Chile Senator To Sponsor Same Sex Marriage Measure, Concerned For American Iowa Director Tamara Scott Says Current Economic Collapse Of The United States Fault Of Gay Marriage And Erosion Of Traditional Family, Spencer Tuncik Releases Final Image Of The Base, Joe McElderry’s First Gay Kiss Comes Forward, Ronaldo Smirks, Fernando Torres Teases

Fulvio Rossi, the head of the Chile Socialist party said Sunday that he intends to sponsor a measure to legalize gay marriage in the Latin American country. “This is a project that I will present ... and I am also calling the Church to be more welcoming, and I say that as a part of the Church,” said the senator, responding to a remark by Chilean Cardinal Francisco Javier Errazuriz, who referred to same sex marriages in Argentina as “an aberration.” Chilean President Sebastian Pinera, a conservative, in on record vowing to extend more equality to same sex couples, but is also opposed to offering gay marriage.

Tamara Scott, state director of political action committee Concerned Women for America, speaking in Des Moines, Iowa Sunday as a part of the National Organization for Marriage rally meant to “reclaiming” the state through a constitutional amendment asking voters to reverse a 2009 state Supreme Court ruling that Iowa’s Defense of Marriage Act was unconstitutional, said that a part of the country’s current economic collapse was to be blamed on the social costs of the threatened traditional family by the legalization of gay marriage. She told a crowd in the 50’s “it costs you, the taxpayer, as high as $280 billion a year for fragmented families, according to the Family Research Council, citing a study by the vehemently anti-gay D.C. –based Christian political action committee. At a rally also in Des Moines Sunday, organized by One Iowa, that state’s largest gay rights advocacy group, Iowa First Lady Mari Culver, was asked whether the argument Scott advanced suggesting that the traditional family stabilized the economy, Culver said “heterosexuals have not done a great job with marriage and the family,” referencing several studies that reveal more than half of heterosexual marriage end in divorce. “I think a strong middle class makes a strong economy. I think (NOM) is looking for some economic cover, rather that revealing that some in their group are simply anti-gay.”

New York City-based photographer Spencer Tuncik has released the final image of The Base, a photograph taken during the 2010 Mardi Gras Festival in Sydney, Australia, over 5,000 men and women posing nude along the steps of the Sydney Opera House in celebration of the city’s diverse and inclusive society. “Thanks to those participants we were able to capture an amazing moment and artwork that, to me, represents the equality and diversity of the city of Sydney,” said Spencer. “I hope that the work and the art-action highlighted the city’s acceptance and pride in its gay and lesbian community.”

In an interview with the Sun Saturday, during which 19 year old X-Factor champion Joe McElderry publically came out, he mentioned that he had only ever kissed another male once, but did not want to talk about it because it would not be fair to unidentified man. Well, that man, 23 year old Sean Ryan, questionably, took it upon himself to say he was the recipient of McElderry’s first gay kiss. The hair stylist trainee and model, who met the singer backstage last July at an X-Factor show, says to the Sun of McElderry “He was my kind of guy, handsome with dark eyes. I really fancied him from the moment he came on stage.”

Deeply dreamy Fernando Torres (pretend he is not married) on vacation in Ibiza, in a very revealing red soaking wet swimsuit.

Cristiano Ronaldo spotted Sunday leaving his Beverly Hills hotel for the campus of UCLA with fellow Real Madrid players, Ronaldo sexy and smirking all at once.