News: Sydney, Mexico, Jury Duty, Ke$ha, The Sun, Conan

700 couples have wed in Mexico City since marriage equality came to that city last year.

Lily Tomlin joined hundreds of thousands of LGBT supporters for Sydney's gay Mardi Gras parade in support of marriage equality.

Gay man gets out of jury duty by pleading inequality.

Somehow I'm not that surprised that the TSA failed to detect that a Jet Blue passenger boarded a flight with box cutters in his carry-on.

Rachel Maddow beats almost everyone in the ratings.

Miss New Mexico mysteriously pulls out of an LGBT awards show.

Ke$ha wants to be the face of safe sex.

Support to reverse the recent rejection of a gay/straight alliance at Flour Bluff High School in Texas swells.

Ed Westwick suits up in leather.

Human rights organization demands that hateful Serbian bishop apologize for calling gays and lesbians the "stench and poison littering capital Belgrade."

Lionsgate releases the official web poster for the new Conan the Barbarian remake - and it doesn't sit still.

Scientists are calling a video shot in China that shows what appear to be two suns an optical refraction.

Promo photos for the new Dancing with the Stars released.

Focus on the Family pastor speaks in California, draws protesters.

The Earth could be on its way to a sixth mass extinction: "The new threat is man-made, inflicted by habitation loss, over-hunting, over-fishing, the spread of germs and viruses and introduced species, and by climate change caused by fossil-fuel greenhouse gases."

More of the same: Mitt Romney slams President Obama in New Hampshire speech.

FOX News regurgitates old news and broadcasts it as new.

Listen: 30 Seconds of Britney Spears' New Single 'Till the World Ends'

A 30-second snippet of the new Britney Spears single "Till the World Ends" was released on a German Amazon site.

Ke$ha wrote the song and spoke about it with Spin:" That song is me imagining her and any female musician touring the world. You know, when you got out, and you're having an amazing, magical night and you don't want to go to sleep and you want it to last until the world ends."

Listen, AFTER THE JUMP...

Watch: Ke$ha's 'Blow' Video Features James Van Der Beek and a Rainbow Unicorn Gun Battle

Best Ke$ha video ever. And "James Van Der Douche" is really having fun with his return.

Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...

Watch: Ke$ha, the Least Hoped-For Christmas Gift

Somebody's here from the island of misfit toys, AFTER THE JUMP...

News: Brazil, John Cameron Mitchell, Christine O'Donnell, Rome

The newest Real Housewives of Orange County cast member is a lesbian.

Ricky Martin joins Ke$ha and Kylie at the "40 Principales Awards" in Madrid.

The Manhattan Declaration app might make its way back onto iTunes.

Nicole Kidman on why she chose John Cameron Mitchell to helm her new movie Rabbit Hole: "I think a director that's very cold, or that's slightly removed or stoic, wouldn't have been so good because the script itself was very restrained. So it was the combination of a very raw director with a restrained script, I just thought that was interesting."

Critics less than thrilled over new Michael Jackson album.

The Gwent County Police department in Wales now has an LGBT unit.

Willow Smith's parents would rather put their 10-year-old child to work rather than give her an education.

Christine O'Donnell's "I'm not a witch" is the quote of the year.

Nicole Richie and Joel Madden tie the knot.

Brazil will give pensions to gay couples: "The Social Security Ministry says in a Friday statement that the gay spouse of a retiree who dies will now be able to receive the pension payments once received by his or her companion. The policy covers formally registered workers who pay monthly social security fees."

Massachusetts serial killer confesses to the murder of eight women.

Angelina Jolie plus Johnny Depp does not equal box office gold.

Police in Rome arrest a group that robbed tourists, leaving one dead, outside of a gay club.

News: Polari, Carrie Fisher, Bernie Madoff, Ke$ha

The language Polari, which was once used by gays in the United Kingdom, might go the way of the dinosaurs.

Billboard magazine celebrates Ke$ha's big year.

Carrie Fisher on the gay rumors surrounding John Travolta: "I mean, my feeling about John has always been that we know and we don’t care. Look, I’m sorry that he’s uncomfortable with it, and that’s all I can say. It only draws more attention to it when you make that kind of legal fuss. Just leave it be."

Tonsillitis shuts down the Glee set.

The attention-seeking Westboro Baptist Church picketed today's funeral of Elizabeth Edwards. She was eulogized by her daughter and a couple of long-time friends but not John Edwards.

Showgirls and Black Swan get the trailer mash-up treatment (nsfw).

One dead, two injured in Stockholm bombing.

The Thor movie trailer officially hits the Web.

Christmas came early in Boston today: spectators were treated to runners dressed in nothing but Santa hats and speedos.

Chances are that Winona Ryder is not reading this right now.

Bernie Madoff's 46-year-old son has taken his own life - on the two year anniversary of his father's arrest.

Bill O'Reilly offends Barbara Walters by implying she's nothing but a celebrity journalist.

The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council finds that evangelical TV host Charles McVety violated broadcast code: “McVety may not like homosexuality. That is his entitlement, but to leave the totally unsubstantiated impression that gay and lesbian adults have a predilection toward young, underage people is insidious and unacceptable. In all, the Panel finds the McVety mis-characterizations as excessive, inappropriate, disparaging, and abusive.”

Tom Ford has no problem watching straight porn.