Thursday, December 27, 2012

FishbowlLA: WEHOville.com Publisher Puts Himself Out There with ‘Ask a Gay’

FishbowlLA
LA Media News, Unspooled
WEHOville.com Publisher Puts Himself Out There with 'Ask a Gay'
Dec 27th 2012, 08:00

Take my column, please. That has pretty much been the approach espoused by WEHOville.com publisher Henry “Hank” Scott with his weekly column “Ask a Gay.”

Patterned after OC Weekly editor Gustavo Arellano‘s “¡Ask a Mexican!,” Scott’s tongue-in-cheek responses to emailed questions from readers are a bold and brash attempt to connect with a major part of the WeHo constituency. Is it working? We’re not sure, but the format certainly has fun leapfrogging over usual letter-from-the-publisher boundaries. Here for example is how Scott began a recent response to a woman asking whether celebrities still need today to worry about staying in the closet:

So you're asking me if Tom Cruise is gay? Don't know. Haven't slept with him. And seriously, he's so not my type (I like 'em edgy and have a thing for shaved heads)…

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