American Defense Secretary Gates Announces Changes To Military Ban On Gays Serving Openly, Poll Finds For First Time Majority Of Californians Support Same Sex Marriage, Tarleton State University Secures Performance Of Corpus Christi, Kellan Lutz Flexes All His Muscles, Lee Alexander McQueen Portrait, Alex Pettyfer Strips, Sean O’Pry An Angel

As expected, Thursday morning American Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced new rules that will make it more arduous to discharge gays from the military. The new guidelines, which Gates contends are a matter “of common sense and common decency,” in effect place high-ranking officers in charge of discharge proceedings and impose tougher requirements for the evidence used against gays, making third party outing nearly impossible. The new guidelines take effect immediately, and are regarded as a stopgap measure until Congress decides if it will concur with President Obama’s insistence that the policy of “don’t ask, don’t tell’ be repeal entirely. Gates said that he believes “these changes represent an important improvement in the way the current law” is applied. To date, since the policies implementation in 1993 by the then President Clinton administration, some 13,000 openly gay service members have been honourably discharged.

A new Public Policy Institute of California poll has found that for the first time more Californians support gay marriage than oppose it, a record high 50-percent of Californians polled indicating that the fully approve of same sex marriage, while 45-percent are opposed. The poll, conducted March 9-16, also found that 75-percent of those surveyed supported a full repeal of the American military’s policy banning gay men and women from serving openly.

Tarleton State University, in Stephenville, Texas, announced early Thursday that the production of Terrance McNally’s play Corpus Christi, which was to have been performed at 4:00pm will now begin a 8:00am Saturday, and the audience will be private, comprised of invited guests and relatives of the cast. The play, which imagines Jesus as gay, has outraged area Christians who threatened to disrupt the performance – a part of a class project. Tarleton State said, in making the decision, that it “has a responsibility to provide a safe and secure educational environmental for students, faculty, staff and visitors. “

Kellan Lutz – muscle upon muscle – as photographed by Collin Stark.

The last official portrait of Lee Alexander McQueen, photographed by Steven Klein, featured in the April issue of American Vogue.

Pretty Alex Pettyfer, the 20 year old actor and Burberry model, is featured in an editorial for Drama magazine, Pettyfer naked and offering, well, pubic hair.

Sexy Sean O’Pry appearing alongside a plethora of male model goodness Monday in New York City as an Angel, a Jeffrey Angel to be precise, at the 18th annual Jeffrey Fashion Cares.