• A 16-year old Australian got into big trouble after throwing a rager at his parents' home. Despite the fact that his parents hate his guts and he owes coppers $20,000, the kids has absolutely no contrition. When asked if he has advice for other kids who want to follow suit, he replies: "Have me do it." Why? "Because it was the best party". Sweet!

• We want the Macbook Air.

• Orlando Jones to play gay. Yay!

• DJ Jared Abbott loves living in Madrid, being in style.

• Morocco upholds conviction for six "gay" men.

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Filmmaker David Lynch does not endorse the cell phone. Don't believe us? Check out this video. Money quote:

…If you're playing the movie on a telephone, you will never in a trillion years experience the film. You'll think you have experienced it, but you'll be cheated. It's such a sadness that you think you've seen a film on your fucking telephone. Get real.

Word…

• Motorola helps break gay boy's heart.

• Former B2K member Raz B admits he lied about manager Chris Stokes molestation allegations. Raz B's brother, Ricky Romance, says otherwise. He also suggests Raz B may have been forced into the "admission".

• Queers help Obama campaign.

• Madonna's directorial debut - the contradictorily entitled Faith and Wisdom Filth & Wisdom - set to debut at Berlin Film Festival. Those Germans have the strongest stomachs.

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Northampton gays have a new way to report anti-gay crimes. The Boston Clipper pub now features a computer hardwired to a local police station.

The Infobox is a kiosk that allows people to link to the Northamptonshire Police website where they can report crime and check on the progress of any crime of which they are a victim.
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[Police officer Rob Smith] said: "This kiosk will give people who have been the victim of a homophobic crime the chance to report what has happened to them in a place where they feel safe and comfortable and without having to go into a police station or speak to someone face to face."

The box has been installed in memory of Michael Fardon, who died in 2006 after being attacked outside the club.

Too pious for Xtube and too sanctimonious for YouTube, right wing religionists often take to GodTube to voice their conservative grievances. And, like so many good nutjobs, many of the users use their home videos to blast the blasphemous gays. The site, however, won't publish the word.

Good As You offers the queer details:

…"Gay" gets banned as is it a curse word; "fag" and "dyke" are totally fine! And clearly SOMEONE had to have inputted the code and made the choice of which words to ban and which to allow. It's quite telling what their mind deemed offensive, and what it found kosher.

Kosher? Ha!

By the way, the censored words in the image above are: damn, shit, gay, fuck and whore.

Santa better stuff his stocking with coal this year. Via Slog:

An artificial-intelligence Santa bot operated by Microsoft to talk to children wavered off topic saying: “It’s fun to talk about oral sex, but I want to chat about something else….”
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Users were able to steer Santa into admitting he was gay or that he was a pedophile.

One person said “…..come on you like big hairy men — don't hide it!” To which Santa responded, “I know, I know. I just hope you won't get mad at me.”

Eeks! What do you think Santa's hiding that would inspire fury? Does his dick have a red tip? We imagine so - he has, after all, been around the world a few times.

Chicago-based Larry Bland died violently two weeks ago and his mother suspects his one his chat room mates may have murdered him. This isn't the first time online sex has been brought up in a gay man's murder.

Michael Sandy met his killers online, as have a number of other men who have come up on this site. Never in our eons of reporting gay murders, however, have we heard a story start with such panicked condemnation.

From local Fox reporter Darlene Hill:

Log in, type the address, and enter a world unknown to many: a world full of men seeking sex with men.

Josephine Bland says her son was so consumed by that activity, she moved out of her own home.

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Gay Somalians have been starving for attention. Luckily unknown numbers of closeted queers from the African nation can find some communal nourishment with a new website, Somali Gay Community.

The Project Manager of Somali Gay Community in the United Kingdom, Murad, said the site, which aims to woo Somalis the world over, is designed to bridge information drought surrounding gay affairs in a purely conservative and Muslim society like Somalia.

"The goal of the group is to create a space and a means for Somali gays and lesbians access to information, share experiences and develop support networks," Murad told afrol News.

He said the site will serve as a guide to “our brothers and sisters confronted with their same-sex affairs”. This will enable them to overcome their difficulties.

The groundbreaking site includes looks at homosexuality and Islam, stories of Somalian culture and, of course, a poetry section.

The Netherlands' faglings just got a new playground. Amsterdam-based activist group COC just launched an under-16 website to help the young pups come up in the gay world.

The kid-initiated initiative came around after this year's gay pride, when the Tiger Beat crowd joined the fun with a float of their own, reports NIS. Since then, COC and a group of go-getter guppies have been collaborating on the new networking site, Jung & Out.

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Obviously Elton John's whole internet-induced social stagnation theory ain't airtight:

Hundreds of super-powered lesbians and gays let their magical hair down at a new LGBT prom recently. They danced, flirted, elected a prom king and (drag) queen, played outdoors in their underwear at a mountain ski resort, and levitated with robotic boots and angels' wings until they crashed the server.

Crashed a server? That's, like, the craziest, nerdiest party ever! And when we say "craziest" we mean "looniest". Nerdiest, however, remains the same.

Sir Elton John would like nothing more than to see the internet crumble to the virtual ground.

An admitted technophobe, John tells British tab-rag The Sun that the internet continues to destroy not only musical culture, but activism, as well:

The internet has stopped people from going out and being with each other, creating stuff. Instead they sit at home and make their own records, which is sometimes OK, but it doesn’t bode well for long-term artistic vision.
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We’re talking about things that are going to change the world and change the way people listen to music and that’s not going to happen with people blogging on the internet.

Well, fuck you very much, Sir Elton. We do loads of good. Morning Goods, for example. That always lifts people's spirits. What have you done besides champion gay rights, entertain the world for nearly five decades and raise millions to fight AIDS? Oh, we see your point.

Google's satellite imaging has been heralded as both the greatest and the most insidious of the massive search engine's ever expanding services. We decided to put it to the test by searching for our three favorite words: "gay," "queer" and "homosexual".

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Michael Downs likes all American guys. In fact, the St. Petersburg-based business man likes them so much, he founded an entire website around celebrating all American guys and their sweet, supple flesh: All American Guys! (Cue the Star-Spangled Banner)

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The internet's a dangerous place. Not only are there sexual predators, neo-nazis, scientologists and other assorted baddies, but you have to worry about sicko fuckwad shithead faggots like us.

As you can see, Blog Rater gave us and our potty mouth an NC-17 rating. Apparently they object to our use of the words "gay," the same word in the plural form "lesbian" and "zombie", which we blame on that shitting kid.
We're a little disappointed, actually - we were hoping for an XXX. Do we have to slaughter and eat a straight person, or something?

Meanwhile Blog Rater slapped our source, AfterElton, with an NC-17 rating. Surprisingly, ex-gay homophobes Exodus International received a G: all ages admitted. Ain't that sweet?

Internet provider Telecom had some explaining to do after wagging a virtual finger at Gay Hamilton. The New Zealand native received an email warning her against using her first name. Because, you know, "gay" counts as an inappropriate word. From Telecom:

[Your email] was identified by our content filtering processes as containing language that may be considered inappropriate for business-like communication.

The content which caused this to happen was … 'gay' eight times, at two points each, for an expression score of 16 points.

Yikes, that's dangerously close to technological death row.

Telecom has since apologized to Hamilton for the confusion. While they would not disclose a full list of their naughty words, they did admit that "gay" and "homosexual" "could be deemed as inappropriate for use at work." Good thing we don't use Telecom, huh?

Broadband provider bans Gay [Pink News UK]