Mailbag Monday: Internet edition

Today's e-mail comes from "Lee." If anyone out there has any tips for him, please leave them in the comments because we are stumped! Wish we could help, Lee!

I have been receiving "Freshmen Magazine" for quite some time, and I am very confused about two things.

1. In the June 09 issue they have a nice article on Brent Corrigan and have listed on page nine a list of his videos. They mentioned DirtyBird.com and BrentCorriganInc.com, but they don't list where to go to get videos for either. Where do I go?

2. On the back page of the magazine their is BrokeStraightBoys.com, but where are those videos found? Thanks for your help! —Lee

Perhaps Lee needs a lesson from the Internet's go-to gurus, "Moms On The Net"?

Examining the celebrity closet

Photo: Getty Images

Oh, look: Another obviously gay celebrity refuses to acknowledge being gay to the press. This time around, it's Ugly Betty's Michael Urie who's skirting the issue of his sexuality, using the time-honored excuse that outing himself would limit his ability to be thought of objectively as an actor. In a recent interview with New York Magazine, Urie said, "I'm interested in keeping -- you know, actors have to be able to do lots of different things, and while I'd say there's an ongoing theme [to the parts I play], I'm also not interested in having any real publicity about who I am and what my private life is and things like that. I'm an actor and I don't want to be a [fill-in-the-] blank actor."

While we certainly see Urie's point (and, for the record, we agree that every public figure has the right to conduct his or her career in the manner they see fit), we have to ask: When everyone pretty much already knows the actor is gay, does it do him—or his career—any good to continue denying it, or does it just make him look cowardly? After all, Urie identifies himself as "a member of the LGBT community" on his website, and has played a slew of gay roles outside of his role as uber-gay Mark on Ugly Betty: He starred as an emotionally numb homo in the 9/11 drama WTC View and is currently appearing onstage in The Temperamentals, an Off-Broadway play about gay activist group the Mattachine Society. Is Urie's refusal to publicly admit to being a cocksucker really doing anything to make people think of him as any less gay?

Of course, Urie is hardly the only public figure to find himself in the middle of such a debate. Let's examine a few other notable [alleged] closet cases after the jump and see how they stack up.

Gavin Tate really loves his iPhone

We already showed you a batch of Gavin Tate's iPhone pics a couple of weeks ago, but it is never too soon to see more of Gavin Tate's iPhone pics, is it? Of course it's not. So, click through for an even racier shot of the Randy Blue dreamboat.

(And, by the way, THANK YOU GAVIN! Keep taking pictures!)

Hooray! Big Brother 11 contestant has a big floppy dick

Screen caps via DudeTube

Nothing says "horrible summer television" (I mean that as a compliment) like CBS' Big Brother and, per tradition, one of this season's contestants has been naked on camera. True fans of the show like myself (it premieres this Thursday at 8 p.m and I'm having a viewing party if you'd like to come) know that to be on Big Brother, you must either be a Jesus Freak or a Slutty Idiot—or sometimes, both—so it's no surprise that this year's potential himbo, "cocky surfer" Braden Bacha (hot name), once showed his, uhhh, cock on a gay cable soap opera. See it here!

Clusterfuck

What the hell is going on here? Oh, it's that zany state legislator gal from Oklahoma (you know, the one who called gays terrorists), Sally Kern, signing her "Morality Proclamation" the other day amidst of sea of protesters and supporters. Her proclamation blames the bad economy on gay marriage and abortion (naturally), and it criticizes well known gay rights leader Barack Obama for acknowledging that June is Gay Pride Month, which of course made everyone born in June a gay.

Happy 4th of July, again?...?!

This video of darling SaggerzSkaterz models Zack Randall and Phillip Ashton was in our inbox this morning, and it doesn't make any sense whatsoever to post it now, after the holiday. BUT...why not? They are cute and it is Monday, so...enjoy. Don't drink and drive!, etc.

Is Kirk Cummings black?

So, we have been waiting to tell you about how our Freshman of the Year finalist Kirk Cummings has a blog, but he hasn't written anything controversial or been, frankly, nutty enough to really warrant a mention. Until now!

If you want a little traffic headed your way, simply say something like this. Here's Kirk Cummings speaking about his racial identity:

Okay so I was pondering this the other day and I think that I am black. Because when I dance I tear it up, and black people fucking worship me when I am on stage. I love soul music and not to mention have a lot of soul myself. To top it all off I love the chocolate love. Black muscular men are so fucking sexy. They are tender lovers and most the time wear really sexy underwear with a spandex material. Mmmmmmm Love it. And I love kissing and they have the best lips for kissing.

We concur about the lips part, but do most black men wear spandex underwear? Paging Diesel Washington. Please weigh in.

Breakfast Links

• For all you toilet trolls: A cute dude's cool airplane trick

• Loathsome: Fred Phelps to target MJ's funeral

• Hooked on Crystal: Jason, that is

• Rideout with a moustache? Diggin' this...don't know what it's about

One more time: Happy 4th!

OK, we said we were taking the weekend off, but we couldn't resist. See ya later!

(Via Wonkette)

Saturday Night Fever: Green Day “Holiday”

Dazzling fireworks, tasty barbecued treats, and near-naked men are all most of us have on our minds today. And that’s fine—especially since 9.5% of Americans are currently out of work. Escapism is necessary and justifiable sometimes.

But, while some well-paid members of Congress make concessions to big business over health care reform (health care costs are expected to rise another 9% in 2010!), it is important to remember what today is really about: a celebration of the declaration of independence from a repressive, tax-abusing government.

Independence Day is truly the punk rock holiday! We're talking Iggy and the fuckin' Stooges punk rock.

Which is why we chose Green Day’s “Holiday” over Madonna’s: it is a battle cry to rally the people of a broken Republic. That, and we have a long-standing crush on GD's bisexual front man Billie Joe Armstrong. BTW, has anyone ever seen him in the same room as fellow elfin-cutie Elijah Wood? Just asking.