The BBC reports that police are searching for a suspected fraudster who is reportedly posing as a policeman while targeting gay men. Gloucestershire Police were called to a house in Bishops Cleeve near Cheltenham after a theft was reported last month. The 43 year old victim said a man who had been staying with him for a more than a week had made off with about £600 in cash and credit cards. Police said that man had been identified as 30 year old Matthew Attenborough, wanted in at least nine other force areas. The victim said he had met the man - who called himself Saul White - online. The suspect claimed to be a police officer from Avon and Somerset who was transferring to Gloucestershire and needed a place to stay while he arranged permanent residency. Police constable Melanie Earnshaw said that "This man is finding his victims on the internet. Once he has got what he wants he will then move on to his next victim, it seems, in a completely different area of the country. It is imperative that we find him before he targets someone else. It is also possible that there are people out there who have also been targeted by this man but haven't reported it to police." Police have released photographs of Attenborough, also wanted by forces in Bristol, Birmingham, Newcastle, Liverpool, London, Doncaster, Reading, Coventry and Cardiff.
The Salt Lake City Tribune reports that Senator Chris Buttars, an architect of Utah’s constitutional same sex marriage ban, is retiring, the noxiously anti-gay Buttars saying in a speech from the Senate floor that he has always stood for truth, but "there are other truths beyond the moral truths and one of them is human frailty." The 69 year old Buttars has suffered from diabetes and other health problems, including undergoing heart surgery last June. His wife has also been seriously ill, and he said that, together, they decided it was time for him to step down. "I only hope the next person who fills this chair will have a love of freedom in his or her or her blood," Buttars, adding that he began his political career in the 1970s when, frustrated by the lack of sidewalks in his new West Jordan neighbourhood, he ran for city council. In 2000, he ran for the Legislature and has represented the South Jordan and West Jordan district since January 2001. His philosophy, he said, in campaigning and serving was simple."I’m going to tell you where I stand and I don’t want to know where you stand. You may not agree with me but you’ll always know where I stand," Buttars said. "It served me well but I’ve sure been in a hell of a lot of trouble." During his career, Buttars has routinely attacked homosexuals and homosexual rights, including telling documentary filmmaker Reed Cowan in the film 8: The Mormon Proposition, that homosexuals are “probably the greatest threat to America that I know of” and that “homosexuality will always be a sexual perversion.”
David Burtka and Neil Patrick Harris spotted on the beaches of Hawaii with the oh-so-cute twins Gideon Scott and Harper Grace, the sexy Burtka and Harris shirtless thankfully.
Zac Efron was seen in Los Angeles Thursday sporting a new moustache and a seriously wrong ensemble.
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