Hundreds Take Part In Savannah Inaugural Power Queer March, Profiling Judge Virginia A. Phillips, CNN Tries And Fails To Remain Relevant Fostering Anti-Gay Hate, Las Vegas Liberace Museum Closing, Male Model Hotness, Jon Hamm Does Details, Zac Efron Does Deauville

Hundreds participated in the inaugural Power Queer March in Savannah, Georgia Friday night. First City Network Vice President Jesse Morgan led the estimated 500, bullhorn in hand, calling for an end to the inequalities endured by the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered community. “We’re here for Savannah’s first-ever Queer Power March. But more importantly, we’re here to empower citizens,” said Morgan. The event, held ahead of this weekend’s Pride celebrations, held an additional emotional element because of a ruling Thursday by United States District Judge Virginia A. Phillips, who, ruling in a case filed by the Log Cabin Republicans in 2004, found the American military ban on openly gay men and women to be unconstitutional, a number of military bases in the area.

A profile of Judge Virginia A. Phillips, who said of her historic decision rendered Thursday declaring the policy known as “don’t ask, don’t tell unconstitutional, “Honestly, I did not expect it to get as much attention as it did. During the course of the case there wasn’t a lot of attention paid to it.” The 53 year old, a widow, who keeps company with two wire-haired fox terriers, wrote what is regarded as a thorough, thoughtful 86-page opinion that carefully explains why the policy, enacted in 1993 as a compromise by the Clinton administration, violates both due process and the First Amendment.

A story aired Friday on CNN’s Headline News Showbiz Tonight Friday titled "Too Gay For TV? A brand new controversial battle is on today as more gay characters invade prime time language.” An alleged expert – Dan Gainor, from something called Culture and Media Institute – appeared on-air and said “It’s bad for society to promote homosexuals, particularly a homosexual lifestyle and gay marriage. And that’s what this is doing,” adding that “Hollywood has done a great deal of work causing acceptance in American culture for homosexuality.” An accompanying poll soon thereafter appeared at CNN.com, asked whether a preponderance of gay positive television is “bad for society.” GLAAD quite quickly contacted CNN’s Standards and Practices, whom just as quickly removed the poll, which was offensive on several levels, the least of which was the use of language that propagates the lie that a cultural war is still somehow being fought built on a foundation representing the gay agenda.

The Liberace Museum, opened in August, 1979, is to close October 17th, victimized by a decrease in visitors. Jeffrey Koep, the Liberace Foundation Board of Directors Chair saying “This is a pretty straightforward business decision that basically been a long time coming. The biggest thing to the board is the human beings affected, that we are going to have to get rid of our employees ... but also, we recognize what Liberace meant to the history of Las Vegas, and that makes this difficult and sad for us.” Koep stresses the Museum will appear in another incarnation at a later date.

Jeremy Kost photographs Anderson Currie and Tommy Herd for the inaugural issue of Vaga magazine, the editorial seriously sexy.(Site NSFW)

Mad Men’s Jon Hamm is featured on both the outside and inside of the October Details magazine, Hamm pure heat.

Zac Efron, bearded, attends the Deauville American Film Festival screening of Charlie St. Cloud.