Two Celebrity Outings

I love celebrity gossip, and I'm constantly looking for hints about who is gay. When a famous person actually comes out, it's big news! Many times you have to read between the lines, like why was Kevin Spacey REALLY walking his dog at 4 AM in cruisy park in London. Hmm. But now we have the juice on a famous jazz musician and the foster son of a Bible thumper.

Jamiel Terry, 24, got paid to write his coming out story for OUT Magazine. In his own words, "’It's hard to point to one moment when you begin to come out to yourself, but if I had to, I’d go back to a night seven years ago, when I was 17. I was home from boarding school in my old bedroom at my parents’ house in Windsor, N.Y., where my friend “Johnny” and I had just finished fooling around. Suddenly he asked me, “Do you think we are bisexual or gay?” The question so stunned me, I didn’t know how to respond. I mean, we had been having sex for ages, but I’d always believed I couldn’t be gay: I was the son of Randall Terry, a major leader of the Christian right’s antiabortion movement and now a leader in the fight against marriage for same-sex couples. I’m 24 now and I’m still figuring out my own story."

Randall Terry is one of those anti-abortion nutcases that caused abortion clinic workers to fear for their lives. His rallies featured giant photos of aborted fetuses in coffins. When the courts forced him to stop, he turned his attention to demonstrating at gay parades and preventing gay marriages from happening in Hawaii. Read the father's response to the coming out story, and you'll understand why the kid is in trouble. The father claims the kid still wants to on a "three month retreat to be delivered from homosexuality", even after the article was published. Or watch this movie with a similar theme.

The other celebrity outing has less drama and essentially a happy ending. Smooth jazz saxophonist, Dave Koz has come out in Advocate. He'd been living a completely out lifestyle in his personal life, but it was just never mentioned in his professional life. The occasion to say "I'm gay" just never came up - no potential for blackmail, no skeletons to hide, the people who were important already knew.

I'm familiar with his name, and aware that he is highly respected in his work. Prior to this, when ever his name was mentioned on one of the "Quiet Storm" radio stations (I think there's one in every city), what comes to mind is, "Oh, he's the cute one."

If there was any doubt to his being gay, check the photos from his birthday party. It reminds me of the line from Roseanne, "Thank god for gay men. Otherwise, fat girls would have no one to dance with."

I'm trying to think of a porn movie that involves a saxophone, but came up with nothing. I can only think of one gay porn movie that involves musicians, but it's a sucky punk rock band. And by that I mean sucky in a good way.

There are no more undiscovered fetishes, so where are the gay saxophone fetish movies?