The QC Pop Five
“It was the first decision I made as a father,” Aiken told People Magazine of his decision to reveal his sexuality. “I cannot raise a child to lie or to hide things.” Aiken appears on the cover of this week’s magazine cradling the newborn baby, Parker Foster Aiken, who was conceived through in vitro fertilization with record producer Jaymes Foster. The headline on the cover says it all, “Yes, I’m gay.”
FROM: 365 Gay, Adventures of Gay Boys, The Advocate, AfterElton, Blog Active, Chicago Pride, D-Listed, Gay.com, Gay News Blog, Gay Wired, Huffington Post, Joe. My. God., Jossip, OMG Blog, Pam’s House Blend, Pink News, Pink is the New Blog, Queerty, Raleigh News Observer The Superficial, The Sword, and Towleroad.
Steven Spielberg and his spouse, Kate Capshaw, followed in the footsteps of Brad Pitt and chipped in a $100,000 donation to fight Proposition 8, the constitutional marriage amendment that would take away the rights of gays and lesbians to marry in California. “By writing discrimination into our state constitution, Proposition 8 seeks to eliminate the right of each and every citizen in our state to marry regardless of sexual orientation,” the couple said in a written statement released Monday. “Such discrimination has NO place in California’s constitution, or any other.”
FROM: The Advocate, After Elton, Joe. My. God., Gay.com, Gay Wired, Pam’s House Blend, Pink News, Queerty, SLOG, and Towleroad.
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In an apparent attempt to do a mastermix of his prior arrests, gay pop legend George Michael was arrested in a public toilet over the weekend in Hampstead Heath carrying both Class A (like crack, for example) and Class C (marijuana) drugs. No word on any other “funny business” going down in this bathroom.
FROM: After Elton, The Advocate, Chicago Pride, D-Listed, Gay News Blog, Gay Wired, Joe. My. God., Pink is the New Blog, Pink News, Queerty, Queerty (again), The Superficial, Towleroad, and Towleroad (again).
After months of refusing to comment on the public speculation about their relationship, actress Lindsay Lohan and DJ Samantha Ronson finally publicly confirmed their relationship in a L.A. radio call-in show Monday, in a short, casual exchange confirming that they’ve been together “a very long time.”
FROM: 365 Gay, The Advocate, After Ellen, D-Listed, Gay Wired, Jossip, Pink is the New Blog, Pink is the New Blog (again), Pink News, Queerty, and Queerty (again)
Mario Lopez told People magazine, “My shirtless photo-shoot days are behind me. My TV projects are my main priority. And no, you will never see me host Extra without a shirt.”
FROM: D-Listed, People, and Towleroad.
