News: Ricky Martin, Moths, Pit Stains, Randy Harrison

You can own Ricky Martin's signed Vaio laptop. And well, if it's true what they say about old hard drives — that nothing on them is ever truly erased — who knows what the lucky winner might dig up.

Boy George and Little Britain's David Walliams had a bit of a catfight on Channel 4's The Big Fat Quiz Of The Year when George asked Walliams about his co-star Matt Lucas' wedding. Said Walliams: "Very nice thank you. It was great you weren't there." Apparently there's some bad blood between the two of them. According to comedian Russell Brand, who was also on the show, "Boy George thinks that Matt Lucas isn't a good example of homosexuality." Explained Walliams later: "There's a background to this. I wouldn't be mean for the sake of it."

AfterElton chooses its 2006 "Man of the Year".

Queer as Folk's Randy Harrison to play Tom Wingfield in Glass Menagerie production set to open in Minneapolis.

Freak Nature: Moth drinks the tears of sleeping birds.

Perhaps We Are Marshall should be renamed We are Matthew McConaughey's Pit Stains.

Gay rights groups applaud Palm Beach County School District after they unblock sites that offer support to gay and lesbian students: "Last March, an Inlet Grove High School senior published an investigative report disclosing that while Palm Beach County's teachers and students were denied access to gay-supportive web sites on the District's computer system, they could access the anti-gay web sites of the Traditional Values Coalition, the American Family Association, and Focus on the Family from any School District computer. Inletspin.com editor-in-chief Joe Dellosa, reported that the web sites of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (www.glsen.org ), Gay-Straight Alliance Network (www.gsanetwork.org) and Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (www.pflag.org) were among those being blocked by the School District."

News: New Jersey Gay Marriage, Hairy Moon, Reichen Sex Assault

Is the New Jersey Supreme Court just days away from issuing a landmark gay marriage ruling? "Speculation is rampant because under New Jersey law Chief Justice Deborah Poritz must retire on her 70th birthday, which is Thursday, Oct. 26. It has generally been thought she would want a decision handed down before she retires. But Len Deo, president of the New Jersey Family Policy Council, said the decision could be issued after Poritz retires and still include her vote."

SMU Quarterback Justin Willis reinstated after hate crime accusation. Athletic director: "Several factors have influenced the decision to reinstate Justin. He is remorseful and contrite and has apologized for his actions. He understands that this was not acceptable behavior, and he has been penalized. He has been truthful and cooperative with all authorities involved in gathering facts on this matter. With lessons learned, it's time to move on."

White hairy moon rises over Mexico City during Robbie Williams performance at VMAs.

The Cleaning Hunk is back, with a few of his friends.

Queer as Folk's Gale Harold is soon to be on Broadway appearing in the new production of Tennessee Williams' Suddenly Last Summer. Playbill talks to Harold about that production and asks him about any perspective he has on his former role as sex-addicted Brian Kinney. Said Harold: "It was full of different experiences. Working with the cast and the directors and pushing myself to places I didn't expect to be in was very positive and difficult and frightening. I'm very grateful that I had the experience to do it. It opened some doors to me. Overall, it was very positive."

Tony Blair to give the Beckhams Lord and Lady titles?

Reichen Lehmkuhl talked to ABC's Good Morning America on Sunday about closeted life in the U.S. Air Force Academy and a sexual assault that inspired suicidal thoughts: "A bag was put over my head. I was stripped of my clothes. I was forced to do things sexually with two other male cadets. That's when you start having suicidal thoughts, and that's when you start saying, 'Oh my God. I am so stuck in this situation. I can't go to anyone." (video)

New Tennessee Williams One-Act a Chronicle of Coming Out

Tennessee Williams, whom many assumed to be a self-loathing, conflicted homosexual in the early years of his life (because of writings that contained characters "cloaked in heterosexual disguise") was actually more in touch and open with his sexuality than people think, according to a NYT report by Randy Gener on the new one act to be presented this weekend in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

The Parade, or Approaching the End of a Summer, mirrors an ill-fated relationship Williams had one summer in Ptown with a 22-year-old named Kip Kiernan as they roomed together on the rickety bohemian outcropping known as Captain Jack's Wharf. When the relationship ended, Williams put aside the one-act for two decades. The 1940 draft, Williams wrote, "is a document of what he later called that 'pivotal summer when I took sort of a crash course in growing up,' a chronicle of how he 'had finally come thoroughly out of the closet.'"

The rescued final version adds a frame to the beginning and end of Williams' 1940 draft, according to theater director David Kaplan: "He strengthened the Chekhovian nature of the script and the classical unities." This new play should interest any lover of Williams, anyone who has ever spent a summer in Provincetown, or anyone who has ever experienced the unrequited love that is one of Williams' recurring themes.

According to the article, Williams' alter ego in the play, Don, laments that love is like a circus parade that has never come: "My neck’s getting stiff from straining forward. I’m beginning to think the parade isn’t going to stop by. It must have been halted somewhere. The elephants turned hugely, impassively aside at the wrong intersection."

In other theater news, the NYT writes up the Broadway revival of A Chorus Line.

Tennessee Williams to Get Fete in Provincetown

The first annual Tennessee Williams Festival kicks off in Provincetown one week from today.

Why should this tiny town at the tip of a New England cape be celebrating the playwright?

"Tennessee Williams spent the most productive years of his life in Provincetown. From 1940 until 1947, this small town at the outer edge of Massachusetts is where Williams found himself artistically, acted boldly on his sexuality, and fell unguardedly in love for the first, and perhaps only time. Writing at Provincetown, sometimes on a wharf in the bay, sometimes in a shack on the dunes, Williams crafted his masterpieces The Glass Menagerie and Streetcar Named Desire - along with jewel-like poetry, short stories, one-act and other full-length plays."

During the inaugural event a new, unpublished one-act by Williams called The Parade or Approaching the End of a Summer will be performed. Provincetown fixture Ryan Landry will put on a likely cracked and irreverent parody play called Plexi-glass Menagerie, performed by members of The Gold Dust Orphans. Folks will hear Andre Previn's opera of A Streetcar Named Desire, performed by Capitol City Opera Company from Atlanta. And Yellowbird, a short film by none other than Mommie Dearest herself, Faye Dunaway, will be screened. No word on whether she'll be there to rant in person.

A gay time will be had by all.