George Rekers Says He Is Not And Never Has Been Gay And Threatens Lawsuits, Attorney Argues Defense Of Marriage A Federal Deviation, The Kid, Chely Wright Says County Fans Will Forgive Anything But Being Gay, Madonna Diaries Authenticated, 10 Things I Hate About You Hotness, Ashton Kutcher

George Alan Rekers is now threatening to sue for defamation, in an e-mail to Washington Post columnist David Weigel, Rekers saying that “if today’s news story in the Miami New Times is accurate I have been advised to retain the services of a defamation attorney in this matter, because the fact is that I am not gay and never have been.”

Mary L. Bonauto, an attorney for the Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders urged United States District Judge Joseph L. Tauro to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act, a 1996 federal law that defines marriage as that only existing between a man and a woman, contending that it is an unconstitutional intrusion on a matter previously left to states. Bonauto represents seventeen gay men and women who wed in Massachusetts - where gay marriage is legal - but who are barred from benefits that opposite sex obtain, including health insurance from federal employers, the ability to file joint federal income tax returns, and retirement and survivor benefits under the Social Security Act. “All the federal government has ever cared about is that the person is married at the state level,” said Bonauto, “for the first time ever, DOMA departed from that.”

The Kid, a musical based upon the 1999 memoir by Dan Savage, about he and partner Terry’s journey to adopt a child, opens this Monday, off-Broadway.

Chely Wright profiled by the Los Angeles Times two weeks ago, before new broke that she was coming out, said that country music fans will forgive almost anything, except a star being openly gay. “It’s the unforgiveable,” said Wright. “Historically, country music would rather an artist be a drunk – they even encourage and endorse that one. You get good money from Jim Beam to put that emblem on the side of your bus. I was on the Crown Royal tour, and I have to say it was one of my favourite tours. They would rather you were a drug addict than be gay. They will forgive you if you beat your wife, lose your kids to the state, get six divorces, make a sex tape, get labelled as a tramp – any and all of it is better than being gay.”

Madonna’s diaries, the ones put up for auction on eBay five years ago, and then pulled by Madonna, were real, including a Snoopy cover steno pad labelled “Calif & New York.”

10 Things I Hate About You was recently cancelled by ABC Family, which is unfortunate given the smoking sexy stars Ethan Peck (grandson of Gregory) and Chris Zylka, but thanks to the interwebs, their shirtless shenanigans will live on.

Ashton Kutcher spotted on the set on an untitled Ivan Reitman film, going for the gold.