Here's Your Chance to Suck on Daniel Craig

Del Monte Superfruit Smoothies created a lifelike version of Daniel Craig after polling 1,000 women which celebrity they'd like to see as a frozen treat. They modeled the ice pop after Craig's scene in Casino Royale.

"The Daniel Craig smoothie lollies are blueberry, pomegranate and cranberry flavoured and under 100 calories each. They are to be distributed during the first National Ice Cream Week which starts today and ends on June 7."

Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman Together in 'A Steady Rain'

The New York Post reports that Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman are coming to Broadway, together:

"The drama, 'A Steady Rain' by Keith Huff, is about two Chicago cops whose lifelong friendship is put to the test when they become involved in a domestic dispute in a poor neighborhood...Although 'A Steady Rain' is harsh and harrowing, one Broadway wag predicted that even those theatergoers whose tastes run to splashy musicals will want to see it. Said the wag: 'Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman in police uniforms? All the boys will be there!'"

News: Yellowstone, Jared Polis, Bangkok, Barney Frank, Seattle

Seattle-area couple charged with immigration fraud: "Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents Tuesday morning arrested a south King County couple accused of cooking up bogus asylum applications that falsely asserted the immigrant was gay and faced persecution in his or her home country. Steven Mahoney, 41, and his estranged wife, Helen Mahoney, 38, -- who prosecutors say held themselves out for more than a decade as immigration experts -- are accused of charging fees to immigrants for helping them file fraudulent asylum applications."

The New Yorker profiles Barney Frank: "For the first time in more than forty years of public life, Frank has real power, and he is wielding it in a characteristically idiosyncratic manner. He remains a national symbol of outré sexuality as well as a rare wit in generally humor-deficient Washington."

U.S. Rep. Jared Polis secures seat on the House Committee on Education and Labor.

Anderson Cooper: "Get this bitch off the stage!"

Minnesota couple loses appeal in discrimination case: "Another setback for a lesbian couple trying to get a family membership at the Rochester Athletic Club. The Minneapolis Court of Appeals has upheld an Olmsted County judge’s ruling that the club did not discriminate against the women when it denied them a family membership. Amy and Sarah Monson, a same-sex couple raising a daughter together, sued in 2007, claiming the club discriminated against them based on their sexual orientation, a violation of the Minnesota Human Rights Act. The club says it simply was following its policy to provide family rates only to married couples."

Mariah Carey joins those who recycle.

Neil Patrick Harris in NYC to host Saturday Night Live.

Simmering: Yellowstone quakes raise fears of massive steam explosion.

Canada's FAB magazine talks to Lady Gaga.

Mesa, Arizona considering domestic partner registry: "Arizona’s most conservative big city may become only the third in the state to offer a domestic-partner registry to unmarried couples. Mesa Councilman Dennis Kavanaugh has been exploring the idea and has asked the city attorney to draft an ordinance that would allow people to register their relationships with the city."

Newsweek on Don't Ask: Obama's Joint Chiefs chair caught between his boss and a conservative military.

Oregon church to stop signing marriage licenses until they are able to do so for any couple, gay or straight: "The Rev. Pam Shepherd came up with the idea after realizing she was inadvertently contributing to discrimination against gay and lesbian couples, she said. 'I've been for civil rights for gay and lesbian people for a long, long time, but I never thought, 'I'm helping the discrimination every time I sign a license,'' she said. 'Every time I sign a license, it's like I'm saying, 'OK,' but it's not OK.'"

Richard Gere and Daniel Craig yacht together

In one of his last acts as President, Bush named former surgeon general nominee James Holsinger to the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. Holsinger's nomination to surgeon general languished as controversy erupted around the nominee, who said in a 1991 paper that homosexuality was "intuitively" unnatural.

Britain anoints its most gay-friendly police force.

Gay man among dead as fire sweeps through Bangkok's Chinatown district: "Bangkok's The Nation newspaper reported that the victim – identified by the police as Sanguan Saenkaew - was found by rescue workers on the seventh floor of the building early Monday morning. He is believed to be a patron of GSM Sauna at the time of the fire. Reports say about 60 fire engines fought the blaze which took hours to put out. The blaze was reported to have started at about 8.30pm on Sunday night. Some 100 people were evacuated from the nine-storey building via two firetruck ladders and a helicopter. The sauna - said to be popular among locals and travelers from Hong Kong and Taiwan - also operated a massage parlour on the fourth floor and guesthouse on the sixth floor."

Daniel Craig and Andy Cohen Soak Up the Sun in St. Barts

Bravo's gay Senior Vice President of Production and Programming Andy Cohen was spotted by INF hobnobbing with 007 Daniel Craig on the beach at St. Barts over the holiday.

Craig later reprised his famous dripping-wet emergence from tropical waters, to Cohen's and fellow beachgoers' delight, no doubt, AFTER THE JUMP...

News: Leonard Matlovich, Bulgaria, Focus on the Family, Connecticut

Comprehensive Prop 8 Update HERE.

Obama to take presidential radio address to YouTube, beginning this Saturday.

Memorial plaque to civil rights activist Leonard Matlovich to be dedicated tomorrow. From a press release: "The author of a November 12 article in The Washington Post wrote, "His last speech was in the rain in Sacramento, six weeks before he died, and he was hoarse and tired and dying, and he talked about love. A Georgia native who grew up in the military, he had the knack for taking your heart and making it catch for a moment, like the way he announced on national television that he had AIDS. He seemed to make people want to be braver than perhaps they were." The public event will begin at noon, Saturday, November 15th, in the Spencer Andrew Ceremonial Room of San Francisco's LGBT Community Center, 1800 Market Street at Octavia."

Connecticut: 66 marriage licenses issued to same-sex couples since Wednesday. "The state Department of Public Health has received data from 130 of the state's 169 cities and towns so far. A total of 94 licenses were issued Wednesday from those municipalities, including 28 to opposite-sex couples. Public Health Department spokesman William Gerrish says couples have 65 days to have their nuptials 'solemnized' by a minister, justice of the peace or other officiator."

Anderson Cooper visits The Tonight Show - VIDEO.

Ryan Gosling's bringing sexy back.

Focus on the Family planning layoffs.

Swastika and anti-gay slur drawn on Jewish student's locker at Saugus High School in California: "Her son Todd, a 15-year-old sophomore, is Jewish, but he is not gay, she said. 'They were mortified. They were frightened by the experience,' said Marcia Davis, who works as an instructional assistant at Saugus. 'It's not random. Somebody knows he is Jewish and is intentionally doing this.' Lt. Brenda Cambra of the Santa Clarita sheriff's station said the department is investigating the incident as a hate crime."

25-year-old Brazilian sentenced to 27 years in jail for murder of French tourist during Sao Paulo Gay Pride weekend in 2007.

Jared Leto has GQ Style.

Governor of Russian Tambov region cleared of criminal complaint over remarks: "The governor of the Tambov region of Russia has been cleared of charges by an appeals court following an anti-gay outburst reported in the daily newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda last May. And in a separate, but related case, the Tambov city authorities give the reason that they banned a gay march was because the closure of streets 'breaches the rights of drivers'...'Tolerance? To hell! Faggots must be torn apart and their pieces should be thrown in the wind,' the newspaper reported the Governor as saying."

Entertainment Weekly: Neil Patrick Harris is #25 of top 25 entertainers of the year.

Daniel Craig gets waxed.

News: Space, Katy Perry, Torture, Hong Kong, Wentworth Miller

GQ's photographic portrait of the '08 campaign.

Given the subject matter an tone of some of these, I'd rename the list "most powerful" rather than best, but here they are. Vanity Fair's slideshow of the 25 best news photographs.

Outer space smells like hot metal and fried steak: "Nasa asked Steven Pearce, the managing director of Omega Ingredients, which makes fragrances, to recreate the scent after hearing of his work creating smells for an art exhibition in July, one of which was of the inside of the Mir space station. Mr Pearce is interviewing astronauts to help him with his task. 'We have already produced the smell of fried steak, but hot metal is proving more difficult,' he said. 'We think it’s a high-energy vibration in the molecule.'"

Katy Perry dives on a gigantic pink cake.

Religious leaders in Florida come out against anti-gay Amendment 2, which would place a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage: "Florida Clergy for Fairness, a group of interfaith clergy, say that Amendment 2 is mean-spirited and an infringement upon the religious freedoms of all Floridians. 'Hatred and bigotry are the motivations behind this,' said Father Frank Corbishley, an Episcopal Chaplain at the University of Miami, during a conference call with reporters Thursday morning. 'It's sending a dangerous message about intolerance.'""

Wentworth Miller causes hysteria in China.

Musical indie film Once coming to Broadway.

The pink bunny you can see from space.

Hong Kong sees sharp rise in HIV infections among gay men: "Four percent of Hong Kong's gay and bisexual men are HIV-positive and genetic analyses of virus samples found three HIV strains circulating in the local community."

James Bond for Obama: "I strongly feel there needs to be a new way forward. Barack Obama is pushing things in the right direction. I'm excited about the election. Unfortunately, things will probably get dirty. I hope Obama can stay above the fray ... I'm hopeful for the first time in a long, long while. It's one of the most exciting elections in my lifetime."

An update on Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil of India - he's now dating a 35-year-old Brit named Michael Lower.

Madonna drinks toast to divorce???

GOP Rep. Virgil Goode denies involvement in Eden's Curve, a "2003 art house film that depicts gay sex, violent beatings and drug use...The film is about a young man who goes off to an all-male college and begins to explore his sexuality, eventually engaging in a ménage a trois with his roommate and his roommate’s girlfriend." Said Goode: "I never gave any money to that film. Wouldn’t do it. Haven’t even seen it. Wouldn’t see it."

Cleveland to bid for Gay Games in 2014.

Eminem titles new album Relapse.

A clip from the PBS documentary on torture that PBS won't show before the election.

Connecticut Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage may help cause in Vermont: "Bills proposing gay marriage are commonly introduced at the Statehouse, but usually gain little traction in the relevant committees. But advocates and lawmakers say these and other developments across the country have changed the political climate, increasing the chance that the Legislature will seriously consider a bill early next year."