Maybe someone should remove the “B’’ from LGBT.
Before “Good Morning America’’ host Robin Roberts announced that she loves a lady — a move applauded as gutsy and brave by folks who dominate the homosexual industrial complex — another even gutsier and braver sexual true confession was made by a man. Only his declaration of alternative lust was greeted with derision by many in the same-sex pool.
In a video he posted on YouTube last month, British diver Tom Daley, 19, who stars in Britain’s celeb reality competitive diving TV show, “Splash!’’ announced he is intimately involved with a guy. The object of his affection was revealed to be screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, an American who won an Oscar for the 2008 gay-themed flick “Milk.’’ At 39, he’s more than twice Daley’s age.
“And I couldn’t be happier,’’ Daley gushed.
But the buzz was killed the moment he added six little words to his spiel: “Of course, I still fancy girls.’’
Shocker! It was clear that the young man in Speedos wasn’t signing up for participation in one of the favored categories of the LGBT and sometimes “Q’’ canon — Lesbian, Gay, Transgender and Questioning. (Or the formerly pejorative, now politically correct term, “Queer.’’) Though he never used the word, Daley was applying for membership in the risky “B’’ column: “Bisexual.’’
Reaction on social media was swift. Celebs from pop singer Lady Gaga to British actor Russell Brand tweeted words of encouragement. But homophobes and gay men were more cutting. “What’s the big deal?’’ wrote one of the tamer online posters. “He never even said he was gay.’’
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation lauded Daley on its Web site for “coming out.’’ Never mind the bi thing.
Gay conservative pundit Andrew Sullivan suggested in his blog, The Dish, that Daley is just a gay man in training. Daley’s claim that he still fancies girls “is a classic bridging mechanism to ease the transition to his real sexual identity,’’ which is homosexual. “I know because I did it, too.’’
In a piece replete with same-sex stereotypes, The New York Times’ Michael Schulman this month advanced the theory that male bisexuality remains taboo, while lesbian action is enjoyed and encouraged by slobbering heterosexual males.
“(That straight men may find it titillating doesn’t hurt.),’’ Schulman wrote in parentheses. By that logic, heterosexual guys get kicks from bisexual girl action, such as Katy Perry singing “I Kissed a Girl.’’ But guys really went over the moon when Madonna and Britney Spears locked lips onstage at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards show, as well as when celeb train wreck Lindsay Lohan dated DJ Samantha Ronson. The new Netflix TV show “Orange is the New Black’’ centers on an imprisoned bisexual woman who dates a man. Still, I doubt Mayor de Blasio’s wife, Chirlane McCray, was thinking of males when she penned her 1979 Essence magazine essay, “I Am a Lesbian.’’
Just last week, in a pretty display of too much information and saliva, actress Michelle Rodriguez shared a sloppy kiss in Madison Square Garden with sultry British model/actress Cara Delevingne. No one seemed to mind.
“We may have relaxed about out-and-proud gay men, but guys who admit to a dabble still face the questioning stares and whispers of ‘Is he gay, straight or lying?’ ’’ Patrick McAleenan, who is gay, wrote in Britain’s The Telegraph.
Nonsense! cried Williamson Henderson, who founded the STONEWALL Veterans’ Association, whose members launched the gay-rights movement in 1969.
“I believe that every guy has it in him’’ to be bisexual, said Henderson, who lives with a man who fathered two children by two women during their 10-year union.
“It doesn’t bother me at all. If he went with a male, there’d be a problem.’’
A gay pal told me he has bisexual friends — male and female.
“For some, yes, it’s a bridge as they slowly or reluctantly come out as gay, but for others it’s who they are,’’ he said. “It’s all about whom you love.’’
Who would believe that in these liberated time there exists a sexual orientation that’s stuck in the closet? The gay community should learn to love Tom Daley’s choices.
Say it ain’t so, Chris!
Is New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie coming clean about Bridgegate?
A new Rasmussen poll shows that 54 percent of New Jerseyans think it’s “somewhat likely’’ that the governor fibbed when he denied he knew about the plot to shut down lanes on the George Washington Bridge.
And on Friday, the state Assembly released damning e-mails revealing that Christie’s top appointee to the Port Authority covered up the treachery.
“I am on my way to office to discuss. There can be no public disclosure,’’ Bill Baroni, then the PA’s deputy executive director, wrote on Sept. 13 to PA head David Foye, after days of traffic-snarling, ambulance-delaying lane closures.
The cover story told by officials was that lanes were closed for a traffic study — to see what would happen if two lanes from Fort Lee to the George Washington Bridge were cut off during the morning commute.
Now we know: crushing, four-hour traffic jams.
Christie’s now-fired deputy chief of staff, Bridget Anne Kelly, sent an e-mail to the Port Authority in August requesting “traffic problems in Fort Lee.’’ And the governor didn’t know?
I have long supported Christie’s potential candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016.
But if he lied, it’s over.
Web TV, with just a flash of Weiner
Anthony Weiner kept it clean. He didn’t sext or strip to his undies during a dialogue-free cameo appearance Friday that streamed online in Amazon Studios’ entry into the TV landscape, “Alpha House.”
Weiner got just five seconds of air time during his overhyped turn on the John Goodman show created by “Doonesbury’’ cartoonist Garry Trudeau — walking, grim-faced, into a memorial service for a fictional pol who died while having sex with his secretary.
Weiner didn’t crack before the cameras. There may be hope.
Yo, what da fork is wrong with dis guy?
Mayor de Blasio shocked pizza lovers by digging into four slices at Goodfellas Pizza in Staten Island not with his hands, like a true New Yorker, but with a fork and knife.
That’s how his mother’s family consumed the delicacy in Italy, he explained.
Is our mayor an outsider, or a secret neat freak?
No more bad ‘Girls’
“Girls’’ is an insult to women.
The HBO show concerns four chicks who gather in gentrifying Greenpoint, Brooklyn. They’re promiscuous Shoshanna Shapiro, rehab-dwelling Jessa Johansson, Marnie Michaels , who surfs her mom’s couch after getting dumped by her boyfriend, and Hannah Horvath, who lives with an abusive slacker guy.
Who would put up with this nonsense?
Put this show out of its misery.