Watch: X-Factor Winner Joe McElderry Caught in Narnia Downpour in New Video 'Someone Wake Me Up'

A gay X-Factor winner, CGI, and Christian allegory. What more can one ask for?

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Watch: Joe McElderry Launches Album at Heaven in London

Joe McElderry, the winner of the UK's X Factor who came out of the closet in July, launched his album over the weekend at Heaven nightclub's G-A-Y night in London. Here's a cute video of Joe backstage and on stage.

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News: HIV, Superheroes, Joe McElderry, Humphrey Bogart

The five candidates for governor of Maine are split on their views of marriage equality.

New wheelchair-bound muslim superhero to be introduced: "The new superhero is the brainchild of a group of disabled young Americans and Syrians who were brought together last month in Damascus by the Open Hands Initiative."

Another look at the upcoming creepy sequel to Paranormal Activity.

CDC: "The rate of new HIV infection in the U.S. is increasing among only one risk group: gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men." The news comes just in time for tomorrow's National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day.

Paper claims it has photos of Lindsay Lohan injecting heroin into her arms.

For the seventh straight year, throngs of people crossed the Brooklyn Brodge today in support of marriage equality.

Joe McElderry on his coming out earlier this summer: "I'm glad I did it,. It wasn't necessarily a hard decision, because once I realised who I was as a person and how I wanted to talk about it, I managed to deal with it okay and it was pretty plain sailing."

This is the fruit equivalent of bear mace.

Brad Pitt and his daughter get mobbed at the Grove in LA.

Katy Perry will get Simpson-ized on the show this Christmas.

A new biography claims that even though Humphrey Bogart slept with 1,000 women, he still suspected he himself might be gay.

Joe McElderry Unleashes Album Cover, First Single

X-Factor winner Joe McElderry, who came out of the closet at the end of July, today released the album cover from his first album Wide Awake, along with the first single, "Ambitions".

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News: Joe McElderry, Glee, Sarah Palin, Target, Dublin

Protest reading of gay book "Revolutionary Voices" removed from New Jersey libraries planned for today.

Glee's Mark Salling hits the concrete with his skateboard.

Adam Rickitt and his six pack show up at G-A-Y.

...and Joe McElderry will launch his new album at G-A-Y.

Rally face-off: The National Park Service has approved a permit for a Glenn Beck/Sarah Palin rally for later this month. "The park service is processing a permit request for a counter demonstration and rally by the Rev. Al Sharpton on the same day along Independence Avenue, south of the memorial. Line said the Sharpton rally organizers list 3,000 expected attendees on their permit request."

Cher steps out with another younger boyfriend.

Protesters in Dublin march for marriage equality in Ireland.

Baseball League umpire Billy Van Raaphorst comments on the on-field, gay slur confrontation with manager Brent Bowers: “I’m here to umpire. I’m here to work. What happened in Orange County happened. We can’t unwind it. I don’t want it to be a distraction anymore. It went from zero to 100 just like that. I had no chance to put the brakes on it, no chance to stop it.”

Apparently Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz have decided to not participate in the Target boycott.

Nat Geo report: "It may be a shot in the dark, but freezing sperm is one of the last chances to save the hellbender, North America's biggest salamander, conservationists say."

New drug-resistant superbug discovered in Asia spread to Britain by plastic surgery patients.

Wyclef Jean really wants to be the next president of Haiti.

South Florida firefighters promote their new calendar.

Neil Patrick Harris and Betty White both snag early Emmys. NPH fans not to worry - he won't be taking a break from Hollywood.

A priest in the Church of England hopes to set a “visible example” by marrying his male model boyfriend.

Is the Heidi Montag/Spencer Pratt sex tape really worth $5 million?

Joe McElderry's First Kiss Tells All

It didn't take long for X-Factor winner Joe McElderry's past to come forward following the young singer's revelation that he was gay on Friday.

Sean Ryan, a trainee hairdresser and model, went to UK's Sun tabloid to talk about how he was the singer's first kiss after meeting him backstage at the X-Factor audition:

"I got up to go home. I turned round and he made the first move and kissed me. It was definitely the first time he'd kissed a guy because he told me. He said he'd kissed a few girls but never had sex. It was a long passionate kiss. But that was all that happened and I left...He was shy and turned away when I leaned towards him. I could see he had the uncertainty I had felt at his age....[A week later they did kiss] Joe opened the door in pyjamas. His mum was out so we lay on the settee and kissed and cuddled. We didn't ever get any more intimate than that...He's been brave. It can't have been easy doing that in the public eye."

Over the weekend McElderry expressed gratitude for all the support he's received since coming out.