I heard a rumor that Vin Diesel is gay. Is this true?
This Diesel's straight--not that there's anything wrong with that.
Congratulations, pigeons. You've fallen into the most boring and predictable publicity trap since J.Lo's second marriage.
Celebrities used to rake in the eyeballs by making fans guess whether they were really married or whether they were really tagging their costars or whether they had really adopted yet another hollow-cheeked war orphan from the Third World.
Now, it's all about a new kind of game: making you lemmings guess whether someone is gay. And every time you talk about some boy-toy's sexuality, every time you guess or obsess or fantasize or place a bet, that star's mystique factor, and quite possibly his box-office potential, ratchets up one more notch.
As long as that kind of boiling mystery lives, so does the celebrity's baffling appeal, across that whole rainbow o' sexual orientation.
So, go on. Make Vin Diesel even richer. The man either has no sense of irony at all, or he's having a whole lot of fun jerking you around about his sexuality.
For the record, he has made it quite clear he loves the ladies. But at the same time, between crashing muscle cars and saving the galaxy with a laser blaster, he has:
¡E Pranced around in a leather skirt at the MTV Europe Awards.
¡E Posed for a Mapplethorpe-esque nude shower photo, in which the camera grooves on a naked Diesel from--yes--halfway down. (People are making lamps out of the photo and selling them for $170 on eBay.)
¡E Appeared on the cover of Details--the most homoerotic so-called straight publication since International Male--accompanied by big, pink letters reading, VIN DIESEL: THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH.
¡E Incessantly paraded around the club scene either in muscle shirts or Prada.
"This is a man, after all, who shows up in his latest film wearing a fur coat, a fashion statement that is at once openly effeminate and self-consciously masculine," Janelle Brown drooled a few years back on Salon.com.
Does any of this suggest he's gay? Of course not! All it means is that the man knows how to get press, the New Millennium way.
"I write entertainment stories all day, and I know that if you have four headlines, the one with the word gay in it is the one people are going to read," says Jenny Stewart, entertainment editor for PlanetOut.com and Gay.com. "It certainly is an interesting way to get back in the headlines, isn't it?"
Of course. Otherwise Cynthia Nixon wouldn't be playing peekaboo games with the tabloids this week and instead just spell out that she has, apparently, been dating a woman since January.
But no, no, no. Sex and the City has faded into the Manhattan sunset! Miss Nixon has a career to save! Crank up the Mystique Machine!
"My private life is private," she cooed to the Daily News. "But at the same time, I have nothing to hide. So, what I will say is that I am very happy."
That's the way, Cin. Reel 'em in.
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2 comments:
I am a gay man who happens to be a big Vin Diesel fan,the sight and sound of Vin makes me quiver! who cares what sexual orientation he his, he has a good lookout on life and he's enjoying himself, and your right, he puts himself in the public eye and keeps you guessing , that's his job and he's good at what he does!
He's gay. That's a 100% fact. Trust. Me.
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