Towleroad Guide to the Tube #1065

KISS IT FORWARD: A PSA from Marriage Equality USA and Revenge Is that celebrates all love being equal.

NEW HAMPSHIRE: A recent rally by anti-gay Christianist opponents of marriage equality got an earful from a rightfully furious angry lesbian. You go girl.

HOMOSEXUALIZED: NOM rabbi Yehuda Levin lashes out at Bill O'Reilly for defending Ellen DeGeneres against One Million Moms.

ROMANIA: Threading the needle.

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News: Nicholas Hoult, Romania, Ewan McGregor, 'Devil Worm'

Inaugural Mr. & Miss Gay Montana takes place tonight in Helena.

Nicholas Hoult dresses up the pages of Blackbook magazine.

Romanians hold gay Pride parade hours after anti-gay parade march.

Portuguese model accused of killing gay lover in NYC to plead insanity.

Aussie gay group bestows politician with homophobia award: "Australian Christian Lobby managing director Jim Wallace was awarded the Golden GLORIA for his Anzac Day tweet that said Australia's servicemen and women had not fought for gay marriage or Islam."

Janice Dickinson's latest boy toy.

Paris Hilton's new reality show bombs, proving that America does indeed no longer care about the socialite.

Florida man charged with hate crime after exposing himself to a pair of gay men and then assaulting and calling them anti-gay slurs.

The Pop-Up Museum of Queer History to drop in on New York City in August.

So-called "devil worm" thought to be the deepest-living animal in the world. It can live over two miles beneath the surface of the Earth.

Greenwhich, London police to hold monthly meeting where LGBT community members can confidentially report hate crimes.

Ewan McGregor on homosexuality: "It doesn’t really interfere with anybody else’s life, so why society has such a big problem with it, I don’t know."

Microsoft to launch premium television service.

News: Alexander Skarsgard, Malawi, Plane Crash, Rand Paul

Check out a new promo of True Blood (as well as a shirtless Alexander Skarsgard) during the Lost finale on ABC this weekend. 

Madonna is encouraging everyone to add their names to her new statement about the sentencing of two men in Malawi for homosexuality.  

David Beckham entertains the troops.

158 dead in Indian plane crash in which the jet overshot the runway.

Howard Bragman on the motivation of some celebrities to come out of the closet for profit: “That doesn’t make someone’s coming out less sincere. Celebrities profit all the time from getting married and selling their pictures to magazines and telling their love stories in song and in book. Yeah, we’d like a little piece of the pie, too.”

Potato, potahto: Kelly Bensimon of the Real Housewives of New York didn't have a breakdown, she had a breakthrough.

Transgender Republican candidate Donna E. Milo, who Andy wrote about earlier this week, believes that marriage should only be between "a man and a woman."

Rand Paul doesn't need Rachel Maddow to vilify him. He's doing a good enough job of it himself.

Ricky Martin hits the streets of the Big Apple.

NY Times profiles openly gay Oregon State softball coach Kirk Walker: “It’s probably not as sexy as if he were coaching a men’s team — that’s a different dynamic because people always freak out about the locker room,” Buzinski said. “But Kirk’s value is in putting a name to the concept that ‘Oh, we know there’s gay coaches and gay players.’ Here’s one you can identify with. By being himself, he is trail-blazing.”

350 participate in Romania's gay pride parade under very tight security.

I guess this means that Michael Barrymore is an "ex-gay?"

Towleroad Guide to the Tube #608

GREEN SCREEN: Almost nothing you see on TV is as it seems.

TWISTER: Rare tornado hits Australia farm. Australia gets about 20 tornados a year.

WOMAN SLAPS COP, COP SLAPS WOMAN: Incident captured on camera in Romania. The woman is reportedly a teacher under investigation for abusing her students.

FLAME: Here's what happens when you try to light a cigarette off the Olympic torch.

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VIDEO: Madonna Booed in Romania for Supporting Gypsies and Gays

UPDATED: With video.

Madonna was reportedly booed during her Sticky & Sweet tour in Bucharest, Romania on Wednesday for telling fans to fight discrimination against gays and gypsies, the Romanian Times reports:

"She told them: 'I've never been to Romania before and I am happy to be here. But I found out that there is a lot of discrimination against gypsies in Eastern Europe and that makes me very sad, especially because we believe in acceptance, gypsies, homosexuals, people that are different. Everyone must be treated the same, don't forget that!' But instead of the applause she expected fans jeered and booed the statement. There are over 500,000 gypsies officially registered in Romania but the real numbers are expected to be much more as many have not declared their ethnicity in a country where they face widespread discrimination. They are Romania's most socially and economically disadvantaged minority, with high illiteracy levels."

Gays in Romania face violence from nationalist and ultra-orthodox groups. In recent years, marchers at gay rights rallies in Bucharest have been met by hundreds of protesters who hurl stones, eggs, tomatoes, and trash at them in an effort to break up the marches.

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News: Centipede, T.R. Knight, Bears, Anthony Woods, Romania

Fire Island swim to benefit NYC's Stonewall foundation: open water swim from Sayville to Fire Island Pines.

T.R. Knight discusses why he left Grey's Anatomy: "My five-year experience proved to me that I could not trust any answer that was given [about my character George]."

A Centipede may get custody of Michael Jackson's children.

Analysis and clips from Obama's primetime health care press conference.

It's A Bear's Life: magazine makes move to web TV.

Fort Worth police officer in Rainbow Lounge raid's troubled past: "Ricks was disciplined on multiple occasions in 2006, including following his arrest for punching a bus driver in New Braunfels. The assault charge in that case was later dropped, but the incident raised serious concerns among Ricks' supervisors."

Lifetime to run All-Star challenge featuring eight former designers in conjunction with debut of new season of Project Runway. Here's who's participating.

YouTube removes musician Calvin Harris' own video from his YouTube page over copyright infringement.

San Jose, California's Billy DeFrank LGBT Community Center in danger of closing, needs $50,000.

Gay Iraq war veteran Anthony Woods, who is running for Ellen Tauscher's seat in Congress, gets an endorsement form HRC and The Victory Fund: "Woods, who is openly gay, was awarded the Bronze Star for his two tours in Iraq before being discharged from the Army because of his sexual orientation.  He graduated from West Point and earned his masters degree at Harvard University."

Mayors of Hoboken and Secaucus, NJ and a state assemblyman arrested in broad corruption and international money-laundering probe.

DC resident organizes fundraisers in support of Helem, a non-profit LGBT organization in Lebanon that is aiding LGBT Iraqi refugees.

The Australian Senate is doing an inquiry into marriage equality and want submissions from people affected by it.

Hong Kong hotel launches all-male floor.

Pat Robertson on the Episcopal Church: "They have lost their way. They were taken over by this controversy having to do with same-sex marriage and the ordination of homosexual bishops. Once they got into that morass and lost their way from scriptural teaching, they didn't have much denomination left... And there will be no tears in my life if the Episcopal Church of America just quietly goes out of business."

Twilighters arrive at Comic-Con.

Samuel M. Steward, remembered.

Romania bans same-sex marriage. U.S. anti-gay group Alliance Defense Fund claims influence: "Alliance Defense Fund played a prominent role in assisting supporters in the Romanian parliament. 'Through Peter Costea, who is one of our allied attorneys and the head of Alliance for Romanian Families, who's been doing excellent work in Romania, got these provisions enacted in the law,' Kiska points out, 'and we're just happy to see in Europe these types of protections being afforded to marriage.' Kiska concludes that Romania has a strong history of supporting traditional marriage, as do most European nations. Romania's new civil code will take effect January 1, 2010.