Canadian Conservative Party Defends Anti-Gay Policy That Denied Pride Toronto Funding, Glenn Beck’s 9.12 Project Gets Gay Youth Anthology Pulled From High School Shelves, Gay Brit Stripped And Stranded, Joaquin Phoenix Documentary Contains A Whole Lot Of Male Frontal Nudity, Michael Steger Plays Gay, Tommy Herd Hotness

According to Canadian Conservative’s Industry Minister, Tony Clement, the Pride Toronto celebrations, cut off from federal funding in 2010, is a victim of its own success, and that, in part, motivated the decision by the Conservatives to deny any monies to the weeklong festival under the Marquee Tourism Events program - established in 2009. Clement, and the Conservatives, criticised by the opposition parties, deny the denial has anything at all to do with the anti-gay sentiment strongly held by a faction of Conservatives. Clement initially said that Pride did not receive funding because in year two of the new stimulus package – the Marquee Tourism program – was altered in order to favour smaller Canadian cities. He then said the government decided to limit the program’s accessibility to “two events per major city.” Clement added that Pride Week had already become an international event, and required little or no aid from the federal government. “It is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year,” said Clement, “It’s going to get an additional bump because the G20 (international summit) is happening at the beginning of the week. They’re well looked after, quite frankly.” Liberal Party critic Navdeep Bains, however, said “Canadians see this for what it is, blatant discrimination and political pandering among the Conservative right-wing base. (The) Pride (festival) leaves a $100 million economic footprint, creates 650 jobs and generates $18 million in tax revenue. Why does ideology trump economics in this Conservative government?”

Revolutionary Voices, an anthology of stories, poems, and artwork by gay youth, was banned at Rancocas Valley Regional High School in New Jersey last week, following a campaign by the local chapter of right-wing lunatic conservative Glenn Beck’s 9.12 project. Beverly Marinelli, a 9.12 member, said that the book was “pervasively vulgar, obscene, and inappropriate.” 9.12, which denies climate change, says its goal is to return America to the day after September 11th, 2001, a time the group when the country was united, and championed and cherished traditional values. 9.12 now was to remove the same collection from the Lenape Regional High School District. However, a coalition of free speech defenders says that the residents “have no right to impose their views on others or to demand that the contents of the library reflect their personal, religious, or moral values.” Additionally, Lambda Legal, the LGBT civil rights advocacy group, wrote a letter to the school board that reads in part that removing the book “undermines the school’s obligation and ability to protect students regardless of sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity.”

A Palestine resident of the West Bank was arrested last week, allegedly having lured a British male tourist with offers of gay sex, then left him naked, stripped and stranded.

According to reports, the documentary I’m Still Here: The Lost Years of Joaquin Phoenix is confusing perspective buyers who are uncertain whether the film, directed by Phoenix’s brother in law Casey Affleck, is genuine or an elaborate, misguided attempt at performance art. “Several buyers said the film overflowed with Hollywood debauchery, “reports the Los Angeles Times, “including more male frontal nudity than you’d find in some gay porn films and a stomach-turning sequence in which someone feuding with Phoenix defecates on the actor while he’s asleep.”

Michael Steger, who appears on 90210, will guest star for at least one episode on HBO’s True Blood. He will play Tony, a gay prostitute who gets “picked up by King of Mississippi Russell Edgington because of his resemblance to his current to his current steady.”

Meet Canadian male model Tommy Herd, the 23 year old filling out a pair of teeny, tight, white briefs impressively.