Superstar Galaxy hottie, David Beckham recently confessed that his wife, Victoria, likes to dress him and that he loves being a gay icon.

In a recent interview with BBC Radio, the 32 year old blonde stud says “I’m very honoured to have the tag of gay icon…Maybe it’s things like (the fact) I like to look after myself, I like to look smart and presentable most of the time.”

He told the radio programme: “I always liked to look good, even when I was a little kid. I was given the option when I was a page boy once of either wearing a suit or wearing knickerbockers and long socks and ballet shoes – and I chose the ballet shoes and knickerbockers. It was a little bit strange at the time and my dad gave me a bit of stick – but I was happy.”

  

Lance Bass is featured on The Advocate‘s landmark 1000th issue. In the cover story, Bass discusses what he perceives as the gay community’s love/hate relationship with him (discerned mainly via the comments left on gay blogs) He also talks about his training for space and the various relationships he’s had since coming out.

Bass attributes much of the vitriol directed at him to remarks he made in his People magazine coming out article, in which he called himself “a straight-acting gay” and chalks the comment up to naïveté.

Says Bass to the magazine: “You know, every community is hard to please. Our community is very fickle. It’s a touchy community because it’s the last civil rights movement we have left here in America. So when someone new like myself comes along and says off-the-mark things, yeah, I can see how people would get pissed…When most people come out, they deal with it out of the public eye, and they start getting educated about it. Me, I had 24 hours to say what I had to say on a subject that I had no clue about… It was a very normal phrase among my circle of friends—and they’d always say, ‘You’re such a SAG’—a straight-acting gay.

So I reveal that to People magazine, and it looks like I created this phrase and [that] I’m trying to start this movement that you should be straight-acting if you’re gay. It’s just dumb!…I knew last year that when I came out, if I said, ‘OK, I’m going to lead every parade and I’m going to speak at every engagement,’ half of the community would say, ‘Screw you! Who are you to come out and start speaking for every-one?’ That’s why I held back and was like, OK, I said my piece now; I’m just gonna lay back and get way more educated about myself, about the community, and not pretend I know what I’m talking about.'”


Bass says that although some may criticize him because he remained closeted for so long, he plans to look the other way and forge ahead with a project that addresses just that subject: “The music business says you can’t be openly gay and be successful, which I think is crap. I want to go out and search for a musical act, develop them, make their first album, everything—and all that time they’re openly gay.”

Bass can currently be seen in the NYC broadway hit Hairspray. Since breaking up with Reichen Lehmkuhl  last year, he has been spotted with hairstylist Ben Thigpen and fashion designer Narciso Rodriguez.

OUTZONE asked Steven, “Does being on the show, get you laid more?” – To which he said,“You know, in a perfect world, it would. I have never had so little sex as the
last four weeks. It’s just crazy. … It feels like I get to eight parties every
seven days. And it’s just nuts. And maybe part of it is just me going, “Oh I
gotta keep a low profile.” Because God only knows what the tabloids are ever
going to pick up if they ever care what anyone’s doing in Chicago (which I
highly doubt). Can you imagine? “It’s cold there and some guy’s screwing his way
through the Northside!”

Taking his inspiration from the greats of Hollywood’s Golden Age — Katherine
Hepburn, Rita Hayworth, Doris Day and Lauren Bacall — Steven brings a
simple, yet elegant, perspective to women’s day wear. Steven currently has a dress available at GAGAS,  and a  t-shirt at the Bravo Store .

And Jack Mackenroth – what a shocker that was! Jack’s doctor had advised him to leave the show and seek immediate treatment for the super-strong staph infection he came down with. The Seattle-born contestant actually wound up in a hospital for
several days for treatment with strong antibiotics. Reached by phone last night, Mackenroth emphasized that the infection was not
related to his HIV. Moreover, he says he’s fine now.

“I would like to reiterate that that was taped months ago and I was in the
hospital for a few days, but I made a complete recovery,” he said. “Any one can
get [ MRSA]. It’s not an HIV- related thing. It’s serious, so I took it seriously.”  –  Now, he says, “My health is great.”

On a side note, Jack has been dating Chicago’s Dale Levitskiof Top Chef fame. Great clothes and great food in that house! Plus they are both hotties! “It’s very baby steps. I really like him a lot. And geography is a bit of an
issue, but we’ll see where it goes. I like him a lot. I assume he likes me a
lot. Unless he’s lying…(laughter)… He’s adorable. I like keeping it incestuous,
keep it in the Bravo family.”

Dale says, “Yeah, we randomly met over Myspace. And then we bumped into each other at the OUT100 party and clicked. He’s hilarious. We’re just gonna roll with it and see what happens. And he’s cute as %&#@. We have the same sense of humor.”

    
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