Anti-Gay Ex-Edmonton Capitals Manager Brent Bowers’ Half-Hearted Apology, Australian First Family Candidate Says Children Of Gay Parents Subject To Abuse, Australian One Nation Candidate Says Gays Unfortunates Who Require Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Gay Married Mormon Couples Thanks Justice Vaughn Walker, Zac Efron Takes To Wearing Facial Hair And Nail Polish, Teen Choice Cuteness With Chace Crawford, Channing Tatum, And Levi Johnston

Brent Bowers, the Edmonton Capitals baseball manager whose on-field anti-gay attack of an openly gay umpire July 31st resulted first in a suspension, then a resignation, has offered an apology of sorts, admitting Sunday that reports he told Billy Van Raaphorst “You know what I heard? I heard you are fucking faggot,” adding that “I ought to kick your ass, you faggot,” are true. “I went over to him and I said those words,” said Bowers. “If I ten minutes to look back ... I’ve grown up more in three days than ever before. I want to apologize to the league, to the Oilers.” He stopped short of actually apologizing to Van Raaphorst.

In Australia, First Family Senate candidate Wendy Francis posted to Twitter that “Children in homosexual relationships are subject to emotional abuse. Legitimising gay marriage is like legitimising child abuse.” The tweet was soon deleted, but Francis, a candidate in Queensland, admitted to the comment, and added more, mostly malevolent anti-gay message, saying that the “social experiment” that was gay couples adopting was creating a “parentless generation” that was “confusing children,” claiming that there was a correlation between the children of gay couples and those children suffering “uncontrollable depression & suicide.”

Also from Australia, Gary Burn, a gay rights activist has filed an anti-discrimination complaint against John Cunningham, the One Nation candidate in the upcoming federal election who told City Voice, a gay magazine that “Gays and lesbians are unfortunates” who should undergo “psychiatric rehabilitation,” adding that he has “a completely Christian approach and feel very sorry for men and women who are inflicted with this.”

Spencer Jones extends a thank you to United States Chief District Judge Vaughn Walker. Jones, a devout Mormon who married his husband Tyler June 17th, 2008, in the window of opportunity between May of that year, when the California Supreme Court found that the denial of the recognition of marriage to gays and lesbians violated the Constitution’s equal protection clause and November when Proposition 8 passed effectively eliminating the rights of gay men and women from marrying. He tried to place a wedding announcement in the Spectrum newspaper of Spencer’s hometown St. George, Utah (it was famously rejected). He and Tyler also appeared in 8: The Mormon Proposition, talking of the toll exacted by the participation of the LDS in helping pass Proposition 8, and Spencer says that through his experience with the documentary ,he is “convinced that there’s really only one way we can ultimately prevail against the false stereotypes and bogeyman myths: we must all commit to telling our stories and to showing our neighbours, co-workers, and faith groups who we are and why marriage and equal rights is important to us.”

Attendees at the 2010 Teen Choice Awards included Zac Efron, sporting a sexy porn moustache and, um, blue nail polish.

Also on hand at the event Sunday were Chace Crawford, Channing Tatum, and, um, Levi Johnston.