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Of all the rap superstars being not outed by the recent publishing of Hiding In Hip-Hop, it never occurred to us that the indomitable Lil’ Wayne might be one of them. The scribe of such masterful lyrics as “bitches wanna fuck like they’re me and I’m them,” couldn’t be playing for our team, could he? Then again, “bitches” is sort of gender non-specific. Then again (again), he also raps “naked women rub my back and ask me how was my night. i say, ‘bitch stay out my business.’ when we fuck she say, ‘just stay out my kidneys.'” We don’t mean to be rash but that seems pretty heterosexual to us! However, rapper TQ, formerly of the crew Cash Money, has come out calling bullshit on some of Weezy’s more faggeezy behavior (we know, that was lame but we tried). TQ tells “the world’s most dangerous site” AllHipHop.com:

Ryan Seacrest tops Details Magazine’s “Mavericks List” in the April 2008 issue. According to a press release (since we haven’t read Details since the 80s), the Mavericks List showcases “22 big thinkers shaping your life,” and includes names such as Diablo Cody, DJ Mark Ronson, and the creator of Guitar Hero, prompting us to wonder who the magazine’s target audience is and why we’re supposed to be impressed by these people and, as the article begs, by Seacrest because “[although] he wasn’t the first person to think of doing a show with the Kardashians… he was able to sign them.”

The New York Times published a lengthy editorial in its Sports section yesterday about the Mean Girls-style rivalry brewing between U.S. men’s figure skating champions Johnny Weir and Evan Lysacek. “One skates with precision and adrenalized power, wants figure skating in the X Games and wears several days of stubble during competitions,” the piece reads of heterosexual Lysacek. “The other adores skating’s operatic performances, is asked if his eyelashes are real and announces that they are.” The feud has evidently grown to become a debate about the merits of masculinity over sensitivity, and ultimately, straight versus gay.

Skating announcer Mark Lund, who’s openly gay, even went so far as to broadcast his preference for the former. “I don’t think he’s representative of the community I want to be a part of,” he mused of Weir during a broadcast, evidently forgetting that he himself is a figure skating announcer. “I don’t need to see a prima ballerina on the ice,” and then issued praise for Lysacek’s masculinity.

While it would seem that there’s room enough in the rink for both competitors, we have a feeling this is all going to end in a Showgirls-style shove down a staircase and a trail of glitter-stained tears. Go Team Weir!

R.E.M. front man Michael Stipe comes clean about his crystal clear gayness in this month’s SPIN Magazine, telling the music rag “Now I recognize that to have public figures be very open about their sexuality helps some kid somewhere out there.”
 
It’s like Stipe’s closet door must keep slamming shut each time he opens it. He was willing to tell the obscure American publication Time Magazine in 2001 that he was a “queer artist” who at that point had been “in a relationship with an amazing man” for three years. Three years later, following an interview in BUTT Magazine, Stipe talked about the value of the pink dollar and the terrific sex he’d had with men (and women) with totally-not-gay-magazine Instinct.

Of course, his stalkers will tell you that he’s been preaching the gospel of fluid sexuality for ages. “I’ve always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing,” Stipe once mused, “In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food.” Almost-out-of-the-closet-fans are fond of quoting his “I’m not homosexual, I’m not heterosexual, I’m just sexual” admission from even earlier back.

Try as the non-homo might, we suspect he’ll have to come out some more before we believe that a butch fella like him could have buttsex. We’ll break the news again next year.

Now that it’s so cool and mainstream to be gay, you might think gay jokes weren’t funny anymore. You’d be wrong! The sight of two avowedly straight men pretending to be gay together is still a laugh riot on late-night TV, particularly when the men involved are Jimmy Kimmel and Ben Affleck and one of them is wearing a shiny spandex shirt. We’re sort of impressed/bothered by all the A-List cameos like Brad Pitt, Harrison Ford, Cameron Diaz, and a few C-listers like Huey Lewis and Lance Bass who join in a We Are the World-esque recording studio bit.  It may be that, in a few decades, clips like this will start to look like old Al Jolson movies look to us now. Or it may be that, for the crowd that chooses to watch Jimmy Kimmel before settling in for some disgusting and sad heterosexual lovemaking, jokes like this won’t ever get old.

Paris Hilton’s hard-partying younger brother was released from jail today after landing in the drunk tank on charges of suspicion of driving while intoxicated. His parents refused to post bail in favor of “tough love” despite the fact that they have, in the past, publicly held their daughter Paris’ skeletal, bronze-streaked hand through her own more publicized stints behind bars. Could it be that the Hilton family is turning the cold shoulder to their son because he’s gay? Author and former club kid James St. James posted the following allegation on The WOW Report yesterday, raising our eyebrows and our hopes (’cause if Barron is following in his sister’s drunk footsteps, might we have a gay sex tape in our future?):

“When I was in Vegas over New Year’s I met a guy who SWORE to me that he had just been partying with Paris Hilton and her little brother Barron, and that Barron was a BIG LADY! YES! In fact, the two of them had “fooled around,” and the next morning, my friend woke up wearing Barron’s clothes, whatever that implies. I just thought I would throw that little story out there in light of today’s news of his arrest. Plus, he’s awfully cute, so I HOPE it’s true.”

That makes all of us. After the jump, check out some other recent “are they or aren’t they” headlines that have had us guessing and instant-messaging.

Porn director-turned- private investigator Paul Barresi
claims that he’s found no evidence of Tom Cruise’s rumored homosexuality, despite
the connection to Scientology, a gay vague haircut and a seemingly endless
stream of court-challenged claims by former lovers, according to In Touch Weekly. “Everything I’ve
found and everything I know points to Tom being heterosexual,” Paul told
the magazine.  Oddly, it was only a year ago that Barresi was in the
opposite situation – facing legal threats from Cruise’s celebrity legal
eagle, Bert Fields, to remove a claim by Barresi that he had found evidence of the star’s sexcapades with a West Hollywood escort.