• Alright, we're willing to forgive The View's Sherri Shepard for not knowing whether the world's flat, but we're absolutely astonished that Shepard forgot that Patti LaBelle's black.

• Out's Shana Krochmal talks to Panic At The Disco. Note the lack of exclamation!

• Writer's strike be damned! AfterElton launches Gay People's Choice Awards:

We're asking you to vote on your favorites in the traditional movie, television, music, and internet categories, but at the end we've included several gay-specific categories that you won't find covered anywhere else this awards season!

Vote like your life depends on it!

• Gay panic strikes Kentucky after b-ballers partake in celebratory kiss.

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It may be too early for some of you, but why don't you take a wack at this juicy bit from NYDN:

Which distinctively named member of a chart-topping pop group swings both ways? He surprised his male talent escort at a recent Hollywood red-carpet event with an invitation back to his hotel room.

We're assuming "talent escort" means a production usher, not a hooker. And, quite honestly, we're stumped. We don't know any "chart-topping pop groups".

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For our second to last aural of 2007, we'd like to feature non-lesbian Patti LaBelle's 1985 classic, "New Attitude".

Find "On My Own" with Michael McDonald, after the jump…

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American singer Patti LaBelle sure does have a way with words - and a myopic understanding of vaginal hygiene: "When I got my divorce, the women jumped on me like white on rice! I said, 'Look, I ain't ever did fish, I don't intend to do fish so leave me alone.'"

What would Eve Ensler say?!*

*"Vagina!"

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• Jared Leto and Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance got close at lMTV Europe's music awards last night.

• Why aren't people more pissed off about Hillary Clinton's anti-gay connections?

• Pakistani rent boys playing dangerous game.

• Patti LaBelle talks to Clay Cane.

• Jill Holtzman Vogel's anti-gay senatorial campaign takes on lipstick wearing lesbian opponent, Karen Schultz.

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