George Michael's 'wedding is off'

[DeclinetoState]

George Michael and his American lover Kenny Goss have called off their gay 'wedding' after the pop star was discovered having an illicit encounter with a stranger in a London park.

The couple had been looking forward to an Elton John-style 'wedding' ceremony followed by a lavish party to mark their 10th anniversary.

But plans for the nuptials have been called off after the singer was seen emerging from bushes following a sexual encounter with a pot-bellied, jobless van driver.This Is London.com (http://www.thisislondon.com/showbiz/articles/23238605?source=TiL&ct=5)

Bummer.

I guess there's no accounting for taste.

[Antigone]

I'm just devasted. Devasted, I tell you.

[DeclinetoState]

Well, Antigone, maybe all is not lost. Rest easy; the wedding may be back on.

Despite reports to the contrary, pop star George Michael has denied the rumors surrounding his civil partnership ceremony being called off. After being caught in the bushes fooling around with Norman Kirtland, it had been reported that George Michael and long-time boyfriend Kenny Goss were calling it quits.

In statements made by the former Wham! Singer, Michael said that his "cruising" for men was not an issue in his relationship. As The Daily Mail (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=397716&in_page_id=1773) reports, Michael said to the Channel 4 show Richard & Judy, "have got no issue with cruising. I've talked about it many times. This is no more of an issue than I ever said it was, it's never been an issue between us."

Regarding their civil partnership, the reason the marriage didn't go ahead was not because of his philandering. "In actual fact, we didn't have our 'wedding' because we knew at this point in time in the run-up to the tour and with all the rubbish I've had to put up with in the last six months, we wouldn't get a small private wedding, which is what we want." Michael went on to say that "I wanted something small and quiet but I don't even think that we'd get away with that at the moment. There would be intrusion. So we postponed it on that basis."The Deadbolt (http://www.thedeadbolt.com/news/111464/michaelstillmarrying.php)

[Antigone]

Well that's good to know. At least I can rest tonight knowing all is well with the poofters and the wedding will commence at a later date.

On a side note: Why bother getting "married" if you are going to "cruise" and continue to do so in your relationship? That's like giving my hubby free reign to play around and not consider it a big deal. I thought marriage was about commitment to another person? What a way to cheapen marriage vows.

[DoctorDoom]

On a side note: Why bother getting "married" if you are going to "cruise" and continue to do so in your relationship?It's SOP with fags.

"Gay men aren't very good at having and holding lovers...(because) gay men tire of their partners (sexually) more rapidly than straight men... The cheating ratio of 'married' [committed] gay males, given enough time, approaches 100%. ... Many gay lovers, bowing to the inevitable, agree to an 'open relationship,' for which there are as many sets of ground rules as there are couples."
-- Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen, After the Ball (NY: Doubleday, 1989)

"At times among gay male relationships the openness of the contract makes it more likely to survive than heterosexual bonds. There is more likely to be greater understanding about the need for extramarital outlets between two men than between a man and a woman... and the lack of children gives gay couples greater freedom."
-- Andrew Sullivan, Virtually Normal: An Argument About Homosexuality,

"... Fight for same-sex marriage and its benefits and then, once granted, redefine the institution of marriage completely, to demand the right to marry, not as a way of adhering to society's moral codes but to debunk a myth and radically alter an archaic institution."
-- Michelangelo Signorile in the Dec/Jan 1994 issue of "Out"

Gay marriage will be "the final tool with which to dismantle all sodomy statutes, get education about homosexuality and AIDS into public schools, and, in short, usher in a sea change in how society views and treats us.... (G)ay marriage is just as radical and transformative as the religious right contends it is... (Some gay men) have raised the concept of an 'open relationship' to an art form."
-- Michelangelo Signorile in the May 1996 issue of "Out"

"The Gay Couple" (McWhirter and Mattison, 1984) was written by a psychiatrist and psychologist (a queer couple). They sought to dispel the "myth" that gay couples lacked stability and long-term relationships. Their research located only 156 couples in lasting relationships. Of them, only 7 couples had actually maintained sexual fidelity and none of the seven had been together more than 5 years. "Fidelity is not defined in terms of sexual behavior but rather by their emotional commitment to each other," the authors said. "Ninety-five percent of the couples have an arrangement whereby the partners may have sexual activity with others."

The crap about queer fidelity is for the rubes.