Pop Will Out Itself

Jo Wood of The Guardian’s ‘comment is free…’ blog weighed in on former *NSYNC star Lance Bass revealing that he’s gay, and the history of male pop stars making similar announcements. “As a teenage girl I was honestly shocked at George Michael’s sensational coming out – being splashed on the front pages of the red-tops for committing a lewd act in a public toilet, and later properly coming out in an interview with Parkinson in 1998,” Wood writes. “It wasn’t that fact that he was gay that upset me; it was more that I felt I had been duped into fancying someone whom, I could daydream, maybe, just maybe, might one day fancy me back.” Read more.