Federal Judge Dismisses National Organization For Marriage Lawsuit That Seeks Exemption From New York Election Laws, Log Cabin Republicans File Request To Allow Ruling Finding Military Ban On Openly Gay Service Members Unconstitutional Stand, Priscilla: Queen Of The Desert Performance Dedicated To It Gets Better, Joe McElderry Mobbed At G-A-Y, Elisabeth Moss To Appear With Keira Knightley In The Children’s Hour Revival, David Beckham Leaves Little To Imagination

A federal judge Monday dismissed a lawsuit filed the National Organization for Marriage, reports the Buffalo News, United States District Judge Richard J. Arcara said the lawsuit brought by NOM to sponsor advertisements supporting Republican New York gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino was premature. NOM wants to fund Paladino, but does not want to adhere to state election laws which would require the anti-gay marriage group to register as a political action committee, consequently having to file financial reports and list donors by name. NOM last week asked Arcara to rule that portion of New York election law unconstitutional, however the judge said that NOM has yet to attempt to air any of its ads in New York state and there is “no evidence” the organization ever discussed its request with the Board of Elections prior to filing the lawsuit. Kenneth A. Manning, an attorney from Buffalo representing the Board of Elections said that NOM wants “preferential treatment” and that “If they are going to engage in political committee activities, which would include express advocacy of a particular candidate, they would be deemed a political committee.”

Monday, the Log Cabin Republicans asked the Ninth United States Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco to let stand an order by a lower court that found the military ban on openly gay service members unconstitutional, the group arguing that national security would not be irreparably harmed by allowing gays to serve openly while the Department of Justice appeals the case, the Washington Post reports. The request arrives after a three-judge panel of the appeals court imposed a tentative stay that reversed a decision eight days earlier by Judge Virginia A. Phillips who had issued an immediate injunction prohibiting the enforcement of “don’t ask, don’t tell.” The Obama administration is on record supporting a repeal of the 17 year old policy, but wants the repeal to be an act of Congress. Lawyers for the Log Cabin Republicans wrote Monday that “The district court’s injunction requires only one thing: that the government discontinue all investigations and discharge proceedings that have been commenced under the “don’t ask, don’t tell” statute.”

Monday night, in Toronto, the curtain call for this evening’s performance of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert will be dedicated to the It Gets Better campaign, reports CBC, Tony Sheldon, the openly gay Australian actor who stars as Bernadette, says he hopes that the work’s message of acceptant can assist teens who are struggling with sexual identity. “It’s a very timely piece in that it is speaking to the misfits of this world,” he said. “We’re in a time when gay kids are committing suicide because they think there’s nobody out there who understands them and there’s no support. And this is a show about very lonely gay people who travel across very hostile terrain and end up finding family of their own making. It’s actually quite current.” The play ends its previews Monday, the official North American premiere and opening night is Tuesday.

Joe McElderry, so courageous, so cute, made an appearance Saturday night at London’s famous G-A-Y Club, and 3am.com reports that he performed his hit song Ambition, as well as five more selections from his debut album, and “Towards the end of his last song a fan clambered on to the state and tried to haul him off it and into the crowd. Bouncers waded in and dragged him to safety. There was a stampede!”

Yesterday, I posted that the New York Post was reporting that Rosie O’Donnell was in talks to co-star alongside Keira Knightley in a West End revival of the 1934 Lillian Hellman landmark play The Children’s Hour, however now the BBC reports that Mad Men’s Elisabeth Moss, making her West End debut, will join Knightley.

David Beckham spotted Saturday on the field during a match between his Los Angeles Galaxy and FC Dallas, the sexy Beckham offering a gratuitous glimpse of the good in his tight, white briefs, as well as the tattoos decorating his torso.