Really? That's pretty cool. I like it when somebody starts a thread and it doesn't languish until the archivers come to take the corpse. All that 'Is He Or Isn't He' stuff sort of skeeves me out though: nobodies business but theirs.
I'm going to go out on a limd here and disagree somewhat. Anyone in the public spotlight is a role model. Maybe they didn't apply for the positition, but when you go to a casting call and want to make a name for yourself, it is part of the job description. And America is utterly lacking in big name hott A-list gay celebrities. So lacking, in fact, that we're scanning the available big name hott A-list celebs and declaring some of them gay so they can be our role models. Even straight America wants to see people who don't fit into their work environments as role models. We're all struggling through our daily lives, not with drugs and orgies, but with just fitting in on a daily basis. That's what we want to see in our role models. How to navigate the struggles of coming out, of fitting in, with grace and poise. So we find these successful people who don't have an aversion to being with another man, and who haven't settled down with a woman, and we imagine they are navigating these struggles.
Their personal lives aren't really our business, granted. But when sharing a little tidbit could enrich tens or hundreds of thousands of American lives, could start a revolution, it may just be a little bit of their responsibility to do so.
And I don't mean Jake, and I don't mean Heath, I mean whoever is closetted in Hollywood, because I'm sure it someone.
I agree with you to an extent, limited by a strong belief that NOBODY has a right or the right to run roughshod over an individual's life and out him or her for any reason whatsoever. It's up to the person involved, and no one else.
The only exception I can hesitantly and possibly see would be, say, a big star who lives gay sleeps gay denies gay vehemently, while marrying repeatedly and adopting childrento maintain a complete fiction; yes I do have someone in mind but that's not my right to say whom.
The recent spate of actors being forcibly outed, while not being hypocrites--living quietly, having partners, etc-- and just not saying one way or the other was and is very wrong, IMHO. They have a right to privacy away from the camera, straight OR gay: nobodies business but theirs.
They have a right to live the way they want. No, the public does not have the right to know every detail about someone, "just because".
Oh and I want to say this, too: I almost started a war on another thread by mocking the pairing of JG and Reese Witherspoon, as in who says so, has he said so, has she said so? No, some TABLOID said so! And for pointing out that some of the Reese lovers only wanted him to be with her because deep deep down they believed that if he was with HER, he could fall for the 50 year old person posting!
It's all vicarious BS!
