• We don't know how long this witch montage took, but pointy hats off to the creator! Oh, and great Eartha Kitt song!

• Chris Crocker wants to be Britney Spears: crotch flashing and all. Warning, this shit ain't cute. Nor is it safe for work.

• Cuban queers form rights group.

• This is fucked up! The Federal Emergency Management Agency (aka FEMA) held a fake press conference about the California fires. Again, fucked up.

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The Advocate's rebranding takes an artistic turn this week as news mag invites gay artist Ryan McGinley to collect his favorite queer artists.

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Mika's certainly garnered more than his fair share of gay press in recent months. Most of the ink revolves around the pop-star's secretive sexuality. As we all know, the crooner won't confirm rumors he's a queer.

At first glance, it would appear Out's July issue follows the same old story. Take a peek inside, however, and it soon becomes clear that their Mika-related coverage ain't just a guessing game. The issue serves as a rumination on the state of the gay nation. And with potentially liberating results.

No doubt homos have come a long way over the past four decades or so. While we've certainly got a way to go, Out wonders what's become of the screaming queen. As EIC Aaron Hicklin write in his editor's letter:

It may be disingenuous of Mika to claim that who he sleeps with is immaterial, but for an increasing number young gay men, identifying as gay is becoming anachronistic, if not completely irrelevant.

Have militant gays gone the way of the dodo? Find out, after the jump…

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Violence totally bums us out. Good thing we emailed our old, youthful friend Jack Pierson yesterday to see if he was going to a certain party. He sadly informed us he wasn't attending, but did send us some video of his friend and The Cock DJ, John Roberts.

The amateur auteur's filmed two shorts (that we know of), one of which features a mama fawning over her Christmas pine. Sure, it's funny, but ain't nothing compared to Roberts' take on feuding high school females in "Why Jackie And I Are No Longer BFF".

We've gone ahead and posted it after the jump. Give it a twirl and let us know what you think.

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