News: Spain, Ryan Reynolds, Google Wave, Fort Worth, Bangladesh

Richard Hatch freed from prison.

Why is the investigation of the police raid on Fort Worth's Rainbow Lounge taking so long?

Marc Jacobs glams it up for Nars.

Get ready to see Ryan Reynolds in drag.

Pew poll on civil unions and same-sex marriage shows uptick in support for the former, but numbers virtually unchanged for the latter.

NYT hetero-normalizes David Hockney.

Senator Udall wants Don't Ask, Don't Tell repeal plan from Pentagon within 30 days. Lieberman "committed".

Spanish court orders new trial in brutal murder of gay couple following protests and outrage over acquittal: "Yesterday, mincing no words, the Tribunal called the lower court ruling "defective, absurd, illogical and arbitrary"and ordered a new trial, according to El Pais. The Tribunal also dismissed petitions to reduce the sentence for setting the apartment on fire. The verdict is a win for efforts by Triviño's mother, Marta Pérez Triviño, to bring her son to justice. She will still have to withstand what must be the unbearable pain of seeing her son's murder go to trial a second time."

John Mayer on online outreach: "I would rather tell the world to eat my a**hole before I would delete my Twitter account."

Police: Attack on Jake Raynard not a hate crime.

Queer as Folk's Randy Harrison set to play Andy Warhol in Pop at Yale Repertory Theater.

Two gay Bangladesh refugees say they'll have sex to prove they are gay on their fourth attempt to get protection Visas in Australia: "A Federal Court judge recently criticised the Refugee Review Tribunal for its treatment of the pair, who first applied for asylum in 1999, finding it was deliberately biased against them. In a scathing summation, Justice Spender found three previous tribunals had unreasonably twisted facts to deny the men were homosexual, using unsubstantiated claims they were brothers who had been married to women."

Gallup: Hillary Clinton now more popular than Obama.

Kris Allen wants to hit you baby, one more time.

Ryan Gosling had a yummy show in NY last night.

Butt Magazine to publish 54-week 2010 pin-up calendar.

George Michael and Kenny Goss step out in London.

Arjan presents a guilt-free download of the Magistrates remix of Mika's new single "Rain".

Coalition of 17 international human rights groups strike out at Uganda: "Over the course of the last year, there’s been an increasing pattern of homophobic discourse at play in Uganda, including a conference that occurred several months ago, in which a number of US evangelical leaders came to Uganda to promote reparative therapy and other types of human rights violations against Ugandan LGBT people…and our feeling is that the bill is targeting not just LGBT people, but freedom of expression and a broad level of political discourse in general."

Google Wave acts out Pulp Fiction and Good Will Hunting.

NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg again changes promises on what votes he can provide from  Senate Republicans on marriage equality: "Less than a month after defending his support for Republican state senators, saying he could get their votes for gay marriage, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said conservatives in that body will not support what the mayor termed 'our number one priority' at a recent campaign event with gay supporters. 'Those will not be the Republican votes that I will get, but they will be there for other things that are important to the city,' Bloomberg said in an hour-long interview with Gay City News and its sister papers, The Villager, Downtown Express, and Chelsea Now.

Ryan Reynolds in a Tight Spot

Here's the first image from the indie thriller Buried, in which Ryan Reynolds plays a kidnapped civilian contractor buried in a coffin in the desert with just a knife, a candle, and a cell phone with a dwindling battery.

According to Reynolds, he's the only one in the entire film: "It's the only movie I've ever heard of with only one person in it. So it's just me, I'm the only person in the whole movie. It's either going to be the greatest, most experimental cool movie ever made or god knows what."

News: Sarah Palin, Penguins, Ralph Reed, Cleveland, Kidneys, MP3s

Palin hints at independent conservative movement, to remain on national scene. Also, Son Track not a Republican.

Gay SF Zoo penguin pulls an Anne Heche.

Real Housewives of New York holding out for six figures. Kelly Bensimon to return.

Ralph Reed aims to rejuvenate Christian Coalition: “Even though I’ve been doing other things, this is kind of like Steve Jobs returning to Apple.You have to reinvent it. It’s the political analog to the iPod and the iPhone. It would be cool. It would be transformative. It would transform our politics and bring younger people to our ranks. All of those are critical imperatives.”

Barney Frank cool in the pool.

Ryan Reynolds to star as Green Lantern in feature film.

Southern Christian Leadership Conference threatens to fire Los Angeles leader over support for same-sex marriage: "The Rev. Eric P. Lee, president of the local SCLC chapter for two years, became an outspoken advocate of same-sex marriage during the recent campaign against Proposition 8, an amendment to the state Constitution that banned such unions. The SCLC national board notified Lee on May 27 that he would have to attend a hearing at its Atlanta headquarters on June 4 to explain his stance on same-sex marriage. If he did not show up, they said, they would suspend and fire him."

F*CK!: Swearing helps reduce pain.

Lateisha Green murder trial set to begin in Syracuse. New York to use hate crimes law.

Music industry sees collapse in illegal file-sharing: "The survey of 1,000 fans also shows that many14 to 18 year olds are now streaming music regularly online using services such as YouTube and Spotify. At the same time less than a third of teenagers are now illegally downloading music, the survey suggests."

Male model fix: Chris Cuba.

Brad Pitt and Anglelina Jolie house-hunting at swank NYC upper east side "fortress".

Robert Pattinson offers a flash of the pubes.

Mental: Comedian Eddie Sarfaty coming to NYC.

Levi Johnston: Palin quit for the money.

Margaret Cho returns to TV in Drop Dead Diva: Cho plays the sidekick to a recently deceased model trapped in an overweight brainiac's body. "I thought that it was a really interesting idea, because I think that a certain kind of beauty is valued more than other kinds, and that's a really harmful thing. To take a script that questions that beauty ideal and challenges it is very important. It's really close to what I do in stand-up, talking about body issues and beauty in an intelligent, funny and provocative way."

Cleveland keen on capturing 2014 Gay Games.

Wanted: living kidney donors.

Anchor mocks Mariah Carey's performance of "I'll Be There" at Jackson funeral. The Westboro Baptist Chuch performs "Beat It".

Movies: Ryan Reynolds, Frankenstein's Bride and Patricia Clarkson's Fierce Advocacy

Would you be this upset if you accidentally collided with a naked Ryan Reynolds?

NATHANIEL ROGERS

Nathaniel Rogers would live inside a movie theater but for the poor internet reception. He blogs daily at the Film Experience.

Take One: Now Playing
Sandra Bullock is clearly overreacting. "Why are you naked?!?" she screams frantically skin on skin in THE PROPOSAL. Why ask 'why?', Sandra?

The Proposal opens on nearly 3,000 screens this weekend. It's Sandra Bullock's bid to recapture her RomCom throne. Reese Witherspoon, Kate Hudson and others been taking turns keeping the seat warm for her. If romantic comedies aren't your thing Jack Black and Michael Cera are working broad ancient yuks in YEAR ONE.

But what are mainstream comedies without a little gay-baiting (sigh) so Year One has to have scenes set in Sodom that feature a queeny Oliver Platt who is anxious to get a little oily and freaky with Michael Cera.

For me this weekend is all about Woody Allen's latest WHATEVER WORKS. His career has been on quite an upswing of late. Two recent efforts Match Point (2005) and Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) turned out to be his most popular films since Hannah and Her Sisters won sizable audiences and a Best Picture nomination way back in 1986. If memory serves me correctly, this is Woody's first film with gay characters since Meryl Streep tore it up in Manhattan (1979) as an angry lesbian writing a tell-all about her ex husband. Among the couplings in the new film is a tripling: Patty Clarkson plays a bible-belter who shacks up with a gay couple in NYC.

Take Two: Bonus Scenes

Speaking of Patty. She's a major friend to the community. Just last week she was promising to get naked with Rachel Maddow in New Orleans.

I'm not making this up. More, AFTER THE JUMP...

Ryan Reynolds Gets Down to Skin for Entertainment Weekly

Ryan Reynolds fans will be happy to know that Entertainment Weekly has given him four goofy covers this week for its summer "Must List" issue.

"When asked if he's comfortable as a sex symbol, Reynolds sighs. 'If you take any of that seriously, you need to be euthanized, ASAP,' he says. 'There are moments when you can use that to your advantage. But it's really embarrassing. I think I fear more than anything just sounding like a complete a--hole when I have to answer that question.'"

Three more covers, AFTER THE JUMP...

Movies (and TV): Sam Worthington, Make Me a Supermodel, Glee

NATHANIEL ROGERS

Nathaniel Rogers would live inside a movie theater but for the poor internet reception. He blogs daily at the Film Experience.

Take One: Screen Test

If you're planning to see TERMINATOR SALVATION this weekend, I feel it my gay obligation to inform you that the movie takes place entirely in the future so there's no naked, crouching time traveling men. When the mysterious Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington) makes his vaguely naked night time entrance into the franchise narrative, he's covered with mud AND some sort of jock strap. Weird. Apparently Skynet, that famously evil robotic corporation, has learned the value of human modesty since the glory days of the movie franchise.

As a Terminator nut, I can't say that the film holds up to the high standards set by parts one and two but as a stand alone actioner, it definitely has popcorn-munching moments. Whether or not the movie kills at the box office, the only way is up for Sam Worthington. If you're the only thing the audience can look at while Christian Bale is sharing the frame, you're on your way to super stardom. Later this year he'll romance Keira Knightley in Last Night and headline James Cameron's 3D sci-fi epic Avatar, the director's first big movie since Titanic twelve long years ago. By the end of the year Worthington will be a household name. And then he'll squeeze into a skirt for Clash of the Titans in 2010.

The 32 year old actor hails from Australia, a country which should probably just rename itself "Movie-Star Factory" at this point. Consider: Crowe, Jackman, Blanchett, Gibson, Ledger, Kidman, Bana,  etc....

Take Two: Deleted Scenes

Make Me A Supermodel. Gayer than ever. Even without any actual gays.

More, AFTER THE JUMP...