Five reasons for people to come out of the closet.

And after the jump, five people it would be cool to see coming out—not saying they are gay, but...

 

Matthew Fox covers Men's Fitness (November 2012) in a feature entitled "Fox Uncensored." If only that were true, but he does look rock-hard in the photos, especially in the one below from his turn as a villain in the Tyler Perry vehicle Alex Cross.

In the feature, Fox addresses his year of enduring rumors:

"It's been a long, trying year of sitting on my hands on a lot of negative shit said about me, when they're the furthest things from who I am. That I beat a woman in Cleveland when in fact I was assaulted by a man and did nothing but retaliate against him? The 46 years I've been breathing on this planet, I have never hit a woman before. Never have, never will. But I think there's still gonna be a lot of people out there who'll think it's true no matter what the fuck I say."

Tyler Perry must've been dying to go up against this

Wait—D'Atra Hicks starred in a Tyler Perry movie or IS a Tyler Perry movie?

Tyler Perry is allegedly suing The Boondocks for a parody that portrays him as secretly horny for um, well, everything with three chocolate legs. If he seriously sues over this, he has terrible legal representation. (Full episode...hilarious, occasionally uncomfortably uncomfortable with gays. Though the kid continuing to call everything gay rings true. I feel like all the "no homo" is being parodied, too. Or is it?)

National Enquirer (June 14, 2010) is back with its always entertaining proclamations on "Who's Gay & Who's Not." Here's the score: 

I think this season of The Big Gay Sketch Show is pretty damn funny, definitely competitive with industry standard SNL. (Actually, I laughed a lot more at the former than I ever do at the latter.)

The skits were filmed AGES ago, but most are pretty fresh. It's gotten edgier as it's gone along. I still think the Rosie O'Donnell bits are completely counter-productive and unfunny. The best was their Amazing Race send-up, which casually outed Hugh Jackman, Tyler Perry, Queen Latifah and several others...but in a funny way.

Globe (March 29, 2010) continues with its head-scratcher of a scenario, namely that Oprah Winfrey is using Tyler Perry as her beard. 

Beard? More like a handlebar mustache.

Globe (above) and National Enquirer (below)—both December 7, 2009—have definite ideas about why Oprah quit her dayjob. Globe thinks she's too busy romancing "toyboy" Tyler Perry. There is so much wrong with that story on the surface, one can only wonder how deeply flawed it is upon further inspection. NE bluntly proposes that Oprah is pussy-whipped—she's quitting to move in with and spend more time with her BFF Gayle King, whom she's known for 33 years: