News: Martha Stewart, Tel Aviv, Hate Crimes, Oaxaca, Joey Arias

FBI: Anti-gay hate crimes increase 11%.

Joey Arias brings 'Arias with a Twist' to L.A.

Dangerous: Martha Stewart has some strong words for Sarah Palin.

Should PEPFAR money to Uganda be cut off?

Report: 4,000 Anglican priests to join Catholic Church. "Under the Vatican’s initiative, Anglicans, turned off by their own church’s embrace of gay clerics, women priests and blessing of same-sex unions, can join new parishes, called ‘personal ordinariates’, that are headed by former Anglican prelates."

Formed following the passage of Proposition 8, gay rights group celebrates first anniversary in Orange County.

Man attacked after climbing into bear enclosure at zoo in Bern, Switzerland.

Did J Lo fall so people would notice her performance?

Canada border guards seize PG-rated gay films headed for Inside Out Film Festival: "All three movies have been shown in Canada before. Patrik 1.5 is a PG-rated film about a gay couple's foibles adopting a child in Sweden. Clapham Junction is R-rated, but by no means obscene. I Can't Think Straight, the other film seized, is a relatively mainstream movie which had a theatrical release this summer. It stars Lisa Ray."

WATCH: Janet Jackson's new video "Make Me".

Selected entries from National Geographic's International Photography contest.

GLAAD President Jarrett Barrios on former KC Chiefs running back Larry Johnson, anti-gay slurs, and homophobia in professional sports: "I hope the league moves beyond individual suspensions and instead enacts zero-tolerance policies that start to address the danger of homophobia in sports."

Denver evangelical church opens doors to all.

Nude sunbathing initiative led by gay rights activists rejected in UK.

Stonewall Family: World of Warcraft highlights Gay Guild.

Jude Law does his fitness routine for students at NYU.

Male model fix: Nicholas Lemons.

Oaxacan town holds drag festival: "The annual dance and festival of the muxes celebrates a group of homosexual men who don elaborate makeup and traditional dress to dance and crown a queen, all with the support and excitement of the local community. Zapotec Indian culture in the Juchitan area, 277 km south of the Oaxacan capital, treats male homosexuality with openness."

Health care plan to include prayer?

Carrie Prejean's brother on her sex tapes: "If they were put in front of me I'd probably watch it."

Akron and Summit counties in Ohio mull anti-discimination ordinance protecting gays and lesbians.

Geri Halliwell has a revelation: not all hairdressers are gay.

Tel Aviv evicting gays from public park cruising area: "The new policy is divisive even within the LGBT community itself, as some of its leaders sided with city hall. Yaniv Weizmann, founder of the Proud Youth organization and a city council member, told Haaretz that the park's historic role was over. 'The community has matured,' he said. 'We can walk around in broad daylight in Tel Aviv. Something that was relevant when we were a persecuted and oppressed community is no longer relevant today.' Others see establishment leaders like Weizmann as traitors to the cause."

News: Irving Penn, Blood Donation, Jesus Luz, Moon Impact, Poe

Impact of Moon by probe to be broadcast live on NASA TV tomorrow morning.

Photographer Irving Penn dies at 92.

Madonna buying posh Upper East Side apartment for Jesus Luz.

Gay travel agents converge on Tel Aviv.

Tracklist for Susan Boyle album includes Madonna and The Monkees.

Teen talk: My parents don't know my boyfriend's parents are gay. "My mom is asking to meet Robby's 'mom and dad.' She has spoken with one of Robby's dads on the phone but she doesn't know another dad exists. I don't want this to come between my parents and Robby. Should I just break up with him now and avoid doing this or lie and tell my mom that his parents don't want to meet?"

WATCH: OneRepublic's video for "All the Right Moves".

Levi Johnston workout photos.

Self-assessment, right of gays to donate blood at issue in Canadian court case: "Kyle Freeman, 36, relied on his own self-assessment that he wasn't infected with any sexually transmitted diseases when he lied about having sex with men on a donor-screening questionnaire...Freeman is suing the agency, claiming he didn't answer the question truthfully because Canadian Blood Services violated his Charter right to equality regardless of his sexual orientation when it asked him whether he had ever had sex with other men, even once, since 1977. The discovery Freeman had syphilis, a sexually transmitted disease that can damage the heart, brain and eyes if left untreated, was made only after Canadian Blood Services screened his donated blood."

Mika plays with puppets on Spanish TV.

Dozens join lawsuit against Chicago police officer Richard Fiorito.

15 gay TV characters who never came out of the closet but should have.

Edgar Allen Poe to get funeral he never had: "On Sunday, Poe's funeral will get an elaborate do-over, with two services expected to draw about 350 people each - the most a former church next to his grave can hold. Actors portraying Poe's contemporaries and other long-dead writers and artists will pay their respects, reading eulogies adapted from their writings about Poe."

The superheroes of your dreams.

Several prominent Twin Cities religious leaders speak out for marriage equality: "Retired Bishop Lowell Erdahl of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and Rabbi Jared Saks of Temple Israel in Minneapolis are among those speaking at a Capitol news conference."

Poll: "Whatever" is most annoying conversational word.

Romanian-born German novelist Herta Müller wins Nobel Prize for Literature: "Announcing the award in Stockholm, the Swedish Academy described Ms. Müller, 'who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed.' Her award comes on the 20th anniversary of the fall of Communism in Europe."

News: Tel Aviv, Chip Kidd, Provincetown, Tim Gill, Saskatchewan

Activists demand British government apologize for treatment of mathematician Alan Turing.

Cambridge mayor Denise Simmons to marry longtime partner Mattie Hayes on August 30: "The wedding will take place at the historic St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church, which has predominantly been serving Cambridge’s African-American community for over 100 years, and is presided over by the Rev. Leslie K. Sterling. The wedding ceremony shall be conducted by Rev. Irene Monroe."

Lady Gaga wants to be a fangbanger.

Another lawsuit: Oklahama couple's challenge to DOMA resurfaces.

Project Runway pulls highest ratings in bow on Lifetime.

Onion: Obama bipolar.

Tim Gill talks money and activism: "The Gill Foundation won’t last forever, and it was never designed to.  Its mission in life is to spend down the assets in my lifetime.  How soon that happens has less to do with the economy and more to do with the opportunities that arise in a given year.  Spending may very well go up and shorten its duration.  But there should be some other gay entrepreneur that replaces me over time."

A look inside John Mayer's apartment.

Provincetown holds annual Carnival parade.

Dan Savage taping Savage Love HBO pilot on August 27: you can get tickets by clicking here.

As adoption rights for gay couples are proposed in New Zealand, the nation is divided.

Benicio del Toro is in a hairy situation.

Alycia Lane, the Philadelphia news anchor known for calling a female NYPD officer a "fucking dyke bitch", has been hired by L.A.'s NBC affiliate.

NYCLU files suit against school for failing to protect student: "In a statement on its website, the NYCLU says the harassment started for the student when he was in seventh grade. They say he was harassed by other students because he is gay, dyes his hair, and wears eye makeup. The NYCLU says the fourteen-year-old was regularly pushed and had things thrown at him. At least one teacher allegedly told him he should be ashamed of himself for being gay."

The Moment talks to book cover designer Chip Kidd about comics.

The next Brazilian Idol may be a transsexual.

Gay resident of Sault Ste. Marie in Canada gets called "faggot" by passersby once every two months.

Jason Mraz's "I'm Yours" smashes billboard record: "At 70 weeks, it’s now the longest-running song on the Hot 100 chart in Billboard’s 51-year history."

For gay homeless youth in Toronto, street is the only option: "If there had been an acceptable shelter when I was 16, I would have run earlier. But there wasn't. So I lived with it. It was horrible."

Gay youth retreat opens in Saskatchewan: "Camp Fyrefly is aimed at helping young people cope as they develop their identities during the challenging times of adolescence and young adulthood."

Ultra orthodox Jewish website: arrest managers of Tel Aviv gay center for running "club of perversion". Haredi writer: "These perverts take everything out into the street, into the public domain. A child, religious or secular, doesn't need to know they exist. [Homosexuals] are worse than beasts, at least a beast knows it's [homosexuality] wrong, or not natural.[The managers of the gay center] should be forced to face a firing squad."

Jerusalem Gay Center Hires Guard, Installs Security System

The Jerusalem gay center Open House, in response to last month's shooting in Tel Aviv, in which two people were shot and killed and 15 others injured during an attack by a lone gunman, has made some sizable security changes.

"'We realized the day after the vicious attack in Tel Aviv that we might have been a little naïve in our expectation or how our surroundings react to us and the level of violence and hatred facing us as a community,' said [executive director Yonatan] Gher. 'We realized there were more steps we needed to take preserve our own community.' In addition to employing an armed guard who carefully unlocks and relocks the door after searching each visitor, Gher said the center had also installed emergency buttons around the building linked to a private security firm, was strengthening its ties with Jerusalem police, and had implemented other undisclosed security measures. Gher said that though tension in Jerusalem between the LGBT and some elements in the Orthodox community had recently eased, in part because of a truce bartered with Haredi leaders in 2008, opposition toward the community center and its membership was still manifest."

The gunman responsible for the attack is still at large.

DJ Beaten for Playing Pet Shop Boys at Bedouin Wedding in Israel

A DJ in Israel was punished with an assault for playing a Pet Shop Boys track at a Bedouin wedding, AFP reports:

The DJ initially put on Arabic tunes for the hundreds of guests attending the event in Aroer village in Israel's Negev desert region. At one point, he decided to stir things up and put on a song by the British electronic music duo Pet Shop Boys, causing some women to 'dance exuberantly to the foreign music,' angering some of the men present, the daily said. Several angry young men gave the DJ a 'severe beating' after he refused to go back to playing Arabic music. Police later arrested two men in connection with the incident."

The Pet Shop Boys video for "What Have I Done to Deserve This?", AFTER THE JUMP...

Ultra-Orthodox Haredi Man Arrested for Threats to Gay Tel Aviv Rally

Shmuel Preimark, a soldier in the ultra-Orthodox Nahal Haredi unit, was arrested for and confessed to making anti-gay threats on a LGBT forum for three days prior to Saturday's rally in honor of the victims of the Tel Aviv gay youth center shooting.

According to Ynet News: "Police who searched the suspect's home found his personal weapon and confiscated two computers, which were allegedly used for making the threats. The soldier is suspected of writing, 'Expect more victims among the gays, this time something bigger' and 'a second attack on the community soon. Be ready. Don't say we didn’t know.'"  

Haaretz reports: "Though his personal weapon and ammunition have been confiscated, police stressed yesterday that he is not suspected of posting explicit murder threats. They also said he has cooperated with his investigators. Nevertheless, police sources said, Primarik's (sic) arrest was 'very important,' and they are now looking into whether he was involved in a long list of other homophobic attacks, including several bombs set off to protest Jerusalem Gay Pride parades in previous years. They are also examining whether he was involved in other attacks that they suspect were perpetrated by right-wing religious extremists, such as that on Prof. Zeev Sternhell, who was slightly injured by a pipe bomb placed at his door almost a year ago. However, no connection to Primarik (sic) has as yet been found. Police sources also said they are examining possible connections between these cases and last week's attack on the LGBT center."

Also, at the rally, a Haredi man was reportedly arrested while wearing a T-shirt that said "Homos, we are tired of you."

In related news, on Thursday a group of people putting up posters in Jerusalem condemning the Tel Aviv attacks were attacked and chased by Haredim in Mea She'arim.