News flash: study finds gays are stylish, trendy

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A new study shows that 40 percent of gay men in New York City aren’t out to their doctors. Seems ridiculous to lie to one’s physician, but maybe they just prefer a “straight-acting” rectal exam.

Former pregnant man Thomas Beatie was paid $300,000 by People magazine for exclusive photos of his newborn baby. How unfair is that? Brad Pitt was offered $20 million for photos of his babies and he didn’t have to deliver them.

A marketing survey declares that 53 percent of gay men say they like to keep up with the latest styles and trends but only 30 percent of straight men do. Their follow-up study revealed that water is wet and birds can fly.

A former editor of the late, lamented fab magazine, Scott has been writing for Xtra since 2007 on a variety of topics in news pieces, interviews, blogs, reviews and humour pieces. He lives on the Danforth with his boyfriend of 12 years, a manic Jack Russell Terrier, a well-stocked mini-bar and a shelf of toy Daleks.

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