Two gay former dancers on American Bandstand claim beloved TV personality Dick Clark had producers conduct witch hunts to "purge gays from the ranks."

[caption id="attachment_138320" align="alignright" width="144"] Eddie Kelly as a teen, and in the American Bandstand "yearbook"[/caption]

Staffers on the long-running daily dance show would stalk gay clubs in Philadelphia, where  Bandstand was originally filmed, and if any teens were spotted there they were axed from the show. The series, which aired from 1952 to 1989, was open to gay boys (they wouldn't have much of a dance show if it wasn't) but they were expected to keep a tight lock on the closet door.

"When I went to Bandstand in 1959, I found most of the males were gay, but that could never have gotten out to the public,” said show favorite Eddie Kelly. "Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Square was known as a meeting place for homosexuals. If you were seen in the square, you couldn’t go on Bandstand. So most of us really stayed away.”

Another ex-dancer, 72-year-old Frank Brancaccio, agreed that "a high percentage of the popular ‘regulars’ were gay,” and admits he was called "a Bandstand faggot," in his South Philly neighborhood.

It wasn't just gays who had a hard time on the popular show: Before it moved to Los Angeles, Bandstand was notoriously segregated by the time Clark took over in 1956.  “There were a lot of issues back then that minorities faced,” Kelly told the Hudson Reporter. “The '50s and ’60s were different times, but as years went on it got better.”

Trestin Meacham, the right-wing activist who went on a hunger strike to protest same-sex marriage in  Utah, has apparently strapped on the feedbag now that the Supreme Court has issued a stay until an appeal is ruled on.

"I've been disappointed with the lack of pizza people have sent (only 1) Please feel free to send more today," Meacham tweeted.

Does anyone know how we can adapt the pie recipe from The Help into a pizza pie?

Professional badass Henry Rollins thinks that, despite Phil Robertson's homophobia, Duck Dynasty has all the makings of a gay hit.

“At the next major gay pride event, there should be hard-bodied men in camo hot pants, ridiculous beards pasted to their chins, blowing through duck calls," he told L.A. Weekly. "Dick Dynasty is a gay porn series just waiting to happen.”

That's all you, bro.