aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South
Monday, March 13, 2006
Right on Keanu!
Time was when Hollywood celebrities feared and fought accusations that they were gay.
KEANU Reeves seems to draw from the Zen-like calm of his most famous character, Neo in “The Matrix,” when he’s confronted with false tabloid reports about himself. When unfounded rumors surfaced that he’d “married” mogul David Geffen, the spotlight-eschewing superstar didn’t fly into a rage and call his lawyer, as many other movie stars would. “In that case, it comes down to making a judgment about being gay or not,” Reeves, who is straight, tells Playboy. “I try not to live my life by what other people say . . . People were gossiping about what the king and queen were doing way back when. It’s just human nature. We like talking about other people.”
Ian Ayres and Jennifer Brown, authors of Straightforward: How to Mobilize Heterosexual Support for Gay Rights, would be proud. Me too.
