Out and About
Readers of the Houston Voice got a little news on the opinion pages this week: Hard-nosed Fox News Channel anchor Shepard Smith is -- well, if he's not gay, he's pretty damn gay-friendly.
Kevin Naff, managing editor of the Washington Blade, a sister paper of the Voice, wrote a column on celebrities who refuse to answer questions about whether they're gay. As part of the column he wrote that Smith once tried to pick him up at a Manhattan piano bar and invited him back to his place.
"We sat at the bar chatting and drinking martinis until 3 a.m., our conversation interrupted only when [Smith] paused to belt out the lyrics to whatever showtune was being performed," Naff wrote.
Come on -- straight guys like showtunes, too, don't they? Don't they?
We tried to reach Smith, but a Fox spokesperson didn't return messages. Naff says he's been getting a lot of mail, both pro and con, about the column.
"And a lot of people have said, 'Oh, you're violating their privacy, and who they have sex with, that's private,' " Naff says. "Well, yeah, who you have sex with is private…All I'm saying is, the very fact of your sexual orientation should not be a secret. It should not be something to be ashamed of and hidden."
Well, maybe. But what about the important stuff: Why did you (allegedly) turn down Smith?
"I am not single, so I was not able to take him up on his offer," Naff says.
So he wasn't a jerk?
"No, he was a nice guy and we had a nice chat," he says.
Damn. We thought all Fox anchors were jerks.
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