NSuck, you’re an idiot. Did you even read Brendan’s post? There is a pronounced level of sarcasm (i.e. “In case you missed the day’s really big story”). He’s not pandering to anything. Just because Brendan is generally a proponent of the “gay agenda”, does not mean that his every mentioning of homosexuality qualifies as pandering thereto. This is especially true where, as here, a post sarcastically calls the coming out of “a culturally irrelevant, back-up singer for a washed-up boy band” REALLY big news.
As a sidenote, I will raise another issue. As is made clear by the media prominence of Lance Bass’ coming out story, the entertainment industry has a serious preoccupation with celebrities’ sexual orientations and with homosexuals in general(seriously, you can’t watch a TLC show anymore without a gay host. It’s like a prerequisite or something!) I wouldn’t put it past an attention-starved celebrity to claim homosexuality simply to get his/her name back in the press. In fact, I wouldn’t be at all surprised to find out that, 15 years from now, Lance Bass is happily married with kids. I’m not saying that I disbelieve him, necessarily, but I will say that whenever I read about a celebrity’s supposed “coming out”, I’m a skeptic.
Eh, I’ll disagree, Angrier. Not that he’s not irrelevant — he obviously is — but if he’s gay he hasn’t gone to being gay; he already was, he’s just talking about it now.
July 26th, 2006 at 9:00:25 pm
And this is big, why, exactly ?
July 26th, 2006 at 9:01:21 pm
To echo the first comment from the Andrea Yates story: “Duh?”
July 27th, 2006 at 3:13:18 am
Thanks Lance for clearing that up for me!
July 27th, 2006 at 6:35:08 am
This would have been news back when Lance Bass was still somebody.
July 27th, 2006 at 11:54:31 am
I’m shocked. Just shocked.
July 27th, 2006 at 9:18:29 pm
Why do we care about the sexuality of a culturally irrelevant, back-up singer for a washed-up boy band?
Not big news. Brendan, enough with the pandering to the gay agenda. No one gives a flying fuck about Lance Bass.
July 27th, 2006 at 10:32:25 pm
This story is b.s. Lance Bass is going to be an astronaut.
July 27th, 2006 at 10:37:51 pm
Brendan, enough with the pandering to the gay agenda.
LOL! This post is “pandering to the gay agenda”? Hahaha… that’s awesome.
Lance Bass is going to be an astronaut.
The first gay man in space? :)
July 28th, 2006 at 7:57:06 am
Ok,
NSuck, you’re an idiot. Did you even read Brendan’s post? There is a pronounced level of sarcasm (i.e. “In case you missed the day’s really big story”). He’s not pandering to anything. Just because Brendan is generally a proponent of the “gay agenda”, does not mean that his every mentioning of homosexuality qualifies as pandering thereto. This is especially true where, as here, a post sarcastically calls the coming out of “a culturally irrelevant, back-up singer for a washed-up boy band” REALLY big news.
As a sidenote, I will raise another issue. As is made clear by the media prominence of Lance Bass’ coming out story, the entertainment industry has a serious preoccupation with celebrities’ sexual orientations and with homosexuals in general(seriously, you can’t watch a TLC show anymore without a gay host. It’s like a prerequisite or something!) I wouldn’t put it past an attention-starved celebrity to claim homosexuality simply to get his/her name back in the press. In fact, I wouldn’t be at all surprised to find out that, 15 years from now, Lance Bass is happily married with kids. I’m not saying that I disbelieve him, necessarily, but I will say that whenever I read about a celebrity’s supposed “coming out”, I’m a skeptic.
July 28th, 2006 at 8:38:28 am
I feel a great disturbance in the force . . . it is as if millions of hysterical girls everywhere cried out, and were suddenly silenced.
July 28th, 2006 at 10:11:54 am
Lance Bass has gone from being irrelevant to being gay and irrelevant.
July 28th, 2006 at 10:17:13 am
Eh, I’ll disagree, Angrier. Not that he’s not irrelevant — he obviously is — but if he’s gay he hasn’t gone to being gay; he already was, he’s just talking about it now.
July 28th, 2006 at 10:42:38 am
and we care because? Seriously, I could annoy Mike right now with a grammatically illogical phrase! Now I say.
July 28th, 2006 at 1:57:25 pm
Mike-
Yes. You make a good point. He has been gay and irrelevant for quite some time.
July 29th, 2006 at 12:49:59 pm
LOL! Y’all crack me up.