PAULA NEAL MOONEY

Check out Hiding in Hip Hop book forum website! If you thought the picture of rappers Lil Wayne and Baby kissing on the lips caused a stir in the hip-hop world, just wait till the book Hiding in Hip-Hop: Confessions of a Down Low Brother in the Entertainment Industry drops in 2008. Written by former MTV producer Terrance Dean , Hiding in Hip-Hop has already lit up the internet -- no doubt with hot searches for sample chapters and excerpts from the memoir. Already author of spiritually fluffy-sounding books Be Empowered: 30 Days of Meditation for Men of Color and Reclaim Your Power!: A 30-Day Guide to Hope, Healing, and Inspiration for Men of Color , Terrance Dean sold Hiding in Hip-Hop: Confessions of a Down Low Brother in the Entertainment Industry to Atria recently. A Publishers Marketplace report titled "Publishers Lunch Deluxe: Lunch Weekly for Monday, January 29" gave this description of Terrance Dean’s book deal: "Terrance Dean's HIDING IN HIP-HOP: Confe...

...something sacred, something covenant-like, something biblical (or at least there should be) that makes me want to keep it between a woman and a man, for now. Yesterday, New Jersey's Supreme Court didn't go all the way as to require the state to allow same-sex marriage, but said same-sex couples can't be denied the same rights and benefits that male and female couples get. So now the state legislature has 6 months to figure out how to solve this dilemma, which includes the decision to allow civil unions. Civil unions I can deal with. Marriage, I don't know... I waver on this topic because I don't hold a vehemence against homosexuals as I do against abortion. With gay couples, at least no one dies a horrific death. Or, at least they shouldn't. Gay bashing is deplorable. What happened to Matthew Shepherd was a true, modern-day tragedy. Jesus was about love. God is love. Besides, I can easily see how same sex couples would be attracted to one another. My ob/gyn...

T.R. Knight and R.J. Helton Both Say They Are Gay My mother always said that back in the slave days, slavemasters' wives would many times call their husbands by their first initials in front of the slaves, so that the darkies wouldn't get too familiar with their bosses and remain mysterious. Turns out that another couple of initial-named stars had secrets too. According to the New York Post's Page Six column , Grey's Anatomy star T.R. Knight confessed to People.com that he was gay. Now we know what was behind the fight on the set of Grey's Anatomy recently. Supposedly, Isaiah Washington outed T.R. Knight , the beloved goofy-haired and sweet-faced George , when Dr. Preston Burke fought with McDreamy's Patrick Dempsey and George came to McDreamy's rescue. The National Enquirer quoted Washington as saying some very unsavory things about T.R. Knight , who told People, "I hope the fact that I'm gay isn't the most interesting part of me." ...