Gay Man Runs Over Lover After Seeing Him Kiss Female Friend Sentenced In Australia, Australian Blogger And Taxi Driver Argues Gay And Lesbian Mardi Gras “Perverted Piece Of Living Garbage” Run By Drug dealers And Pedophiles, NAACP Elects Openly Gay Man Of Color In Effort To “Revive” Image, Michael Stipe Says He Is Only Twenty Percent Gay Despite Having Lived With Thomas Dozol For Years, Who Is Mike Myers Fooling

The Brisbane Times reports that Craig Munro, a shopping centre cleaner, who had a brief affair with Brendan Gannaway, a fellow cleaner at Brassall Shopping Centre, in Ipswich in late 2009, Monday morning pleaded guilty to a charge of doing a malicious act with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, in connection to driving down his ex-boyfriend with a car in a premeditated attack that hit Gannaway so hard his shoe ended up on the roof of a nearby house. Shortly after their affair started, Munro became enraged when he saw Mr Gannaway, 23 years old, kiss his female friend. After overdosing on prescription drugs and briefly being admitted to hospital, Munro sent Mr Gannaway 49 text messages including threats that he was "out for blood and I promise it will be yours" and "I'm going to dance on your grave". He also texted that "you shouldn't have crossed me and you will pay" and "ha ha" just moments before he followed Gannaway along a Sadliers Crossing street and drove his car into him just after 6:00 am on September 2nd, 2009. Gannaway, who was riding a bike at the time, slammed into the car's windscreen and then hit the road. Munro kept driving but called Triple-0 to request an ambulance and ask for the location of Ipswich Police Station to turn himself in. Somehow, Gannaway avoided major injuries, suffering only abrasions and some swelling. Chief Justice Paul de Jersey said he took Munro's mental condition into consideration, and ordered him to serve 16 months of a four year jail sentence. Fifty-eight days already served in pre-sentence custody was declared as part of the sentence already served.

Also from Australia, the Newcastle Times reports on the controversy regarding comments made blogger and taxi driver John Christopher Sunol that the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras is “perverted piece of living garbage” operated by drug dealers and pedophiles. The blog comments, which were posted hours before Saturday’s Mardi Gras parade, were added to an Anti-Discrimination Board complaint that Sunol vilified homosexuals over the internet. Australian activist Gary Burns, who lodged the extra complaint yesterday, is seeking $40,000 and a published apology from Sunol, and also asked the board to refer the latest statements to the New South Wales Attorney-General. ‘‘When Mr Sunol is finally dealt with by me he will be laying spread-eagled on the pavement battered and bruised, figuratively-speaking, because I am no Nancy boy,’’ Burns said. Sunol repeated denials yesterday that he had vilified homosexuals. ‘What I’m saying is, the Mardi Gras is run by drug dealers and paedophiles, not all homosexuals [are drug dealers and paedophiles],’’ he said. ‘I’ve seen men with no pants on marching down Oxford Street in Sydney, which is repugnant. If they’d done that in Iran, if they’d done that in Iraq, they’d be murdered. I’m speaking out against it because the homo-Nazis and Femi-Nazis are taking away our right to speak against them.’’ The case could be delayed because Sunol is appealing to the NSW Supreme Court to have a 2006 Administrative Decisions Tribunal finding that he vilified homosexuals overturned, a tactic Burns deemed a trick to stall.

The Associated Press reports that the NAACP Worchester has elected an openly gay man as its new president, an attempt to refresh and revive it following five years of inactivity. Ravi Perry, a political science professor at Clark University, was elected Saturday with a slated of new officers. The 28-year-old says he hopes that as an openly gay man he can help the historic civil rights group address long-ignored gay and lesbian issues within minority communities. Perry also said that most on the newly elected Worcester board are 40 years of age, signalling a generational shift within the NAACP. Perry’s election marks the second time a Massachusetts NAACP chapter elected a young candidate to revive a local chapter. In November, 2010 42-year-old attorney Michael Curry was elected over 73-year-old ex-State Senator Bill Owens to lead the Boston chapter.

Toward the end of a profile of Michael Stipe published in the Guardian Sunday, Stipe is asked if he is more comfortable about his sexuality, and if he were troubling by it growing up. "Not troubled, no,” says Stipe. “Not confused either. But I felt there just wasn't a place for me. I hate and refuse to apply the term bisexual to myself. It doesn't seem appropriate. It feels like just another label. For a time I was conflicted by how I was represented, and then Aids came, and that's an era that has still to be spoken about in depth by people of my age. It was a very difficult time to be honest and frank about one's sexuality. And a very scary time for people like myself, who were not able to be tested anonymously without some concern. I mean, under Reagan, lest we forget, there was a time when they were talking about internment camps for people who were HIV positive. To this day I can't give blood to the Red Cross because I have sex with a man." When asked if he would, as he did in the mid-nineteen nineties, describe himself as "an equal opportunity leech,” Stipe says "On a sliding scale of sexuality I'd place myself around 80-20, but I definitely prefer men to women. I had sex with, and enjoyed sex with, women until I met someone that I fell in love with, and who is now my boyfriend. That's the only real news in the last 12 years, but when it's a slow news day I get dragged out of some closet again." Stipe currently lives in a spacious Tribeca apartment with his partner, Thomas Dozol, an art photographer, the two frequently making an appearance on Guys with iPhones, but you already knew that.

Via Blind Gossip, a blind item: “We really thought that this successful funny man was done with the whole bearding mishegas. After all, he did get a divorce and has been pretty much living as an openly gay man. So why in the world would he get married again? Well, consider this mystery solved. He is still gay, but he believes he was more successful when people perceived him as a heterosexual man. His next live-action film is scheduled for release in 2012, so we’ll see then if the whole married man act pays off at the box office.” So simple; as a hint, I hate him, he is Canadian, and made quite possibly one of the worst movies of all time, that was in part, about his beloved Toronto Maple Leafs. GET IT?