Toronto Pride Monetary Problems, Pentagon Outlines Training Plan To Repeal Policy Prohibiting Openly Gay Service Personal, Peruvian Bishop Apologizes For Calling Gays “Faggots,” Human Rights Campaign Calls On Joel Osteen To Apologize For Saying Homosexuality Is A Sin, Hayden Christensen Shirtless Sexy

Toronto Life reports that “Last year wasn’t one of the best on record for Toronto Pride. It had the controversy around Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QUAIA), which split the city’s gay community and “threatened to bankrupt” the organization. Pride Toronto also had its federal funding pulled, even though Canadian Press reports that it had qualified for federal cash. This year doesn’t seem to be treating the organization any better, with the revelation that it will have to tell its annual general meeting it’s effectively bankrupt.” The magazine adds that “Toronto could lose World Pride 2014, which would no doubt make some hates happy but would actually be pretty lame.”

Friday, according to the Associated Press, the Pentagon will reveal a plan expected to give the military services an estimated three month to train their forces on the new law allowing gays to serve openly, officials saying that the plan will outline the personal, recruiting, other regulations that must be changed. It will also describe three levels of training for the troops, their commanders, and the key administrators, recruiters, and other leaders who will have to help implement the changes. Under the projected training plan, full implementation of the law could begin this summer. Once the training is complete, President Obama and his top military advisors must certify that lifting the ban will not harm military readiness. Sixty days after that, the law would take effect.

A Peruvian Catholic bishop apologized for comments he made Monday, the Herald Sun reporting that Bishop Luis Bambaren asked about a proposed same sex civil union law, Bambaren answering “Why is there so much talk about gay, gay, gay? ... Faggots – that’s how it said, right?” The Homosexual Movement of Lima issued a statement soon thereafter, Christian Olivera condemning the bishop’s remarks, saying “Bambaren’s claim to call gay people faggots is totally inacceptable and constitutes an incitement to hatred. In a country where we should all see ourselves as equals, Bambaren is encouraging violence by using a term that represents what is disgusting and perverse. Despising a community is not an example of what one supposes are Christian values.” Bambaren issued an apology that read in part “I ask for an apology for everyone who felt offended. It is an offensive word, and (homosexuals) deserve respect.”

The Human Rights Campaign has asked Pastor Joel Osteen to apologize for statements he made while appearing on CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight that “the Scripture shows that (homosexuality) is a sin.” HRC President Joe Solmonese said “It’s a real shame that someone of Joel Osteen’s prominence and life experiences would repeat this tired and dangerous statement. It furthers ignorance and discrimination by some Americans and adds a burden to those already struggling to accept their sexual orientation or gender identity.” Solmonese added that “One would hope Mr. Osteen would use his pulpit, with an audience of over 7 million people, to tell all human beings that they are loved just the way they are. Instead he chose to send a dangerous and irresponsible message.”

A whiter shade of pale Hayden Christensen spotted in Caribbean Wednesday, shirtless.