"They have."
Thorson is just one guy, a polygraph can be passed by anyone that simply remains calm during the questioning and thinks of a different question and answer in place of the one the interviewer is giving as in if I wanted to beat a lie detector test and the guy asks me a question that I know I will have to lie about I'll ask myself a question via a thought that I know the answer I give to myself will be true for and then I'll answer yes to the tester and pass it and also the other stories mysteriously appeared immediately after Jackson died and there really was no reason those men couldn't have come forward while he was alive.
Either way they'd get paid for their story by some entertainment rag or book deal. Not wanting to hurt Michael wouldn't be a legitimate reason for them not coming forward sooner either because allegations like these hurt the man's reputation anyway. Not because homosexuality is wrong but because Michael has always maintained that he was not gay.
If he really was gay I maintain that a star of his caliber and access would have had access to countless men and those countless men would have come forward much much sooner trying to cash in on his celebrity especially in his heyday ala the 1980's when he was at the top of the world and height of his stardom being invited to visit Ronald and Nancy Reagan at the White House among other honors.
For example during the height of his run for the White House Barack Obama had Larry Sinclair come forward and expose to the national press club that the two men had not only smoked crack together but engaged in homosexual activity.
My point being that if you are at the top of your game and you've got skeletons in your closet they will be exposed when you are at the top of your game.
Nothing happened to Jackson in the 80's of this nature when it would've been the prime time to do it and ruin him while collecting a big cash payout from the gossip rags at the same time.
"Don't forget Liza Minnelli, Diana Ross and the aforementioned Liberace. All big gay icons. Don't forget his love of Marilyn Monroe and Liza Minnelli's mother Judy Garland. Nothing wrong with loving them of course, but they are gay icons of the past."
The guy was largely surrounded by yes men and had no childhood and this caused him to literally think of himself as a kind of king not just the king of pop.
As well he thought of himself as Peter Pan and literally said to Martin Breshir that he is Peter Pan in his heart.
In the documentary by Martin Breshir he and Jackson go to an expensive store together and Jackson is picking out all of these royal kingly type of things to buy and Brashir remarks that its like Louie the 14th (King of France) and asks Jackson why he is interested in such extravagant things and Michael simply replies that its his taste.
Watching him react to items in the store was not in line with watching a flamboyant homosexual like Little Richard or Christopher Lowell marvelling over the glory in overdramatic glee of the shiny gold items in front of them but rather an awe struck 10 year old who continues to be amazed at the beauty of the world around him who also fancies himself a king of sorts.
As for the celebrity list you posted I'm not sure I'd agree they are all gay icons especially Marilyn Monroe who is moreso a universal icon beloved by everyone no matter race, color, creed, sexual gender etc.
And as I already pointed out and many media outlets have pointed out most of the entertainment community in general were friends with and loved Michael Jackson so of course he's going to have tons of gay icons as friends as he was friends with pretty much everyone in Hollywood and the entertainment business.
"As for the others, I'm going to take your word for it. Never saw them together though. And, if it's true, other than Magic and Tucker, that's a sad list to be friends with I gotta say."
B.I.G and 2pac worked on Michael's HIStory album with him. B.I.G actually rapped on it and I think 2pac may of done some sort of work for him be it with beats or lyrics or some such.
Michael was obviously happy with the results since he allowed 2pac to turn his song Liberian Girl into a rap song...
2pac's rap version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaI1NghDgc4
Michael's original version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjtI2WZTZ9k
"He also looked effeminate and acted effeminate. He was practically a crossdresser!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzNiZ4CjSsc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7RDCDLLIm8
I don't see anything effeminette in either video.
The first being a famous performance where he exhibits all the cool ****y confidence and flamboyance of a Pook styled DJ.
The second being a documentary where we get to see the real man in every day life who seems like a kind gentle humble yet tortured soul.
Hey though I can't disagree that his appearance in the end was highly disturbing but I thought it was mostly an adrogynous asexual look, not effeminite just weird and eccentric. In the end I agree with another poster whose post I read online say that he thought Jackson evolved from a black boy into a white woman and then finely became something moreso resembling something out of Japanese anime than a living human being and then the poster remarked that he thought perhaps that was what Jackson was trying to acheive all along ie to transcend his own humanity.
Thats a bit too deep for me to fully sign on with but what I do believe in the appearance change he innadvertently took on a look that revealed his asexual nature motivated by his conscious and subconscious mind once again that being an androgenous look.