Former MTV producer Terrance Dean claims in an upcoming book on gays in the hip-hop world that he has had a sexual relationship with a closeted pro athlete he calls “Preston.” On his blog, he describes their first meeting:
He was across the room standing against the wall with a drink in his hand. He was bobbing his head to the Hip-Hop beats and surrounded by slew of bodacious women and physically fit men.
I couldn’t take my eyes off him. He was absolutely gorgeous – Tall, caramel, chinky eyes, and a body that wouldn’t stop. Damn, he was fine! I felt the temperature in my body rise. Lust was speaking and its low growl was whispering in my ears.
Then he looked over in my direction and smiled. …
I asked my boy Clever if he knew the beautiful specimen of a man. Clever acknowledged that he did. “That’s ‘Preston’ I haven’t seen him in a while. He’s always on the road. He plays for ________.”
Now, I am really excited. This professional athlete just approached me and how he did it was so smooth. No one noticed anything.
On his blog promoting the book, Dean goes into greater detail about his relationship with Preston, including their first sexual encounter.
His muscular body glided into the bedroom. I followed. He unbuttoned his shirt and revealed an amazing physique. I followed suit, and, like that, me and Preston went at each other like two lovers in heat. We wanted each other badly. We explored each other’s bodies as we peeled off our clothes and strewn them throughout the room.
My gosh, Preston was ferocious in bed. His soft lips met mine. We kissed tenderly, and then passionately. Our tongues danced in each other’s mouths. We groped each other finding different and wonderful places to touch. His long hard muscle was massive. He felt wonderful in my hands.
That night Preston and I didn’t stop making love until the next day. I didn’t want to let him go. His body was perfect. We fit. Oh boy, oh boy, did we fit.
What to make of this? Who knows? There are gay (all closeted) pro jocks and they have sex (I have a good friend who swears he once made out with a Super Bowl-winning NFL quarterback). On the other hand, all we have is Dean’s word on this particular athlete with not nearly enough detail (save his skin color) to hazard an educated guess, even as to his sport. This is reminiscent of former Out magazine editor Brendan Lemon, who said he had an affair with a then-Major League Baseball player, whose identity was never revealed.
At Gawker, where I first saw this item (thanks to a tip from an Outsports reader), there are more than 1,200 comments, most of them guesses as to Preston’s real name. “Curt Schilling” and “Roger Clemens” did make me laugh. –Jim Buzinski
on May 7th, 2008 at 6:21 PM
“Chinky eyes”?
on May 7th, 2008 at 8:50 PM
What bullshit. This guy obviously needs to sell books so he drops this story. Ho-hum. Wake me up when an actual name is revealed.
on May 8th, 2008 at 12:28 AM
Yawn.
In any case, this is not how I’d want the first gay pro athlete to reveal himself.
on May 8th, 2008 at 2:54 AM
It reads like an E. Lynn Harris novel. I didn’t realize life could seem so much like trashy fiction you read waiting for your mom to finish at the hair dresser
…and I’m dating myself but didn’t people talk years ago on Outsports about the idiocy of outing a pro athlete you’ve slept with because you won’t be able to sleep with them or anyone else in the pro gay athlete subculture again?
This gay “Video Vixen” angle just doesn’t work because first calling a gay man “Superhead” is redundant and second Superhead actually named names in her book.
on May 8th, 2008 at 7:15 AM
When Brendan Lemon told about having an “affair” with a MLB player back in 2001 it was taken very seriously, garnering coverage from ESPN to GQ. In 2008, Terrance Dean’s story of a fling with a pro athlete attract only the blogosphere and are met with suspicion. Would Lemon’s claims hold up today, or do we require more proof or someone to name names?
on May 8th, 2008 at 7:29 AM
This is prurient trash of the highest order. Telling us nothing of the state of the world, expanding the life of Dean as an autobiography should.
The only thing is reveals is what a sewer of a mind this little twerp has. It’s bad bad bad soft porn – who cares if it’s even true or not.
The only thing I take away from this is, if it is indeed true, be careful who you fuck. You never know, it may be rehashed somewhere down the line in a sleazy cheap format which makes Jackie Collins read like Dostoyevsky.
“Preston went at each other like two lovers in heat. We wanted each other badly. We explored each other’s bodies as we peeled off our clothes and strewn them throughout the room.
My gosh, Preston was ferocious in bed. His soft lips met mine. We kissed tenderly, and then passionately. Our tongues danced in each other’s mouths.”
Jesus.
on May 8th, 2008 at 11:36 AM
Well, regardless of the truth, it’s certainly well a well written book.
on May 8th, 2008 at 4:58 PM
The latest update on the blog says that “Preston” is a basketball player.
on May 8th, 2008 at 8:01 PM
Tim Hardaway?
on May 9th, 2008 at 5:38 PM
Steve, you’re so wrong. That was a terribly-written excerpt. And after reading his essay in Out magazine recently, I’m convinced this guy is just a bad writer all around. In the essay, he even blamed being gay on his being molested by another man, in effect saying another man “turned” him gay (without even bothering to mention at what age this happened to him). He’s just very disappointing all around.
on May 11th, 2008 at 6:58 PM
I wouldn’t waste my braincells reading such tripe.
It is an obvious attempt to put lipstick on a pig.
on May 12th, 2008 at 8:59 PM
chinky eyes?? Doesnt this sound like Kobe Bryant? chinky eyes are for people with asian lookin eyes which screams Kobe Bean Bryant. he does have 2 children and a wife he was supposedly divorcing from not long ago and rumored to not even be living in the same house as her.
on Jun 11th, 2008 at 7:40 PM
all lies.he is writing his fantasy which will never be true.pro jocks want women not men!
e-mail me when there is a name,anyone can can tell a story these days