News: Quentin Tarantino, Ugly Dog, Bulgaria, Michelangelo

First-ever "Rainbow Parade" set for Czech Republic: "he National Party (Národní strana) sees the event as a 'pressure on the majority, pressure that is disgusting and awkward, pressure leading to social acceptation of the children being adopted by homosexual couples.' Members of the party are prepared to protest against the march. Police are evaluating potential risks in order to determine what security measures will need to be applied."

Quentin Tarantino accepts Filmmaker on the Edge award from the Provincetown Film Festival. John Waters: "You helped reinvent John Travolta as a man and I reinvented him as a woman."

DAD: Amy Winehouse in first stages of Emphysema.

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to officiate today at marriage of American Beauty producer Bruce Cohen to art consultant Gabriel Catone: "After the state Supreme Court struck down a ban on same-sex marriage last month, Villaraigosa promised to preside at as many ceremonies as possible. But when the ruling took effect last week and other political officials were presiding over same-sex weddings, Villaraigosa was in Israel on a city trip."

Nationalists in Bulgaria plan "Week of Intolerance" in response to upcoming gay parade.

Gay health therapist Michael Shernoff has died at the age of 57, of pancreatic cancer.

Book: Michelangelo hid secret messages in Sistine Chapel attacking the Pope.

Jane Fonda on her first screen test, with Warren Beatty: "At the time I suspected that Warren might be gay, because he was so cute and had so many unusual, intellectual friends. Well, how wrong can you be?"

Brooklyn appellate judges to hear arguments on New York Governor David Paterson's directive to recognize out-of-state same-sex marriages: "he case being heard today, Godfrey v. Spano, will consider whether recognition of same-sex marriages first requires approval from the Legislature. So far the Legislature hasn't passed any laws relating to gay marriage. Whatever decision the Brooklyn appeals court reaches in the Godfrey case is sure to be quickly appealed to the state's highest court, the Court of Appeals."

Gerard Butler is a fashionista.

Dog named world's ugliest.

Salon bookmark: Gore Vidal's Inconvenient Truths.

Australian city council apologizes to gays for incident that happened 20 years ago.

SF Chronicle columnist's brief encounter with David Beckham: "Beckham is, for lack of a better word, man-tastic. He leans on a stool, wearing a crisp white shirt and silver tie, having just taken off his cream suit jacket. His hair is cut short and simple, ceding attention to his long stubble, which covers his face except for two Band-Aid-size vertical stripes shaved clean on either side of his goatee."

They got him!

The NYT takes a closer look at pregnant trans man Thomas Beatie: "Partly a carnival sideshow and partly a glimpse at shifting sexual tectonics, his image and story powered past traditional definitions of gender and exposed a realm that seemed more than passing strange to some observers — and altogether natural to those who inhabit it. 'This is just a neat human-interest story about a particular couple using the reproductive capabilities they have,' said Mara Kiesling, director of the National Center for Transgender Equality in Washington. 'There’s really nothing remarkable' about the Beatie pregnancy, she said."

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Hayden Christensen and Friend Brighten Up GQ Style Italy

I'm not sure who's cuter on the spring/summer issue of GQ Style Italy photographed by Guy Aroch, but I think the pup wins out.

Previously
Hayden Christensen Knows You'll Still Wonder if He's Gay [tr]
Hayden Christensen Teleports to the Cover of Details [tr]
Hayden Christensen and the Gay Aesthetic [tr]
Chad White + Puppy: Best in Show [tr]

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Towleroad Guide to the Tube #287

CINDY MCCAIN: Because she's "not the candidate" she refuses to release her income tax returns...ever.

TWISTER: Recent footage from a tornado that whipped through Leighton, Alabama.

DOGGIE HERO: Woof!

IF I WAS A TERRORIST: A new video from James Pence.

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Towleroad Guide to the Tube #275

BRITAIN'S GOT TALENT: This time, a dog!

MORRISSEY: Announces an upcoming gig in Tel Aviv on July 29. (source: idolator)

BEARAPALOOZA: Are you part of the Bearapalooza Nation? (source: queerty)

ALAN RITCHSON: Aquaman strips down for N2N Bodywear. More here.

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Jai Rodriguez to Share Reality Show Duties with Bitches Once Again

There are now reality shows for everything. Queer Eye's Jai Rodriguez is the host a new reality competition starting next week on Animal Planet called Groomer Has It, which looks kind of like Shear Genius but with dogs.

Every week Jai puts the groomers through a gauntlet of grooming challengess, some of which putting blindfolds on and touching things, like dogs and woolly sheep, and possibly...a 'roided out former child star.

AFTER THE JUMP, two clips of the first elimination challenge, in which contestants were instructed to groom and dye dogs made out of yarn! These people take their challenges very seriously!

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Chad White + Puppy: Best in Show

According to Major Models, Chad White would like to announce the arrival of Bam Bam Junior while proving there can never be too much cute for one Polaroid.

One more, AFTER THE JUMP...

previously
Chad White is Dead and Marilyn Manson is Responsible [tr]
Chad White Has Attitude [tr]
Chad White Decides His Hair Should Match His Name [tr]
Michael Jackson Meets Chad White [tr]
Chad White: The Doll You Can Dress Up [tr]

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Uno Becomes America's First Top Beagle

Uno the Beagle took Best in Show last night at the 132nd Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show at Madison Square Garden Tuesday night. It was the first time in the history of the show that a Beagle won the competition.

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Threats Alleged in Ellen DeGeneres' Dogfight

Keith Fink, an attorney for Mutts & Moms, the dog adoption agency which reportedly reclaimed their pooch Iggy after Ellen Degeneres and Portia de Rossi gave it away to Ellen's hairdresser, has taken their battle to Page Six.

They claim that while Ellen was crying over the incident on her talk show, her publicist Kelly Bush was leaving them threatening voice mails, like this one which Page Six says was played to them:

"This is Kelly Bush. We are filing a legal case against you. We are going to be contacting the media. This is not going to be good for your store or your organization. You did not do the right thing. You need to call back. There is no reason for you to take this dog. Please call back before this gets further out of hand."

Said Fink: "Ellen's lying. She is using her power and her access to the media to destroy this agency in the media. This is a woman who has signed many seven-figure contracts. She knows what she signed."

Ellen's publicist denies threatening the agency: "I have not left any threatening messages at all. The agency threatened to go to the media and I said that wouldn't be a good idea. I told them there's just no need to escalate this . . . They started this by wanting to take it public. I was the one who said, 'Let's talk about this.'"

A "Free Iggy" petition has sprung up online, calling on Mutts & Moms to return the dog to the hairdresser and her little girls.

AGENCY BARKS BACK AT ELLEN [page six]

Yesterday....
Tearful Ellen DeGeneres Begs Agency to Return Dog to Kids [tr]

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Tearful Ellen DeGeneres Begs Agency to Return Dog to Kids

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An emotional Ellen DeGeneres broke down on her show today, pleading with a dog rescue agency to return an adopted dog she had given to her hairdresser and two girls because it didn't get along with the cats at the DeGeneres-De Rossi household. Here is Ellen's tearful hello to her audience.

The AP reports: "The talk show hostess and her partner Portia de Rossi adopted Iggy, a Brussels Griffon mix, on Sept. 20. But when things didn't work out, DeGeneres gave the dog to her hairdresser. In doing so, DeGeneres violated an agreement with the Mutts and Moms agency by not informing them of the handoff. When the agency called DeGeneres to ask about Iggy, she said she found another home for the dog. The agency sent a representative to the hairdresser's home Sunday and took the dog away. DeGeneres went public with the doggy ordeal Monday while taping an episode of her show to air Tuesday. She admitted she didn't read all the paperwork involving the adoption."

Perhaps Mutts and Moms, a volunteer nonprofit organization in Pasadena, should add "militant" to their organization's name.

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You Can Have Jake Gyllenhaal's Bone

And I know how many of you want it. But, unfortunately, it's not that bone.

Jake is one of 40 celebs who have signed (along with their dogs) wooden bones to raise money for the Mississippi Animal Rescue League. The bones will be auctioned off at the Society's annual "Fur Ball" event (I'm not even gonna go there) tonight in Jackson, Mississippi.

Other notable bone-signers are Oprah Winfrey, Donald Trump, John Travolta, Morgan Freeman, Mariah Carey, Matthew McConaughey, James Caan, Brad Paisley, Leann Rimes, Betty White, Dr. Phil McGraw, Eric McCormack and "Dog Whisperer" Cesar Milan.

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