Oh SQUEEEEE!!!

There's been so much *NSYNC & Lance love on my friends list I think I'm gonna go all 'splody!!


I was reminded about Justin's article/interview in The Advocate a couple years back when his first solo album came out. I want to find & re-read that article with this new official knowledge that was disseminated yetsterday. :)


Anyone remember the thing on the ABC Family network (I think it was before it was ABC Family... I forget exactly what it was called, Fox Family maybe?)... anyway, Joey & Lance had this half hour (or maybe it was an hour) special, and they had a barbecue and Lance & Joey went to the grocery store to get stuff...
I want to find & re-watch that!

I also want to rewatch The Reel NSYNC, and that early Euro release that is "We Are N'Sync".

But mostly I want to sort through all the crap on my hard drive (and the stuff I burned off my old computer onto CD-R's because I had a teenytiny hard drive then and had absolutely no storage room). I want to find The Advocate article and that video of Lance & Joey.


Above all else though, I want Joey & Lance's sitcom to make it onto the air! Now I REALLY want to watch it!!! I wonder when they decided to make Lance's character (or as much character as there is in a hybrid reality/sitcom show) gay? Was it after Lance decided to come out officially? Was it before?


Copying here for my own persnal reference for now & forever.
Article from http://www.247gay.com/article.cfm?section=66&id=10080
( Reichen's former partner Chip congratulates Lance )

Floral SQUEEEEE!!

Flowers have been ordered & I'm just so happy I could bounce around the office all afternoon!!!

I'm thinking we should send the nice florist shop a card & candy or something for being so nice & patient & willing to do this big huge thing for us. :)

I forgot to add a message or anything with my arrangement. Mostly because the lady didn't ask and I forgot to tell her. I'm sure though that the general message will be perfectly clear.

What is the actual wording going to be?


::bounces around office::

SQUEEEEEE!!! :D

BWAHAHAHA!!!

Found yet another article about Lance's announcement:
http://theedge.bostonherald.com/musicNews/view.bg?articleid=150157

The beauty is that evidently, according to this article, the JJB is "a celebrity news discussion group".

::falls off chair laughing my ass off::

From December 2002 - Justin's article/interview in The Advocate magazine

Posting things just because I'm really curious to see what people think. I'm a bit worried that this isn't quite appropriate, and I don't always have the best sense of that kind of thing, so someone feel free to slap some sense into me if I've accidentally crossed some sort of line.
With that said! On with the show!

Interviewer: Can you tellme whether any of your "handlers" are gay?
Justin: I respect the privacy of people in my life because I know what it's like to have your privacy violated. Suffice it to say that I have amazing people around me and some of them are gay

Interviewer: Without outing anyone, do you know of popular young gay musicians who are afraid to come out?
Justin: I don't know that I've encountered anyone who's afraid to come out as much as they've chosen not to at this point in their lives.

Interviewer: Have you discussed this with them? What do you think about how hard or easy it might be to come out?
Justin: As far as America is concerned--as opposed to Europe, where there's a vast difference in how gays are perceived--the need to stay in the closet seems to stem more from childhood and less from pressures of any specific industry. It also has a lot to do with the times and culture. For people in my generation, it's been easier to talk about being gay than in yours.

[I skipped several questions in between here]

Interviewer: What did you think when you first had contact with a gay person?
Justin: I've been in the business since I was 11 years old, so I had the chance to be exposed to the world outside Millington from an early point in life. I didn't think anything different about gay people from any other people I met. When you know who you are, there's no need to feel weird or threatened or fearful of people who aren't exactly like you. People who are different can be more fun to be around because you're learning new things and becoming smarter about the world. Beyond that, one of my best friends from when I was 14 was gay.

Interviewer: What did you think when you found out?
Justin: I always knew. It just took him a while to get the courage up to tell me. When he did, I told him that it didn't matter. It didn't change the fact that he was my friend. I wasn't thinking that he wanted to be more than my friend, and he wasn't.
It's funny, men are taught my TV and other types of media to exploit women--to look at them as sex objects. Men are taught to see anything on the opposite side of themselves as something sexual, and I guess that includes gay men. It's crazy. But I think that's why there's sometimes tension between straight and gay men. We've been taught to be predators, and straight men don't always know what to do with the idea of another man as something to be pursued or exploited sexually.


Ok, now I want to know what the fandom collective thinks now.
It's poll time!

ETA: IIRC, *NSYNC came into being when Justin was 14. *g*

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