This leads beautifully into our Ask Billy question, which believe it or not comes from Alexis Arquette in Delusionville (and I am bringing it to you exactly as he wrote it): “Did you not print a story about me and Jared Leto are you not a journalist maybe I have the wrong person but I believe it’s you if it is you you said I was untrustworthy source are you out of your mind I’m the first openly gay actor ever ever I built everything for ever young gay actor in this town.  Are you not the gutter press writer for the frontiers crap rag?”

Oh my – where to begin?  First, Frontiers is the paper that carries my column in Southern California, and it’s one of the biggest gay papers in the country.  In fact, the story about Alexis and Jared Leto was recounted by Arquette in an interview published in Frontiers.  What I find most disturbing is that Arquette has such a low opinion of gay publications, especially since they have provided roughly 80 percent of the press s/he’s ever received.  I am sure that openly gay actors from Billy Haines in 1933 to Tommy Kirk in 1973 pale in comparison to someone who once appeared on an episode of Friends as Drag Waiter #2.  That said, my personal experience with Mr/s Arquette over the past decade or two makes me more than qualified to have an opinion about his grasp on reality.  Let this be a cautionary tale to you all – never believe your own press releases.on BillyMasters.com.