NHL Hockey player accused of trying have his boyfriend killed

[ckeaton]

Posted: 4/20/04 at 9:48am

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0419041danton1.html

Hockey is such a rough sport.
For the real grit, fast forward to page 8.

[Zola Q. LaPlaya]

Posted: 4/20/04 at 9:53am

ckeaton, you (and Canada and ice hockey) are gifts from God. This story is amazing and so messed up.

Posted: 4/20/04 at 9:56am

This is GREAT!

He's adorable!

Posted: 4/20/04 at 9:59am

Agent reportedly denies Danton case involves gay relationship



NEW YORK - St. Louis Blues forward Mike Danton remained in a California jail on Saturday, facing charges in a murder-for-hire plot as speculation raged that he wanted to silence a friend who threatened to publicly expose him as a homosexual.

Danton's agent, however, said his client has been suffering from depression and other mental health problems, and denied the arrest was related to a fear of being outed as a gay man.

"This has nothing to do with a gay lover or his relationship with any female," Dave Frost, Danton's agent, told the New York Daily News. "We're going to get him some help, some treatment. He's had some issues from his younger years that he needs to deal with."

Danton, 23, was arrested at 8 a.m. Friday at the airport in San Jose by police and agents from San Francisco's FBI division, hours after the Blues were knocked out of the playoffs by the Sharks on Thursday night. He was taken to the Santa Clara County Jail, where he awaits extradition to St. Louis, possibly early this week.

Danton has a turbulent background and has been estranged from his family, changing his name from Mike Jefferson to Danton in 2002. "When somebody changes his name, that's pretty drastic," Frost said.
Updated On: 4/20/04 at 09:59 AM

[rlbgbc]

Posted: 4/20/04 at 10:12am

So the message of all this is it's not as bad to be thought of as someone that contracts to have someone killed as it is to be thought to be gay.

Anyone think that's a little....er, f*cked?

Good Lord... Updated On: 4/20/04 at 10:12 AM

[Zola Q. LaPlaya]

Posted: 4/20/04 at 10:19am

Message two: Staying in the closet leads you to other erratic and bizarre socio-pathic behavior. (Some here take note).

Message three: Professional sports are one of the last bastions against gay men -- along with American Idol.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 4/20/04 at 10:31am

RL, if there's one thing I've learned from the movies, it's that the gays are murderers. And the murderin' generally involves some form of drag (genital check on the female companion, please!).

And that other gays write messages like the one in this thread at 4/20/04 at 09:56:44 AM, that just cause me to scratch my head and wonder why I identify with this community. Then I realize I don't particularly identify with that part of the community or the people referenced in Zola's "Message two:" segment, and around these parts they know who they are and so do we.

[Zola Q. LaPlaya]

Posted: 4/20/04 at 10:35am

Namo, now I know why your icon is a founding father. Right on.

How many films/plays really have gay-lesbian-bisexual killer scenarios?

Lemme start with Basic Instinct.

[rlbgbc]

Posted: 4/20/04 at 10:43am

The infamous CRUISING.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 4/20/04 at 10:48am

Dressed to Kill, kinda.

[Zola Q. LaPlaya]

Posted: 4/20/04 at 10:50am

Wasn't Diane Keaton's killer in LOOKING FOR MR GOODBAR a big ol' unhappy homo?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 4/20/04 at 10:52am

Yep, "Don't Leave Me This Waaaay...."

And Hitchcock's "Rope" of course, based on Leopold and Loeb.

[ckeaton]

Posted: 4/20/04 at 11:08am

Lest we forget 'Silence of the Lambs'.

*putting the lotion on it's skin*

[tpdc]

Posted: 4/20/04 at 1:04pm

You're so right Zola. There are no "gays" on AMERICAN IDOL--not Ryan, Justin, Clay, George or any of those "J's" (EJ,AJ,RJ) from season one. It's just the "straightest" show on TV. No wonder out Pop Idol winner Will Young got no love on the American version.