Welcome to The Home Issue, reader!

We're going to be spending the next few weeks nestling in for the cold winter months. In addition to busting up inside some local abodes, we'll be spending some time looking at design, art, games, books and ideas to keep you occupied until things start heating up.

Brooklyn-based interior designer Chad McPhail starts things off on a hospitable note: he and his boyfriend, Grizzly Bear guitarist Ed Droste, opened their door to our vagabond editor and photographer. See what transpired, after the jump.

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• Brooklyn lesbians calendar proves that New York's the most attractive city in America.

• Chicago's Fire Department calendar proves that New York's the most attractive city in America.

• Episcopal Church votes to "restrain" gay officiation, no official same-sex blessing.

• Senator Ted Kennedy comes out for ENDA hate crime legislation. Senate to vote Thursday.

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Kids in the Hall homo Scott Thompson landed himself a new gig. The 48-year old Canadian has signed on to star in director Chuck Griffith's Shifting the Canvas.

Thompson, who came out before it was fashionable, will play a "sugar-daddy" cafe owner named Marcus who fends off the seemingly omnipotent Brooklyn gentrification. So, basically, it's the story of our lives - minus the sugar daddy, cafe owner bit.

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