Ugly Betty actress Becki Newton no doubt enjoyed herself at last night's GLAAD Media Awards. Newton and her castmates, including the ever-adorable Michael Urie, took home the prize for outstanding comedy series, while fellow ABC show, Brothers & Sisters, won in the drama category.

Ms. Jackson if you're nasty accepted the Vanguard Award, and got a little friendly with presenter Ellen DeGeneres. Kathy Griffin won for My Life On The D-List, and shared the award with her lovely mother, just like a gay man!

Tom Ford, meanwhile, awarded Herb Ritts a posthumous award, and a Medusa-esque Sharon Stone presented Rufus Wainwright with Stephen F. Kolzak award.

Check out the rest of the winners here.

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Singer Rufus Wainright's new global initiative grabs the spotlight in the new Advocate. Actually, it doesn't take the spotlight, because Wainwright is getting all green and shit. His recent New York gig used no lights, amplifiers or anything else than can sully our planet. The move's all part of Wainwright's Blackout Sabbath, an effort to combat our typical wasteful selves.

In his own words:

I propose this: on a Saturday around the summer solstice for a 12-hour period (noon ti midnight) whereever you are, let's all turn off the power at the same time… This time could be spent contemplating along or with friends on the coming year and what personally one can do to save the planet.

Well, we know what we're going to do: recycle our lovers.

Can someone please explain what the fuck Rufus Wainwright wore during last night's concert in Sydney?

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Enrique Iglesias may love his tennis pro girlfriend, Anna Kournikova, but he's got mad love for his gay friend's sexual freedom.

NYDN tells us the Latin crooner tells July's Genre:

My stylist is gay and lives in L.A. and when he came to Miami, he went out. And I asked, ‘Your boyfriend doesn't care?' And he said, 'We have an understanding if I'm out of the city.' When I saw George Michael, he said the same thing…I'm going to have to have a talk with my girl!

Taking advise from George Michael, huh? We're not sure that's the most advisable adviser, but we're all about you getting out there and partying.

Meanwhile, Rufus Wainwright ain't loving Beyonce. He tells Spin,

I'm really sick of Beyonce. All of her songs are formulaic and produced in a way that's utterly mesmerizing in the basest way…But hey, it's your life, you know?

Wainwright's griping about formulaic song-writing? Right…

We know you kids love you some Rufus Wainwright, so here's the queer crooner's Petro Papahadjopoulos-directed video for "Rules and Regulations" from Release The Stars.

Surprisingly, we don't hate it. As we've told you in the past, we're not huge Rufus fans, but we kinda dig this tune. Plus, we love the imagery of a swishy Wainwright singing amidst mustached men. Well done, Wainwright, you just secured yourself a special place in our heart. Now, go write a song about it…

It's no secret Rufus Wainwright's a friend of Dorothy, but do you know who he's not friends with? Anderson Cooper.

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• Rufus Wainwright misses his drug-fueled wild days, but isn't about to hop on (or is it off?) the drug wagon. Don't worry, though, he's not going to become one of those perpetually chipper sober sisters. He's got enough misery to last a lifetime. Or, at least, a new album.

• Theresa Sparks' has quite a tale, even for San Francisco. The post-op transgendered woman started out in waste management, patented two recycling techniques, decided to become a woman, lost her family, lost her fortune, drove a cab, took over a sex toy company, made back her fortune and has now been elected President of the city's Police Department. Some crazy shit…

• Rome's "Family Day" targets gays, unwed mothers, miscellaneous sinners.

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Rufus Wainwright's getting all political and shit in his new single, "Going To A Town". The track, from his forthcoming Release The Stars, addresses America's discriminatory culture, especially our nation's anti-gay policies.

We know we'll gain a lot of enemies by saying this, but we're not the biggest Wainwright fans. We have to say, however, this track gives us a chill. In a good way, of course. Well done, Wainwright. Maybe, just maybe, we'll buy your album when it comes out May 15. What say you, reader? Will you be the first in your gayborhood to own the gay singer's latest aural offering?

There's so much to say about what you're about to see that we don't even know where to begin. So, we'll start at the beginning: the video came from two readers.

One reader described it as "appalling" and promised that we would be "insulted". Another reader - in fact, our old friend Joe from The Cup of Joe, presented it thus: "For those of you who haven't seen the joy that is this video".

Now, those are obviously opposing statements, but let's just say both reviews hold water.

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As you may or may not know, Out Magazine's Out 100 - their annual celebration of gay icons, leaders, and other notables - looms large on the horizon.

In celebration, they've enlisted some of Gayville's "biggest" names to blog-the-shit leading up to the November 10th event. Which names? Our friend Sam Spector, homo-songster Rufus Wainwright, Choire Sicha, and actor Michael Cavadias, to name a few.

Anyway, we moseyed on over to see how things are going and came across this piece on Out 100 honoree David Hauslaib: the man from whose loins we sprang. Here's a snippet of what Hauslaib had to say about his daily happenings:

"I go to the gym because my fat ass just got back from Paris and I need to work off the cheese.."

Wait. Hauslaib eats cheese? Fuck. Only rich people eat cheese. We've never even seen cheese. He told us he was living in a dumpster behind the LGBT Center and could only pay us in poppers and blowjobs!

He goes on to say that he sometimes works up to 14 hours a day. Right. Now that we know he's tasted that dairy product of the gods, we'll never trust another word he says. He's probably in Rome right now, eating grapes off of barely legal hookers and snorting lines of gold.

Wait… Oh no! We hear footsteps. We think he's coming for us…

• Amy Sedaris tells Rachel Bussel what she thinks about drunks. Here's a hint: it's not good. [Village Voice]

• The Advocate celebrates young homo-politicos. [The Advocate]

• Stephin Merritt + Rufus Wainwright + Plagues = Album? Um, okay… [My Old Kentucky Home]

• Hate Crimes In Atlanta? Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps. [Southern Voice]

• Brigid Scruggs show opens at RePop NY. [RePop]

• Britney Spears' manny Perry Taylor has been nominated for a U.S. Veterans Award. Not for saving Sean Preston from falling to the cement ground, but for taking his naval training and applying it to something worthwhile. Like guarding America's former sweetheart. [Business Wire]

• More on Britney: She's lauding husband Kevin Federline for finally finding a job. Given that he doesn't have a record deal yet (just an album), he's signed on to become the face of clothing label Blue Marlin. [Page Six]

• Oh, so you saw a blubbering Britney Spears on Dateline last night, too? If not, the clip reel is already here. [The Malcontent]

• Take two of our favorite people and put them together in front of the camera — that's all it takes to make us simple folks happy. You too? Then you'll be pleased to hear Anderson Cooper has snagged the first U.S. interview with Angelina Jolie. [Jossip]

• Backstage with Rufus Wainwright means plenty of plastic surgery, over-tweezed eyebrows, and hotties in Rufus tees. Oh, the main act was there, too. [Timmy Ray]

• Rufus Wainwright's two-date Carnegie Hall showcase of Judy Garland's history-making concert is met with applause — from the 45-year-old crowd. [Towleroad, NYT]

• When it comes to celebrating gay pride in your home, Brini Maxwell has an edge up on Martha Stewart. [LGBT CC]

• Your guide to gay pride in Brazil. Parties, parties, parade, parties. [Made In Brazil]

• Yesterday Logo announced plans for all new original programming, including a sitcom about a gay ghost (yawn) and a drama about gay men and women in the military (woohoo!). [Reuters]

Makes you rethink the old joke; How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Be gay, gay, gay.

Rufuf Wainwright [Official Site]
The Dreams That We Dare to Dream Really Do Come True [Gawker]