Adam Lambert has the difficult task of becoming a megastar while being openly gay. How can he be butch enough for the mainstream but gay enough for his homo fans? He can't, and the gays are fighting back already.
If you wanted to imagine a topsy-turvy world where straight 19-year-old jock-nerds ran the media, just visit Digg. The site is so laden with antigay epithets that it automatically censors the word "homo" from headlines.
"The gays love a recession!" trills the New York Observer this morning. Gay nightlife and shopping is in full swing, despite the ruined economy. Childless wonders are taking over Manhattan again. Isn't it fabulous?
Attached, the cover of the upcoming book from the Washington Post's "funny" political writer, Dana Milbank. "Do you have what it takes to be Homo Politicus?" Well, we've spent a bit of time in the Minneapolis airport, but it still seems like a rather person question from a Random House flack. [Homo Politicus]
