It’s safe to assume Taye Diggs didn’t love being followed to his car by a TMZ reporter in a parking garage recently by the way he answered the question “How are you preparing for your upcoming role as Hedwig in Hedwig and the Angry Inch?“
“I’ve just got to memorize all the material first, and then take it from there.” Pure poetry.
But Taye wasn’t finished with the mock interview, and we love what came out of his beautiful mouth next.
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“I went through a stage when I was a drag queen in high school — 10th and 11th grade. I experimented with homosexuality, ass play. I worked the streets, male prostitution…I’m kidding.”
“So you’re prepared for this role, you were born to play it,” the relentless cameraman/heckler/pseudo-stalker asks.
“I have a flaming homosexual inside me, so I’m rearing to let that out.”
Taye takes over the Broadway dream-role from Darren Criss on July 22nd, grabbing the glittered baton from an impressive bunch — John Cameron Mitchell, Michael C. Hall, Andrew Rannells and Niel Patrick Harris.
Watch the exchange below, and be happy for a moment that you aren’t famous:
Bob LaBlah
Why, for some reason, do I NOT believe Taye?
SteveDenver
I would love to be a flaming homosexual inside Taye Diggs.
Curty
I’ve heard rumors About him for years. He probably isn’t joking. He was married once and has a child but as we know, that doesn’t mean anything.
Bauhaus
Mr. Diggs is dreamy.
Johnny Angelo Paccini
<3 TO
Saint Law
Am in love.
John Kuehnle
He guest starred on Will & Grace as Will’s boyfriend.
Xzamilio
God, that is a gorgeous chocolate man. Been in love with him since “How Stella Got Her Groove Back”
Kangol
Seeing Taye Diggs and “ass play” made me momentarily pass out. He is so gorgeous, and still looks as good today as he did 20 years ago. A beautiful man!
Please feature more men of color, Queerty!
Louis
My God what a beautiful man and I love that he wasn’t disrespectful.
He’s been an ally to the lgbt community for years.
Now men like this I love to fantasize about the educated funny open minded ones.
Avery Alvarez
Sweet Jezus, he is beautiful!
I remember him in Ally Mcbeal when I was a young teen.
That brings back a lot of fond fantasies, err, memories.
Arcamenel
@Xzamilio: Please don’t use food to describe men of color, it’s demeaning. No one calls a white man a hot mayonnaise/uncrusted wonder bread man. We are people not food.
jwtraveler
@John Kuehnle: Did they hold hands and everything?
No questions Taye is a very hot man, but I just can’t imagine him as a flaming queen.
Xzamilio
@Arcamenel: I’m black, gay, and not your kid, so I;ll use whatever language I damn well please
Xzamilio
I don’t know what crawled into everyone’s ass today, but I am not in the mood for it,
Johnny Angelo Paccini
LOVE <3
Kangol
BTW, on a different note, is there any reason Queerty has not posted the fact that Michael Sam signed a two-year deal with a Canadian football team, the Montreal Alouettes?
The first openly gay NFL draftee will probably be playing professional football in Canada, which should merit a post, shouldn’t it?
Shouldn’t it?
DarkZephyr
@Arcamenel: “No one calls a white man a hot mayonnaise/uncrusted wonder bread man. We are people not food.”
No, we get called “white chocolate”, “vanilla”, “marshmallow” and “snow cone” among other things. And you *seriously* never saw black men refer to Michael Sam’s relationship with his fiance as “playing in the snow” here at Queerty? Because I sure have. If I was ever called “mayonnaise” or “uncrusted wonder bread man” I would knock someone out because there is nothing flattering about that and you purposely picked unflattering food names. But those other things are fine with me as they are sweet and delicious foods, just like chocolate. You just want to be pissy, outraged and offended for the sake of being pissy, outraged and offended. If you are consistent then you better not ever call anyone you love “honey”, “sweet heart” or “sugar”.
Sluggo2007
@DarkZephyr: Doesn’t take much to get you going does it? You’re overreacting again.
DarkZephyr
@Sluggo2007: I don’t know you.
Franklin
Got to agree with Arcamenel. I hate being referred to “chocolate”, delicious as it may be.
DarkZephyr
@Franklin: That is your personal preference, not everyone shares that attitude. Do you also agree with him that white men are never referred to by food names?
http://chocolategirlandvanillaguy.tumblr.com/
Xzamilio
I hate being referred to as n*gger, f*ggot, c**n, a disgusting pervert, a less than worthy human being, but “chocolate” as demeaning is just not on my list… especially since I have heard my own fellow black people using “Chocolate” when describing each other. Pick another battle… and CAM, if you see this, I am being dismissive yet again, so deal with it
UncleFloppy
@Xzamilio: My sweetie calls me a big jar of mayonnaise or a sexy marshmallow all the time. I have no problem with that.
Tackle
@Xzamilio: I definately dont’ find the word
“Chocolate” demeaning, and love having people use that word to describe me. In fact, not only do I “sometimes” use “Chocolate” to describe hot black men who are chocolate in complexion, but depending on their complexion, I have used,
Carmel(Jussie Smollett) Butterscotch ( my ex) Cafe au lait and Toffee. But no one black person can speak for all and say it’s demeaning. It’s personal. A case by case basis, depending on the individual…
jwtraveler
This whole “chocolate” or no “chocolate” conversation demonstrates one thing—that people have a variety of feelings about words used to refer to themselves and others. Rather than getting worked up about the specific words, it’s important to be aware of context. “Queer” used to be, and in some cases still is, a pejorative term. Yet, I haven’t seen any objections to this site being called “Queerty”, and many of us, particularly the younger people, use ‘queer’ with pride. Everyone is entitled to his feelings about a word, but it’s important to look beyond word itself to the intention.
A personal anecdote. I was in a Palm Springs ice cream shop and a multi-generational family of black women and girls came in. We were the only ones in there. They were having a good time and talking about ice cream and one of them mentioned ‘white chocolate’ [the ice cream flavor]. I interjected: “Someone talking to me?” It took a couple of moments to register, but when it did, they all thought it was hilarious. For a few minutes, we became fast friends.
DarkZephyr
@Xzamilio: With you 100%.
ramonromano
I’d love to be the flaming homosexual inside Taye Diggs
OrchidIslander
@Xzamilio: I’m with you as well. There are definitely worse names to be called then chocolate. I use the term to describe brothers all the time, usually preceded by the adjective “hot.” And, more often then not, I’ve never taken offense when being described in like kind.
To each his own, but I just don’t see or feel the outrage.
@jwtraveler: I enjoyed your “white chocolate” story. I like it when people can poke fun at racial differences and engage others in a way that doesn’t offend.
RochNY
A bunch of years ago when he was a younger man going to the School of the Arts in Rochester, New York I was told he was known to “experiment” with men and the source of this news was at the time pretty reliable. But boys will be boys. Maybe he grew out of it. I was also told that men of color who are on the down low will be in relationships with white women only. This from the man of color that allegedly had him.
Xzamilio
@RochNY: Well that isn’t true. They are with black women as well, and at one point it was contended that the DL life was what was accounting for the spike in HIV/AIDS infection rates among black women
OrchidIslander
@RochNY: @Xzamilio: Somehow it is always black men who get tagged with the down low, yet it is almost always white men who get caught leading double lives. White and right-wing anti-gay religious leaders seem to get busted on almost a daily bases and I’ve lost count of all the white heterosexually-married politicians outed living a lie. In spite of all the proof to the contrary, this insistence that the down low is the exclusive perveyance of black men is tired and untrue.
Xzamilio
@OrchidIslander: Dude, go straw man somewhere else. Nobody here said the DL life predominantly black men, including my black ass… and it’s not just “Black men” that get tagged with The Down Low… it is a term that WE predominantly used, but white men are often called something different, like closet cases or pretenders or living double lives. It’s the same damn issue, just labeled differently by certain races.