Open Gay Relationships Secretly Successful, Reports That Pentagon Will End Third-Party Gay Military Outings, Beyonce And Taylor Swift Grab Grammys, Agnes Nixon Proudest Of Gayest Moments, Sexy Spence, Thiago Rufinelli

The New York Times on one of the worst kept secrets: that many successful gay marriages – and by extension, relationships – are open in modern way that straight marriages could never be.

The Times as well on the movement by the Obama administration to repeal the military ban on gays serving openly, a law, that according to an unnamed source, the president called ‘just wrong.” Obama delayed action on lifting the ban because the two wars still being waged have stretched thin the military ranks, and, again, according to unnamed sources, because he did not want to distract from the battle of health care reform. The Times also reports that Tuesday, Defence Secretary Robert Gates will announce that the Pentagon will end discharges based on third-party accusations, but that the movement to reverse the ban itself will take at least two years.

The creator of All My Children Agnes Nixon tells Entertainment Weekly that she is most proud of introducing an AIDS storyline, as well as having Erica Kane’s daughter come out, saying both had an enormous impact. “When Erica’s daughter, Bianca, came out as a lesbian, I got letters from gay women saying, ‘if only I had seen this show when I was teenager.’ Eden Riegel became on the most popular young actors on daytime. I had the sense to wait, to know that there’d be a lot of people who were prejudiced, homophobic, so we had to wait until we could make her Erica’s daughter. You have to be sneaky sometimes, because viewers wanted to watch and see what Erica’s reaction would be.”

Beyonce and Taylor Swift dominated the Grammy Awards Sunday, the former winning six Grammy’s, the latter four, including album of the year. The evening, opened with a Lady Gaga and Elton John duet, and became a blur of the bizarre soon thereafter.

Photographer Jay Diers introduces Spence, seriously sexy. (NSFW)

Meet Thiago Rufinelli. Please! (NSFW)

Jane Lynch Gleeful To Be Gay, Stupid Stephen Baldwin, Kellan Lutz Snowboards, Drake LaBry Wishes Adam Lambert Happy Birthday, Male Model Seth Travis, Spartacus Gets Sweaty And Sexy, Bryan Twins Take Australian Open Title, Roger Federer Beats Andy Murray

Lovely Jane Lynch is interviewed by the Mirror, and is asked why she waited until she was 31 year old to come out to her parents? “I didn’t want to be gay,” says Lynch, adding “I wanted to be ... I wanted an easy life. And you know what? I am gay and I still have an easy life.”

Celebrity catastrophe Stephen Baldwin, whose appearance on England’s Celebrity Big Brother was quite quick – he and um, Sisqo were each evicted Friday – is profiled in the Guardian, prattling on about his born again beliefs, but when prompted to share his view on homosexuals, Baldwin amps up the hate and the intolerance, angering and disappointing the writer, who thinks he is a “remarkably likable man” until she asks what would happen if one of his two daughters came out and the other became a stripper. “Jesus or no Jesus, if my kid starting working in a strip club, I’d beat her ass. Now the other question is interesting and culturally relevant. I have two or three very dear friends who are homosexual and they know I’m born again and we have an understanding that we’re just not going there ...” He then “reveals that he’s all for gay men who, through their faith, reject their homosexuality and get married: ‘To turn away from that lifestyle is astonishing.’”

Kellan Lutz, looking more and more like Ryan Phillippe, snowboards Saturday with his brother Brandon, atop Mt. Summit, in beautiful Big Bear, California, and Kellan killing it with a sexy sunglass scowl.

Friday, Adam Lambert invited 170 or so close friends to celebrate his 28th birthday, among the guests ex-boyfriend and smoking sexiness Drake LaBry, as well as ex’s Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson.

Meet male model Seth Travis, 26 years old, in possession of an alarmingly sexy pair of armpits. (NSFW)

Something called Spartacus is airing on something called Starz, and it is “an historical depiction of ancient Rome’s society and culture,” so season one’s second episode is naturally set in a Roman bath house, where we – the viewers – are treated to an authentic examination of that brutal, intense, sensual time, all of which means male nudity abounds. (NSFW)

World champion tennis twins Bob and Mike Bryan won their fourth men’s double title in five years Sunday at the Australian Open in Melbourne, the 31 year old beautiful brothers celebrating after besting the team of Canada’s Daniel Nestor and Serbia’s Nenad Zimonjic on the court and after the trophy presentation.





On the men’s side, despite a gallant effort, Andy Murray lost to Roger Federer in three straight sets.

Malawi Men Kept In Jail For Their Own Safety, Hawaii Legislators Failure, Utah Legislators Compromise, Boarder Boy Jesus, Ryan Phillippe And Kellan Lutz Separated At Birth

Thursday, the Malawi High Court again denied bail to 20 year old Tiwonge Chimbalanga and 26 year old Steven Monjeza citing concern for the couple’s safety. The two have been in jail since December 27th, arrested and charged with three counts of unnatural acts between men and gross public indecency. The trail is thought to resume February 5th.

Hawaii’s House Friday, prompted perhaps by election year fears, voted to postpone any action in 2010 on a civil-unions act that would have afforded same sex and opposite sex couples the same rights, privileges, and responsibilities as those allotted opposite sex marriage couples. The Senate last week, as previously posted, approved the measure with a two-thirds veto-proof majority, but the House opted for a voice vote that effectively ends any and all movement on the bill. Hawaii’s governor, Linda Lingle, seemed to suggest that the pro-gay proposal was not an urgent issue, saying “I understand there are real strong feelings on both sides, and so people would like to just get it settled, and get it resolved. I have felt from the beginning of this year that we needed to keep a clear focus on the economy. I’ glad we can just stay focused on that. There’s still the issue of our schools and the furlough issue out there, so we have some really serious things we need to work on together.”

In Utah Friday, an election year “compromise” by three Democrat legislators, approved by House and Senate leaders, to drop intentions for state-wide anti-discrimination ordinances, adoption and probate rights for gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and the transgendered until 2011 in order to protect and prevent an attack by Republicans on recently passed similar measures in Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County.

Jesus skateboards shirtless.

Ryan Phillippe, the most beautiful man in the world, arrives at Thursday at the Calvin Klein Collection celebrating Los Angeles Arts Monthly and Art Los Angeles Contemporary.



Kellan Lutz, looking a lot like Ryan, arrives at the same event.

Reports Suggest Repeal Of Military Ban On Gays Serving Openly To Take Two Years, Westboro Baptist Not Welcomed In California, GLAAD Calls For CBS To Explain Super Bowl Stupidity, Spike TV Gets Gayer, Tommy Hass Plays Match Minus Underwear

On Tuesday, American Defence Secretary Robert Gates and Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, are expected to announce a special investigation into repealing the military ban on gays serving openly, but the process, from beginning to end, will likely take upwards of two years, as several practical issues – consequences from lifting the more than ten year policy – need consideration first.

Members of the Topeka, Kansas based Westboro Baptist Church, led by founder Fred Phelps’ daughter Margie, a disbarred attorney with an odd fixated hate for homosexuality, travelled to California Friday, to picket, protest, and promoted their lunatic brand of anti-gay and anti-Semantic hate, but their appearance at both the Palo Alto Gunn High School and nearby Stanford University was met with counter protests, and a promotion of love and tolerance. Oh, and the tires of their rented mini-van were slashed on two separate occasions, but that will happen when you hate.

Jarrett Barrios, the president of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, wants CBS to explain how it is allowing an anti-abortion advertisement to air during the February 7th Super Bowl telecast, while refusing to allow an ad for a gay dating site. “CBS has a problem when they do something like this at the same time as they an anti-gay group like Focus of the Family to place ads during the Super Bowl,” said Barrios, adding that “this network should come clean to the public about what’s going on because this seems to be a homophobic double standard.”

Spike TV meanwhile has no double standard, the basic cable network as gay as it wants to be, at least based on the evidence offered by its Blue Mountain State show, now not only offering jockstraps aplenty, but featuring college football teammates shaving each other’s nether regions. (NSFW)

Flesh for fantasy festivities continue at the Australian Open in Melbourne, Germany’s Tommy Hass, seen below entering his second round match last weekend, Hass seen here opting to play without underwear, thereby answering the question as to his uncircumcised status.

CBS Rejects Gay Dating Site Commercial, ManCrunch.com Calls For Boycott, AT&T Discriminates Against Gay Couple, Gareth Thomas Hosts Coming Out Party, John Barrowman Joins Desperate Housewives, Brazil Male Models, Kerry Degman

Stating that the ManCrunch.com ad “is not with the Network’s broadcast standards for Super Bowl Sunday, CBS late Friday rejected the gay dating site commercial, according to reports, and reinforced the public perception that the network operates a double standard. The Toronto based company contends that the decision by CBS is “straight-up discrimination,” and the network still intends to air a thirty second anti-abortion spot for Focus on the Family featuring Tim Tebow and his mother.

ManCrunch.com, meanwhile, is asking gay advocacy groups to join a women’s coalition and protest CBS’s decision to air the Tim Tebow anti-abortion ad, arguing that it is not suitable to air during the Super Bowl.

Bryan Dickenson, a communication technician with AT&T for twelve years asked for time off to care for his partner of thirty years, Bill Sugg under the American Family Medical Leave Act to care for Sugg who suffered a debilitating stroke in September. AT&T denied the request, and Dickenson, instead of using the twelve weeks afforded all heterosexual couples under the Act, has been using his vacation time, but he worries that once that time expires, he will be fired. AT&T, constantly ranked as one of the most gay-friendly employers in the United States, contends it is following both state and federal law, which does not recognize the two men as domestic partners.

Welsh rugby star Gareth Thomas held a coming out party of sorts Thursday night, in London, at Movida, the gay club of the moment, and the celebrations were attended by a number of celebrities equal to or gayer than Thomas, including Ian McKellen, Graham Norton, and Will Young.

John Barrowman is set to guest star on Desperate Housewives, the Hall of Fame DILF to begin filming a six episode arc in March.

Ah, Brazil, a buffet of boys, including the beyond beautiful blue-eyed and blond Diego Bausen.

Kerry Degman gets dirty and dusty.

Proposition 8 Trial Testimony Concludes, Both Sides Rest Case, Plaintiffs Confident, Defence Department DADT Announcement Likely Tuesday, CBS Continues To Muddle Super Bowl Commercials, Gay Groups Urge Grammy Organizers To Condemn Buju Banton, Indiana Senate Wastes Time Approving Gay Marriage Ban

Testimony at the federal trial challenging the constitutional validity of the California gay marriage ban – Proposition 8 – ended Wednesday, and attorneys for the plaintiffs, as well as legal analysis believe that United States Chief Justice Vaughn Walker will likely rule in favour of the opponents of the amendment that defines marriage as that only existing between a man and woman. Walker could render his ruling as early as March. Whatever the decision, either side is apt to appeal, the case certain to reach the United States Supreme Court. By all accounts –save their side – proponents of Proposition 8 performed badly, with witnesses that appeared amateurish, and argument that lacked direction and was passive. The opposite was true of the opponents, with lead lawyers David Boies and Ted Olson masterful and in complete control.

American Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell Thursday said that the Defence Department will propose “a way forward” next week to lift the ban on gays serving openly in the military. Morrell added that the “secretary and the chairman have and will continue to work on an implementation plan, and we’ll be able to share (details) with you early next week.”

Following fast and furious in the footsteps of ABC and that network’s display of double standards evidenced by the reaction to Adam Lambert’s man on man kiss, CBS continues to make a mess of the Super Bowl telecast, and perhaps more importantly, continues to cultivate a massive distraction away from the game, with more reports on the network’s passive/aggressive rejection of a ManCrunch.com ad. The ad, available in the link, is actually funny, and harmless – its low-fidelity production contribute to the charm – but CBS insists that there are no spots available to purchase (an untruth) and that the commercial is still under review.

A coalition of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center are urging Grammy organizers to take advantage of Sunday’s telecast – on CBS- to denounce music that “promotes or celebrates violence against any group of people.” Buju Banton was nominated this year for best reggae album, and although Banton, who has an unrepentant history of espousing violence against gays, sits in a federal jail in south Florida awaiting trial on cocaine trafficking charges and will not attend the presentation, the nomination itself has angered gay groups, who suggest that honouring him honours hate.

The Indiana Senate Thursday voted 38-10 in favour of a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. It is the fourth time the Senate has done so, the measure sent to the House, where it will again be defeated. Senator Carlin Yoder, a Republican, the author of the amendment said “marriage is one of the foundations of our society. It is something that I firmly believe needs to be protected.”

Canadian Gay American Agenda, Cured Gay Nurse Reinstated, Oral Sex Defining Dictionaries Returned, Nick Jonas VMAN Hotness, Garrett Neff, Russian Male Model Goodness, Novak Djokovic Readjusts, Andy Murray, Marin Cilic

Are Canadian gays covertly invading America?

Why has a male nurse, a self-described “cured gay” who wants “a world free of homosexuals” been reinstated, able to return to practice, after his licence was revoked by a Queensland Nursing Council?

A committee comprised of parents, teachers, and administrators Tuesday decided to return copies of the 10th edition of the Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary to the fourth and fifth grade classrooms of Oak Meadows Elementary School in Menifee, California, mere days after the removing when a parent last week objected to what she contended was t he discovery of a graphic definition of oral sex. There is a caveat: the dictionaries will return, but parents have the option to determine if they want their children to have access to that particular dictionary.

Nick Jonas covers VMAN, captured by Mario Testino.

The gorgeous Garrett Neff featured in the Blanco spring and summer 2010 fashion campaign.

Meet male model Anatoli, a sizzling sexy Russian. (NSFW)

Ah, Australia, the Open I mean, in Melbourne, the men’s side still offering many smoking sexy sights, including Novak Djokovic, adjusting his, um, racket.

Andy Murray, courtside, mid-match changing his shirt and treating us to a view of his treasure trail.



His opponent, Marin Cilic, offers a glimpse of the goods.

J.D. Salinger

J.D. Salinger has died. He was 91. The author of Catcher in the Rye lived for decades in a small, remote house in tiny Cornish, New Hampshire - a state of self-imposed exile from a world of adoration and of fame that the author detested. If the history of pop culture is captured as a kind of ever growing quilt, Catcher in the Rye would be one of the central panels, its influence, for better, and often for worse, far-reaching and often impossible to calculate. In addition to the novel, published in 1951, offering the teenage Holden Caulfield, narcissist, deeply self-loathing, an adolescent who despite longing for redemption, refuses to allow himself to be saved, opting for sentimental stances instead, Salinger wrote the collection Nine Stories, that features the still mandatory reading of “A Perfect Day for Bananafish.” He also published Franny and Zooey, a novel about carefully articulated, self-absorption that acted as a handbook for a kind of privileged set of smart, disenfranchised youth.

CBS Passively/Aggressively Rejects Gay Dating Site Super Bowl Ad, Mexico Federal Lawmakers Seek To Overturn Mexico City Gay Marriage Law, Orlando Bloom By Terry Richardson, Spencer Tunick

There are reports Thursday that ManCrunch.com – a gay dating site whose slogan is “where many, many, many men come out to play” – submitted an advertisement to CBS Monday, January 18th for review to air during the Super Bowl telecast February 7th. The ad reportedly features three men, on a couch, bowl of chips between them, watching a football game. When two of three reach for the chips at the same time, they begin making out “wildly.” When ManCrunch.com contacted CBS representatives Friday, January 22nd, they were told by the network that “the spot hadn’t been officially approved of yet” but added that “all the Super Bowl spots were sold out.” ManCrunch.com informed CBS to continue its review process in case a commercial dropped out, as historically happens. However, a network representative told Pop Tarts that commercial space was still available. ManCrunch.com – cleverly cultivating free publicity at the expense of CBS’s homophobia – contends that the network does not want to reject the ad outright, fearing that decision would highlight an obvious double standard that sanctions a Tim Tebow starring anti-abortion ad for Focus on the Family, while censoring a gay dating site commercial.

On Wednesday, federal prosecutors in Mexico indicted that they will attempt to repeal Mexico City’s gay marriage law as well as law that allows gays to adopt, arguing the laws violate the country’s constitution. The Mexico City ordinances were passed in December and are scheduled to take effect in March. However the federal Attorney General Office released a statement that the law “violates the principle of legality, because it strays from the constitutional principle of protecting the family.”

Orlando Bloom stars in a new campaign for Me&City, photographed by Terry Richardson.

Photographer Spencer Tunick says his next project will be The Base, a series of thousands of nudes set on the steps of the Sydney Opera House, on March 1st, to correspond with the Australian city’s annual gay and lesbian Mardi Gras.

President Obama Still Wishing And Hoping Someone Does Something To Repeal DADT Just Not Him, Study Reveals DADT Disgusting Costs, Fred Phelps And The Westboro Baptist Church Tour San Francisco, Jason Chaffetz Introduces Anti-Gay Marriage Bill Ignoring Reality, River Viiperi Is A Hot Hero, Daren Kagasoff Prefers Briefs

President Obama, in Wednesday’s State of the Union Address, said “This year I will work with Congress and our military to finally repeal the law that denies gay Americans the right to serve the country they because of who they are.” So semantically, he is not calling for a repeal of the military ban on gays serving openly, but rather calling for Congress and military officials to repeal the ban, both of which can count on Obama’s cooperation.

A new study conducted by the Williams Institute at the University of California at Los Angeles concludes the military ban on gays serving openly in the military costs hundreds of millions of dollars and that a repeal of the ban would save funds, and also attract more skilled military personal. The study found that there is an estimated 66,000 gay, lesbian, and bisexuals currently serving in all branches of the military, but all of those are required by law to keep their sexual orientation secret. The study calculated that the policy of “don’t ask, don’t tell” has cost the military upwards of 290 million dollars since its inception.

Fred Phelps and his merry band of hate-mongering Westboro Baptist Church congregation are in San Francisco, California Thursday, there to tour and protest. The anti-gay, Anti-Lady Gaga, anti-hockey, and anti-Semantic zealots have a busy itinerary, including scheduled stops at the offices of the Anti-Defamation League, the Jewish Community Center, and Twitter.

Representative Jason Chaffetz, Republican, from Utah, who is tenacious in anti-gay marriage fervour, introduced a bill Wednesday to overturn a District of Columbia ordinance legalizing gay marriage. It is unlikely that the bill will come to a vote, since the Democrats control the House, but Chaffetz said “I wish it would come up for a vote, because I think traditional marriage would win.”

VMAN issue 17 is on sale Thursday, the edition subtitled “How To” and although I think I have posted a preview of almost the entire magazine, two more have been released. First, the always inventive Hedi Slimane photographs the spectacularly sexy River Viiperi and Colter Johnson in a how to dress like your hero series. Second, Hedi again, with a how to keep it cool story starring the smoking sexy Daren Kagasoff in various pairs of Calvin Klein briefs.

General Who Implemented Military Ban On Gays Serving Openly Wants It Repealed, Ted And Gayle Haggard Are Really Good Thank You, Notre Dame Protest To Recognize Gays On Campus, ABC Cancels Ugly Betty, Baptiste Giabiconi, Andrew Cooper

United States General John Shalikasvili, who, as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1993, implemented the military ban on gays serving openly, has issued a statement calling for its immediate repeal. “As a nation built on the principle of equality, we should recognize and welcome change that will build a stronger more cohesive military. It is time to repeal “don’t ask, don’t tell” and allow our military leaders to create policy that holds our service members to a single standard of conduct and discipline.” His heed comes just ahead of the president’s State of the Union Address Wednesday evening.

Gayle Haggard, the wife of disgraced former evangelical pastor Ted, whose involvement with methamphetamine and male prostitutes is well documented, Wednesday on the Today Show promoting her new book, Why I Stayed: The Choices I Made In My Darkest Hour that thanks to therapy Ted no longer is a prisoner to gay compulsive urges. Ted himself told Oprah that thanks to intensive therapy, focussing on an incident in his childhood, he has “not had one thought or compulsive behaviour.”

Students, faculty, and community members Wednesday demonstrated at the University of Notre Dame in favour of amending the campus code of anti-discrimination policy to include sexual orientation. Notre Dame, a private Catholic university, does not formally recognize gay students and has no support groups in place geared towards gays. The protestors delivered a letter to the president, Reverend John Jenkins, requesting that the university acknowledge a gay campus group as well as update its policies.

ABC – which was once a bastion of creative, gay entertainment – has announced it is cancelling Ugly Betty. This season, the show’s fourth, will be it last, and rather than 22 episodes, will be shortened to 20. This as the show finds itself amid an artistic resurgence.

The beautiful Baptiste Giabiconi, Karl Lagerfeld muse, stars in a new campaign for Baldessarini.

Meet male model Andrew Cooper, who looks lovely in and out of a variety of underwear.

Third Florida Gay Adoption Approved Despite State Ban, Justin Waller Charged, Gay Hating Fireman Promoted, Anderson Cooper To Move Into Historic West Village Firehouse, Lance Bass Power Bottom, David Beckham A Ten, Dan Felton An Eleven

As a Miami, Florida appeals court determines the constitutional validity of the state’s gay adoption ban, Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Maria Sampedro-Iglesia early in January approved the adoption of a one year boy to Vanessa Alenier. The boy, who had been taken into custody by child welfare workers when he was born, is a relative of Alenier, who is gay and who lives with long time partner Melanie Leon. In her ruling, the judge wrote that “there is no rational connection between sexual orientation and what is or is not in the best interest of a child. The child is happy and thriving with [Alenier]. The only way to give this child permanency ... is to allow him to be adopted.”

Justin Waller, 31 years old, was formally charged Tuesday evening with second-degree murder in the horrific killing of his former live-in lover 41 year old John Lea. Lea’s body was discovered by New York City Police last Thursday, and Waller was arrested Friday in Vermont. Waller was held without bail and will make another appearance in a Manhattan court Friday.

The three firefighters in Secaucus, New Jersey who stand accused in a civil lawsuit of harassing two former gay residents were not reinstated to their positions with the volunteer fire department. However one of the men was promoted as the superintendent of the Department of Public Work. Secaucus lost the civil suit filed by the gay couple who said they were systematically harassed by the three while living near a firehouse. The three resigned from the department instead of facing an administrative hearing.

Anderson Cooper – not gay, but gay – and his boyfriend, bar owner Benjamin Maisani, will soon be moving into a historic West Village century old firehouse, bought for 4.3 million dollars in September. The three story Beaux Arts style building ceased formal operations in 2006, thanks to massive spending cuts by Mayor Bloomberg, and is it being busily renovated and brought up to code.

Toronto based photographer Mike Ruiz transforms professional gay Lance Bass into the S&M power bottom he really is.

David and Victoria Beckham grace the cover of the spring issue of 10 and 10 Men respectively, David tattooed and rough trade.

Male model Dan Felton, too, tattooed, and very rough trade, starring in an odd, strangely sexy short film titled Night Flight. (NSFW)

eHarmony Proposes Gay Discrimination Settlement, CBS Says Focus On The Family Ad Part Of Eased Restrictions, Clay Aiken And Reed Kelly Get Hot, Ellen DeGeneres And Simon Cowell Fight, Adam Lambert Wrapped, Adam Coussins Stripped, Simon Nessman

eHarmony has agreed to settle a lawsuit filed in California that claimed the online dating site discriminated against homosexuals. The settlement, filed in a Los Angeles Superior Court on Tuesday, proposes that eHarmony will link to its gay and straight Web site, and allows individuals to use both without being double billed. The company also agreed to pay an estimated 500,000 to 150 Californians who were a part of the class-action lawsuit, in addition to attorney’s fees and court case. Under the proposal, eHarmony admits no wrong doing. A judge must now approve the settlement, a court date scheduled for February 3rd.

CBS announced that the network has eased restrictions on advocacy advertisements and that it would consider “responsibly produced” ones for broadcast on February 7th during the Super Bowl. The announcement was presumably made to appease complaints surrounding a Focus on the Family commercial to feature Tim and Pam Tebow that is thought to be explicitly anti-abortion. Colorado based Focus on the Family is historically anti-abortion as well as anti-gay.

Clay Aiken and his boyfriend, Broadway actor and dancer Reed Kelly vacation in St. Lucia.

It is early, but reports rampant that Ellen DeGeneres and Simon Cowell are already feuding on the set of Fox’s American Idol.

Adam Lambert was seen out and about in Toronto, Ontario, apparently attempting to revive the always unfortunate pashmina scarf.

The 22 year old Adam Coussins is beautiful. (NSFW)

The equally beautiful Simon Nessman rocks the Dolce and Gabanna.

Proposition 8 Trial Day Eleven And Defence Continues To Collapse, Chelsea And Heather Fight Proposition From Canada, Annette Bening And Julianne Moore Earn Rave Reviews As Lesbian Couple, Mad Men Says Goodbye Bryan Batt

Day eleven of the federal trial challenging the constitutional validity of the California gay marriage – Proposition 8 – is the second, and likely last day the defence will witnesses, a defence that has not performed well. David Blackenhorn, the founder and president of the Institute for American Values was called to testify on the significance of procreation to the institution of traditional marriage, an argument the plaintiffs have already shown as fallacious, evidenced by the numerous heterosexual marriage couples who opt not to have children.

Meet Chelsea and Heather Edgett, one of the 18,000 same sex couples who married in California during the window of opportunity that was June, 2008 through till November, 2008, when Proposition 8 took effect. The two recently moved to Halifax from California – Chelsea is a native and Heather is originally from Los Angeles – and they are fighting Proposition 8 from Canada in song.

The film The Kids Are Alright is living up to its pre-Sundance Film Festival hype and much more, a screening Monday evening of the Lisa Chodolenko directed movie that tells the story of a lesbian couple who are unwillingly reunited with the biological father of their two teenage children. The great Mark Ruffalo plays the father, and the incomparable Mia Wasikowska plays the daughter, with Josh Hutcherson as the son, but the rave reviews went to Annette Bening and Julianne Moore as the couple, both being touted as early and obvious frontrunners for next year’s Academy Awards.

There are reports that the great Bryan Batt will not be returning to season four of AMC’s Mad Men. Batt’s character, the deeply closeted and conflicted Salvatore Romano fired after rejected the sexual advances of a client. Batt says he was supposed to be notified as of December 31, 2009 if his contract was extended, but as of yet, has heard nothing.

Proposition 8 Defence Team Begins Poorly, Hero’s Ryan Bertroche And Joan Pedrola, Matthew Coatsworth, Brian Joubert Takes It Off, Andy Roddick Out Of Australian Open

Monday, Proposition 8 proponents began to defend the gay marriage ban, attorneys for the defence calling Claremont McKena professor Kenneth Miller to testify that gays and lesbians have in fact made fundamental gains in attaining political power. Under cross-examination, Miller did not do well, David Boises suggesting that the professor was less than a qualified expert on the subject. Miller also seemed to defer to the plaintiffs argument that Proposition 8 does discriminate against homosexuals, admitting that the law “creates a distinction between the two groups.” He returns to the stand Tuesday.

Hero magazine has published its second issue, featuring photographs of the beautiful Ryan Bertroche and Joan Pedrola.

Meet male model Matthew Coatsworth.

French figure skater Brian Joubert shows some serious skin.

Andy Roddick received emergency medical treatment during his match at the Australian Open in Melbourne Tuesday for an unspecified shoulder injury that greatly affected his serving game. Roddick later lost the match to 23 year old Marin Cilic of Croatia.

Hint That Obama Will Reference Repealing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell In State Of Union Address, Women’s Groups Pressure CBS To Drop Tim Tebow Focus On The Family Ad, Adam Lambert And Justin Bieber Are VMAN, Tush, Florian Is An East Village Boy, River Viiperi Loves Coitus, Orlando Bloom

There are reports that the delay in announcing congressional hearings on the ban on gays serving openly in the American military is at the request of the Obama administration because the president may during the State of the Union Address scheduled for Wednesday evening himself announce that military leaders have indicated they are willing to support repealing the ban. The Senate Armed Services Committee is to have another in a series of hearings, and committee chair Senator Carl Levin, a Democrat of Michigan, said senior Defence Department officials make the request to delay any announcements until after the presidential address. In the Wall Street Journal Monday, Richard Socarides, the former Clinton White House advisor on gay issues, wrote of the growing impatience with the Obama administration to take any action at all on repealing the military ban, Socarides saying “Mr. Obama’s oversensitivity to a dwindling minority of bigots” is “especially troubling.”

A coalition of American women’s groups is urging CBS to reject an advertisement scheduled to air during the Super Bowl February 7th, the commercial sponsored by the anti-abortion, anti-gay group Focus on the Family to star Tim Tebow and his mother, Pam. CBS approved the script Friday, but has yet to view the finished film. Jehmu Greene, the president of the Women’s Media Center, said “an ad that uses sports to divide rather than to unite has no place in the biggest national sports event of the year – an event designed to bring Americans together.” The group wrote a letter to CBS that reads in part “By offering one of the most coveted advertising spots of the year to an anti-equality, anti-choice, homophobic organization, CBS is aligning itself with a political stance that will damage its reputation, alienate viewers, and discourage consumers from supporting its shows and advertisers.” Others insist that the day itself is solely for football, and to include a conversation about abortion is a calculated mistake by both the network and Focus on the Family.

The February issue of VMAN, the magazine’s 17th, is subtitled “How To” and features a series on five pretty pop stars – Adam Lambert, Gabe Saporta, Gerald and Mikey Way, and Justin Bieber.

Tush magazine, meanwhile, offers an athletic edition. (Slightly NSFW)

East Village Boys boy of the week is a Parisian named Florian, a bit blue. (NSFW)

River Viiperi covers Coitus magazine. (Slightly NSFW)

Orlando Bloom, in Utah, attending the Sundance Film Festival, where he helped premier his new film Sympathy For Delicious Saturday, out and about looking lovely as always.

Attorneys For Proposition 8 Plaintiffs Rest Their Case, Kentucky School District Bans Dictionary For Containing Graphic Sexual Entry, Netherland Gay Group Assists Malawi Gay Men

Attorneys for the plaintiffs in the federal trial challenging the constitutional validity of California’s gay marriage ban rested their case Monday after screening a video of San Diego pastor Jim Garlow, influential in mobilizing far right evangelical Christian support for Proposition 8, the voter initiative that amended the state constitution to define marriage as that only existing between a man and a woman. The video shows supporters of Proposition 8 linkng gay marriage to bestiality and polygamy. The six minute work served as evidence of anti-gay hateful hysteria cultivated by gay marriage opponents, creating a climate of deceit and grotesque misinformation that in large part played into the fears of voters who helped passed the proposition.

The Menifee Union School District, in California, has removed any and all copies of Merriam Webster’s 10th edition dictionary after a parent complained that an elementary student had found the definition to oral sex. According to reports, school officials are prepared to review the dictionary to determine whether it should be permanently banned because of the graphic entry, according to spokesperson Betti Cadmus, who added “it’s hard to sit and read the dictionary, but we’ll be looking to find other things of a graphic nature.”

A report that an unidentified gay rights group from the Netherlands has donated monies to the Gay Malawi m Movement in part, as an effort to assist the two Malawi men arrested and accused with public indecency and unnatural acts after they married in December in a traditional ceremony. The report also suggests that the group intends to initiate a massive campaign in Malawi to lobby the parliament to legalize gay marriage.

Moscow Mayor Again Incites Violence Against Gays, Uganda Pastor Screens Graphic Gay Porn, 8: The Mormon Proposition Earns Glowing Reviews, England Equality Bill, Club Physical Admits Soy Makes You Gay Article A Mistake

Yury Luzhtov, the mayor of Moscow, said Monday “a gay parade ... cannot be called anything by a Satanic act. We haven’t permitted such a parade and we won’t permit in the future.” He added that “its’ high time that we stop propagating nonsense discussions about human rights, and bring to bear on them the full force and justice of the law.” The mayor’s statements echo ones he began making in 2007, although now his anti-gay rhetoric has intensified with the threat of gays being punished criminally, despite homosexuality no longer being illegal in Russia. A spokesperson for the pride parade, Nikolai Alexeyev, said that the organizers do not intend to make any changes and “still plan to hold a gay parade on May 29th.

Pretend Pastor Martin Ssempa, Tuesday, at a public meeting organized in an effort to augment support for the Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill of 2009, showed an audience graphic gay porn. According to reports, “midway through his presentation, saved on a computer, most of his audience walked out, some visibly disturbed, leaving him to wonder if he had done anything wrong. The cleric seemed genuinely rattled when he asked ‘Why should I be traumatized?’” He also presented two teenagers – a male and female – who claimed to be cured of being gay, another vain attempt to affirm Ssempa’s insistence that homosexuality is a choice.

8: The Mormon Proposition was roundly applauded by an audience that saw the Reed Cowan documentary Sunday, when it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. The film examines the historic anti-gay stance of the Mormon Church and its unprecedented involvement in the passage of Proposition 8, the California constitutional amendment that defines marriage as that only existing between a man and woman.

A proposed Equality Bill being debated Monday in the British House of Parliament is raised the ire of religious organizations who contend that the government mislead the public, and that legislators intend to make it impossible for religious groups to avoid the equal treatment laws protecting and preventing job discrimination based solely on gender, sexual identity, or sexual orientation.

Club Physical, a chain of gyms in New Zealand, has apologized for a link in its weekly newsletter to a 2006 discredited opinions piece by far-right lunatic fringe Christian Jim Rutz that suggested soy milk makes you gay.

Virginia County Supervisor Deems The Transgendered “Tootsies”, 8: The Mormon Proposition Screens At Sundance, James Franco And Jon Hamm Heart The Gays, Tim Tebow Says He Stands For Something, Ryan Gosling An Erotic Thriller

Meet Eugene A. Delgaudio, a Republican, and a Loudoun County Virginia Supervisor, an ignorant individual so spectacularly stupid it does defy logic. On January 6th, the board of supervisors voted to expand and strengthen the County’s non-discrimination policy to include an ordinance prohibiting county employment bias on the basis of sexual orientation. At the meeting, Delgaudio opposed, offended he said by the language in the measure to include protections for the transgendered. He suggested the extension to cover transgendered was ”bizarre” and "freaky.” Later, in a letter to supporters, Delgaudio, playing to the crowd, wrote “if a man dressed as a woman wants a jobs, you have to treat ‘it’ the same as a normal person.” Subsequent to the supervisor’s remarks, the Loudoun Times-Mirror editorial board wrote that the supervisor should apologize, suggesting he served as an embarrassment to the image of the county. The board too, called for him to issue an apology, James Burton, an Independent, said Delgaudio had “conducted himself in a manner best described in my opinion as histrionic, and his choice of words were and should have been an embarrassment to this board and to the county.” Burton added that the use of the word ‘it’ was ‘demeaning, insulting and dehumanizing.” Delgaudio issued a statement, as insulting and offensive as his initial remarks, saying “with apologies to the real-life Tootsies” and “to all their defenders who are calling me all sorts of names and, like Mr. Burton, are saying I should apologize.” He then turned to James Burton and said, “Lady doth protest too much.”

A rumoured protest in Park City, Utah, outside of the Sundance screening of 8: The Mormon Proposition failed to materialize Sunday. On Friday, America Forever, a Utah based anti-gay group, issued thousands of faxes denouncing the film and the festival, but they too were no shows. The film examines the unprecedented influence and involvement of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in passing Proposition 8, the California voter amendment that repealed a gay marriage law.

James Franco and Jon Hamm at the Sundance Film Festival screening of Howl, Franco starring as the beat poet Allen Ginsberg and at a press conference the two actors asked about Proposition 8, the two cute, smart advocates for gay equality.

Tim Tebow is unapologetic about his appearance in an anti-abortion advertisement for the anti-gay group Focus on the Family, the thirty second spot scheduled to air during the Super Bowl on February 7th. Tebow, who intends to enter the NFL draft this year, said “I know some people won’t agree with it, but I think they can at least respect that I stand up for what I believe, and I’m never shy about that. I don’t feel like I’m very preachy about it, but I do stand up for what I believe. Unfortunately in today’s society not many athletes tend to do that. So I’m just standing for something.”

Ryan Gosling, Sunday at Sundance, at Park City, Utah, attending the premier of Blue Valentine, co-starring Michelle Williams, which Gosling says is an erotic thriller, the tale of an unhappy couple who take to a theme hotel to live their relationship over from the beginning.

Reuters Video Report On Anti-Homosexuality Bill, John Lea Suspected Killer Arrested, Dustin Lance Black Leads Gays In Utah For Common Ground, 8: Mormon Proposition Premiers, Bruce Weber On How To Read, Ryan Daharsh

A Reuters video report on the Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill of 2009, the horrific legislation to have a second reading before Parliament in February, that proposes increased punishments for suspected gay men and women and for those who fail to report suspected gays and lesbians.

Justin Waller, a 31 year old, was arrested Friday evening in Manchester, Vermont, and will be extradited to New York City shortly to face a charge of second-degree murder in connection with the horrific murder of his live-in partner, 41 year old John Lea. Police say Waller confessed to the killing as well as to using Lea’s credit cards for purchases and for transportation. Lea’s partially clothed body was discovered by police Thursday in his Hell’s Kitchen apartment, after co-workers reported him missing.

Around 200 gathered in from of Utah Capital buildings Saturday, rallying for a “common ground” to be reached in the fight for state-wide civil rights for gays. Keynote speaker Dustin Lance Black told the crowd it needed to peaceful, but persistent in the battle, to share their stories and to make the personal the political. “If people don’t know who they’re voting against,” said Black, “they don’t so much mind taking away our rights. I did not come to Salt Lake City to protest. I came here to introduce myself and to share a message of love and respect.”

Reed Cowan’s 8: The Mormon Proposition premiers Sunday at the Sundance Film Festival, the documentary, narrated by Dustin Lance Black, detailing the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints decades of anti-gay teachings to support its political activism and that the church tried to disguise its role as critical component of the conservative faction that supported the anti-gay marriage voter initiative.

How to Read, a new fashion series by Bruce Weber in the upcoming issue of VMAN, featuring South Florida, and sexy half-nude young men. (Slightly NSFW)

Greg Vaughn photographs Ryan Daharsh in a pair of teeny, tiny, tight, white Calvin Klein briefs. (Slightly NSFW)

Calgary Church Loses Tax Exempt Status Espousing Inordinate Anti-Abortion And Anti-Gay Views, Hawaii Senate Approves Civil Union Bill, Arrest Made In Buffalo Gay Bashing, James Mitchell, Wyoming Equates Anti-Defamation League To Gay Agenda, Super Sexy Joey Kirchner, Zachary Quinto Remains Unmoved

There are reports that the troubled and troubling Kings Glory Fellowship Association, a non-denominational Protestant group has had it charitable status revoked because the church, centered in Calgary, Alberta, spent more than 10 percent of its time on “non-partisan political activities.” A memo sent in October of 2009 by the Canada Revenue Agency read in part “we note ... the members of the Board of Directors espouse strong negative views about sensitive and controversial issues, which may also be viewed as political, such as abortion, homosexuality, divorce, etc.” The head,

As expected, late Friday the Hawaii Senate passed a civil union bill by a majority veto proof vote of 18-7. The Senate also voted to reject an amendment to change the effective date of the bill, which will remain January 1st, 2010. The bill, which would allow same sex and opposite sex couples to enter into civil unions and have the right to receive the same rights, benefits, and responsibilities as those afforded married opposite couples, now goes before the state House.

21 year old Susan Grover has been arrested and charged with second-degree assault in connection to an attack on 29 year old Lindsay Harmon that took place early New Year’s Day in Buffalo, New York. She is currently being held in custody. Frank Sedita, the Erie Country District Attorney said he intends to seek an indictment under the New York State Hate Crime Statute. Harmon, who is still recovering from having her eye slashed, said she and her partner cried upon hearing that an arrest had been made.

Actor James Mitchell, who starred in the film version of Oklahoma as well as Band Wagon, has died. He was 89. In addition to film work, Mitchell had a distinguished theatre career, but is perhaps best known for his thirty year stint on the daytime drama All My Children, as Palmer Cortlandt. Although he never publically acknowledged his sexuality, Mitchell was gay and he is survived by his long time partner Albert Wolsky.

In Wyoming, Platte County School District 1 trustees voted 4-3 remove Anti-Defamation League “No Place for Hate” banners from both Wheatland High School and West Elementary because one of three sponsors of the banners is the Gay and Lesbian Fund for Colorado. The other two are Qwest and the David and Laura Merage Foundation. The anti-hate campaign is running in a total of twenty-five schools in both Colorado and Wyoming. Wheatland board member Joe Fabian, in explaining his vote, said that the Anti-Defamation League had an “agenda that is pro-gay marriage.”

Meet male model Joey Kirchner, smoking sexy. (NSFW)

Zachary Quinto, out and about Thursday evening, attending the opening night of the Broadway revival of Noel Coward’s Present Laughter, Quinto typically hot.

Testimony Given Friday At Proposition 8 Trial That Gay Is Inherent Characteristic, Bruce LaBruce, Amazing Race Gay Baseball Fan Contestant, David Henrie New Spiderman, Guys with iPhone Fun, Bruce Weber For YSL

Friday, testimony at the federal trial challenging the constitutional validity of the California gay marriage ban – Proposition 8 – centered on the argument that homosexuality is inherent, therefore gay men and women should be considered a minority group subject to discrimination and should be a protected class as a consequence. Gregory Herek, a University of California at Davis psychology professor stated that research tends to prove the theory that homosexuals have no choice in the orientation and preferences, a position that an attorney for Proposition 8 took nearly five hours trying to refute. Howard Nelson Junior spent most of Friday afternoon trying to get Herek that most gay men and women opt for their sexual preferences at different stages of their lives, Herek retorting that most gay men and women do not process their sexuality till after their teenage years, society placing an emphasis on heterosexuality at the expense of homosexuality.

The deeply original Toronto/Berlin based Bruce LaBruce, on L.A. Zombie, his newest work, being a provocateur, and posits that the gay movement has become so staunchly conservative that porn is “one of the last refuges of radical gay expression.”

The Amazing Race 16 premiers February 16th on CBS and the teams have been revealed, including Daniel and Jordan Pious, natives of Boston, Massachusetts, 24 and 22 year olds respectively. Daniel and Jordan are both big sports fans, but what is interesting is that Daniel, who is gay, is a Boston sports manic, listing Fenway Park as the favourite place ever visited, and Theo Epstein, the Boston Red Sox general manager, as the person he would switch places with if he could. The show premiers February 14th.

Guys with iPhone favourite David Henrie out and about in Los Angeles, California Thursday at the premier of Legion, the cuter that cute Henrie now rumoured to replace Tobey Maguire in the Spiderman franchise.



Again, if it is real, it is, um, not of this world. (NSFW)

The Bruce Weber short film created for YSL that features the so sexy Simon Nessman, beautiful photography, and a soundtrack featuring the great Marvin Gaye. (NSFW)

John Lea Allegedly Murdered By Live-In Lover, Stonewall And Gay Film, BBC Intends To Stay Gay And Vital, Frederick Bousquet Gay Cover Boy, Jesus Nude, Chad White, Lady Gaga Fan Ejected From Concert Ejects His Clothes

New York City Police are searching for the killer of 41 year old John Lea, whose bloodied body was found Thursday, and detectives are searching for his live-in lover, Justin Walker, whom Lea let stay at this apartment after meeting the man at an area gym. Lea, according to friend’s, was to have told Walker this weekend he had to leave the Hell’s Kitchen apartment.

Queer/Art/Film begins its new monthly series at the IFC center in New York City Monday, the festival a selection of films chosen by gay artists and writers, and whose scope will help understand whether the gay liberation marked by the Stonewall uprising of 1969 had an effect, if at all on film.

The BBC, again, one imagines, as penance for its Uganda kill gays fiasco, has commissioned a country wide survey that aims to ensure the portrayal of gay and bisexual characters on radio, television, and online is accurate and fair, or is clichéd and offensive.

Frederick Bousquet, everyone’s favourite French swimmer and cam to cam aficionado, appears on the cover of Tetu, the French gay monthly magazine, and on the inside, six pages of unadulterated Gaelic goodness.

The outtakes from the W magazine Madonna and Jesus Lutz fashion series feature a sizzling sexy Jesus nude. (NSFW)

Cute Chad White is the star of the Boss Green spring and summer 2010 campaign, Chad a remarkable Andy Roddick look-a-like.

An unidentified Lady Gaga male fan, removed from one of her sold out shows at New York City’s Radio City Music Hall, promptly stopped traffic outside by removing most of his clothes. Only in New York kids, only in New York. (NSFW)

Malawi Minister Expels Suspected Lesbian From Her Home, Proposition 8 and Chinese Christians, Cindy McCain And Mainstream Support For Gay Marriage, Showing Support For Family Of Murdered Jorge Mercado, New York City Hate Crime Suspect A Military Hero, Markus Male Prostitute Finally Books Clients, Big Brother Steven Daigle Does Gay Porn

Patricia Kaliati, the Malawi Minister of Women and Child Development, says she has had expelled from her constituency a women she suspects to be a lesbian. Nellie Somanje, a 42 year old businesswoman, was told to leave the small town of Mkando, told “she must leave the area in order to protect vulnerable girls.” In November Somanje was arrested and charged with gross indecency after two teenage girls who worked for her complained that Somanje was forcing them to have to intercourse. The charges were quite quickly dropped, but Kaliati has conducted something akin to harassment in order to drive the woman from the area.

Was Proposition 8 in part born out of the growing, violent anti-gay stance of American Chinese Christians?

Will the very public support for same sex marriage by Cindy and Meghan McCain weld influence within the Republican Party base who opposes gay marriage?

A delegation of gay and Latino New York City and Illinois state legislators travelled to Puerto Rico Tuesday to meet with the family of slain 19 year Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado, a show of support and also of condemnation for the abysmal lack of leadership by local elected officials since Mercado badly burned and dismembered body was found abandoned along a deserted country road late last year.

The suspect in a September 24th gay bashing in New York City has been found, and he is Air Force Sergeant Benjamin Ford, a 27 year old accused of an hate crime assault against three gay men. Ford was found at an Air Force five hours outside London, England, and he had been in Manhattan last fall as a part of military security detail protecting President Obama who spoke at the United Nations. Ford allegedly attacked 24 Blake Hayes, Alec Bell, and Danny Calvert outside a bar in Hell’s Kitchen, started when Ford flicked a lit cigarette at Calvert and told him to “keep moving faggot.” Ford has not been charged, but in an unusual step, the three victims and the New York City Police Department have agreed to let the military try Ford and sentence him should he be found guilty.

Markus – the non-gay, non-prostitute, surrogate lover – who is in fact the first legal male prostitute hired in Nevada, will work this weekend, after a slow first few days. The 25 year old former Marine, former porn star, and former homeless person, is employed by the Shady Lady Ranch brothel.

Former Big Brother contestant Steven Daigle, the gay rodeo cowboy who was evicted from competition, will be appearing a gay porn feature film, produced by Chi Chi LaRue.

William Tam Testifies Thursday At Proposition 8 Trial And Says Gay Marriage Leads To Incest And Polygamy, CBS Tentatively Approves Tim Tebow Focus On The Family Anti-Abortion Ad, Milan Male Model Love, Candy Young Men

Testimony Thursday afternoon at the federal trial challenging the constitutional validity of Proposition 8 – the California voter initiative banning gay marriage - with hostile witness for the plaintiffs William Tam taking the stand, Tam stating he opposed gay marriage because he believes that “if the term marriage can be used beyond one man, one woman, the any two persons of any age, of any relationship, can use that same argument to ask for the term marriage. That would lead to incest. That would lead to polygamy. If this is a civil right, what would prevent other groups from asking for the same right.” And although attorneys for the defence attempted to portray Tam as a figure outside of the Prop 8 leadership, therefore not instrumental in the direction and tone of the campaign – Tam testified Thursday that he “was acting independently” - emails were entered as evidence showing Tam regularly communicated with the campaign and was crucial in mobilizing the state’s large Asian community.

This cannot possibly end well: CBS executives gave preliminary approval Thursday to an advertisement for Focus on the Family featuring Tim Tebow and his mother, that is anti-abortion, or to use the organization’s vernacular, pro-family, and that the group intends to air during the Super Bowl February 7th. CBS said that the shooting script did not contain any overt pro-life messages, however they have yet to view the edited, filmed version. Tebow intends to enter the NFL draft and there are a number of reports that suggest teams in several markets would avoid selecting the former Florida Gator’s quarterback because his religious views are loud and obvious. Additionally, Focus on the Family is historically anti-gay.

From Milan with Love, featuring Francisco Lachowski, Jon Korajarena, and Simon Nessman, among other male model hotness.

Imaginative and stunningly sexy images from an upcoming fashion spread in Candy, featuring a trio of beautiful boys.

Indiana Gay Marriage Ban Initiative Likely To Fail, Gay Lobbyists, Kathy Griffin Will Not Share The Not Secret Sexuality Of Anderson Cooper, David Henrie Playtime, Kellan Lutz Calvin Klein Underwear News, Mika, Simon Nessman, Cat Power Joins Lilith, Gay Straight Guys

While the Republican controlled Indiana Senate, in committee Wednesday, voted 6-4 in favour of approving a proposal that could perhaps lead to a state constitutional ban on gay marriage – by amending the definition of marriage to that only between one man and one woman – it is not likely the proposal will go much further, as the Democrats control the House.

There are efforts underway to create an advocacy group that would work in ways similar to lobbyists for the advancement of LBGT federal legislation as well as the facilitation of LBGT placements in position of power with the Obama administration.

Kathy Griffin gives an interview, dispelling suggestions she was fired from CNN and that the cable news network banned her after another appearance this past New Year’s Eve with Anderson Cooper turned a tad blue. When asked about Anderson and his not so secret sexuality, Griffin says “I just think that Anderson Cooper is the hottest thing. It doesn’t matter who his is standing next to. What’s funny is I got a lot of ink about the F-bomb and yet my favourite joke of the night was when I asked Anderson if, because he was so handsome, does he ever stand in front of the mirror naked pleasuring himself. CNN had no problem with that, which I thought may have been too far, but you know. Anderson has this great line where he says, ‘I don’t what to be the news, I want to report the news.’ And so that’s why, even though I’m the biggest mouth in the world, I actually don’t talk about his personal life, because you have to keep in mind he goes into third world countries where it’s a very different culture, so you know.”

Guys with iPhone favourite and Wizards of Waverly Place star David Henrie is so cute, helping to launch a pilot program in Los Angeles public schools meant to provide vulnerable elementary schools with an enriched program of cultural and recreational classes.

Ah February: my birthday, the Super Bowl, Valentine’s Day, and now the month the Kellan Lutz campaign for Calvin Klein underwear will be revealed.

Meet Mika, a French underwear male model, taking a shower. (NSFW)

Meet male model Simon Nessman.

More artists and more cities have been announced for the very ambitious Lilith Fair 2010, including Cat Power, Gossip, Heart, La Roux, and the incomparable Loretta Lynn.

The very cute Chet Cannon and Ryan Conklin are, um, straight, sort of, but they seem to be open to any and all invitations.

Proposition 8 Trial Thursday Testimony, William Tam To Be Called As Hostile Witness For Plaintiffs, Children Speak For Same Sex Marriage, John Edwards Admits Affair And Child, David Bahati Concedes To Alter Anti-Homosexuality Bill, Sir Ian McKellen, David Beckham Not As Big As Led To Believe

Testimony at the federal trial challenging the constitutional validity of the California gay marriage ban – Proposition 8 – continued Thursday in a San Francisco courtroom, attorneys for the defence cross-examining Stanford University political science Professor Gary Segura, suggesting that several churches in fact opposed the same sex marriage ban. Plaintiffs announced that they will be calling William Tam as a hostile witness, Tam having requesting to be released as a witness for the defence. Tam authored a campaign memo arguing that if Proposition 8 did not pass, “one by one, other states would fall into Satan’s hands. Every child, when growing up, would fantasize marrying someone of the same sex. More children would become homosexuals.”

A reminder of the residual damage that comes with forbidding gay men and women from marrying, the children of those healthy, loving relationships, who themselves are made to feel less than equal.

John Edwards, at least two years after the fact, finally admitted Thursday he is the father of a 2 year old he had with former mistress Rielle Hunter, the National Enquirer repeatedly reporting the story since Hunter was pregnant. Edwards, who campaigned for the Democratic presidential nomination twice, is heterosexual and was married at the time to Elizabeth Edwards.

The author of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill of 2009, Uganda Member of Parliament David Bahati, said Thursday that he is prepared to amend the measure “without putting the country at risk.” The Bill proposes a minimum seven year prison sentence for those involved in homosexual activities, and the death penalty for anyone caught engaging in “aggravated homosexuality.”

Sir Ian McKellen has criticized the world of sports and fans for failing to create an environment of acceptance and tolerance of gay players, consequently preventing a number of athletes from feeling comfortable coming out. “When it come to the business of simply being honest about who they are, some of them become little shrinking violets because they’re afraid, probably, of being booed from the terraces, and that must be a horrible experience and shame of people who do it.”

David Beckham was ambushed by a reporter for the Italian satirical news show Le Iene, faux-reporter Elena Di Cioccio, donning yellow rubber gloves bending down while Beckham was giving an interview, in an effort to finally establish that David’s package was as promised and not false advertising on behalf of Armani.

Proposition 8 Trial Testimony Wednesday Tells Of Obama Failing Gays And The Mormon Church’s Unprecedented Political Involvement, Cindy And Meghan McCain Campaign For NOH8, Nicholas Hoult VMAN Hotness, Bruce Weber Captures Madrid Twins, Bobby Portner, Scott Herman’s Alter Ego

Stanford University political science Professor Gary Segura took the stand Wednesday, to testify on behalf of the plaintiffs at the federal trial challenging the constitutional validity of the California same sex marriage ban, Segura an expert on the political vulnerabilities of homosexuals. Gay marriage opponents contend that gay men and women have made substantial political gains and hold new political power, an argument that Segura refuted, saying homosexuals have “no meaningful’ strength. Segura also argued that President Obama is “not a reliable ally” for gay and gay equal rights, as evidenced by his refusal to support gay marriage or repeal the military ban on gays serving openly, under cross-examination saying “I think President Obama is perhaps the best illustration of an ally who can’t be counted on, an ally whose rhetoric far exceeds his actions.” While Segura testified, lawyers for the plaintiffs introduced documents detailing active involvement of churches in the Proposition 8 campaign, including ones illustrating the unprecedented role of the Mormon Church in passing the voter initiative.

Cindy McCain, the wife of John McCain, and their daughter Meghan have participated in the NOH8 campaign, the seemingly endless effort to repeal Proposition 8. According to the site, McCain approached the campaign herself.

VMAN issue 17 will feature a six page portfolio of Nicholas Hoult, a preview of which confirms smoking sexiness.

L’Uomo Vogue features a 25 year old twins Juan and Cesar Hortoneda photographed by Bruce Weber.

Meet beautiful Bobby Portner.

Sexy Scott Herman strikes several poses in teeny, tiny, tight black briefs and black boots.

Proposition 8 Trial Testimonies Tells That Sexual Reparative Therapy Harms And Homosexuality Cannot Be Cured, Gavin Newsom Calls Out Obama On Gay Rights Failure, Dustin Lance Black, Jesus Takes Brazil, The Bedroom Eyes Of Ryan Bertroche, Backstage At D&G

The federal trial challenging the constitutional validity of the California gay marriage ban continued Wednesday in a San Francisco courtroom, attorneys for the plaintiffs calling 26 year old Ryan Kendall, who testified that at age 13 he was sent by ultra-conservative Christian parents to an intensive sexual reparation therapy run by the National Association for Reparative Therapy of Homosexuality. Some eighteen months later, Kendall says that after being repeatedly told that gays were not normal, that they were deviants, he was suicidal, emotionally damaged, but no less gay than the day therapy started. “My mother would tell me she hated me,” Kendall said, “Once she told me she wished she had had an abortion instead of a gay son.”

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, profiled by Maureen O’Dowd in Tuesday’s New York Times, says that his political progress is at an end, the mayor unable to raise monies to compete in a campaign for California governor. Newsome, who will historically be seen as one of the seminal figures of the same sex marriage civil rights battle, an early and influential supporter of gay rights, says he is, like several others, is disappointed in President Obama’s lack of leadership on gay issues. “I want him to succeed,” said Newsom, “But I am very upset by what he’s not done in terms of rights of gays and lesbians. I understand it tactically in a campaign, but at this point I don’t know. There is some belief that he actually doesn’t believe in same-sex marriage. But it’s fundamentally inexcusable for a member of the Democratic Party to stand on the principle that separate is now equal, but only on the basis of sexual orientation. We’ve always fought for the rights of minorities and against the whims of majorities.”

New York magazine’s Daily Intel reports that Dustin Lance Black is moving to Manhattan. Maybe; he seems a tad scared.

Jesus Lutz appeared at the Sao Paulo Fashion Week in Brazil Tuesday, his homeland, and to employ the vernacular of the day, blew up, causing such chaos Jesus had to be escorted to the bathroom.

Meet male model and bedroom eyes Ryan Bertroche, who wears well a pair of teeny, tiny, tight, white briefs.

More male model goodness via backstage at the D&G men’s fall and winter 2010 show in Milan, a festival of men in barely there underwear.

Alberta Finance Minister Calls Gay Marriage A Social Experiment, Scott Brown Wins Massachusetts Senate Seat And Embarrasses Everyone, Uganda’s David Bahati Uninvited To Prayer Meeting, Counter-Prayer Breakfast, Cuba Performing Gender Reassignment Surgeries, Undergear Hotness, Ex-Porn Star Sues Professor For Harassment, John Mayer Shirtless, Ryan Phillippe

Ted Morton, homophobe and political embarrassment, appointed Alberta finance minister last week in an effort to placate Morton’s moronic fringe lunatic right-wing leanings and his – and his supporters – growing discontent with Premier Ed Stelmach, took to his Twitter Tuesday to tweet that “Same-sex marriage is not a human right. It’s a social experiment.”

Casebook study of political illiteracy, Republican Scott Brown, an anonymous state senator, upset Democrat Martha Coakley to take the Massachusetts Senate Seat vacated by the death of Edward M. Kennedy, what constitutes an upset of epic proportions. Coakley, the state attorney general, seemed unaware she was running in the special election, and has lost a seat Democrats have historically held. The election of Brown, who appeared nude as a Cosmopolitan centerfold, now changes the 60-40 majority the Democratic caucus has held, crucial to the passage of the Obama administration reformed health care bill. There are a number of reports that this loss will act as reminder to Democrats that their passive behaviour needs to change. Brown has a record of being a remarkable homophobe, a borderline racist, and a noted sexist, but again, he did pose nude.

There are reports that Uganda Member of Parliament and author of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill of 2009 David Bahati has been uninvited to attend National Prayer Breakfast, sponsored by The Family, the viciously anti-gay fringe quasi-Christian group, and scheduled for February 4th, in Washington, D.C.

The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force is sponsoring a counter protest breakfast the same morning, in Dallas, Texas. The American Prayer Hour at Creating Change: Protest ‘The Family’ and the Ugandan LGBT Death Penalty Bill, the event will focus on continuing to pressure the Obama administration and Congress to demand Uganda withdraw the horrific measure.

Mariela Castro, the daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro, said that Cuba has commenced performing state sponsored sex change operation after the country lifted a long standing ban on the procedure in 2007. Mariela Castro, an advocate for gay rights, runs the Center for Sex Education, which works to prepare transsexuals for surgery and identifies Cubans accepted for the procedure. She would not specify when the surgeries began or how many had been preformed.

The almost edible Adam appears in an advertisement for Undergear underwear. (NSFW)

The story of former gay porn star Jay Armstrong, currently working on a law degree at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, who is filing a harassment suit against Political Scientist professor Bryan-Paul Frost, whom allegedly threatened to expose Armstrong’s career, and with a subsequent expulsion Armstrong, whose real name is Jeremy Williams, says Frost told him he needed mental health help for working in the adult industry, and that he would “face consequences” if exposed. (NSFW)

John Mayer graces the cover of the newest issue of Rolling Stone, sexy and shirtless, the title of the profile “Dirty Mind, Lonely Heart.”

The most beautiful man in the world, Ryan Phillippe, spotted smoking – literally and figuratively – in rainy Los Angeles, California, while wearing a tee shirt raising awareness for the Haitian earthquake survivors.

Proposition 8 Trial Week Two Testimony Begins With San Diego Mayor Jerry Saunders, Anti-Gay Marriage Haters In New Hampshire A Little Late To The Party, Rally By Buffalo Gay Community, Kate McGarrigle, Johnny Weir Too Glittery For Gold, Fabulous Damiano Frascaroli, Most Stylish Men, Andy Roddick

Week two of the federal trial challenging the constitutional validity of Proposition 8 - the California gay marriage ban – began with testimony from San Diego Mayor Jerry Saunders, a Republican, whose views on same sex marriage famously evolved after one of his daughters came out. In 2008, Saunders made a campaign promise to veto a San Diego City Council measure to legalize gay marriage, but, emotionally, and at the last moment, Saunders signed into law the resolution. “I had been prejudiced. I was saying one group of people did not deserve the same respect, did not deserve the same symbolism of marriage, and I was saying their marriages were less important than those of heterosexuals.”

In New Hampshire, three weeks after a law came into effect legalizing same sex marriage, anti-gay opponents are requesting that the House repeal the measure and allow voters the right to amend the state constitution to define marriage as that only existing between a man and a woman.

Coverage of the rally held in Buffalo, New York Friday by the LGBTQ community in response to the recent outbreak of reported hate crimes in the upstate city since the beginning of the year.

Kate McGarrigle, the mother of Martha and Rufus Wainwright, died Montreal after a long battle with a rare form of cancer. She was 63. Kate and her sister Anna were a critical part of the post-sixties folk scene, iconic, influencing artists as diverse as Billy Bragg, Tracy Chapman, and Linda Ronstadt.

Does the world of amateur competitive figure skating punish Johnny Weir for his theatrics?

A look at the sex addiction treatment program Tiger Woods is undergoing in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, at the Pine Grove/Gentle Path rehabilitation facility.

Meet Italian Damiano Frascaroli. (NSFW)

GQ wants you to vote for the 25 most stylish men in the world, although the candidates are a tad too pedestrian for my taste.

Andy Roddick, in Melbourne, at the 2010 Australian Open, falls over one of the line judges.

South African Considering Appointing Homophobe As Ambassador To Uganda, Unseating New Jersey Senator Keen, Profiling Vaughn Walker, Anderson Cooper Tight Tee Shirted Haiti Heroics, Prince William And Sausage Security Scare, DSquared2 Fall Fashion, Coachella Announced

South Africa’s The Star reports that the nation’s Democratic Alliance pleaded with President Jacob Zuma not to appoint one Joe Qwelane as the South African ambassador to Uganda because it would appear as an endorsement of that country’s continual efforts to persecute and purge homosexuality since Qwelane is a notorious, well-documented homophobe. Democratic Alliance spokesperson Lindiwe Mazibuko said that Qwelane is “a committed homophobe and his appointment could be seen as a tacit endorsement of the repressive stance Uganda is taking on homosexuality.”

The Ashbury Park Press reports that the nascent organization to unseat New Jersey Republican Senator Sean Keen has already captured the attention of donors and of political candidates, eager to campaign for the freshman Senator’s seat. Keen, who gave an odd, patronizing speech prior to the vote, voted no on a measure before the Senate to legalize same sex marriage in the state.

As week two of the federal trial challenging the constitutional validity of Proposition 8 begins in a San Francisco court room, the Associated Press’s Lisa Leff profiles presiding Chief United States District Judge Vaughn Walker, who is very much an original.

Anderson Cooper continues to self-advertise as the husband we all want, AC’s heroics in Haiti a reminder that no one does more and looks as going doing it.

There was a scare in Wellington, New Zealand, as a man armed with sausages – sizzlers, according to the report - breeched security at a barbeque at the official residence of Prime Minister John Key thrown in honour of second in line to the throne Prince William. No one was injured.

Canadian cuties Dean and Dan Caten, now residents of Milan, Italy, showed their DSquared2 fall and winter 2010 collection at Milan’s fashion week, the runway replete with male model goodness.

The Coachella 2010 line up has been announced, the three day festival in the California desert featuring Echo and the Bunnymen, Fever Ray, Grace Jones, La Roux, LCD Soundsystem, Phoenix, Sly and the Family Stone, and Thom Yorke, among many, many more.

Beau Breedlove To Author Memoir, Privacy Concerns Surround Airport Body Scanners, Jessie Pavelka, Backstage At Gucci, Juicy Jacob

Um, literary news, the Oregonian announcing that 19 year old Beau Breedlove is penning a memoir, the former intern and lover of Portland Mayor Sam Adams planning to write the book himself. In an e-mail statement Breedlove said “the book is a reflection on the events of my life before, during and after the ‘scandal’ surrounding my relationship with Sam Adams,” adding that the book will also “cover a broader look at people who have been in similar situations to mine, and how stereotypes both play into the media attention as well as are used as tools against victims. The book is a memoir, and an insight into the change that the GLBTQ community needs to see in the way we are portrayed and represented.”

The Guardian reports that the England Equality and Human Rights Commission has written to Alan Johnson, the home secretary, stating its concern that the scheduled installation of airport body scanners would violate the privacy of children, the disabled, the elderly, and the transgendered.

The seriously so hot Jessie Pavelka and his 2011 calendar.

Backstage at the fall and winter 2010 Gucci men’s fashion show in Milan, Italy, male model goodness aplenty.

Jacob, a native of Texan and an apparent aficionado of tattoos, so smoking hot it is silly. (NSFW)

Ottawa Man Accused In Murder Of Partner, Haitian Earthquake Claims 14 HIV Survivors, Clay Aiken Headlines Human Rights Campaign Gala, Malawi Intent To Ignore International Condemnation, Notre Dame Editor Resigns, Monster Guy with iPhone

33 year old Ottawa, Ontario native Michael-Andrew Garreau turned himself in Sunday, and has been charged with second-degree murder in connection to the horrific killing of his partner, Montreal native Eran Allon, who is originally from Israel.

The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission reports that Steven La Guerre has emailed the organization with news that Tuesday, during a gay and bisexual HIV support service group meeting in Port au Prince, 14 members were killed when the building they occupied was destroyed during the 7.0 magnitude earthquake.

The Human Rights Campaign has scheduled a special Carolinas Gala – We Are All Made Of Stars – for February 27th, at the Raleigh, North Carolina Convention Center, the event to honour the Guilford Green Foundation, Mary Elizabeth Lennon, and David Parker, and feature special guests Joe Solomonese, the beleaguered president of the HRC, Meredith Baxter, and Clay Aiken.

Monday, Malawi Information Minister Leckford Mwanza Thoto released a statement saying the government is ignoring international criticism of the trail of two gay men, charged with unnatural acts and gross indecency after they married in a traditional ceremony. The couple, 20 year old Tiwonge Chimbalanga and 26 year old Steven Monjeza, have been imprisoned since their arrest December 27th. Thoto said the couple were “clearly breaking the laws of Malawi,” adding that “as government we cannot interfere in the court process. We depend on our Western friends, yes, but we are a sovereign country.”

Kara King, the assistant managing editor of The Observer, the University of Notre Dame newspaper that published the anti-gay, anti-humour cartoon last week, has resigned.

Um, if it is real, it is not of this world. (NSFW)