<![CDATA[ - Idolator Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/idolator.com.png <![CDATA[ - Idolator Comments]]> http://idolator.com Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:43:50 EDT Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:43:50 EDT http://idolator.com/369112/ <![CDATA[]]> http://idolator.com/369112/#c4799409 @manyjars:

Straight guys only give head in the world of Bandom.

Jan74

]]> 33:369112:c4799409 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:43:50 EDT <![CDATA[]]> http://idolator.com/369112/#c4766695 Because straight guys never give head? Or worry about sexual performance?

manyjars

]]> 33:369112:c4766695 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 07:43:06 EDT <![CDATA[]]> http://idolator.com/369112/#c4762443 @AL: I knew he was out for a long, long time. But, SPIN magazine readers probably weren't reading The Advocate in the mid-90s.

Besides, didn't the line, "Am I good in bed? Do I give good head?" from "I Don't Sleep I Dream" kind of make it obvious?

scarletvirtue - Fake American Feminist

]]> 33:369112:c4762443 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:07:32 EDT <![CDATA[]]> http://idolator.com/369112/#c4757003 He was In?

HomefrontRadio

]]> 33:369112:c4757003 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:43:36 EDT <![CDATA[]]> http://idolator.com/369112/#c4756070 @AL: But then he tried to play it off in the Rolling Stone by saying "sexuality and desire is a very fluid thing." He tried to be bi for a while, and no one bought it.

relaxing

]]> 33:369112:c4756070 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:11:18 EDT <![CDATA[]]> http://idolator.com/369112/#c4755312 @Lucas Jensen:

I second that. My friends in Athens say he's a really nice guy.

whoneedslight

]]> 33:369112:c4755312 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:42:09 EDT <![CDATA[]]> http://idolator.com/369112/#c4753533 Now I'm pissed. I totally gave this guy a finsky on the subway this morning, and here it is REM frontman-awkward-everybody-hurts-crooner?

I thought he was just another 7th Ave local underground denizen.. I feel had.

SneakingThroughTheAlleyWithLalley

]]> 33:369112:c4753533 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:39:41 EDT <![CDATA[]]> http://idolator.com/369112/#c4751350 @southernbitch: This is so painfully tired. I'm so sick of these Stipe-as-predator canards that it makes me want to vomit. I've met the guy multiple times and he has always been polite. He was an insanely gracious house guest. I see him hanging with all types of folks, straight, gay, guy, girl, most of them age-appropriate.

He interacts with us "peons" just fine as far as I can tell.

Lucas Jensen

]]> 33:369112:c4751350 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:19:50 EDT <![CDATA[]]> http://idolator.com/369112/#c4750384 the only time stipe would ever interact with regular athens peons is when he would invite young boys (not to insinuate underage, but seriously, like 18, 19 year old boys) over to his house for little parties. a good friend of mine has a hilarious story involving mike's hard lemonade and body glitter. so yeah... talk about restating the painfully obvious.

southernbitch

]]> 33:369112:c4750384 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:35:20 EDT <![CDATA[]]> http://idolator.com/369112/#c4750085 @pickmeohnevermind: Sorry about the double post.

pickmeohnevermind

]]> 33:369112:c4750085 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:23:24 EDT <![CDATA[]]> http://idolator.com/369112/#c4749505 @Ned Raggett: That would look perfect on the cover of People Magazine, next to a picture of Valerie Bertinelli "still keeping off the weight!"

pickmeohnevermind

]]> 33:369112:c4749505 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:59:20 EDT <![CDATA[]]> http://idolator.com/369112/#c4749480 @Ned Raggett: That would look perfect on the cover of People Magazine, next to another image of Valerie Bertinelli "still keeping the weight off!."

pickmeohnevermind

]]> 33:369112:c4749480 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:57:49 EDT <![CDATA[]]> http://idolator.com/369112/#c4749462 @Matt Cibula: Definately. 7 Chinese Brothers is about him breaking up a couple, then dating both the man and the woman.

pantycrickets

]]> 33:369112:c4749462 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:57:04 EDT <![CDATA[]]> http://idolator.com/369112/#c4749375 I remember when I was in middle school, I thought he couldn't be gay. He was so gay, that 13 yr old me thought assuming he was gay would be bigoted of me. That was before I heard of Occam's razor.

janine

]]> 33:369112:c4749375 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:53:20 EDT <![CDATA[]]> http://idolator.com/369112/#c4749215 They should just turn it to their advantage when it comes to punchy headlines!

"STIPE: STILL GAY!"

Ned Raggett

]]> 33:369112:c4749215 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:46:28 EDT <![CDATA[]]> http://idolator.com/369112/#c4749152 There was the Details interview in the mid-90s where he used the phrase "equal opportunity lech" - that was the first time we got headlines saying he's "come out." Then I think he was on the cover of, um, Out Magazine a little after that, too. Also, he wrote a piece in New York magazine a few years ago about running errands with the "Mister" - as opposed, I guess, to the "Missus." And apparently the Time magazine thing. So, what, 5th time's a charm?

I love REM, but it's not-a-little annoying that during their PR run-up to Accelerate's release, this seems to be the angle that's getting the attention.

pickmeohnevermind

]]> 33:369112:c4749152 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:43:36 EDT <![CDATA[]]> http://idolator.com/369112/#c4749117 I was pretty sure he had come out when he sang about the smell of sweet short-haired boys in "Seven Chinese Bros."

Matt Cibula

]]> 33:369112:c4749117 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:41:49 EDT <![CDATA[]]> http://idolator.com/369112/#c4748999 I thought the 2001 announcement was their PR for the album (because nobody wanted to actually talk about said album).

Ned Raggett

]]> 33:369112:c4748999 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:34:50 EDT <![CDATA[]]> http://idolator.com/369112/#c4748771 This "news" is old enough to vote, enlist in the army and drink in all 50 states.

Nicolars

]]> 33:369112:c4748771 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:23:57 EDT <![CDATA[]]> http://idolator.com/369112/#c4748745 He thanked his boyfriend when R.E.M. were inducted into the R&R HOF last year.

Mike P.

]]> 33:369112:c4748745 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:22:15 EDT <![CDATA[]]> http://idolator.com/369112/#c4748709 I swear I remember him coming out even earlier in an MTV news interview around the Monster era.

AL

]]> 33:369112:c4748709 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:19:56 EDT