Watch: Mad Men Goes Gay

Here's the gay scene from Mad Men's season three premiere Sunday night. And New York magazine's Vulture has an interview with actor Bryan Batt (Salvatore Romano) about the scene and the implications it has for his character's relationship with Don Draper (Jon Hamm).

Watch it, AFTER THE JUMP...

Victor Webster to Play Gay in Melrose Place Remake

Victor Webster will play Caleb Brewer, a cigar-smoking, basketball-watching, memorabilia-collecting, Scotch-drinking gay man on the remake of Melrose Place, according to AfterElton.

You likely remember Webster as Samantha Jones's new neighbor on one memorable episode of Sex and the City. Watch that (NSFW) clip, AFTER THE JUMP...

News: Hugh Jackman, Kalamazoo, Submarines, Michael Savage

Friend and activist David Mixner is hospitalized. We wish him the best for a speedy recovery.

U.S. Military developing super-fast submarine.

Hugh Jackman to star as P.T. Barnum in a musical circus film with pop songs written by Mika.

Angie Zapata's murderer has a MySpace page, created by killer Allen Andrade's brother.

SPOILER? Ugly Betty's makeover.

Siew Kum Hong, former Singapore NMP, honored: "Siew was named the winner of the 2009 Dignity Prize, a biennial award presented by gay advocacy group, People Like Us, on Saturday evening at the opening reception of Indignation, Singapore’s annual gay pride festival. Organisers say the prize serves to recognise the contributions of an individual in Singapore who has spoken up for equal rights for LGBT people."

Racist, homophobic Laguna Beach actor Jason Wahler arrested in shoe attack.

Tentacled creature washes up on Welsh beach.

Two Beluga whales pregnant at Shedd Aquarium in Chicago: "Shedd officials say the belugas should be pregnant for between 14 and 16 months. They'll still be on public display at the aquarium."

Kalamazoo, Michigan anti-discrimination ordinance back on the ballot in November: "The Kalamazoo City Commission voted unanimously Monday to reaffirm its support for the ordinance that was officially suspended Friday when challenge petitions were certified by City Clerk Scott Borling. City Attorney Clyde Robinson now will draft ballot language that will be presented to the commission at its Aug. 17 meeting. Commissioners must approve the language for it to appear on the Nov. 3 ballot." The Stonewall Democrats executive director Jon Hoadley has stepped down from his position to fight this ballot measure.

Domestic partners register across Wisconsin: "About 20 people had lined up in the hallway outside Dane County Clerk Robert Ohlsen's office by 7:30 a.m., but the promise of long-awaited legal benefits didn't appear to draw an immediate flood of applicants elsewhere in the state. Milwaukee County Clerk Joe Czarneki said his office had taken about a half-dozen applications. Winnebago County had 18 applications, and Outagamie County had 16."

Matt Maggiacomo visits the Big Gay Ice Cream Truck.

Homophobic attacks in London's East End going unreported, police say.

Gay former NFLer Esera Tuaolo comments on Hawaii coach Greg McMackin's "faggot" slur: "These are the things that we are fighting so hard to get rid of and to have someone of his stature to say something like that is not right, not right at all."

Posters: AIDS is D.C.'s Katrina.

Bollywood superstar Saif Ali Khan not afraid to play gay.

Gay man wins landmark case in Poland: "The Regional Court in Szczecin has ruled that a homosexual Polish man should receive zł.15,000 in damages from a female neighbor who called him a 'fag' (pedał). The man, identified as Ryszard G., decided to sue his 50-year-old neighbor, Anna S., after she repeatedly called him 'fag,' including at a grocery store in the presence of customers and on the stairwell of their residential block."

Chaz Housand, an assault victim who believes he may have been attacked over his sexual orientation, is attacked by Town Hall columnist for suggesting it might possibly be a hate crime.

Artist takes on Damien Hirst.

Beyonce, Lady Gaga, and Britney Spears dominate VMA nominations. Partial list.

Just a couple more Brazilian beauties.

The New Yorker embraces hatemonger and birther nut radio host Michael Savage. Media Matters: "Savage doesn't preach hate. (That's so cliché, people.) Instead, the host merely engages in some old-fashioned 'rabble rousing.' Sure, he broadcasts an 'antipathy for liberals.' And yes, he does show flashes of an 'immoderate' and 'incendiary style.' But deep down, Savage is really just a throwback to 'garrulous old-school New York radio personalities.' In fact, Savage isn't all that much different than famed shock jock Howard Stern. Besides, The New Yorker loves the 'counter-culture feel' of Savage's program."

Antonio Banderas: No Pardon for Kissing a Man on the Mouth

PopWrap interviews Antonio Banderas about his career. Banderas recalls that when he was in Law of Desire, kissing a man was more frowned upon than killing one. Likely still true today.

Said Banderas: "Everything changes as you get older -- your mind, your body, the way you view the world. For example the scenes I did with [director Pedro] Almodovar in the 80's were very tough to play at the time it was not common for actors to play gay. Many actors thought that if you played those scenes, everybody would identify you with that role...I felt very early on in my professional life that where there were limits, there shouldn't have been limits. I remember in 'Law of Desire,' where I played a homosexual, that people were more upset that I kissed a man on the mouth than I killed a man. It's interesting to see how people can pardon you for murdering a man, but they can't pardon you for kissing one. It's a very interesting approach to morality in our days, so you see there is an incredible amount of hypocritical judgment over those things."

Edie Falco's Nurse Jackie: Watch Full Pilot Episode

Showtime has posted the entire episode of its new series Nurse Jackie starring Edie Falco on YouTube. It's a dark comedy about an emergency room nurse in a NYC hospital. The show also features a gay character, Jackie's co-worker Mo-Mo, played by Haaz Sleiman (above). The scene pictured starts at the 21:07 mark.

Watch the full episode, AFTER THE JUMP...

Sebastian Stan Undresses on a Bed, Talks Politics and Playing Gay

Sebastian Stan in the June/July 2009 issue of OUT.

Stan says that Keith Olbermann's well-known special comment on Proposition 8 helped him to understand how to approach his gay closeted character on NBC's Kings (which, incidentally has postponed the remainder of its episodes till next month).

"I'd never really seen him before, but to hear him speak so passionately about understanding it as a pure human thing, even though it wasn't something he was brought up to think, was awesome. And thinking about that as it relates to my character, who becomes more secure and stops thinking that he has to be the prototypical leader he was taught to be as a child, was very moving."