Feb 03, 2006   | COMMENTS     

Back in Dish’s New Year’s prediction, she channeled the spirit of Fifi, Drag Queen of Heaven, who said that CLAY AIKEN would finally come out of the closet and the Washington Blade would never write about him again. Well, dear readers, Fifi’s predictions might just be coming true.

A supposed former hot trick of Aiken’s decided to cough up some information about their man-on-man tryst, according to the New York Post’s Page Six, the New York Daily News and the ever-reliable National Enquirer. Dish’s momma said two wrongs don’t make a right, but maybe three tabloids make a reliable source.

John Paulus, a hunky former Green Beret, claims to have met Aiken online.

"I have several personal ads on gay [male] websites," Paulus told the Enquirer. "Clay later told me he saw my pictures on a couple and decided to e-mail me. On Dec. 16, using the screen name of ‘valleyprettyboy,’ Clay sent me his first message."

Dish has never understood the fascination with the pasty-faced, swizzle-stick thin Aiken, and his online haughtiness just amps up her annoyance.

"He told me that he was single again, having broken up with his boyfriend about five months ago," said Paulus. Could this be the hair stylist that Aiken was rumored to have held hands with on an airplane trip this past fall?

Paulus claims they met in a hotel and performed their own 90-minute version of "Bareback Mountain," including unprotected anal intercourse, as Dish’s doctor would call it.

Since Paulus revealed his identity, he’s been receiving death threats from rabid Aiken fans who call themselves "Claymates" and want to protect their idol’s good name. Perhaps they should be offering Aiken some condom demonstrations instead.

No, sir!
In a fantasy come true, a group of soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division, based at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, really have been performing for the gay porn camera and the Army is currently investigating members’ on-screen conduct as unbecoming, according to the Associated Press.

A group of soldiers has been separated out from the rest of their units during the inquiry to insure the investigated officers’ safety. Dish is hoping the soldiers in question are able to release some of that stressful anxiety by rehearsing for upcoming shoots.

Although the AP never actually names the site where the guys were saluting, Fleshbot.com, a snarky website trafficking in porn-related news, points its sticky finger at ActiveDuty.com. TV news station WRAL also alludes to the site as the drop off point for military studs looking to supplement that government check.

The site advertises real military men who are 100 percent novices at taking orders from superiors.

Making the grade
Film festivals and awards are going berserk over queer cinema.

The top film at the Sundance Film Festival was "Quinceañera," a movie about a young Hispanic girl in Los Angeles who is kicked out of her house after she becomes pregnant. She then goes to live with her great grand-uncle and her gay cousin.

Gay directors WASH WESTMORELAND, who directed the pornos "The Hole" and "Naked Highway" under the name Wash West, and his partner RICHARD GLATZER, who directed the execrable "The Fluffer," created "Quinceañera." The film won the best drama award from the juries and the run-of-the-mill audiences. This is the first time in Sundance history that the same film has won both, according to Reuters.

Dish takes her hat off to Mr. West. She can’t wait until she sees smut advertised as "from the Sundance award-winning director of..." sticker on it.