Puerto Rico Creates Hate Crime Committee, Yuma Mayor Calls Gay Service Members Limp-Wristed To Remind You Arizona Is The Stupidest State, Utah Senator Hatch Insults Gays Insisting He Meant It As A Compliment, Mr. Gay Netherlands, Boys In The City, Beautiful Bernardo Velasco, Dirk Bekkenbergs, Kevin McHale’s Banging Body, Chris Colfer And Amber Riley

Puerto Rico Attorney General Guillermo Somoza Colombani announced the creation of committee specifically designed to investigate hate crimes, Colombani saying “with the creation of this committee, we will document the extend of hate crimes,” adding that the date collected will be employed in the creation of polices meant to aid victims of bias motivated crimes. The announcement was championed by gay rights activists, who complain that the government has yet to invoke legislation passed in 2002 that enables harsher punishment for crimes based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Pedro Julio Serrano, spokesperson for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, said “I think this is a step in the right direction to start to collect statistics that are vital to curb the crisis of violence against the gay community.” Serrano says that there have been at least 25 murders of gay and transgendered individuals in the last eight years that would likely be categorized as hate crimes, including the sadistic killing of gay teenager Jorge Steven Lopez in early November, 2009.

Yuma, Arizona Mayor Al Krieger during a speech on Memorial Day, referencing efforts in the United States to repeal the military ban on openly gay men and women serving, said of veterans “And I cannot believe that a bunch of lacy-drawered, limp-wristed people ... could do what those men have done in the past.” Later, Krieger, speaking to a Yuma television station, said that for his remarks he is being compared to Washington or Lincoln, saying “I am reluctant to compare myself to George Washington or Abraham Lincoln, but I did get some feedback on what I said, and I don’t believe I said anything different from what they would have said.” He added that America needs “solid, strong men, not pacifists” to fight wars and that the men who landed on Omaha Beach and fought in World War One were “a man’s man.” On Friday, he issued an apology, awkwardly, saying that as mayor “I must respect the lifestyle choices of others, no matter how disagreeable they are with my personal beliefs or my personal moral standards.”

Utah Senator Orin Hatch, a Republican, under attack for a statement he made at a town hall meeting in St. George, Utah when he told an audience that “gays and lesbians don’t pay tithing, their religion is politics.” Hatch claims that he was urging Republican to come together in the same way environmentalists, gay activists, personal injury lawyers, and unions do for Democratic candidates, and was using the aforementioned groups as examples of those active in politics. He says he in no way meant to imply that gays are not religious. “There are some very, very good gay people who are very religious who undoubtedly pay tithing,” Hatch said. “That wasn’t what I was talking about. I was talking about politics and praising them for getting involved. I was making the point that they don’t just stand on the side, they support their Democratic candidates with their money.”

The 2010 Mr. Gay Netherlands pageant: a preview.

Boys in the City: a preview. (NSFW)

Photographer Lucio Luna captures Brazilian babe Bernardo Velasco in various athletic attire – one nude in fact, with only a baseball and glove standing between you and the goods, which appear, um, ample. (NSFW)

Dirk Bikkenbergs underwear creates a new mannequin from an plaster image of the smoking sexy 25 year old Spanish soccer star Hector Verdes Ortega.

Who knew that Glee’s Kevin McHale was so seriously sexy?

To paraphrase Sue Sylvester, how can these two not have a show on Bravo?