New Zealand Business Owner Subjected To Homophobic Attacks After Bar Incorrectly Identified As Gay By City Council Directory, Belgium Gay Couple To Be Reunited With Son Born Via Surrogate In Ukraine, Adam Lambert And Boyfriend Take To Bora-Bora, Justin Bieber Cuts His Hair For More “Mature Look,” Nick Jonas Fills Up

From New Zealand, a story that reads like a sly joke, but is not, the Otago Daily Times reporting on a Jon Simcock, the owner of a bar in North Dunedin who says he fears for his safety because his business is being classified a gay bar by the Dunedin City Council’s i-Site Visitor Centre. Simcock said patrons and staff had been subjected to abuse since the Inch Bar at the Gardens started being promoted as a gay bar by i-Site staff two years ago. "I spoke to them then and was given assurances it would stop," he said yesterday. However, the bar continues to be categorized as a gay bar and last week when customers and Mr Simcock were abused and called "homo faggots" by a passing motorist. "I'm totally flabbergasted and aghast anyone would carry on like that. It's an indictment on the city," Mr Simcock said. "But the abuse has been getting more frequent ... I'm just waiting for the day someone burns the place down or I get beaten up." The Inch Bar started as the Homo Espresso coffee bar, when it was opened by Maurice Ellis in 1992. However, it was not "and never had been" a gay bar, Mr Simcock said. "It's really embarrassing when gay couples do come down, because they're looking for an experience we can't provide."

The Associated Press reports that a baby born to a surrogate mother in the Ukraine, and then stranded there for two years by bureaucracy, will soon be able to leave the country and come to Belgium to join his parents, a gay marriage couple. Peter Meurrens, one member of the couple, said his son, Samuel Ghilain, had received a Belgian passport Monday, and that the child, who has been living in an orphanage in Lviv, Ukraine, will fly into Belgium in the coming days to be reunited with his parents, who last saw him nearly a year ago. Belgian Foreign Ministry's decision to issue the passport followed a court decision saying bureaucrats had erred, and the boy, the biological child of Meurrens' husband, Laurent Ghilain, was entitled to the document. "Finally, I am starting to believe I will see him in a few days," Meurrens said.

Adam Lambert and rumoured boyfriend, Finnish-born Sauli Koskinen spotted in Bora-Bora aboard jet-skis.

Justin Bieber cut his hair, TMZ.com reporting the monumental event took place Monday in Los Angeles on the set of a music video for a song he did in collaboration with Rascal Flatts. Justin says Vanessa, his regular hairdresser, did the cutting, and while nervous, the 16 year old saying he “wanted to change it up” and that the final result was “kind of a mature look.” The cut hair was collected, and will be donated to various charities.

Nick Jonas seen in Los Angeles filling up, Jonas looking like he just woke up.