News: Humpback Whale, Simpsons, Outrage, Scottish Male Barbie

Kirby Dick's Outrage hopes to shake anti-gay Republican hypocrisy to its core.

Father and Son: "My life has been redefined by this statistic, 'The odds of getting pregnant from a one-time sexual encounter are about 11%.' I often think if it can happen, yes, it will happen to me. Now, I’m a single gay dad under thirty, that didn’t adopt, didn’t get married and isn’t bisexual, and inadvertently ends up with a best friend getting pregnant from the solitary experience."

The #1 male Barbie of Scotland.

Not a clue: "Here is another great moment in A.P. history. In its quest to become the RIAA of the newspaper industry, the A.P.’s executives and lawyers are beginning to match their counterparts in the music industry for cluelessness. A country radio station in Tennessee, WTNQ-FM, received a cease-and-desist letter from an A.P. vice president of affiliate relations for posting videos from the A.P.’s official Youtube channel on its Website."

Humpback whale spotted in Hudson River near Manhattan.

Madonna donates $500,000 to Italian earthquake victims.

Speculation over a city council run for openly gay Fox 2 anchorman Charles Pugh has Detroit buzzing.

New Hampshire House passes anti-discrimination bill extending protections to transgender persons, by one vote: "The House debated more than three hours before voting 188-187 to send it to the Senate. Republicans call it the 'bathroom bill' based on the argument it would open all bathrooms to both men and women." 

Anybody need a Brazilian?

Napa's neighbor Yountville, California passes resolution opposing discrimination of any kind, including the prohibition of same-sex marriage.

Tell your Coming Out story to Showtime.

Bono checks for crabs.

Ken Blackwell and Christopher Hitchens spar over the end of Christianity in America.

The Simpsons to get their own postage stamps.

Polish sausage bitten off: "Horrified Marian Milczarek, 53, from Lesna in south west Poland, was attacked following a row with his friend - apparently over borrowing a trailer. 'He began hitting me with a chain and then pulled down my trousers and started biting. It was agony,' he said. Police and medics could find no trace of Marian's missing genitalia, and believe his attacker Wojciech Sowinski - now facing 10 years in jail - may have eaten it. 'If we'd had the other bit of his penis we could have sewn it back on,' said Dr Adam Domanasiewicz from the hospital in nearby Trzebnica, where Marian is recovering."

Stonewall Library & Archives to have grand opening in Fort Lauderdale on April 23. you may remember that moving SLA to this new space became a national story during the anti-gay campaign of Fort Lauderdale’s former mayor, who opposed a city building, which is leased by Broward County, providing space to the library. The move required the approval of the Fort Lauderdale City Commission and the Broward County Commission.

News: Mount Redoubt, Cal Thomas, McGill, Matt Drudge, Malaysia

Conservative columnist Cal Thomas: Same-sex marriage battle lost. "To those on the political and religious right who are intent on continuing the battle to preserve 'traditional marriage' in a nation that is rapidly discarding its traditions, I would ask this question: What poses a greater threat to our remaining moral underpinnings? Is it two homosexuals living together, or is it the number of heterosexuals who are divorcing and the increasing number of children born to unmarried women, now at nearly 40 percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention"

The Big Picture looks into the cone of the Mount Redoubt Volcano.

Ever been to a penis festival?

Iowa same-sex marriages delayed by three days.

Russian court finds activists guilty of "popularizing" homosexuality.

From the diaries of Matt Drudge's gay ex-roommate.

White House advisory panel on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships: Anti-gay former Indianapolis Colts coach Tony Dungy declines, openly gay director of the religion and faith program at Human Rights Campaign, Harry Knox, accepts.

Robert Pattinson injures his arse.

Advocate: Is porn recession-proof? "Jet Set and others in the adult industry are facing a double whammy: the worst recession in decades coupled with nothing less than a tectonic shift in the way people are consuming their products. Much as Napster did to the record industry 10 years ago, websites like XTube are shaking traditional porn businesses to their core. And now an industry that is perhaps best known for going for broke could go, well, broke."

Newsweek on LGBT youth and the search for a welcoming college.

Ronson family issues restraining order against Lindsay Lohan.

McGill student writes about being targeted in anti-gay hate crime in Montreal: "It seemed it was not a joke, or at least not one my friend and I were allowed to laugh at. These four men were quite serious. They had identified us as gay, and they were not okay with that."

Madonna goes out on the town following return from Malawi.

Vandals desecrate park dedicated to Matthew Shepard in West Hollywood: "The trees, one a flowering Chinese Magnolia and the other a California Live Oak, suffered considerable damage in the attacks. Morris Kight, who died just weeks after his tree’s planting in 2002, was honored at that time for his pioneering of the gay movement; founding Gay Pride, co-founding the LA Gay & Lesbian Center, Stonewall Democratic Club are just a sampling of his achievement."

Rose McGowan discusses her gays.

Mike Alvear: At least have the decency to lie about your sexuality.

Gay, singer/serial killer receives death sentence in Malaysia: "A self-confessed Indonesian serial killer who recorded a pop album and wrote a grisly tell-all book from his prison cell was sentenced to death on Monday for the murder of a romantic rival.A district court in Depok outside the Indonesian capital found Verry Idham Henyansyah, known popularly as Ryan, guilty of murdering and dismembering Herry Santoso and dumping of his body in bags on a Jakarta roadside last year."

Towleroad Guide to the Tube #459

DEREK & ROMAINE: Stockard Channing presents the Sirius XM radio hosts a Special Recognition award from GLAAD in New York. Their  radio documentary, The Laramie Project 10 Years Later, is being offered as a free download (the station's first ever) from Sirius OutQ.

ITALY EARTHQUAKE: 6.3 strikes Abruzzo region. 90 fatalities and counting... Scientist predicted quake, but was silenced: "Giuliani, who based his forecast on concentrations of radon gas around seismically active areas, was reported to police for 'spreading alarm' and was forced to remove his findings from the Internet."

SMILEY FACE KILLER: CNN looks into possible links between the murders of college age men around the country.

NORTH KOREA: The launch of its long-range rocket over the weekend. Didn't reach orbit...

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Mount Redoubt Volcano Eruption Inspires Dramatic Lightning Storm

Alaska's Mount Redoubt volcano continues to display elevated activity. After several eruptions on Saturday, Anchorage's airport was closed. It has since re-opened. You may remember that in 1989 when Redoubt was having another eruption a KLM 747 dropped 13,000 feet after its engines became filled with ash from the volcano. Luckily it was able to restart two of them and land safely.

Bretwood Higman, who is trekking from Puget Sound to the Bering Sea, snapped the photo above of lightning during an eruption late Friday night. He also produced a time-lapse film during an eruption on Saturday.

You can watch the time-lapse clip, along with a news report about the Anchorage airport closure, AFTER THE JUMP...

Limbaugh Uses Fargo Floods to Express Anti-Gay Disgust

As North Dakotans are forced from their homes and struggle with a flooding river, Republican Party leader Rush Limbaugh has other things on his mind.

Said Limbaugh: "I heard some top of the hour news and it made me feel uncomfortable. It's about the flooding in Fargo, North Dakota brought on by the melting snowpack and the icepack. (reading from news item) "As the Red River threatens to overflow, they're filling in the dikes." Isn't there a more appropriate word? Do we have to say, I mean, we don't have any dikes here. The 'dykes' are over there...They're filling in the dikes. Couldn't we change that to 'they're filling in the contingencies' or something?...We really need to change that word."

Listen, AFTER THE JUMP...

News: Vampires, Solar Storm, Richard Hatch, LDS, Twitter, Crabs

Maine man murdered because of sexual advances, killer says: "A man found dead in his car on railroad tracks in Bethel last month may have been beaten with a cast-iron pan and strangled with a belt before a train hit his vehicle, according to a police affidavit. Police believe Scott A. Libby, 25, of Raymond was beaten and strangled to death after making sexual advances to a former employee."

Headmaster sends out notice: no vampires attending Boston Latin School.

Madonna begs for Mercy.

Gay activists to launch service-oriented campaign instead of protest during next week's LDS General Conference in Salt Lake City: We wanted to harness that energy for productive means. We don't feel that there is a need to protest [the LDS Church] further."

Jake Gyllenhaal's green day.

Football legends Maradona and Pele continue homophobic feud: “What do you want me to say? He lost his virginity to a man.”

50 Cent, Britney Spears, Kanye West among celebrities who have Twitter ghostwriters.

Gay adult site The Sword will stream the entire GayVN Awards (gay porn's biggest night) from its website (site nsfw) tomorrow night.

Thierry Mugler unleashes costumes for Beyoncé tour.

Wichita pastor to get $14,000 in settlement of Gay Pride arrest case: "Holick was arrested on a charge of criminal trespassing at the June 2007 Pride Parade & Festival, which was held at Heritage Square Park in downtown Wichita. Holick had said that he had gone to the event to "communicate the gospel message" to people attending the parade and festival. In October 2007, the criminal trespassing charge against Holick was dismissed in Wichita Municipal Court."

Why I....:Sean Penn, Jim Carrey, and Benicio Del Toro in talks to play Larry, Curly, and Moe, respectively, in Three Stooges remake.

Anatomically correct barstool for men.

New study reveals crabs can feel pain, and they retain a memory of it: "Scientists made the discovery by submitting hermit crabs to small electric shocks. They say it has important implications for crustacean welfare in the food industry. The researchers delivered electric shocks to wires attached to the shells of hermit crabs. Only crabs that received shocks vacated their shells during the experiment, indicating that what they had experienced was unpleasant. With less powerful shocks, below the threshold that forced them out, crabs remained in their shells but appeared to be waiting for an opportunity to move. When a new shell was offered to them, they were more likely to switch homes than crabs that had not received a shock. This suggested that the crabs retained a memory of the pain they had felt earlier, said the scientists."

Lance Bass used Brazilian to build buzz?

Ian Somerhalder set to enter vampire fray.

San Diego gay community angered by Assemblyman Marty Block's failure to vote on resolution condemning Proposition 8: "In an interview yesterday, Block said he is unwavering in his support for allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry legally, but questioned the wisdom of passing the resolution. 'It frankly had nothing to do with my support for marriage equality. I just thought the tactic of Legislature telling the court what to do with a case before it was not a good tactic,' the San Diego Democrat said."

Something new to worry about — solar storm: "A year later and millions of Americans are dead and the nation's infrastructure lies in tatters. The World Bank declares America a developing nation. Europe, Scandinavia, China and Japan are also struggling to recover from the same fateful event - a violent storm, 150 million kilometres away on the surface of the sun."

Boy Culture on George Weber: It could happen to you.

Senators absent from Berry confirmation hearing.

Survivor's Richard Hatch wants a judge to free him from prison immediately: "Hatch, who is representing himself, filed the request Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Providence. He is now serving a four-year and three-month sentence at a prison in West Virginia. The reality TV star argued in a 43-page memo that he should be released because he is innocent, was represented by ineffective lawyers and that a judge improperly calculated his prison sentence."