Proposition 8 Trial Testimonies Tells That Sexual Reparative Therapy Harms And Homosexuality Cannot Be Cured, Gavin Newsom Calls Out Obama On Gay Rights Failure, Dustin Lance Black, Jesus Takes Brazil, The Bedroom Eyes Of Ryan Bertroche, Backstage At D&G

The federal trial challenging the constitutional validity of the California gay marriage ban continued Wednesday in a San Francisco courtroom, attorneys for the plaintiffs calling 26 year old Ryan Kendall, who testified that at age 13 he was sent by ultra-conservative Christian parents to an intensive sexual reparation therapy run by the National Association for Reparative Therapy of Homosexuality. Some eighteen months later, Kendall says that after being repeatedly told that gays were not normal, that they were deviants, he was suicidal, emotionally damaged, but no less gay than the day therapy started. “My mother would tell me she hated me,” Kendall said, “Once she told me she wished she had had an abortion instead of a gay son.”

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, profiled by Maureen O’Dowd in Tuesday’s New York Times, says that his political progress is at an end, the mayor unable to raise monies to compete in a campaign for California governor. Newsome, who will historically be seen as one of the seminal figures of the same sex marriage civil rights battle, an early and influential supporter of gay rights, says he is, like several others, is disappointed in President Obama’s lack of leadership on gay issues. “I want him to succeed,” said Newsom, “But I am very upset by what he’s not done in terms of rights of gays and lesbians. I understand it tactically in a campaign, but at this point I don’t know. There is some belief that he actually doesn’t believe in same-sex marriage. But it’s fundamentally inexcusable for a member of the Democratic Party to stand on the principle that separate is now equal, but only on the basis of sexual orientation. We’ve always fought for the rights of minorities and against the whims of majorities.”

New York magazine’s Daily Intel reports that Dustin Lance Black is moving to Manhattan. Maybe; he seems a tad scared.

Jesus Lutz appeared at the Sao Paulo Fashion Week in Brazil Tuesday, his homeland, and to employ the vernacular of the day, blew up, causing such chaos Jesus had to be escorted to the bathroom.

Meet male model and bedroom eyes Ryan Bertroche, who wears well a pair of teeny, tiny, tight, white briefs.

More male model goodness via backstage at the D&G men’s fall and winter 2010 show in Milan, a festival of men in barely there underwear.