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My fellow band members don't discuss their private lives with their loved ones and I don't feel that just because I am gay, I should have to discuss mine."
This the is the point that I have an issue with - it may be true for the members of NKOTB, but not for celebrities in general (and I would think that Donnie Walberg has certainly discussed his wife/kids with the media). Even the most private of celebrities discusses their private life at some point, even obscurely, and the media goes even further, if the celebrities are straight. Look at Meryl Streep - who doesn't even live in Hollywood, but everyone knows she is married to an artist named Gumm, or Beyonce and Jay-Z, who barely acknowledge that they're married and yet the media has tracked every step of their relationship.
The reality is that there is a double standard. Certainly Knight has no obligation to discuss his private life, but the media does have an obligation to treat gay and straight celebrities alike - too often the media is all too willing to "in" celebrities by not even discussing the possibility anyone is gay or lesbian. That reinforces the ideas that a) gays and lesbians are freaks and

there is something shameful about being gay or lesiban. I mean, Jodie Foster was with the same woman for years - even giving her kids her partner's last name as their middle names. Yet the entertainment media would only, occassionally, discuss "rumors" that she might be a lesbian. Meanwhile, if Madonna shows up with the same guy at two different places, they're clearly in a relationship.