Cute Clay Aiken Honors Tyra Banks, Gentler Gay Protest Planned For Equal Rights, Antonin Scalia Hates Gays, Spying On The Dali Lama, Margaret Cho Chat

Saturday night’s 20th Annual GLAAD Media Awards were held last night in New York City, one of the big winners Miss Tyra Banks, presented the Excellence in Media Award by a suddenly sexier Clay Aiken, Suze Orman, who received the Vito Russo Award from T.R. Knight, and Phil Donahue, who, along with The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later, earned a special recognition award. Also on hand last, Keith Olbermann and the unsinkable Michael Urie.

Led by Jacob Whipple, members of Utah’s LGBT community are planning a quieter, gentler kind of protest this coming weekend, intending to be a very visible presence at the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints General Conference April 4th and 5th. There will no demonstrations, no protests; there will instead “service” protests, including a cleanup of area parks and pathways, gardening, and visits to a number of in need families.

Does, as Barney Franks suggested last week, United States Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia hate gay men and women? The answer, as this editorial from Saturday’s Los Angeles Times points out, is an obvious yes, but the implications that come with yes, as the legalization of gay marriage will almost certainly become a federal issue, are profound.

According to Saturday’s Globe and Mail, Canadian researchers, including those from the University of Toronto, have discovered a spy plot against the Dali Lama and other Tibetan exiles that originates mostly from China.

Margaret Cho tells the usually dull Domains section of the New York Times magazine that her politics are gay, she has an unhealthy fear of the phone chargers of the future, and that Sharon Stone disappointed and frightened her.