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How Do You Know a Celeb Is Gay?

Posted by Michael Musto at 1:41 PM, April 11, 2008

This post is done with all due props to the douches at datalounge.com, who inadvertently gave me the idea and even provided some of the answers. Anyway, the major signifiers are:

*Never uses pronouns. ("The person I date...")

*Is dating Liz Taylor, Brooke Shields, or Debbie Rowe

*Has no time for any silly romance ("Much too busy for that sort of thing!")

*Has time for it, but won't talk about it ("I don't see the point...")

*Says labels aren't important ("We're all the same under the skin.")

*Announces "There's nothing wrong with being gay. But I'm suing because..."

*Arrives at a premiere with a woman who disappears. After some shuffling in the dark, the celeb ends up sitting next to his hunky beau.

*Is a former boy band member


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Is John Travolta.

Posted by: bing at April 11, 2008 1:46 PM

Is waiting for the career to slide so they can say how out and proud they are.

Posted by: lady bump at April 11, 2008 1:54 PM

knows the latest fashion, broadway music passion, flocked-wallpapered mansion, call boys typically cash-in, whips on buttocks lashin', eludes the photogs-- dashin', straight routine rehashin', 'beard' redeems –teeth flashin', penicillin clears that rash...n'...

I got no more, and now my head hurts...

Posted by: Billy at April 11, 2008 2:36 PM

Is caught in an airport restroom stall playing footsie with Larry Craig.

Tells everyone that the handsome young male model living with him is his "personal assistant."

Acts butch, but can recite all the dialogue from "The Women."

Posted by: The Late Tallulah Bankhead at April 11, 2008 3:04 PM

Speaks in superlatives about any Celeb of the opposite sex who isn't a gay icon.

Posted by: Tim at April 11, 2008 3:08 PM

* Knows -- and tells! -- eccentric bits of gay Hollywood trivia, like how those two trashy male hustlers killed silent star Ramon Navarro and stuck the Rudolph Valentino dildo up his ass.

* Is found murdered with a commemorative dildo up his ass.

Posted by: Trixie Blowhard at April 11, 2008 3:11 PM

His favorite performers are Beyonce, Cher, and Clay Aiken.

Her favorite performers are Avril Lavigne, Amy Winehouse, and Pamela Lee

Posted by: lady blingblang at April 11, 2008 6:16 PM

is a scientologist

Posted by: lron at April 11, 2008 10:46 PM

Is a prominent member of a cult group who cannot understand how to hold a woman's hand and make it look real, and pays $20 million for a dumb actress to marry him so he can continue his pillow fights and male wrestling in the privacy of his Scientology Center...it also helps that the leader of the cult is your gay lover....

Posted by: tommy at April 11, 2008 10:51 PM

Claims to have genius insight into music and ironically everyone they like appears on Cyndi Laupers True Colors Tour.

Posted by: Liz at April 12, 2008 9:14 AM

How is that ironic, Liz?


Posted by: Spike at April 12, 2008 10:21 AM

Is having a breakdown because he can't decide between seeing the Mama Mia mmovie and the Sex and the City movie.

Posted by: carlita at April 12, 2008 12:06 PM

Fuck you Musto. Can't write your own shit so you steal ours? Get a life you ugly has-been.

Posted by: Datalounge at April 12, 2008 2:59 PM

Completely stolen from the datalounge!
Now we are writing your column? Great

Posted by: uxlle at April 12, 2008 3:44 PM

Plagiarize much Mike Dear?

You area aware the TheVoice isn't even on the radar of the general population don't you? Still, resorting to such a tired tactic as trolling our site for your content won't be tolerated.

Posted by: DL Webmaster at April 12, 2008 5:41 PM

Bitch, please find your own goddamn material.

No one likes a stealer, especially one who appears to be retaining water like Hoover Dam.

Posted by: Neely at April 12, 2008 5:54 PM

Well Michael, if someone put down the ginger ale and the redbook maybe they wouldn't have to have someone else write their column. L-A-Z-Y!

Posted by: Datalounge member at April 12, 2008 6:28 PM

Stealing? The item starts by saying it was inspired by Datalounge, which provided some of the material! That's called giving credit, morons. And besides, someone from Datalounge accusing anyone else of stealing is like OJ telling people to be nicer to your spouse. A lot of the site--which hardly ANYONE in America has heard of, while I go on Dateline NBC and Countdown--is lifted from other sources. But I do find it touching that a bunch of people who spend their days anonymously posting bitchy commentary, links, bigotry, and wrong information for free feel such a sense of pride and propriety in their work.

Posted by: musto at April 13, 2008 12:20 AM

You must have made up that hate mail, Musto, because as every sentient creature in the gay urban jungle knows, you INVENTED bitchy commentary and have owned it for, well, let's just say many years. Don't let the young queens get you down, and please don't use Dateline NBC and Countdown as credits to your godhood. My simple and abiding worship should be enough of a proof. And not only have I never heard of Datalounge, I'm expunging their name from my mind even as I tippy-type.

Posted by: sfmike at April 13, 2008 2:55 AM

What's Datalounge?

Posted by: Jodie Fester at April 13, 2008 3:55 AM

Right on Musto!

Posted by: Liz at April 13, 2008 8:09 AM

thank you, sf mike. You're true blue!

Posted by: musto at April 13, 2008 9:41 AM

Hmmm.....Plagiarizing, totally off the radar, has-been, lazy, eh? Let' see. He blogs each weekday, writes a must-read weekly column, is never crude or rude(at least to me)knows what he is talking about always, has a resume longer than your arm, is visibly and unmistakably out and about (on his bicycle yet!) all over town, is on Broadcast & Cable TV regularly, YET the douches from Datalounge, who say he is a has-been and not on National Radar, knew enough to zero right in on the one post they are credited with inspiring. Sounds like a pack of obsessed, rancid, stalking wannabees can't even add up collectively to the single godhead that is Mama Musto. Piss off you bitter highschool bitches.

Posted by: Tim at April 13, 2008 11:46 AM

Jodie, dahling. I too had never heard of "datalounge" until this idiotic brouhaha erupted on Michael's Blog. So I did link to it and was disappointed to find that it's a visually ugly, difficult-to-navigate and -- saving the worst for last -- boring site. I kept hoping it would get more interesting. As for the comments by irritated little snatchlicks like uxlle (that's Portuguese, dahling, for ugly)and Neely (who must have come out of a pill-induced stupor to write something), Aunt Tallu has just one thing to say: Go fuck yourselves. Now that I've said that Musto, where is Loretta Young's "Swear Box" so I can stick my $20 in it. Oh, here's an extra five: Uxlee, kiss my decaying, but legendary Southern ass.

Posted by: The Late Tallulah Bankhead at April 13, 2008 11:49 AM

Bless you, Tim and Tallu! You make me so proud!

Posted by: musto at April 13, 2008 4:19 PM

It's been a kind of shitty April so far, hasn't it? Hopefully May will be better.

Posted by: jack gregg at April 14, 2008 1:44 AM

Datalounge should be grateful for the plug Musto is providing at the very beginning of the post, instead of being a total ass about it. Come to think of it, it's a butt plug.

Posted by: Defundthewar at April 14, 2008 6:49 PM

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