He was convicted of 46 counts of assault and battery—as a juvenile. He's been in and out of prison constantly, and, strapped for cash, turned to no-rules underground fighting, well, because he's good at it. He's also totally out.
The New York Times Magazine profiled Shad Smith this weekend—who is a "mixed-martial-artist" and participates in fights that are much more hard-core than the official UFC league allows—and casually mentions that he's gay and lives with his boyfriend in San Bernardino, CA. Crazy! Here's some more:
I
asked Smith why he spent so much of his youth looking for trouble. I
expected some sort of clichéd, though possibly true, explanation — a
difficult childhood or a Napoleon complex. What I didn’t expect him to say was, “You know, bro, the sexual-preference thing.”
Smith
is gay, and I know of no other professional fighter who is openly so.
“I was always scared that my mom and dad would find out and wouldn’t
like me, and my brothers wouldn’t like me,” he said. “I was petrified,
because I didn’t want anyone to find out. And I would try to be the
toughest person around. That way, no one would suspect, no one would
ever say it, no one would think it.”
Now his mom and dad, and a brother and a neice, live with him in his house. Acceptance comes in all sorts of forms, doesn't it?
TV Guide's Michael Ausiello dropped a hint that one of the hotties from the CW's ridiculously over-the-top pubescent melodrama Gossip Girl will come out when the show returns on April 21. I don't follow the show -- but I do know that there are definitely cute boys, and it's a guilty pleasure for some of my friends. Ausiello doesn't exactly name who the character will be, instead giving some clues:
This person may or may not be pictured above.
• The revelation significantly impacts the lives of at least three people.
• The aftershocks will be felt on both sides of the East River.
• Some viewers will be surprised by the twist, others not so much.
• In the Gossip Girl
novels, Dan was known to be a bit of a switch-hitter — which isn't so
much a clue as it is a fact. A misleading fact? Perhaps. Perhaps not.
(If you read the comments on the site, there's a petty clear consensus.)
Hmmm... Well, as long as it doesn't end up in a suicide attempt, I say all the better for it. We need more gay characters on TV.
LOVING this video with out Bravo exec Andy Cohen and gay-slang-talking ridiculous tranny hot mess Christian Siriano from Project Runway (can you tell I'm kinda obsessed)?
"He needs a tree trim." Gotta love it.
Andy's a total hunk and all, but "ferosh" just doesn't quite sound right coming out of his mouth.
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