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What an interesting parallel...

[h/t Queerty]

GaySay: "It's a very ripe subject for someone like me"

Just the other day, in my review of Sicko, I hoped Michael Moore would do a movie about the gays.  A recent Big Gay Following interview published in the July 17 issue of The Advocate indicates my wish might soon become reality:

You can read the interview after the jump (the section should soon be available at The Advocate online).

GaySay: "He will prove himself to be the biggest homophobe and the biggest friend to the gay man in the history of humanity."

"He will prove himself to be the biggest homophobe and the biggest friend to the gay man in the history of humanity." That is from Jeremy Piven, talking about his character in Entourage: Ari Gold (via TV Guide and The Advocate). 

So, basically, the show is likely to continue with its ambivalent attitude towards gays.  We have a gay character (played well by openly gay Rex Lee), but most of the time he is there to be ridiculed.  In some ways, it is good to have our gay in the show, he is competent, smart (and cute), and I guess it is almost nice to see that a homophobe can actually work with a gay assistant.  Rex Lee is one of the reasons why I watch Entourage. 

But in the end, I think the result for us gays is not that positive, the continued epithets ("cocksucker" etc.) the cast uses on the show and their macho grossed-out-by-any-level-of-male-intimacy attitude reinforce homophobic attitudes and provide confirmation to the fact that being a homophobe is okay. Worst of all: the show is very good, and attracts the attention of a lot of straight men.  Hopefully the show will grow out of its infantile and inconsequent need to add homophobia to the mix, and leave only the good stuff in there.

GaySay: "You really think gays would do anything to harm fabric?"

David Hodorowski hosts Picke Tickle (via Time Out NY and The Advocate)

GaySay: "That sounds unfair"

I just got that out of a Love Exiles press release.  On February 1st, Barack Obama said he doesn’t think it sounds fair that US gays and lesbians with foreign partners cannot live in their own country.  Obama said it in a conversation with Love Exile Robert Bragar, during a reception of the Democratic Party in Washington, D.C.

I guess we have to take the crumbs thrown our way here and there.  A comment published on the January 30 of The Advocate nailed it on the head: "Democrats know we have nowhere else to go.  They can count on our vote without having to actually deliver."

Currently, 17 countries allow gays to sponsor their partners or spouses for immigration purposes: Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Israel, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

GaySay: "These people who are against it are just wasting their time."

Zach Braff joined the growing number of celebrities who are voicing their opinions in favor of gay marriage.  He did so in the recent issue of The Advocate (in an interview for the "Big Gay Following" section). 

Here's the relevant part of the Q&A:

I think that kind of statement makes a difference, even if it was made to a gay magazine (as in "preaching to the choir").  Gays need to see that we have support out there. 

In the same interview, Zach also admitted to a "man-crush" on Tim Olyphant (his costar in the gay comedy The Broken Hearts Club).  So grown-up, don't you think?

You can read the whole interview online, here.  Oh, and I think I know who has a "girl-crush" on Zach...

GaySay: "...and then walk on the beach holding hands with Leonardo DiCaprio" - George Clooney Goes Gay Edition

George Clooney is on the cover of Vanity Fair's November issue.  The magazine is crazy about him, the article basically says he is the perfect man.  It's hard to disagree.

I am not even going to discuss his beard for the cover, Australian Gemma Ward. 

Clooney's next movie, The Good German, opens on November 22 (that's the main reason the magazine has Clooney on the cover).

Our GaySay comes in the context of Clooney's beef with Gawker.  The other day, Clooney made public his ideas on how to undermine paparazzi harassment.  He acknowledges it would be silly to try to promote boycotts or anything of the sort.  He thinks the best approach is to make the paparazzi's heads spin.

"I want to spend every single night for three months going out with a different famous actress.  You know, Hale Berry one night, Salma Hayek the next, and then walk on the beach holding hands with Leonardo DiCaprio.  People would still buy the magazines, they'd still buy the pictures, but they would always go, 'I don't know if these guys were putting us on or not."

Go George! 

Page 348 of Vanity Fair (with our GaySay at the end of the second column), and a few other pictures after the jump.

GaySay: "I hope people are thinking about my work a little bit more than they're thinking about the size of my schlong. Not to say that they shouldn't."

That was Julian McMahon on the September 26 issue of The Advocate.

Again: "I hope people are thinking about my work a little bit more than they're thinking about the size of my schlong. Not to say that they shouldn't."

GaySay: "Nothing to do with wearing something inside my butt crack."

That was from hunk Christopher Watters, who played Major Victory, a lactose intolerant superhero, former stripper and disc jockey in Sci-Fi's reality show Who Wants To Be a Superhero?

The full quote?

Here: "I used to wear flip-flops and that's why they called me Thong Boy.  Nothing to do with wearing something inside my butt crack." [via EW, September 1st issue, page 65]

Nice, huh? 

I think he was pretty good, but he is out of the competition now.  The season finale for Superhero will air on August 31.  A couple videos of Major Victory and more photos of Chris Watters after the jump. 

GaySay: "I'm really good at physical things."

...yes, you are Channing Tatum, yes you are.  Our GaySay today comes from Channing Tatum on the September 1st issue of Entertainment Weekly (page 25).

I haven't seen Step Up yet, but apparently he is very good in it, even though he never actually studied dance.  Well, he managed to "freestyle a lot" in Step Up because he is "really good at physical things." Go Channing!

Channing will be in A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, which opens on September 29. 

I think we'll be seeing a lot of this hunky 26-year-old in the years to come. 

Bent has the pics you really want to see...here (the, uh, 'tool' shots might not be real though...it would be too good to be true).