Return To The Glass Closet: Today In But You Knew That Already: Merv Griffin, Siegfried & Roy Gay

Merv Griffin was gay.

There. Is that plain enough for ya? No gossip, no scandal, no snickering behind the back. Just reality.

We'll allow you a moment to come to grips with the fact that a man with business instincts so sharp, he managed to successfully sell average Americans vowels for decades, could have been that way. Okay, that should be enough time. Onto the Next! Not Particularly Shocking! Outing!:

Las Vegas magicians Siegfried & Roy are coming out of the closet in a highly anticipated autobiography soon to be released. [...]

According to details from the upcoming book leaked to the National Enquirer, Siegfried & Roy"sie was once very much in love but have since transformed their relationship into a working partnership and a deep friendship.

Further details are available in this German article, headlined: "Ja, wir sind schwul!" (Funny--besides the sequined jumpsuits and feathered hair, they didn't particularly seem schwul.) Still, we couldn't be happier for the flamboyant illusionists, who perhaps are now one step closer towards sitting down with their albino menagerie for a man-to-man-to-tiger talk about what it really means to have two daddies.

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• Siegfried & Roy: Yes, We're Gay [bgay.com]