Queer entertainers John Waters and Sandra Bernhardt will both soon perform at the peace loving Unicity Festival in Middletown, Delware. And some of the townsfolk are sharpening their pitchforks.

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• Garden State Equality and Blue Jersey will start airing some pretty clever gay marriage ads tonight.

• A hefty paycheck ain't the only thing Rosie O'Donnell wants from potential employer MSNBC. From Jossip:

Sources tell us the network is frantically trying to scrounge up the cash to bankroll her outlandish list of demands (Think a gold-plated trapeze and a private chopper to take her to and from 30 Rock every day. Seriously). But why now? Because MSNBC’s on the eve of renegotiating their contract with their cable provider and landing a big star (no pun intended) and proving they can go toe-to-toe with O’Reilly will give them infinitely more leverage.

If anyone can take on O'Reilly, it's O'Donnell.

• Michigan Supreme Court mulling university benefits.

• The Scottish Socialist Party wants you to put pressure on Stagecoach buses, which attempted to boot a gay teenage couple last weekend. Re-read the original story and check out comment number two.

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The successful Broadway production of John Waters' hit, Hairspray, spurred Waters and producers to adapt another movie hit, Cry Baby. Writes NYDN's Ben Widdicombe,

Are you ready for a Broadway standard called "Girl, Can I Kiss You With Tongue?"

That's one of the numbers in Cry Baby, the next John Waters -film-turned-musical coming to the Great White Way, in March.

Young James Snyder will play the role made famous by Johnny Depp in 1990. "John Waters is like the quirky uncle you always wanted," he told me Sunday at a birthday for Adam Epstein, who is producing Cry Baby after taking home a Tony for Hairspray.

No crying here, baby.

Hairspray may be a family friendly film, John Waters made a career out of so-called filth. These days, however, our one-time feature subject's having a hard time shocking audiences.

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Gay filmmaker, artist, author and general cultural icon John Waters can add a new gig to his resume: stand-up comic! In this clip on "limits," our friend Waters shoots the shit on murder, bears and their cum ("grizzum"), anal bleaching and Richard Simmons.

(Send Joe.My.God a "Thank you for the clip and mental scars" card.)

Songster Ed Droste lets us in on his teenage fantasies in the fresh issue of Out. The Grizzly Bear guitarist and songwriter joins Pulitzer-nominated Tom Spanbauer, John Waters and Margaret Cho in sharing their long gone covert porn loves. You know covert porn - the scintillating bits that you got off before you knew how to get off. So, what got young Droste hot?

It's sort of embarrassing to admit, given what a cliche the early-'90s gay icon Marky Mark Calvin Klein underwear campaign was, but at the time that image really got my loins all in a tizzy. Back then, a nice torso was all it took, as I didn't have the balls to go out and get some gay porn… [Also] I quite enjoyed an early-'80s shot of Sting on a beach taken by Annie Leibovitz that was in a book of Rolling Stone photography my parents gave me one year. He was a bit hairy and lean back then and did everything Marky Mark did and more. Both images served as rather nice masturbation fodder, but generally speaking they were the mild springboard to my imagination, which is what usually sealed the deal…

We bet some of those imaginings involved Sting teaching Mr. Wahlberg a thing or two. We're also pretty sure some of you shared author Christopher Rice's youthful interest in International Male catalogs. The clothing sucked, but those boys be poppin'!

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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John Waters prove that gays boys make the best sons. The Hairspray creator escorted his beautiful mother to last night's premier in Baltimore, his home town.

The cast and crew - including Zac Efron, Elijah Kelly, Nikki Blonsky and John Travolta defender Adam Shankman - danced the night away after enjoying yet another viewing of the musical remake of the 1988 classic.

And, no, we don't think Mama Waters cut a rug, but we bet she could if she wanted…

John Travolta just got another pro-gay apostle. Hairspray director Adam Shankman joins Hairspray creator John Waters in defending the portly star from Washington Blade editor Kevin Naff's much-publicized "gay boycott".

Says the 43-year old gay filmmaker:

I am stunned this has gotten that far. [Naff] has made the dumbest claims on the entire planet. Everybody involved in Hairspray - all the creators - are gay. So John has no problem with people being gay - me, the writers, composer, John Waters - all gay. John's personal beliefs never walked onto my set. I never heard the word Scientology.

There you have it, folks: John Travolta loves men, especially when they're gay.

John Travolta and John Waters chatted it up at last night's Hairspray premier in Hollywood. We're not certain, but we have a feeling they're talking about Johnny Knoxville's meat. And how Mink Stole looks fabulous.

Note the conciliatory look in this last picture, it's almost as if Waters is saying, "There, there, John, we all know you're straight".

• Scientologist John Travolta had a few words for gays protesting his cross-dressing, John Waters-endorsed appearance in Hairspray.

There is nothing gay in this movie. I'm not playing a gay man. Scientology is not homophobic in any way, in fact it's one of the more tolerant faiths. Anyone's accepted.

As long as they assimilate to pre-determined Scientological "lifestyles" and sacrifice their rational thought, brain and soul.

• Gay for pay porn star Marc Dalton continues to make his parents proud: a domestic dispute violated his probation and landed him back in jail. And he'll probably be there for the foreseeable future.

• Did Kate Moss leave Pete Doherty because he cheated? If his junk problem didn't come between them, we're sure they can reconcile a moment of sluttiness..

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John Waters scoffs as the gay protest over John Travolta's role in Hairspray. Washington Blade's Kevin Naff started the guffaw when he objected to Travolta's tie to the anti-gay Scientologists.

Speaking to NYDN, Waters defended Travolta's appearance in the musical movie based on his non-musical movie:

If [Travolta] was homophobic dancing in that fat suit with as many gay people as are working on this film, he would have had a heart attack and been dead.

First of all, he is playing a loving mother, not [the late gay politician] Harvey Milk. I'm all for gay troublemaking, but is this journalist going to police the religion of all actors? Do we boycott Nicole Kidman because she's Catholic?

No, Mr. Waters, we shouldn't boycott Kidman because she's a Catholic! That's ridiculous! We should boycott her because she's a bad actress. And funny looking.