Those
damn
bloggers
are
just
bound
and
determined
to
have
a
gay
contestant
on
this
year’s
“American
Idol,”
the
super
popular
glorified
karaoke
contest
on
Fox.
The
latest
target
of
Internet
rumors
is
ANWAR
ROBINSON.
The
25-year-old
New
Jersey
singer,
who
auditioned
in
D.C.,
has
been
pseudo
outed
on
gay
entertainment
information
Web
site
www.afterelton.com,
the
brother
to
lesbian
site
www.afterellen.com.
The
site
has
posted
a
personals
profile
found
in
the
men-seeking-men
section
of
www.BlackPlanet.com.
Of
course,
it
could
be
a
fake.
“BlackPlanet.com
indicates
that
Robinson’s
last
login
was
Jan.
1,
2005,
before
the
contestants
for
the
fourth
season
of
[‘Idol’]
were
made
public,”
afterelton.com
reads.
“No
one
knew
at
the
time
that
[Robinson]
would
become
one
of
the
finalists
...
which
makes
it
unlikely
to
be
a
fake
profile
...
It
also
raises
questions
around
why
Robinson
did
not
remove
his
profile
once
he
was
selected
to
be
on
the
show.”
John
Chiklis,
the
writer
of
the
story,
concludes
that
Fox
doesn’t
want
the
contestants
to
be
out
while
on
the
show
and
claims
to
have
“sources”
who
say
that
Robinson
has
been
out
since
high
school.
First
season
finalist
JIM
VERRAROS
is
the
only
openly
gay
contestant
in
the
show’s
history,
and
he
came
out
after
the
series
ended.
For
those
of
you
who
forgot
about
Verraros,
his
second
album
of
pop
tunes,
“Rollercoaster”
is
set
to
hit
stores
April
26.
He
also
stars
in
“Eating
Out,”
a
gay
comedy
that
screened
in
D.C.
last
June
and
is
being
released
in
select
cities
April
8.
While
the
bloggers
obsess
over
rumors
about
the
next
gay
idol,
it
looks
like
Verraros
has
been
busy
getting
to
work.
It
looks
like
the
winner
of
this
year’s
Oscar
for
best
short
subject
documentary
may
also
have
a
short
fuse.
Last
week,
Steve
Kalafer,
the
producer
of
nominated
short
“Sister
Rose’s
Passion,”
sent
a
letter
to
the
Academy
of
Motion
Pictures
Arts
&
Sciences
claiming
that
life
partners
Robert
Hudson
and
Bobby
Houston
unfairly
used
reenactments
in
their
award-winning
movie
“Mighty
Times:
The
Children’s
March,”
the
Associated
Press
reports.
In
his
letter,
Kalafer
says
the
film
fails
to
disclose
which
scenes
are
reenactments
of
events
from
the
black
civil
rights
movement,
Hudson
&
Houston’s
subject.
Dale
Olson,
a
publicist
for
“Passion”
told
AP
that
“Mighty
Times”
is
“an
intentional
deception
to
the
Academy.”
Hudson
had
a
bitchy
retort
for
the
Los
Angeles
Times,
saying,
“The
pain
you
feel
inside
after
losing
can
make
anyone
spin
out
of
control.”
Ouch.
Village
Voice
gossip
columnist
(and
Dish’s
arch
nemesis)
MICHAEL
MUSTO
purged
himself
of
a
whole
lot
of
gay
gossip
in
his
column
on
March
29.
Unluckily
for
his
humble
readers,
he
took
all
of
the
names
out,
so
we
have
to
guess
for
ourselves.
“Which
swiveling
pop
star
has
been
known
to
pick
up
guys
in
the
steam
room
at
a
Miami
hotel
gym
—
a
lot?”
Musto
queer-ies.
“What
handsome
ex-series
star
(a
Golden
Globe
winner)
once
flirted
with
a
guy
across
the
aisle
on
a
plane
and
even
tried
to
follow
him
into
the
bathroom,
to
the
consternation
of
the
actor’s
young
male
‘assistant’?”
“What
marriage
between
a
gay
and
a
gal
was
partly
done
for
the
gay
to
get
press
and
the
gal
to
get
a
green
card?”
“What
two
young
hunks
(one
a
faded
star
of
an
Oscar-winning
flick
and
the
other
a
broken-up
boyfriend)
may
well
have
commingled
several
years
ago
when
they
were
both
more
famous?”
These
are
a
couple
Dish
figured
out,
let’s
see
if
you’re
as
good.
