Catholic Church Feigns Shock And Anger Over Expose On Gay Priests Leading Double Lives, Attorneys For Log Cabin Republicans Request Injunction Preventing Further Discharge Of Openly Gay Service Members, GLAAD Issues First Excellent Rating To MTV, MTV’s Ryan Leslie Threatens To Smash Someone’s Gay Fucking Face In, McFly Naked Yet Again

Panorama, an Italian magazine owned, incidentally, by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Belusconi, has published an expose cover story titled “Gay Priests’ Nights on the Town,” the cover featuring a man wearing a priest’s black robe, folded hands with painted pink fingernails, clutching a rosary. The article purports to document a month’s worth of “vices and perversions” following three gay priests – two Italian, one French – as they cavort and frolic through several of Rome’s gayer gay clubs, that includes a number of random sexual conquests. The Vatican, predictably, is a tad upset. A statement from a Rome diocese said that “those who live a ‘double live, who do not understand what it is to be a Catholic priest, should not become priests,” adding that the church was “saddened and troubled” by the story. Surprisingly, given the church’s reluctance to take action, the diocese has pledged to pursue “with rigor any behaviour that is unworthy of the priestly life,” and that “no one obliges them to remain priests and keep enjoying the advantages. Consistency demands that they reveal themselves. We don’t wish them any harm, but we cannot accept that the honour of all others is dragged through the mud because of their behaviour.” Not to editorialize, but why would the church not apply the same standards to priests purported to engage in pedophilia? Also, if every gay Catholic priest were to be excommunicated it seems unlikely there would be anyone to serve mass anywhere in the world.

Attorneys for the Log Cabin Republicans have made a request that a federal judge in Riverside, California impose a temporary injunction to stop discharging openly gay armed forces members under the policy known as “don’t ask, don’t tell.” The request was made during closing arguments this Friday, the trial challenging the constitutional validity of the military ban ending after two weeks. At trial, lawyers representing the Republican gay advocacy group, argued that the policy, enacted under the Clinton administration as a kind of compromise, violates the rights of gay military members to free speech, due process, and open association. It is estimated that over 13,500 service members have been discharged under the policy since 1994.

GLAAD has issued its first ever “excellent” rating to MTV for the network’s prominent and diverse portrayal of homosexual characters, citing 42-percent of MTV’s original prime-time programming to include content that reflected the lives of gay men and women, as well as transgender. The CW earned a “good rating”, allocating 35-percent of its prime-time programming to story line that gay, bisexual, or transgendered characters. CBS was given a “failing” rating; gay characters featured on the network a mere 7-percent of prime-time.

Ryan Leslie, however, may detract from MTV’s excellence in gay positive programming, the deeply closeted cast member of The Real World New Orleans, who, in a Twitter battle with Calvin nee aurosan, tweeted “I would love to see you in person, and smash your gay fucking face in.”

McFly, the British boy band that is gayer than gay, graces the cover of the new Attitude magazine, the boys in various states of undress, and nudity, naturally. (NSFW)