• We’re no longer the gayest blog on the Internets. Look at these two queens over at Wonkette! [Wonkette]

• Pete Burns did not win Big Brother. But he was the fiercest. [WOW Report]

• Three men were sentenced in the Gwen Araujo slaying. Araujo was a SF Bay area transsexual murdered in 2002. [SF Chronicle]

• Tom Cruise looks like this year’s worst actor. And we’re not talking about his role playing “straight.” [Yahoo]

• Brits have awarded Tom Cruise with the title of "most irritating" star. No word on if they find him to be the gayest star as well. [The Guardian]

• Now playing in LA is the lesbian musical The Breakup Notebook. Melissa Etheridge isn’t the only dyke with a great set of pipes. [The Breakup Notebook Official Site]

• Ryan Seacrest may have replaced Kathy Griffin as queen of the red carpet, but at least we’ll get another season of her Bravo reality show. [Reality TV World]

• Illinois has become one of the few states in the nation to have laws on the books prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation. That’s 15 states down and 35 more to go. [CBS 2 Chicago]

• Texas' first statewide GLBT magazine is no more. RIP TXT Magazine. [Dallas Voice]

• The Britney and Kevin sex tape is up for auction. Real or fake, we think we should be paid $1,000,000 to see Kevin Federline bare ass naked. Not the other way around. [My E Bid]

• Gay English and Welsh couples are now allowed to adopt little rugrats of their own. [Reuters UK]

• We don’t think the rumors about Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’ baby being the reincarnated gay son of L. Ron Hubbard are true. That would imply that the baby might actually be Cruise’s. [NY Post].

• Our favorite political ally, Barney Frank, comes out swinging against the army for not doing enough about queer soldier Kyle Lawson's gay-bashing a few months back. You don't want to piss this queen off. [Advocate]

• Something always did seem a bit bitchy about the dad in Family Circus. [World of Wonder]

• Two more men were hanged in Iran for their homosexuality. Is any reader aware of an organization working to stop these hangings? Shoot us an email.

• The N.C.A.A. has approved a two-piece wrestling uniform to replace the sexualized unitard the gays love. The new uniform shows off the competitor’s packages just as much as the last. So we are good with it. Via Jossip and AKAFrankGreen.

• Are women ready for the Stud Farm? Who cares, but we sure as hell are.

• "A coming-out tool kit" will debut at a gay conference in Seattle this weekend. We strongly urge the Gay and Lesbian Leadership Institute to send one to Tom Cruise, Anderson Cooper, and Kenny Chesney immediately.

• Spokane Mayor James E. West's computer only had 100 pictures of nude males on the hard drive. Which you queens know, is not many at all.

• The KKK rallied for the same-sex marriage ban in Bush country over the weekend. Instead of getting decked out in their trademark sparkling white hoods they dressed in black clothes carrying wooden shields and wore confederate flag bandanas. A much warmer look for them.

• It seems like Tom Cruise's sis wasn't doing a good job selling us on he and scientologist-to-be, Katie Holmes's romance. So the loving brother sacked her. The tough job now falls on a new PR guru. We wish him good luck. He'll need it.

• First hurricanes, now the war in Iraq. Apparently we gays are responsible for just about every tragic event in the world right now. We're evil, we tell you!

• No one, not even Mr. Ciccone himself, tells Madonna what to wear. Ever.

• Jumping on the Anderson Cooper bandwagon perhaps, ABC gays up Matt Lauer. (Via Towleroad)

• Variety reviews Brokeback Mountain and evidently today's Morning Goods guy has some talent to match his rugged good looks.

• New kidney recipient Steven Cojocaru apparently speaks for his mom: "I think for a mother to sit back and watch her child in pain is the worst kind of nightmare imaginable." Um, isn't that something that should be coming out of her mouth?

• For those boyfriend-less queens who also enjoy cuddling with dismembered body parts we present to you the item at the top of your gift list: the plush boyfriend arm pillow. Yeah, creepy as all shit.

• A California woman claims she was refused to be artificially inseminated by her doctors because she's a lesbian. She's suing them and the case might end up in the U.S. Supreme Court. All of this would have been easily avoided if she'd only gone to the same place as Tom and Katie.

• Warning: clicking on this link will expose you to paparazzi pics of Cynthia Nixon and her girlfriend. Don't say we didn't warn you.

• Spokane's mayor has fessed up to surfing gay sites on a city-owned computer. Pretty soon, we could all get a peak as to what kind of kinky stuff he's into.

• Andy has some hot shots of Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett rolling around on the ground together. This should appease us until Brokeback Mountain's rear entry scene.

• Anderson Cooper (the only reason we ever watch CNN) gets a book deal that will “deal with the last year of [his] life as a journalist and human being in Sri Lanka, Africa, Iraq and Louisiana/Mississippi.” No word on if it will cover the gay human being part.

• Some fire-happy teens tore down and burned an amalgam of Old Glory and the rainbow flag because they thought it was "unpatriotic." Apparently ripping down private property, dousing it with kerosene, and then dropping a match is the American way.

• Reach out and touch Arjan. He has Depeche Mode's entire new album available to stream.

• Katie Holmes's parents are more upset about the unholiness of a shotgun wedding than her marrying crazy couch-leaper Tom Cruise.

• Fliers are showing up in Austin and Dallas claiming there's a plan to bus gays into Texas to vote against the state's same-sex marriage ban. Well, there's your first sign it's all bull. We'd never ever take the bus.

• The Vatican continues to make absoultely no sense. This time it's rumored they might allow gay priests after all. The caveat? Hard proof they've had no nookie for three years. We want to be the ones responsible for those tests.

• 50's film pretty boy Tab Hunter stops by NYC's Out Professionals Center this month for a chat about his prolific film career and what it was like to fuck Anthony Perkins.

• A British author was kicked out of a children's talk for calling Harry Potter "gay," something we've been saying for years.

• Though what we're really waiting for is the Colin Farrell sex tape to hit the internets, we must make do with Tom Sizemore and possibly the white trash couple of the Century, Kevin Federline and a pregnant Britney.

• We expect our lesbo cops to be nothing but "verbally aggressive."

• As everybody and their mother now knows, Tom Cruise captive Katie Holmes is with child. Glee! Little Scientologists!

The New York Times gives 50's Hunk Tab Hunter a chance to plug his new biography. Topics: being gay and closeted in Hollywood.

The Times maintains its respectability by asking Hunter thought-provoking questions such as which famous people he's slept with. Rock Hudson? Nope. James Dean? Just a friend. Anthony Perkins? Bingo! What no follow-up question about dressing up as Mrs. Bates?

Hunter also goes onto defend noted heterosexual Tom Cruise, saying he doesn't buy into the rumors. But he doesn't stop there. Though he himself at one point was a huge closeted movie star, he goes on to say he firmly believes none of the current batch of "A-list" stars are gay. Not one. I have a feeling the Hollywood Gay Mafia might disagree with that.

Hunter's book, Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star is out next month.

The 1983 Francis Ford Coppola homoerotic classic The Outsiders is set for rerelease this weekend. In 1983, when the film adaptation of S.E. Hinton's classic novel debuted, the world was very different. Madonna was actually played on the radio and Joan Collins was the Nicolette Sheridan of television. The film's gritty look and somber tone did not connect with audiences of the 1980s.

The movie has become a gay cult classic though. Never before and never since has such a young, hot, and intense group of actors shared a stage. Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, C. Thomas Howell, Ralph Macchio, Emilio Estevez, Tom Cruise, and Matt Dillon. This was before scientology and hair loss, a time when these kids had stars in their eyes and tight butts in their jeans. When not focussing on the pretty faces and bulging denim of the brat packers, a trained eye will spot a young Diane Lane, the author Hinton, and Sofia Coppola, many years before she would become the darling of Hollywood, in smaller roles.

The movie is in theaters September 9th and released on dvd on September 20th.