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Tonyboy
Disgusting having him as the grand marshal.
Peter
Tonyboy Your comment is what is disgusting.
TANK
Not asleep, no. Just resting his eyes.
homofied
Very on-trend outfit! Look ma, no man-kilt…
Cam
@Tonyboy: You said “Disgusting having him as the grand marshal.”
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Because he had sex with somebody? Ridiculous.
jjm16
my perfect vision responded: effin hhhot!
Tony
I am so sick of hateful comments directed at this man. He wrote a brilliant screenplay that articulated a significant part of our human rights struggle at a very important moment in our history. He did a good job. I admire him.
M Shane
He is simply living the kind of life that gay men will be after all of the marriage fetishism passes.
Screen writers often often write films that are misrepresentatibve of the times and people that take advantage of political movements. He’s just living something more like the reality of Milk’s time. He wasn’t hired to make the story historically correct, but politically desirable. He might havre had a great time in the real San Francisco of Milk’s time.
Gay men are gay men, not housewifes. It won’t change because some right wing dodo’s want it.
Sam
I don’t have a problem with the bareback sex pictures, which were fundamentally a betrayal by someone close to the guy. I have a problem with him getting every honor and award known to gaydom because he wrote one script.
Where’s Diane Schroer? Where’s Ken Choi? Where’s Martin Gill? Why aren’t they or the hundreds of others who have done more to advance LGBT rights than he has getting to share the rides in the parade cars and the fancy dinner honors?
Oh, right. They aren’t young, white and twinky. So they don’t count.
Marc
We couldn’t find a better person to represent the community on gay pride? Someone who doesn’t preactice safe sex in this day and age shouldn’t be held as a the best in our community.
Cam
@Sam: you said “Where’s Diane Schroer? Where’s Ken Choi? Where’s Martin Gill? Why aren’t they or the hundreds of others who have done more to advance LGBT rights than he has getting to share the rides in the parade cars and the fancy dinner honors?”
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Well I can answer for two of them. DAN Choi is prepping for his dismissal hearing and Martin Gill has never sought publicity. I will say that this guy, to an audience of millions uplon millions worldwide made a plea for gay rights and marriage in an industry where most cowards won’t even come out of the close. As far as I’m concerned that makes it fine with me that he gets to ride in a car and wave to people.
galefan2004
I have nothing against DLB. The fact that he bare backed is old news. I think if we are honest with our selves we have all made stupid decisions in the heat of passion. I just simply don’t have anything for him. He isn’t the first dude to make a gay movie. He won’t be the last. I think the reason he gets all these honors is he is hot and rich and white. He is the face that the media wants, so we tend to give it to them.
greg
Nothing against Black personally, but his script was average at best.
Kyle
@Cam: No, u idiot, not because he had sex with somebody, because he had unsafe sex with somebody and then preached safe sex any chance he got. Having a hypocrite as a grand marshall, someone who is supposed to practice what they preach, is, in fact DISCUSTING!
Blayne
great arms!
DuttyBarb
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA…
Queerty(wipes eyes) this is te funniest post ever. Keep it up
Mitch
@Kyle: Quite right. It’s not the fact that he had unsafe sex that makes him a stupid representation of the queer community, but rather it’s because he’s a big hypocrite, spouting off about safe sex. Moreover I totally agree, he’s just some white guy that’ll outgrow his looks in 2 or three years. I guess it’s best to pin them up while they’re ripe.
KGrant
Why do I get the feeling that DLB is every unapproachable gay douchebag I’ve know all rolled up into one twinky package? I don’t get why people find him hot, he’s basically every pasty twink that ever existed.
alan brickman
good for him..but wear condons for now on..ok?
princedeligne
He’s handsome and successful, he made a fine grand marshal. That he had unsafe sex and his partner had a camera at that very minute is unfortunate. We’ve all had sex this way. Give the guy a break.Yes, inretrospect it is a mistake if you are going to preach safer sex, but for most of us, come on…
Chad
@princedeligne: amen to that. I mean, yeah, be safe, but I get the feeling that a lot of the people growling about Dustin’s sex life have had a time or ten they didn’t use a condom. Maybe if some of your sex partners released some pictures you could get the scorn heaped right back on.
Eric
Hmm… So much vitriol directed towards someone who had sex without protection…
First of all, there is no such thing as safe sex, only safer sex. And if we can accept this, then we must also accept that there are some sexual practices that are safer than others.
Second… bareback sex does not always mean unsafe sex. Context is everything.
Third… the only time when an entire group of people can say that bareback sex is and always is unsafe… is when that entire group of people naturally believe that those around them are promiscuous and have many sexual partners.
Believe it or not, monogamy does actually exist in the gay community.
Gorbeh
Ooh…the passenger is stunning. And people seriously quit bashing DLB, it’s not cool! You’re holding one mistake against an otherwise great guy. Do him and the community a favor and drop it. The sooner people quit giving this attention the sooner it will get better.
Marc
@princedeligne:
“We’ve all had sex this way”???? I don’t think most people have had sex with a camera rolling and unprotected. You are crazy.
Bobby12
Dustin Bareback is the grand marshal? sad. i hope people pelted him with condoms. he is a freaking hypocrite.
More Complaining.....
hey here is an idea….all you get off your asses, away from the computer screen and go down to your local pride committee and ask them what you can do for them next year or this year for next year….pride just doesnt happen, what does happen is bitchy queens come out in force to complain about everything from grand marshals to the entertainment to the colors of the tee-shirts…..and before you all say what the fuck have I done….10 years on pride committees, their boards of directors and now involved with international pride organizations.
so once you do some work for pride, then maybe then you can be part of the decision making process and you can then have a real voice in these things.
Ben
He’s not a criminal – he just made the somewhat questionable decision to visually document his sex life. Doesn’t outweigh winning the Oscar for writing an inspiring tale of gay life.
Plus, he’s got a nice wang. Why complain?
galefan2004
@Kyle: Yes because all people that educate about safe sex have it 100% of the time even with their long term partners. By your reasoning, absolutely no one should ever talk about safe sex. I’m sorry that DLB doesn’t live up to your image of perfection, but I think many of us are giving the dude a break.
Cam
@Kyle: You said “@Cam: No, u idiot, not because he had sex with somebody, because he had unsafe sex with somebody and then preached safe sex any chance he got. Having a hypocrite as a grand marshall, someone who is supposed to practice what they preach, is, in fact DISCUSTING!”
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You can call me all the names you want and attack this guy, but again, this guy, got up on stage on Oscar night, and who knows what the worldwide audience was, something in the hundreds of millions, and made a heartfelt, articulate, personalized speech for gay rights to people around the world, many of whom had probably never heard anything like that. He did it as a member of an industry where most are not publically out. So now because of some other work he was doing (Preaching safe sex to teens, while not practicing it himself) You are going to ignore the major thing he did do.
As for his hypocracy, so what? Where does ALL your anger come from, It’s pretty out of line. If he was going around and telling teens the facts about safe sex, unless he was sitting there saying “I practice it all the time” there was no hypocracy. He is an informed adult, if he wants to make have unprotected sex with somebody he is dating what the fuck do I care? It doesn’t change the fact that he is still out there telling tenns “Hey, you can catch a disease from doing this.” Again, your anger seems WAY out of line, you sound more like an ex boyfriend than a random poster.
Cam
@More Complaining…..: you said “hey here is an idea….all you get off your asses, away from the computer screen and go down to your local pride committee and ask them what you can do for them next year or this year for next year….pride just doesnt happen, what does happen is bitchy queens come out in force to complain about everything from grand marshals to the entertainment to the colors of the tee-shirts…..and before you all say what the fuck have I done….10 years on pride committees, their boards of directors and now involved with international pride organizations. ”
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Gee, sorry, some of us are trying to help out, donate and work with organizations trying to get us our rights, I’m so sorry that we aren’t spending all of our time making sure that the banners at next years Pride event, which the press won’t cover as usual, are color coordinated. Pride is a fun weekend but I’ll take full civil rights thanks.
galefan2004
@KGrant: Funny how you can judge the man without ever meeting him. It seems you have something against twinks. Did the mean nasty twinks turn down your 40 year old over weight balding ass? See, you are not the only one that can stereotype.
galefan2004
@Ben: Yes, because as a gay man the only thing that matters is his dick. Right? BTW, I really hope that was a ridiculous question to you.
Sam
@Cam: I’m not saying he doesn’t deserve recognition for what he’s done. I’m just saying the fetishisation of DLB into some major gay celebrity seems disproportionate to what he’s actually done for the community. Activists who spend their entire lives don’t get this kind of recognition. Who’s done more for us, DLB or the legal team that won marriage in Iowa? And who’s in the car? And why is that?
I’d say it’s because he’s young, white, cute and male.
And screenwriters aren’t closeted. Hollywood is VERY accepting of LGBT folks as long as you aren’t an actor. Alan Ball thanked his partner during his Oscar speech in 2000, so it’s not exactly cutting edge to be an out screenwriter.
galefan2004
@Sam: In all fairness, if it was the Iowa legal team, or a representative from that team, in that car, no one would even bother paying attention to them. DLB is in that car because he gets people’s attention.
Sam
@galefan2004: Agreed, and I’m fine with that. But let’s just call it what it is: he’s in the car because he’s a good looking young, white, male screenwriter, NOT because he’s done SOOO MUCH for gay rights.
This is not personal to DLB either. I was equally annoyed when Lance Bass was getting lauded for all he’d done for gay rights when the sum total of his efforts were that damn People cover.
promiscuityISbad
Wonder how many times he got stumphed while in NYC – without rubber, of course!
Any Queerty regulars got a taste? ;-P
Cam
@Sam: I’m sorry, you can say what you want, but some activist handing out flyers and doing low profile stuff NEVER reaches even one tenth the amount of people that he did with that one speech on Oscar night. And trust me, it isn’t only young good looking gays that get attention. elton John, Martina Navratalova, Billie Jean King, David Geffen, Ian Mckellan, Wanda Sykes, they all get attention, but the problem I see is that this is a no win situation here. No matter WHAT this guy did, whether it be speaking of gay rights, or dragging 100 children out of a burning airplane you seem like you would always say that the only reason he is getting attention is because he is white and good looking. By your logic, nobody white, young, and goodlooking should be recognized for anything…and frankly that attitude is just kind of creepy.
Cam
@Sam: you said “This is not personal to DLB either. I was equally annoyed when Lance Bass was getting lauded for all he’d done for gay rights when the sum total of his efforts were that damn People cover.”
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Oh Screw Lance Bass, no, he has done nothing, I’ll agree with you there, but this guy has actually contributed.