Christian Coalition Condemns Apple For Pulling Anti-Gay App, Ryan Murphy Intends To Graduate Glee Stars Instead Of Having 30 Year Old Grade Twelve Students, Paperboy Wins Inaugural Green Carnation, Standing On Ceremony Returns To Los Angeles, Madonna Mexico City Hard Gym Spared Embarrassing Permit Problem, Kellan Lutz

CNN reports that a Christian coalition is angry with Apple Inc for removing an anti-gay application that the technology corporation regarded as offensive. The application – the Manhattan Declaration – was allegedly created to promote the document of the same name that urges opposition to abortion and gay marriage, and to support religious freedoms. An Apple spokesperson, Natalie Kerris, confirmed the company removed the application from online iTunes and iPhone stores, saying “It violates our development guidelines by being offensive to large groups of people.” The Manhattan Declaration app allowed users to sign and share the declaration, and included a four-question survey that asked, among other queries, “Do you believe in the sanctity of marriage between a man and a woman,” and unless answered yes, the user was told they were wrong. Chuck Colson, the former aide to President Nixon, indicted in a Watergate-related charge, who helped author the Manhattan Declaration, said “If you have a public communications company, you have a responsibility to see that certain views are not suppressed. This is a dangerous thing to do in a free society.”

Ryan Murphy says some of the stars of Glee will leave the series at the end of the 2012 season, Murphy, according to News.au.com, wanting to replicate a real high school where older students graduate, replaced by newer, younger one. Says Murphy, “Every year we’re going to populate a new group. There is nothing more depressing that a high schooler with a bald spot. I think that you have to be true to the fact that here is a group of people who come and go in these teacher’s lives – they graduate and they’re gone.”

Paperboy, a memoir by Christopher Fowler, has been awarded the inaugural Green Carnation prize, an award meant to honour fiction and non-fiction memoir authored by gay men. The Guardian reports that “Fowler's memoir recounts the tale of a suburban London boy who divides his time between the cinema and the library, devouring stories and taking refuge from a tense family environment in the world of words. The prize panel called the book 'beautifully written,’ and ‘a rich and astute evocation of a time and a place,’recalling a childhood ‘at once eccentric and endearingly ordinary.’Chair of the judges, novelist Paul Magrs, said Paperboy was ‘about the forming of a gay sensibility – but more than that, it's about the growth of a reader and a wonderfully generous and inventive writer.'"

The Los Angeles Times on the return of Standing on Ceremony, a series of short plays examining same sex marriage, proceeds from the ticket sales going to benefit the American Foundation for Equal Rights and Equality California, both principle proponents in the battle to overturn California’s gay marriage ban, Proposition 8. The new version will feature plays by Neil LaBute, Moises Kaufman, and Paul Rudnick.

Madonna’s Mexico City gym was finally given a permit to operate Wednesday, the AFP reporting that the Hard Candy gym, which was prevented from opening as planned Monday because it lacked permits for land use and for its parking lot, now has all the proper permits in place. Madonna was in Mexico City Monday at the opening, a special permit granted to the gym.

Kellan Lutz is seen Tuesday attending the premiere of Meskada, an independent film that has garnered less than good reviews.