News: Jake Moves In, Angelina Shoots & Scores, Bush Whacking Iran Plus Google...I Forgot What I Was Gonna Say

Barack Obama opposes the proposed California gay-marriage ban. A double-negative in favor of "I do."

Is Google making us stupid?

Tommy Haas loses (his shirt) at Wimbledon.

Jake Gyllenhaal and longtime GF Reese Witherspoon moving in, talking straight marriage.

Grace Jones is still scary.

Beloved gay restaurant Sadly, Florent is sent packing from the Meatpacking District after 23 years. The culprit? Rent, boy!

California businesses are pushing hard for the gay-marriage dollar now that weddings are set to begin. Sample price: The Hacienda at Warm Sands in Palm Springs has a three-night honeymoon deal for anywhere between $1,895 and $2,995. The bride and bride will be registered at Citibank.

Has the Bush Administration upped covert operations against Iran ahead of the November election?

Write this 100 times on the chalkboard: Will Smith's school is NOT based on Scientology.

Cristiano Ronaldo is all washed up.

Either Madonna’s marriage or Madonna’s divorce has been called off. One way or another, they pray 6,000 miles apart.

Via HuffingtonPost, Cindy McCain—worth $100 million—can’t stay current on her property taxes.

Stunning: A tragedy for the fashion world as 20-year-old Russian covergirl Ruslana Korshunova dies in an apparent suicide leap in New York City after watching the 1990 film Ghost with a friend. FOX News staple Geraldo Rivera airs footage of her corpse. (Not available from this link.) UPDATE: This is now a confirmed suicide.

Angelina Jolie’s shoot-'em-up Wanted took in over $51 million at the box office this weekend, making it the most successful R-rated June release ever. I think it had more to do with James McAvoy’s pretty lips than AJ’s. (Did any of you see this movie? It's hysterical. Take that however you like.)

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Ryan Sutter Reignites Firefighter Fantasies

Despite being married for four years (he was the winner of reality TV's The Bachelorette back in 2003, Colorado firefighter Ryan Sutter hasn't packed on the post-nuptial poundage, and apparently still has a hunger for attention. Sutter and family were shot doing a From Here to Eternity-style photo shoot on the beach in Maui...

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South African Gay Activist Zackie Achmat Marries Partner

South African HIV/AIDS activist and founder of that country's Treatment Action Campaign Zackie Achmat married his partner Dalli Weyers over the weekend in front of 300 guests at the Imperial Yacht Club near Cape Town.

The Sunday Times reports:

"Judge Edwin Cameron, complete with glitter eye make-up, officiated. He had applied to become a magistrate in the Wynberg district for the day so he could conduct the ceremony. Guests at the cheerful and relaxed occasion included Cape Town mayor Helen Zille, cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro, axed deputy health minister Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, Judge Dennis Davis and former South African high commissioner Cheryl Carolus. The wedding invitations bore the slogan 'safe sex, antiretroviral drugs and rock ’n’ roll' — a play on the sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll mantra of the ’60s and ’70s."

Achmat has worked to make TAC respected throughout South Africa by focusing on health care programs in the public sector. He also founded the National Coalition for Gay and Lesbian Equality, won the inaugural Desmond Tutu Leadership Award, the Jonathan Mann Award for Global Health and Human Rights in 2003, and the Nelson Mandela Award for Health and Human Rights in 2003. A U.S. Quaker humanitarian group nominated him for a Nobel Peace Prize in 2004.

Weyers told South Africa's Sunday Times: "The nervousness fortunately only relates to getting everything done. But nervous for the actual ceremony? No. It is just a natural step and I don’t think Zackie or I will have extra expectations of each other after the ceremony. We are very in love and that is obviously going to go on, so we don’t see the ceremony as necessarily changing anything. We are very excited because the day essentially will be about family and friends and sharing it with them."

Added Achmat: "What attracted me to Dallie was his degree of maturity, a sense of seriousness and also that he is a very decent human being — apart from the fact that he is a very handsome man with the most beautiful eyes you’ve ever seen. So clear and strong. Our relationship is one of deep companionship and a love for life and shared but not identical interests. [My life] is very difficult and busy and also one of the difficulties in making the decision was obviously that he doesn’t have HIV and I do and I always worry about that. Then there is the age difference, which is enormous. I am 45."

According to the paper, "The honeymoon will be spent at a friend’s lodge in Lesotho and visiting Weyers’s mother Delina at her Free State home."

Best wishes to them!

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News: Current TV, Man on the Moon, Mammoths

Al Gore's Current TV not looking so dumb following the recent smash success of YouTube: "Even after critics saw that the ex-vice president and Democratic Party fundraiser weren't crafting a left-wing network, few in the change-averse world of television could understand why anyone would tune into Current's programming motif: three- to seven-minute videos created by emerging filmmakers, citizen journalists and the most rank of amateurs -- the viewers themselves." The SF Chronicle reports that Madeleine Smithberg, co-creator of Comedy Central's The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, will launch a new show on the channel this fall. We'll be watching.

Original footage of first moonwalk has been lost: "While the television broadcast seen by 600 million people in July 1969 is preserved for posterity, the original tapes from which the footage was taken have been mislaid in the vast archive of the United States space agency NASA. The footage could transform our view of the Moon landings, offering images far sharper than the blurred, grainy video shown around the world. It could also lay to rest the conspiracy theory that the landings were faked on a Hollywood soundstage. Despite its iconic status, the television footage was the equivalent of a photocopy of a photocopy. It came from a camera that had been pointed at a black-and-white monitor. The image on the monitor, in turn, had already been stripped of much of its detail."

Attack of the giant Pete Wentz.

Cut the fat: new camera has "slimdown" setting. Company spokesman: "Who hasn't looked at a photo of themselves and wished they could airbrush off a few pounds? Our Gadget Angels team set out to find user-friendly technology which could make this a practical, affordable reality for everyone."

Swing dancer Benji Schwimmer steps up to win FOX's So You Think You Can Dance.

Project Runway's Michael Knight: I'm not gay.

A short preview for the upcoming Killers video "When You Were Young".

Scientists on the hunt for mammoth sperm to restore the 27,000-year-old creatures to the earth: "With access to the mammoth’s genetic code, and with frozen sperm recovered from testes, it may be possible to resurrect an animal that is very similar to a mammoth. The mammoth is a close genetic cousin of the modern Asian elephant, and scientists think that the two may be capable of interbreeding."

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A Look Back: Internet

One of the early news reports on this fascinating new mode of communication.

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Aussie Reporter Flirts with the Phelps Clan

Via Gayer Mechanic Wales comes this priceless clip of an Australian Reporter hitting on Fred Phelps, Jr. and conversing with various members of the Westboro Baptist Church.

The real fun starts when other members of the clan get involved, especially the red-haired chick who screeches, "You're a pervert, you're a fag ass pervert." Didn't her mother tell her it's not polite to point?

And did I hear incorrectly, or did she also say, "Snap off!"

Video: Ausralian Reporter Hits on Fred Phelps, Jr. [gayer mechanic wales]

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"You Wanna Preach? Let's Preach!"

This clip of FOX News anchor Julie Banderas and hater Shirley Phelps-Roper is soooo worth five minutes of your day.

(via PEN15 Club)

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