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Suspect in murders of gay elderly men in Indianapolis arrested in California.

Leading gay activists in Belarus meet face-to-face with leaders of the far right in Minsk: "With the theme ‘Do radical organizations have the right to exist’, the seminar was organised by the Belarusian Helsinki Committee. 'It was very good that we and our opponents could see each other face to face and to talk,' commented Sergei Androsenko of the Belarusian Initiative for Sexual and Gender Equality."

Who did People name its sexiest man alive?

Seven gay officials named to Obama transition team: "Three of the seven gays named to the transition panels — businessman Fred P. Hochberg, former San Francisco Supervisor Roberta Achtenberg, and labor attorney Elaine Kaplan — held high-level positions in the Clinton administration. The Obama officials also named President Bush’s former ambassador to Romania, Michael Guest, to a transition panel assigned to review issues pertaining to the State Department. Guest became the nation’s second openly gay ambassador when Bush appointed him to the Romania post for a term lasting from 2001 to 2003." The others are Rick Stamberger, president and CEO of online publisher SmartBrief, Inc., Brad Kiley, of American Progress, and Thomas Soto, co-founder of Craton Equity Partners, a 'clean techonology' investment fund.

Follow his lead: Justin Timberlake debuts new track.

The kid behind Lil O'Reilly. And if you missed the video, one of them is here.

Dating site eHarmony to allow gay matchmaking in settlement deal: "The California-based company will begin providing same-sex matches under as part of a settlement with New Jersey's Civil Rights Division. Garden State resident Eric McKinley filed a complaint against the online matchmaker in 2005. Under terms of the settlement, the company can create a new or differently named Web site for same-sex singles. The company can also post a disclaimer saying its compatibility-based matching system was developed from research of married heterosexual couples. Neither the company nor its founder, Neil Clark Warren, admit any liability. In addition, eHarmony will pay the division $50,000 to cover administrative costs. It will pay McKinley $5,000 and give him a free one-year membership to its new service."

Madge gets $10 million for Louis Vuitton campaign.

"Meh" recognized as word by Collins English Dictionary. Meh.

Westboro Baptist Church planning bus campaign in D.C.?

You'll never guess who's rockin' that pornstache now.

There's more to the story of Friday's incident in San Francisco's Castro district, in which a group of Christians were chased out of the neighborhood for trying to convert gays. Those Christians were part of Joel's Army, a group that demands that the United States be ruled by strict Biblical principles.

Boston radio station runs fake promo of anti-gay jokes mocking Gay Games potentially coming to Boston.

Britney and The Beatles featured in a few new mash-ups from DJ Earworm.

News: Mapplethorpe, Anti-gay T-shirt, Cher Auction

Latvian foreign minister Artis Pabriks accuses Belarus of "aiming to humiliate" diplomat by broadcasting hidden camera footage of a gay sex tape found in the diplomat's apartment. Pabriks: "It is in breach of the Vienna Convention, because it was a violation of the private space of our diplomat. I think that it is not clear what exactly the Belarussian position is at this moment, because they are avoiding to give us any explanation."

Robert Mapplethorpe portrait retrospective opens at National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh. Guardian: "Photographers' lives leak into their images, wherever they point the camera. In Mapplethorpe's case, death and the diabolic were always there. Gleeful Mapplethorpe, demonic with a bull-whip up his arse. Mapplethorpe facing the camera and facing death, holding a walking stick topped with a skull. Mapplethorpe posing with a machine-gun, a cigarette, a flick-knife. A bound penis, with a little brass devil dancing nearby with a pitchfork. His art is always priapic. And, at its best, it is full of life, even if pain and death are never far away."

Breaking away or breaking up: McConaughey rides solo.

Larry McKeon, an openly gay Illlinois lawmaker who helped write the state's LGBT anti-discrimination law, is stepping down. Urges committee members to appoint another openly gay man as his successor: "I think if the community were to lose this seat, it would disenfranchise an entire community, not only here on the North Side of Chicago but throughout the whole state. I receive calls from people throughout the state who feel they have no representation with discrimination and health care."

Young bigot Tyler Chase Harper, who caused an uproar in late 2004 by wearing a t-shirt with "homosexuality is shameful" scrawled on it to his San Diego school, will not be having his case reconsidered by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. In April, the Court ruled that the school had the right to forbid Harper from wearing the shirt, saying that it might provoke attacks against gay and lesbian students.

Swiftboaters out to get Iraq war critic John Murtha and "'Redeploy [him] From Congress' to his backyard."

Cher to auction Bob Mackie gowns, giant Gothic "things": have loved everything I ever bought. I have loved them and kept them for all these years and now it's time for them to go on."

Belarus Broadcasts Gay Porn Over State TV

A hidden camera in the home of a Latvian diplomat under investigation for disseminating porn in Belarus revealed gay porn to be among the official's inventory.

This discovery should not sit well for authorities in Belarus where porn is illegal, or the diplomat's home country, where violence surrounding a gay rights march resulted in state sympathy for not the gays, but the police.

However, the footage of two men having sex, which Belarus quickly took the opportunity to broadcast over the state TV network, made for the most exciting afternoon at the old folks' home in years.

Belarus State TV Broadcasts Diplomat’s Homosexual Sex Tape [mosnews]