Adam Lambert and Boyfriend Arrested After Drunken Brawl Outside Helsinki Gay Bar

Adam Lambert has been arrested and jailed in Finland after a fight with his Finnish boyfriend Sauli Koskinen outside a gay bar in Helsinki, the tabloid Ilta-Sanomat reports:

Lambert and Koskinen got into a heated fight between each other when they were partying in Helsinki. Lambert and Koskinen were taken into jail. They will be questioned during this morning after they have sobered up. We have to wait until that, police officer Petri Juvonen told the Finnish newspaper Ilta-Sanomat.

Both men will be held in custody during interrogations. After questioning Adam Lambert and Sauli Koskinen will be released.
The reason of the quarrel between the two lovers has not yet been confirmed. According to the police possible injuries are not severe.

Our assumption is that people were very intoxicated when the officers arrived to the scene...

The tabloid's video of Lambert arriving in Finland, AFTER THE JUMP...

Finland's State Church to Sanction Prayer for Gay Marriages

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Finland's General Synod has approved, by a vote of 78-30, the creation of a prayer for registered same-sex partnerships.

AFP reports:

"After years of debate, Finland's state church took a step towards accepting gay relationships with an announcement Friday it would create a "prayer moment" for registered partnerships. 'The proposal offers a positive opportunity to minister to church members who are sexual minorities,' the General Synod, the Evangelical Lutheran Church's highest administrative body, said in a statement. The General Synod must now draw up a formula for a prayer that walks a fine doctrinal line, observers said. Lutheran ministers will have the choice of performing the prayer with gay couples in a church, but it will not actually constitute a church's blessing of the union itself, synod spokesman Marko Kailasmaa told AFP...The vote can be seen as a concession of sorts to a groundswell of popular support within the church community for Christian gays, lesbians and bisexuals. 'A prayer moment is part of pastoral care ... It's not an official sacrament, but you can't say that a prayer is less important,' Kailasmaa said."

In October, the Church reportedly saw an exodus of tens of thousands of people over remarks it made at a gay rights panel on the Finnish Broadcasting Company.

In related news, here's Finland's "It Gets Better" video, if you missed it.

Watch: 'It Gets Better' Goes to Finland!

Dan Savage's phenomenal 'It Gets Better' campaign continues to expand its reach. 

Here's a video created at TEDx Helsinki, which includes not only Finland's Next Top Model winner, but the country's Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb (above) and Justice Minister Tuija Brax (in purple coat).

Writes Tommi, who appears in the still for the clip:

"The response to the video  has been amazing. In the premiere the audience of TedX Helsinki gave it a standing ovation. The president of the republic has mentioned it in her speech. In two days it has gathered 41 000 views in a country of five million. It's been shown in dozens of schools followed by a debate. All main TV stations will show it in full, which means that millions will see it. We got a publishing deal for a It Gets Better book, which will come out for the Christmas market."

Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...

News: NPR, Chris Colfer, Calvin Klein, Shark Attack, Finland

NPR on its recent canning of Juan Williams: “He had several times in the past violated our news code of ethics with things that he had said on other people’s air.”

For whatever reason, Glee's Chris Colfer doesn't come across as narcissistic with this statement: "If somebody had to be a role model, I think I'm a good candidate, in the sense that I really don't do anything obviously stupid or wrong, and I'm pretty smart with my judgments."

Rick Sanchez lives to tweet again.

The NY Times reports on why the creators of South Park plagiarized jokes on this week's episode: "When Mr. Parker and Mr. Stone could not find a movie theater showing 'Inception,' and were unable to get a DVD of the film (or find a watchable version on BitTorrent), they turned to other parodies of the film on the Web, and found the CollegeHumor video." Still sounds fishy to me.

A whole lotta green eggs and ham: The 19-page manuscript of a previously unpublished Dr. Seuss manuscript is sold at auction for a cool $34,000.

Prosecutors in Vancouver want a man accused of attacking a 62-year-old at a gay bar charged with a hate crime. The victim was left with permanent brain damage.

Anti-gay comments spark mass exodus from Finnish church: "The number leaving increased sharply on 12 October following the broadcast of a debate programme focused on gay rights on Network 2 of the Finnish Broadcasting Company (Yle). By Monday 18 October, more than 24,000 people had left Finland’s Evangelical-Lutheran and Orthodox Churches."

Weather forecast for some red states is a giant hovering red penis.

Katy Perry and Russell brand got hitched.

Calvin Kelin ads can't seem to stay away from controversy.

The video game Fable III is about to become very gay-friendly: "We don't require you to be of a certain type to get married," said Peter Molyneux, creative director at Microsoft Game Studios Europe. "You can be gay. You can be bisexual. You can get married as many times as you like. It's up to you. My fascination is with what that means to people. It means they can be who they are rather than who I require them to be."

The digital age has officially killed the Sony Walkman.

Shark attack that killed a 19-year-old in California was most likely involved a Great White.

Watch: Finnish News Anchor Fired for Beer Gag

Finland's best-known English language news anchor was fired this week for a gag caught on camera during a report on the misconduct of bars selling alcohol. As the program cut away from its B-roll footage, Wilska was seen pretending to swill a beer. His producers weren't amused.

The stunt has garnered him a Facebook support group, however, with 32,000 fans and counting.

Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...

Watch: Stunning Summer Storm Video from Finland

A storm is gathering! And it's not gay marriage!

For my fellow weather freaks out there — this one was shot on Sunday night at Helsinki Hietaniemi beach in Finland.

Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...