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Like all good cabals, the New York Times' contingent of gays has some known members—and other figures who remain in the shadows, the uncertainty adding to the paranoia of homophobic right-wingers.
Out Magazine, putting the Times' "gay mafia" at number 12 in its power list, names nine Times reporters and editors: Richard Berke, Ben Brantley, Frank Bruni, Stuart Elliot, Patrick Healy, Adam Nagourney, Horacio Silva, Stefano Tonchi, and Eric Wilson.
But Intelligencer's Chris Rovzar thinks the gay magazine has underestimated the true extent of the network. "But come on, Out editors — there are hordes of other gays working in high-powered positions at the Times. You could only come up with nine?" (The list does indeed omit Jeff Zeleny, Sewell Chan, Michael Barbaro, Jeremy Peters and Denny Lee, for instance.)
"Have you slept with no one lately?" asks Rovzar. The 27-year-old Intelligencer writer, pictured right, certainly has: willowy Rovzar's an expert on Times gays in part because he dated Patrick Healy and, by all accounts, broke the political reporter's heart. (Healy's to the left.) We don't feel particularly guilty exposing Healy's private life; he won the enmity of Hilary Clinton's campaign with his enthusiastic coverage of the candidate's problematic marriage.
Incidentally, all three national political reporters for the Times—Healy, Nagourney and Zeleny—are gay. Just saying, in case social conservatives need any more reason to question the political objectivity of the Gray Pink Lady.
Comments
pat healy's a gay?!?!?!
What would Matt Sanchez do?
i feel queasy about this post. bleh.
Chris Rovzar is totes oddly sexy
@Sigerson: So do I...
Even if everyone mentioned is out, is it really necessary to splash their business all over the interwebs like this?
Is it a coincidence that Nick Denton keeps posting about the "Out" power list and is himself on the "Out" power list?!??!??!?!!!!
Not too sad about Patrick Healy: [mediamatters.org]
@Sigerson: Probably because it's basically a blacklist?
The one on the left is very cute, which means he's obviously gay.
Are there no lesbians at the Times?
@GollyG: There are no such things as lesbians, remember? Or does it just seem that way . . .
John Krasinski's agent should call someone right now about playing Patrick Healy in a made-for-Logo movie.
@ambitious: No, it's just that the lesbians are too busy working and getting shit done to blog about it.
My lesbian friends are the awesome, but getting them to go out and do stuff is a challenge. I have to tell them that my water heater broke just to get them to come over for pizza.
That's what you get, Patrick, for dating scrawny little twinkies.
"Have you slept with no one lately?"
*silent weeping*
@the supergoddess: (you're such a lying whore, ps.)
Gay, gay, gay...gah .. this is THE NEWS these days?!
Or is this like the secret word of the day like on Pee-Wee's Playhouse, should I scream every time we get another "gay" post?
@luciluce666:
Consider it redress, rebalance, and restitution for slights and snubs sufferred in the rest of the media-you know, like, 40 acres and a pair of fabulous maribou-trimmed mules.
Oh yeah, because...actually, are there any Republicans who are genuinely heterosexual?
Let's see, Frank Bruni writes . . . restaurant reviews. But only for GAY restaurants.
@BettyCrocker: My lesbian friends are always out doing things. But these things don't include writing for the Times, I suppose.
@PandoraSpocks:
Just not Cambpell Robertson, please. Anyone but Campbell.
@Koreanish: I think technically yes, but I'm not sure. Does having a fetish that could involve a woman count? Or does that make them bi?
I hit on every woman in the joint, and there were no takers, so I am going to assume that there are indeed no lesbians at the New York Times. That makes me feel better and allows me to avoid answering the cruel query "Have you slept with no one lately?"
Some of the best sex I have had has been with lesbians!
While Healy looks bangable, the fact that he was attracted to Rozvar is rather flaciditating.
@BettyCrocker: so you like dykey dykes?
@if_i_only_had_a_heart: I like 'em all. They make the best friends in the world.
same same
old graffiti:
my mother made me a lesbian
will she make me one, too?
@procrastinator, esq.:
And vice versa.
@GollyG: I haven't updated in a while -- what is on the list of Acceptable Lesbian Professions/J-O-B-s these days?
Note to Pat Healy: I could make you a very happy man.
@Bloo_Kazoo: No. That's just casting.
Insiders tell me you gotta be a boyish twink to please Healy - hence the Rovzar attraction (very bad picture of him by the way). No fatties for Patty.
I'm only posting here to say that the Pink Lady is a sadly underrated cocktail.
Out Magazine published my Little Blackblook?
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