Towleroad Guide to the Tube #169

GENERAL PETRAEUS: "I don't know" if my strategy in Iraq makes America safer.

HIP-HOP for AIDS PREVENTION: A hetero-oriented anti-viral viral campaign on YouTube.

VMAS - KID ROCK and TOMMY LEE: Catfight at the MTV Video Music Awards.

VMAS - KANYE WEST: His backstage tantrum upon not receiving a Moonman award.

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Tommy Lee Tries to Cast Spell on Criss Angel Backstage at VMAs

Tommy Lee and magician Criss Angel had a moment backstage at the VMAs.

Perhaps Lee was hot and bothered after the Kid Pebble altercation, but Angel doesn't seem overly enthused by the rocker's advances. Where's Lukas Rossi or Dave Navarro when you need them?

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News: Oprah and Obama, iPhone, Kid Rock, Neo-Nazis, Jane Wyman

Oprah event raises $3 million for Obama campaign: "Among those present at the event featuring two of the most famous Chicagoans in the world: actors Lou Gossett Jr.; Cicely Tyson; Forest Whitaker; Ellen Pompeo; Sidney Poitier; Linda Evans; Tyler Perry; Chris Rock; Hill Harper (who attended Harvard Law with Obama); music producer Kenny 'Babyface' Edmonds; Holly Robinson Peete and her husband, football quarterback Rodney Peete; Winfrey beau Stedman Graham; radio personality Tom Joyner; sports legends Ernie Banks, Bill Russell and Dave Winfield; tennis great Jimmy Connors, and model Cindy Crawford and husband Rande Gerber."

Harrod's department store in London brought in a live Egyptian cobra on Monday to guard a pair of $120,000 ruby, sapphire, and diamond-encrusted Rene Caovilla sandals at their unveiling. The snake has since been returned to its owner.

Reagan ex-wife and actress Jane Wyman is dead at 93.

Apple sells 1,000,000th iPhone, 74 days after introduction.

Woman found shot dead outside gay nightclub in Bethlehem, Pennsyvania: "Bethlehem Police Lt. Joseph Kimock said Robberson's body was found at 7:16 a.m. Saturday when officers responded to a report of a person passed out in a vehicle behind Diamonz. Lehigh County Deputy Coroner David Krause pronounced the woman dead about 45 minutes after officers found her. Krause ruled the death a homicide. An autopsy will be conducted Monday."

In Jerusalem, police arrest cell of cell of young Israeli neo-Nazis accused of attacking gays, religious Jews, drug addicts and foreign workers: "Eight immigrants from the former Soviet Union have been arrested in recent days in connection with at least 15 attacks, and a ninth fled the country, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said, in the first such known cell to be discovered in Israel. All the suspects are in their late teens or early 20s and have Israeli citizenship, Rosenfeld said. A court decided Sunday to keep them in custody." More from the Daily Mail...

And more from the VMAs:

Trent hits the VMA party circuit.

Britney Spears damage control team goes into action.

Kid Rock and Tommy Lee show what grown-ups they are...

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News: Sun Flares, Lukas Rossi, Gay Chile, Ryan Seacrest

Two Chicago students file lawsuit so they can wear anti-gay T-shirt that says "Be Happy, Not Gay": "According to the suit, one school administrator ordered Zamecnik to remove the T-shirt and another official ordered her to cross out 'NOT GAY' with a marker. The suit alleges Zamecnik suffered unlawful discrimination and humiliation because school officials didn't agree with her viewpoint. Nuxoll did not attend the school at the time of the incident." It's Tyler Chase Harper all over again.

REPORT: Beckhams sick of Tom Cruise trying to convert them to Scientology. "Victoria is tired of Tom being on her back about Scientology. Victoria is an old-fashioned British woman who believes in God. She finds it quite annoying that Tom is bugging her so much. Not too long ago, Tom left 18 messages in one hour to get them to join the church. But when Victoria says no, she means no."

The Ted Haggard massage table, crucified by fundamentalists who had it pulled from eBay, has a second coming.

Sanitation worker disciplined for attempting to get glamour shots of Naomi Campbell's floor-scrubbing fashion show.

Ryan Seacrest is neither gay nor bisexual, according to an old flame.

We've already seen him lock lips with his lead singer Lukas Rossi, but now we learn that Tommy Lee is also an equal opportunity toe sucker.

You know you are a weather geek when...

Hot: Space probe reveals "impossible" images from our sun. "Hinode has sent back startling images of the Sun's outer limb. Where astronomers expected to see a calm region called the chromosphere, they saw a seething mass of swaying spikes...Another surprise sighting is that of giant magnetic field loops crashing down onto the Sun's surface as if they were collapsing from exhaustion, a finding that Golub describes as 'impossible'. Previously, scientists thought they should emerge from the Sun and continue blowing out into space. 'Almost every day, we look at the data and we say – what the heck was that?' says Golub, a member of the XRT science team."

The National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA) has posted a gallery of shots from their recent New York benefit at ABC studios in Times Square.

Chile's first gay football team prepares to head to IGLF World Cup in Buenos Aires. Player: "There are a lot of spaces for the development of sports for heterosexuals, but we gays don’t have that. This is our space, and when we play, there’s nobody shouting abuse at us from the sidelines."

Here's the full article at The Stranger about anti-gay pastor Ken Hutcherson's alleged trip to Latvia at the behest of the White House.

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Tommy Lee and Lukas Rossi Share Some Love

Rocker Tommy Lee shares a moment with Rock Star: Supernova winner Lucas outside the record release party for Frankie J's Priceless. Though it's not the first time Tommy Lee has swapped spit with his co-stars (and probably won't be the last).

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Dave Navarro and Tommy Lee Swap a Little Spit

If you'll recall, rocker Dave Navarro recently told dot newsmagazine, "I’ve come to realize through my experimentation over the years that I’m not gay, nor am I bisexual. But at least I know that in the sense that I’ve never been aroused by a man, but I’ve been in situations where I could potentially be aroused. Since it didn’t work, I know I’m not gay. So I was open to it working, let’s just say that."

And at the recent Rock Star premiere party, he demonstrated that he's still open to potentially arousing situations, although the potential of this particular situation seems a bit iffy.

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