News: Polaroid, McGreevey Trial, Banksy, Van Hansis

Anti-gay evangelical preacher stabbed to death in Perth, Australia.

Photographers, artists bitter over Polaroid's demise: "'Now what the hell am I supposed to do?' asks John Waters, who’s shot a Polaroid of each person who’s come into his apartment since 1992—friends, interviewers, deliverymen, everyone. 'Digital isn’t instant gratification, and those cameras don’t make that sexy sound.'"

Self-described 'YouTube Superstar' Tricia Walsh-Smith may join The Real Housewives of New York City.

Is Jake Gyllenhaal getting Nailed?

Till death: McGreevey divorce trial begins Tuesday. "Legal analysts expect New Jersey's former first couple will approach new lows, even for divorce court. 'I'm not going to tell you this is going to be the worst case ever in the history of New Jersey divorces,' said Charles Abut, a matrimonial lawyer who operates the New Jersey Family Law blog. 'But I think if you asked longtime matrimonial lawyers, 'Give me the your top 10 worst,' this one is going to appear on everyone's list.' The proceedings, which are expected to last up to six weeks in Elizabeth's Union County Courthouse, have been divided into three sections. Superior Court Judge Karen Cassidy has said she will rule separately on each part: Custody of the couple's 6-year-old daughter, Jacqueline; the amount of child support and alimony McGreevey must pay Matos McGreevey; and, finally, Matos McGreevey's claim McGreevey defrauded her, tricking her into a marriage of political convenience even though he knew he was gay."

In March I posted about the appointment of Yale music professor and singer Richard Lalli to Yale residential college master, one of the school's highest recognitions. Now the Hartford Courant has profiled Lalli.

Frank Rich wonders why the media is ignoring John Hagee...

Indiewire talks to gay filmmaker Arthur Dong: "As a gay Asian American filmmaker I'd be naive to think that anti-gay bigotry and racism has not affected the opportunities or lack thereof in terms of my work. But the way I confront it is to first acknowledge whatever factors I think might be there, and then forge ahead anyway with that knowledge. We all have thrust upon us unwanted external forces that we have no control over, whoever we are, and if we allow them to be barriers (excuses?) to our goals, then we may as well give it up because perseverance, passion, and stamina is a must for independent filmmakers."

Inside Banksy's CANS Exhibit.

John Mayer asks for hair Haikus.

T.R. Knight and Mark Cornelsen already planning for children. Knight: “I wouldn’t rule [adoption] out at all. I think it would be adopting versus any other route. But yeah. I mean, there are a lot of kids who need homes.”

FOX News radio host John Gibson mocks MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, lesbians.

As the World Turns' Van Hansis reportedly dating fellow actor Tyler Hanes.

Australian Capitol Territory forced to back down on civil partnerships: "The ACT decision comes as the deeply religious Mr Rudd faces growing attack from Christian groups over his Government's decision to remove discrimination against gays from all other federal laws. Mr Corbell yesterday accused the Rudd Government of breaking a commitment to the states and territories to allow them to legislate as they saw fit. The legislation, which was quashed by the Howard government in 2006, would have allowed gay couples to have their relationships recognised in a legally binding ceremony."

Gay powerlifter Chris Morgan reaches World Championships.

Israeli court denies restraining order against gay man's former partner because nation's family and domestic violence laws do not apply to gay partnerships: "The complainant told the court that the former lover, a younger man who had lived in his Ramat Gan home with him for two years, was abusing him psychologically. He argued that as common-law partner he was entitled to the protection of the family court."

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UK Apprentice Reject Happy to be the Only Gay in the Village

Kevin Shaw, the latest contestant to be kicked off the UK version of The Apprentice, has apparently been mocked for years for looking like the Matt Lucas Little Britain character Daffyd, or as he is better known, 'The Only Gay in the Village'.

And he has a sense of humor about it.

Says Shaw: "I have no problem with the comparison and if someone wanted me to dress up as Matt for a charity event, I’d do it. As long as it was for a laugh I’d be game. I think it’s really funny – I even brought a Daffyd mask along when I went on the follow-up show, You’re Fired! It’s been going on for years and I often start the mickey-taking myself. Matt is one of the greatest comics this country has produced for years so it’s hardly an insult."

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Gay Comic Panic Strip: American Idol

SIMON: You kissed me!

RYAN: Relax, it didn't mean anything.

SIMON: Well, I can't!

And yes, this is the authentic transcript.

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Viva Hollywood's Vinci Has Crybaby Meltdown Over Gay Role

You may remember Vinci Alonso from the modeling reality series 8th & Ocean (above). Now he's in the new VH1 show Viva Hollywood! a reality show in which Latino actors compete to become the next telenovela (Latin soap) star (the winner receives a contract with Telemundo). The latest episode demanded that contestants Vinci and Berto do a gay scene together, which caused Vinci to lock himself in the bathroom and cry.

GuyTVBlog reports: "In the end Berto won the "lust" challenge which was a $10,000 shopping spree prize awarded for his "triumph" for playing gay. He then shared his vanity prize with Vinci for also being able to come out of this ordeal with their masculinity still in tact."

Watch the clip AFTER THE JUMP...

Viva Hollywood! | Vinci & Berto Flip The Fuck Out When Told They Have To Play Gay [guytvblog]

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Towleroad Guide to the Tube #276

ERYKAH BADU: An entertaining assessment on what young women should do to make it in the music business.

NAKED COCKATOO: Death-defying featherless cockatoo does Mick Jagger impressions. Michelle Collins at Best Week Ever writes, "Oscar looks pretty delicious. Let’s hope he doesn’t sing and dance his way into some buffalo sauce and blue cheese dressing."

AB ANXIETY: The arrival of a new trainer ruffles the staff at Sky Sports on Bravo's Workout.

HARD CANDY: Madonna discusses making her new record.

Check out our previous guides to the Tube here.

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Bullied Boy Gets Revenge on Britain's Got Talent Audition

Is it the second coming of Paul Potts? Watch 13-year-old Andrew Johnston perform "Pie Jesu" at his first audition for Britain's Got Talent...

"I get bullied a lot...at school. I've been bullied all my life since I was six. My mates have been telling me to leave the singing. They don't like that kind of music."

Simon Cowell asked Johnston how he deals with the bullying. Said Johnston: "I carry on singing."

Watch the clip, AFTER THE JUMP...

This should start your week off right.

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Towleroad Guide to the Tube #272

MCCAIN SUPPORTER: You can have your Tiger Woods."

RUNWAY HAZARDS: Model swallowed up by the earth. (source: gawker)

THE KARDASHIANS: Mad TV's take on the show. (source: lady bunny)

BARNYARD BEATDOWN: Two chickens break up a fight between two rabbits. Really!

Check out our previous guides to the Tube 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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Jerry Mitchell on Elizabeth Berkley and the Nomi Malone 'Flick'

Choreographer Jerry Mitchell talks to AfterElton about his role as co-host of Bravo's new reality dance show Step It Up & Dance. Mitchell's co-host is Elizabeth Berkley, whose role as Nomi Malone rates as one of the great (unintentionally) camp performances of all time. Mitchell tells AE that Elizabeth "looooves that she was in that movie" and that it took the contestants on Step Up only a split second before they honored her for it.

Says Mitchell: "Elizabeth has always been a dancer. She studied dance and she still does dance. I knew that about her. We both grew up in the Detroit area, but we didn’t really know each other before this. And I was a huge fan of Showgirls — as is everyone. I said to her the very first day we were shooting, 'I want to time how long it takes until one of these dancers does that fabulous Nomi move where they flick their fingers in front of their face.' And, of course, the moment we walk out in the first episode… She did it because they did it. We came out and the dancers all went, 'Oh my God! Nomi!' and then — 'Whoosh!' they all did the move. It took a total of about seven seconds. But you know, that movie spoke to dancers in a camp way, but also in a very realistic way about what can happen in your career, the different types of dance you can get involved in and the cutthroat world it is. So, in a melodramatic way, it’s true."

An Interview with "Step It Up & Dance"’s Jerry Mitchell [after elton]

AFTER THE JUMP, a flashback clip of Nomi's first rehearsal...

And here's the show preview:

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Steve Guttenberg and Jonathan Roberts Full-On Man-on-Man Tango

On last night's Dancing with the Stars results show, Steve Guttenberg and Jonathan Roberts performed the full man-on-man tango we wished for yesterday.

Watch it, AFTER THE JUMP...

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Steve Guttenberg and Jonathan Roberts Have a Man-on-Man Tango

Steve Guttenberg practiced a man-on-man tango with Jonathan Roberts on last night's Dancing with the Stars when Guttenberg's partner (who is also Roberts' wife) Anna Trebunskaya fell ill. I'm glad she got better, but I would have loved to have seen Guttenberg and Roberts take this to the main floor.

Watch it, AFTER THE JUMP...

There was also this bit from Adam Carolla, who thought his partner Julianne Hough's "Sandy Duncan wig" and "Friar's frock" were a bit too gay:

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Towleroad Guide to the Tube #266

REAL WORLD HOLLYWOOD: The trailer for the new season.

RYAN PHILLIPPE: Phillippe visits Ellen Degeneres and they talk about his first acting role as a gay teen on One Life to Live but she does not ask him for his 'gayest look'. (source: queerty)

RECESSION: The movie.

SEX AND THE CITY: Starring Bea Arthur. (source: a socialite's life)

Check out our previous guides to the Tube here.

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Christian Siriano and Andy Cohen Gay Up Rockefeller Center

Project Runway winner Christian Siriano and Bravo exec Andy Cohen have some coffee talk about the new season of Top Chef, AFTER THE JUMP...

(via slog)

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Sportrait: Danny Cipriani

English rugby stud Danny Cipriani is set to make his debut for England against Ireland this weekend, ousting star Jonny Wilkinson from the top spot. Though the news is big in the rugby world, Cipriani's already been busy making news elsewhere, however.

He was recently rejected in a competition on the British version of the reality show My Super Sweet Sixteen for being too skinny. Huh?

Cipriani also still lives with his mother and dated transgender model Larissa Summers. We'll definitely be keeping an eye on this one.

Two more shots AFTER THE JUMP...

(source)

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Big Brother 9's Matt: 'America doesn't like gay people'

Big Brother 9's Matt is proving himself to be more of a bigot douchebag with every hour that goes by in the Big Brother house. Yesterday on the show's live internet feeds, the housemates were discussing some troublemaking by gay housemate Joshuah (who is also proving to be quite the douchebag), when Matt pulled this remark out of his ass (around the 8:55 mark in the clip AFTER THE JUMP):

"America doesn't Like gay people. That's why gay marriage isn't allowed. No offense I love gay people, don't get me wrong. I have gay friends but I don't like that motherfucker downstairs."

Last week, Matt told the house, "That fucking fag, I'll send his faggot ass home!"

As a side note, Matt does not reserve his slurs only for gay people.

*Note: if you're not interested in Big Brother kindly move along to the next post. Thanks.

Clip AFTER THE JUMP...

Previously
Live Feeds Reveal Yet Another Big Brother 9 Homophobe: Matt [tr]
Big Brother 9's Housemates on Entering from the Rear [tr]
Big Brother 9's Neil Garcia Explains What a Twink Is [tr]
Big Brother 9: Sex, Sex, and More Sex [tr]

(via guytvblog)

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Live Feeds Reveal Yet Another Big Brother 9 Homophobe: Matt

GuyTV Blog uncovers yet another homophobe in the Big Brother house. Not that we're surprised.

GuyTVBlog: "Uh oh! Matt just found out about the 'ladies' of the house, Sheila, Sharon, James, Joshuah wanting to get to Ryan to backdoor him. Once he found out this plan was created by Joshuah and Sharon Matt utters...'That fucking fag, I'll send his faggot ass home!'"

Joshuah was previously the target of a slur from housemate Adam, who said on the live feeds that Josh was a "faggot" who should "go back to the gay bar."

Previously
Big Brother 9's Housemates on Entering from the Rear [tr]
Big Brother 9's Neil Garcia Explains What a Twink Is [tr]
Big Brother 9: Sex, Sex, and More Sex [tr]

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Big Brother 9's Housemates on Entering from the Rear

Last night on Big Brother 9's live feed, gay housemate Joshuah attempted to educate James, Chelsia, and Sharon on the ins and outs (so to speak) of gay sex. He also spreads some misinformation about protecting oneself from HIV:

"I do bareback with my boyfriend. We've both been tested for HIV and we're both negative so it's cool. I only do that with my boyfriend. I don't do that on a random one night stand. That's too risky. If you're a top it's okay because you can't really get HIV from being the top because you're penetrating them..."

James, however, appeared not to need much education.

View the clip, AFTER THE JUMP (warning: NSFW - also very crude language)...

Begins around the 3:00 mark.

(via guytvblog)

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David Hernandez: Idol with A Stripper Past

So, American Idol David Hernandez' (above, right) forays into the world of male strip dancing for ''mostly male'' clientele have hit the New York Times "Arts" section (via the AP):

"The 24-year-old finalist from Glendale, Ariz., once worked as a stripper at Dick's Cabaret, appearing fully nude and performing lap dances for the club's 'mostly male' clientele, club manager Gordy Bryan said Monday...It's not clear whether a history as a stripper could disqualify Hernandez from the competition. In 2003, finalist Frenchie Davis was dismissed because of her appearance on an adult Web site; but last year, Antonella Barba remained in the competition after racy photos of her surfaced on the Internet...Bryan said he was aware that Hernandez was a vocalist, but that Hernandez never sang at the club. Bryan said he now believes Hernandez stopped working at the club because of his participation in 'American Idol.' Hernandez has never been referred to as a stripper or former stripper during the Fox singing competition."

Meanwhile, Queerclick (site NSFW) has dug up some shots (and video) of Hernandez hanging out with a buddy who's also known as "Ryan Steele" in his adult videos. The two performed in a quartet called The Vinyl Four.

I don't think any of this is grounds for disqualification, but it might make things a bit more interesting on the show if Hernandez offered up some of his prior 'talents'.

See the video of Hernandez with his quartet The Vinyl Four, AFTER THE JUMP...

Previously
David Archuleta Sings the Crap Out of "Imagine" [tr]

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Big Brother 9's Neil Garcia Explains What a Twink Is

As you may remember, gay Big Brother 9 housemate Neil Garcia left the house abruptly for reasons that have not been revealed.

Presumably he made these five "instructional" videos for WeHoPedia TV before his Big Brother stint, because I'm not sure I would call this gig something to run out the door for.

In the video below, Neil provides basic instruction on what a "twink" is:

"Twink is a gay term describing an attractive young or younger gay man, usually in his late teens or early 20's. He's got a slender build and little to no body hair. The term twink is often modified by various descriptors such as the 'butch' twink, 'femme' twink, 'euro' twink, and the 'muscle' twink! The term is an allusion to the Twinkie pastry which is golden or blond on the outside, with cream on the inside, and is pleasantly sweet but with little nutritional value. There is a 'backronym' that states twink stands for teenaged, white, into no kink. Although none of these things are either necessary or sufficient for being a twink. Thanks for watching WeHoPedia TV. I'm your host, Neil Garcia."

NOTE: I was having an issue running the videos with some browsers, particularly Safari.

AFTER THE JUMP, four more videos about West Hollywood, and the terms "Bisexual Chic", "Questioning", and "Bi Curious".

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Big Brother 9's Adam Refers to Housemate Joshuah as a "Faggot" [tr]
A Message from Big Brother 9's Gay Boy Neil [tr]
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(thanks kenneth)

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Big Brother 9's Adam Refers to Housemate Joshuah as a "Faggot"

Big Brother's bigoted bigmouth Adam Jasinski scored another one for the losers last night when he referred to gay contestant Joshuah on the live feeds as a "faggot" who should "go back to the gay bar."

Previous remarks by Adam, in which he referred to autistic children as "retards", prompted Loews to pull its advertising from the show as well as demands from Autism United that Adam be terminated immediately and the show be canceled.

We'll see if the gay slur makes it to broadcast.

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Self-proclaimed 'Gaysian' to Compete on Beauty and the Geek

The new season of the CW's Beauty and the Geek will feature an out gay man for the first time, "self-proclaimed Gaysian" and pastry chef Greg from Azusa, California.

Via the Futon Critic: "Among the new challenges, the geeks will be in-studio guests with Dr. Drew on the nationally syndicated radio program 'Loveline' and will learn if they have an eye for fashion when providing make-unders to the beauties. The beauties go where they have never gone before when they get all dolled up in their best plumbing outfits and learn to clean clogged pipes. They also join the geeks for a cameo on the #1 daytime drama 'The Young and the Restless.' Each of the previous seasons resulted in an unlikely romantic connection between a beauty and a geek."

The new season starts March 11.

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News: T.R. Knight, Seal, Dame Edna, Portland, Dominic Monaghan

Barack Obama wins 'Democrats Abroad' primary 65.6% to Hillary Clinton's 32.7%. DailyKos: "That's 11 in a row for Obama (including the Virgin Islands)! There are 7 pledged delegate-equivalents to be awarded, in addition to 4 superdelegate-equivalents."

4 am Drunk driver in Portland somehow drives onto underground MAX mass transit system, drives for a mile before being stopped.

UEFA Footballer Cristiano Ronaldo 'dazzled' by laser beam at Lyon's Stade Gerland: "Red Devils boss Sir Alex Ferguson has revealed the club has contacted European football's governing body with a view to having the matter looked at more closely in the form of television pictures from the Champions League tie. 'We reported the matter to Uefa before the game,' Ferguson said. 'We noticed it in the warm-up and [Uefa] are aware of it.'

Gay Irish poet Cathal O Searcaigh cut from curriculum over teen sex scandal: "Education Minister Mary Hanafin said yesterday that there were "difficulties" with the inclusion of his poems on the exam curriculum. She said the issue will be examined by the body which decides which poems should be on the curriculum, the National Council on Curriculum Development. Mr O Searcaigh is the subject of a controversial documentary 'Fairytale in Kathmandu', in which the gay writer admits having sex with some of the male teenagers being financially supported by him in Nepal. Yesterday he announced he is to distance himself from any future distribution of charitable funds in Nepal."

If that's T.R. Knights 'dick in a box', I'm impressed!

More on State Representative Jason Bartlett, who came out of the closet and is now the first openly gay African American state legislator: "It does feel kind of weird to be the first African American state legislator in the United States to come out but it is what it is. It's all about being comfortable with yourself. I mean, certainly, I am not the first gay African American legislator but I am the first to come out and say I am gay."

Actress Emily Perry, who played Dame Edna Everage's 'bridesmaid' Madge Allsop for many years, has died at the age of 100: "Perry appeared on Dame Edna's ITV star-studded shows and travelled the world as part of comic Barry Humphries' stage spectaculars. Humphries told the BBC: 'It is a great loss to me, she was a close friend.' The actress appeared in the Dame Edna Experience, a comedy chat show which attracted a whole host of UK and Hollywood names, from 1987 to 1989. As New Zealander Madge Allsop she never uttered a word, and her main function was to affix badges to star guests - and bear the brunt of Dame Edna's savage comments."

San Francisco holds vigil for slain gay junior high student Lawrence King.

Heidi Klum and Seal get catty.

AfterElton talks to gay Survivor: Micronesia contestant Chet Welch, who also happens to be the most successful Miss America pageant coach: "I've always been open in my area. I've always been even though I grew up in a rural farming area of Pennsylvania. Truthfully, I've never had an issue in my life about being gay. If people had an issue, I wasn't really aware of it, or if they did, I figured that was their problem not mine. I do hope in some way I'm able to encourage other people that way, as well as I was hoping to show people that might have homophobia or issues with it in some way that it's not what it's sometimes portrayed to be."

Dominic Monaghan joins Hugh Jackman in X-Men: Wolverine as 'Beak'.

Survey of 100 gay porn actors finds lack of education and information about on-set HIV risk: "Almost 30% of gay adult industry performers in the survey were either HIV positive or didn't know their status. While most were comfortable working with HIV positive performers, many were concerned about the lack of discussion surrounding HIV and STDs on set . Over 80% of performers strongly agreed or somewhat agreed that condom-using studios provided adequate safety measures to protect them from HIV, but little more than half of the respondents felt that the they were being protected adequately from non-HIV risks like hepatitis, HPV or syphilis."

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A Message from Big Brother 9's Gay Boy Neil

Check it out, AFTER THE JUMP...

[[WARNING: SPOILERS]]

As I told you earlier in the week, Neil has left the Big Brother house. That hasn't been revealed on the show yet.

Yesterday, Neil released the following message:

"Thank you so much for the outpouring care, support, and concern from all the BIG BROTHER fans. This has been a difficult time for my family, which I am dealing with privately. The drama is slowly being resolved, and all is headed to a brighter place.

"I am now happy to say, that I am spending time with close friends and family. I wish Joshuah the best of luck and hope that he keeps up our brilliant strategy to win the big prize with my replacement, Sharon. Please know that I will NOT be back to the BIG BROTHER house and contrary to some web speculation, I was not let go for health reasons. Eeek! Again, thanks to each and every one of you for your support during all of this Big Brother business.

"All my Love,

"Neil Garcia, BIG BROTHER 9

"P.S. -Shit Happens- >: O"

So there you have it.
(source)

Previously
Shock Overnight Developments for Gay Team on Big Brother 9 [tr]
Big Brother 9: Sex, Sex, and More Sex [tr]
Big Brother 9 Sees its First Naughty After Dark Action [tr]

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News: Spy Satellite, John Rechy, Noah's Arc, Kalamazoo

Spy satellite shootdown may endanger International Space Station, will also reveal military's ability to target China's strategic anti-satellite weapons.

Huckaboo: Rock group Boston orders Mike Huckabee to stop using their song. "Boston has never endorsed a political candidate, and with all due respect, would not start by endorsing a candidate who is the polar opposite of most everything Boston stands for. In fact, although I'm impressed you learned my bass guitar part on 'More Than a Feeling,' I am an Obama supporter."

Biologist laments that after 20 years of research they're no closer to developing an AIDS vaccine: "Our lack of success may be understandable but it is not acceptable. Some years ago I came to the conclusion that our community had to seriously undertake new approaches or we might find ourselves with a worldwide epidemic and no effective response. "That is just where we are today."

Project Runway designers head for Bryant Park.

Yesterday I posted a performance by David Archuleta, but here are the rest of the top 12 guys who have made it into American Idol this year.

Noah's Arc to hit the big screen.

Bono RED art auction for AIDS takes in $42 million.

CNN profiles straight couple who stayed together even after the husband revealed he was gay: "'Neither one of us had a clue -- he didn't know what being gay meant for him. ... He needed to figure that out,' recalls Anna Marie Will, of Sacramento, California. 'I needed to figure out what his being gay meant for me, and whether I could incorporate that into my life and my marriage.' What they did know was that they believed in their marriage and wanted to make it work. Jim Will's revelation in 2001 began a three-year process during which they sorted out their feelings for each other. Ultimately, the couple, whose daughter turns 15 in March, decided to stay together. 'He had to learn to talk to me -- he had spent so many years not saying what was really on his mind, and not dealing with his true feelings,' says Anna Marie Will, now 39, a worker's compensation program administrator. 'We found out once we got past all that, our marriage was so much better. We still loved each other as people and partners.'"

Revealed: the Manhattan phone book's gayest page.

Bravo announces big gay dance show.

City of Night author John Rechy releases memoir: "Rechy’s book covers, in large part, the poverty and racist climate he endured growing up in the ’40s and ’50s, the son of Mexican immigrants living on this side of the border separating El Paso, Tex., and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. He lived in a house with broken windowpanes. 'We patched them with cardboard from boxes gathered outside grocery stores,' he writes. 'When the cardboard on the windows was new, I would paint pictures on it, birds, flowers. The rain would eventually streak them into colored tears.'"

TVLand censors "OhMiGod" after pressure from American Family Association.

Jake Gyllenhaal does Italian Vanity Fair.

Death sentence stands for Gary Ray Bowles, Florida serial killer of gay men.

Impromptu group forms in Kalamazoo, Michigan to stand up to Westboro Baptist Church: "The Stop the Hate in Kalamazoo Coalition formed last week after Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., said it would show up to picket the first performance of 'The Laramie Project' at Kalamazoo Central High School, the Kalamazoo Gazette reported Thursday. The play, which opens Feb. 22, is based on the 1998 killing of Matthew Shepard, who was the victim of a homophobic hate crime which ended with him being beaten to death. 'If you rebel against the standards of God and live like Matthew Shepard, you will join him in hell for eternity,' a member of the Kansas church said, the newspaper reported."

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Big Brother 9 Sees its First Naughty After Dark Action

This year's Big Brother 9 was positioned as a veritable love fest as couples are paired up with 'soul mates' whom they sleep with every single night. No doubt the set-up has the potential of providing viewers of the live feeds some hot and heavy after dark action, which was what they got last night.

Matt received a special under-the-covers favor from his partner Natalie. He's totally aware he's doing it for the cameras too as he gives them a big smile when he's finished.

Clips AFTER THE JUMP, plus A SPOILER. Though there's no nudity, given the audio the clips are probably not safe to watch at work.

It's too bad Neil and Joshuah were split up so early, considering they already had a kiss in before Neil left voluntarily.

However, there are rumors floating about that Matt "is bisexual and very open about it."

Shock Overnight Developments for Gay Team on Big Brother 9 [tr]

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Shock Overnight Developments for Gay Team on Big Brother 9

For those of you who have been watching Big Brother 9 (which has been pretty great so far) some rather stunning developments happened after last night's show on the live feeds concerning gay team Neil and Joshuah.

SPOILERS - Do not read any further if you don't want to read SPOILERS...

AFTER the jump...

When the live feeds came on last night. Neil was gone, and Joshuah was seen packing Neil's suitcase and crying. No explanation was given.

Via GuyTVBlog: "It turns out that one of the guys, I can't remember who, reveals to other houseguests that Joshuah and Neil had their FIRST KISS in the kitchen earlier last night. Then sometime later Neil gets called into the Diary Room and is apparently told something, no one knows for sure. He NEVER comes back into the house. Joshuah is then called into the Diary Room and is told that his partner Neil is no longer part of the game. Allison Grodner, Big Brother 9's Executive Producer, apparently told Joshuah that he now has to pick between eliminated houseguests Jacob or Sharon to be his new partner. Joshuah makes his pick and then leaves the Diary Room. The houseguests are gathered in the living room and are told that Neil is no longer part of the game. No one is talking about the reason but Neil is OUT. They then tell the houseguests that a replacement player will enter the house. Everyone at this point apparently shouted out with happiness except Joshuah, being highly emotional, is fucking livid that everyone has quickly forgotten about Neil. So in walks Joshuah's replacement... Sharon! Joshuah escapes to the bedroom where he and Neil slept together for the game and starts packing Neil's personal belongings, as instructed. Later in the night we find out from Joshuah that when he walked into the Diary Room that Neil's cup and microphone was left on the couch. Joshuah is upset that he didn't even get to say goodbye to Neil. Joshuah also reveals he was crying for about 20 minutes while the BB people were asking for Joshuah to make a decision as to who he wanted to be his new partner. Around dinner time Joshuah is still so emotional that he can not eat with his houseguests so he goes into the Sauna room to eat by himself, of course later he is joined by one of his alliance members, Chelsia. At one Chelsia tells Joshuah... "God I hope everything is okay with him... It's going to be so weird, everyone was sitting there and Neil was like 'Oh Hey!' in his Gay Little Voice!" BITCH! Joshuah doesn't take the comment personally because he's just this huge emotional trainwreck."

Boo! I do not like this development.

More here with a few screencaps.

Silly Hamsters blog reports that apparently Neil's reason for leaving had something to do with his family and was voluntary.

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