07:35 PM
LOL ... I think your link about Grant Show on his knees brought Blogger to it's knees. Shortly after you posted the link - they went down for "unscheduled" maintenance ... and still haven't "cum up for air!!"
As far as Cruise and Reichen >bored shrug".
Posted by: WD | Jan 24, 2007 3:27:56 PM
The increasing comfort of gay men and lesbians to be open about their sexuality and not enter into fake heterosexual marriages is one part of the overall decline in married couples - but only a small part given our small numbers in the population.
The larger and more significant trends are the liberalization of sexual mores of the younger generation for whom living together unmarried is not "a sin", and the economic liberalization of women who postpone marriage longer, are more likely to divorce, and less likely to remarry once divorced - all because they don't need a man for financial support as much as they once did. Finally, as the report mentions, women in general outlive their male spouses.
Gays and lesbians coming out and/or being in unmarried partnerships is a blip compared to these vaster cultural waves.
Posted by: LightningLad | Jan 24, 2007 3:37:49 PM
Apparantly Reichen has been walking around Sundance confirming the split and admitting that the two of them have been less than faithful for a while now. Open relationships just don't work!
Posted by: Seth | Jan 24, 2007 5:32:22 PM
Could Brandon Flowers look any more like a Village Person in that photo? Get him some aviators!
Posted by: mac | Jan 24, 2007 5:54:53 PM
At this late date, does anyone really care about Reichen. And the Yale tennis team---outside of skaters & swimmers, what could be more gay.
Posted by: Rich | Jan 24, 2007 6:29:30 PM