Tom Selleck filed a $20 million libel suit against the Globe after his name appeared in the supermarket tabloid under a story headlined "`Gay' Stars Stop Traffic."
The story in the July 2 issue listed a number of celebrities whose pictures had been posted by an anonymous group around New York City. Some of the pictures posted carried the statement "Absolutely Queer.""I am as proud of my sexual preference as those who happen to be gay are of theirs," Selleck said in a statement. "There is not a man who has lived on the face of the Earth in my lifetime who can truthfully deny what is so obviously my choice; that is, that I am singularly heterosexual."
The "Magnum, P.I." star added that he and his wife are parents of a daughter and that he has a son from a previous marriage. Globe editor Wendy Henry said from the tabloid's offices in Boca Raton, Fla., that the article was "a news report of a perfectly factual story."