Oh, Grizzly Bear, we're totally in the tank for you. You have to give the Brooklyn-based indie band, fronted by homo hottie Ed Droste credit for being all old school by debuting a new song, "Two Weeks" on Letterman. We're obligated to point out that Grizzly Bear is a friend of your editor. He's even directed the music video for their song "Fix It". The band is currently at work on their new album, due out next year.

Because the real measure of whether something is a real cause or not is whether there's a ribbon and/or jelly bracelet attached to it, a bunch of enterprising gays have come up with our very own marriage equality thingamajig: The white knot.

As some have already pointed out, the white knot is horribly irredeemably racist, being white and all. Curse you race-baiting marriage equality knot! Besides, it's confusing. Does the knot symbolize the union of marriage? Is it a pun on the phrase "Why Not?" Does it represent the thorny, knotted nature of the issue or just the fact that married people get bored of sex and ultimately wind up experimenting with bondage?

Who knows? Who cares? All we know is that the one thing the world does not need more of is annoying self-righteous political fashion accessories.

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A settlement has been reached in the case of Eric McKinley, a gay man from New Jersey, who filed a discrimination suit against eHarmony Inc. when the site refused to accept his same-sex personal ad and the online dating site has agreed to accept gay couples. Beginning in 2009, gays and lesbians can join all the desperate straight folk hoping that the site's patented "love of your life" algorithms will find them the man or woman of their homosexual dreams.

Neil Clark Warren, founder and owner of the site had previously come up with all sorts of fun excuses to exclude gay singles, the most popular being that the site was focused on finding a partner for life, but since most states didn't allow gay marriage, there was no point.

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Just days after a 22 year-old Syracuse woman was murdered because she was gay, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee asserted on The View today that gay civil rights should not be taken seriously because "[b]lacks were stoned, hung, and dragged for their constitutional right to ’sit at the table.’ Whites — gay or not — already had a seat at that table.”

Where to begin? A police report out today says 22 year-old Moses "Teish" Cannon was shot outside a party in Syracuse, NY last Friday because she was a lesbian.

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Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota will the Obama's Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary according to Democratic officials. The department is responsible for a national strategy on AIDS research and prevention.

Daschle has an excellent record on combating HIV/AIDS. He's the co-chair of the ONE Foundation and in July led a delegation of policymakers to Rwanda, where he visited with HIV patients in clinics to highlight the suffering caused by AIDS in that country and some of the efforts being made to combat it. At the time he told reporters:

“We have a moral obligation to assist those suffering from abject poverty and disease. Investments in the development of our world’s poorest nations must be a pillar of our foreign policy going forward, no matter who is leading the next administration.  I am encouraged by the tremendous impact that these programs have had in fighting the spread of disease across Africa. Over the last four years, two million more people living with AIDS now have access to lifesaving medication."

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It's taken just two weeks for the protests against Prop. 8 to go from historical moment to Weekly World News pop-culture parody, which has to be a record. There really needs to be some sort of index based off of the time it takes between an event happening and the moment a Bat Boy article is done about said event.

We know that this is not news and that half of you will call the article's mention of how "legalizing gay marriage is one step closer to allowing [interspecial] unions to be officially recognized" homophobic and a detriment to the cause, but did you see how Bat Boy has "Prop 8" with a big red 'X' painted on his chest?

We're pleased that Bat Boy has joined with us in supporting marriage equality for all and that "while Bat Boy was unable to convey his feelings through words, he did send his high-pitched squeaks of dissent echoing across the plaza."

The whole French electronica thing shows no sign of losing steam anytime soon, especially if Les Petits Pilous has anything to say about it. Their video for "Wake Up", now on EP has all the hallmarks of the genre– video game imagery, alien landscapes, arty-black and white images that capture man's existential battle with himself — all set to bleepy, bloopy beats.

People Magazine's named Australian triple-threat Hugh Jackman 2008's 'Sexiest Man Alive' and you won't hear us arguing. Usually, we don't care about this sort of thing, but while most of the questions people ask about Jackman are things like "What do you wear to bed" (nothing/since scaring the nanny: boxer briefs), the market rag asks Jackman to address the persistent gay rumors:

“Gay, gay and gay…. When I played [flamboyant Australian entertainer] Peter Allen [on Broadway in ‘The Boy from Oz’], Deb saw the show about 50 times. She said the most infuriating times would be in the bathroom because all she’d hear is, ‘Is he or isn’t he gay?’ And she used to call out from the stall, ‘He’s not gay! I’m telling you he’s not!’ And there would be silence until someone said, ‘I think that’s his wife!’ ”

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Seven openly gay peoplehave been assigned to head transition panels that will review federal agencies and departments by incoming President Barack Obama. They are among the 300 people who are serving in similar roles before January's inauguration.

They are businessman Fred P. Hochberg, former San Francisco Supervisor Roberta Achtenberg, and labor attorney Elaine Kaplan, Rick Stamberger, president and CEO of SmartBrief, Inc., Brad Kiley, member of the Center for American Progress, Thomas Soto an investment fund manager focusing on "clean technologies" and former Romanian Ambassador Michael Guest (pictured, right).

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There is something deeply hopeful about the fact that we live in a world where a plucky gay boy can record his flawless performance of the choreography to Beyoncé's "Put a Ring On it" video, put it up on YouTube and become a worldwide sensation. Shane Mercado's gone from dancing in tights in his bedroom to performing live on the Bonnie Hunt Show (I know? When did she get a show? Weird) yesterday– to the wild applause of middle-aged housewives.

We all know guys like Shane Mercado, who are just not built to hide their fierceness, and now, thanks to the Internet, they can finally find an audience that appreciates– well, skinny white boy dancers who dance like black divas.

With Beyoncé about to drop her schizophrenic new album I Am… Sasha Fierce, she'd be a fool not to give at least one very dedicated– and very talented– fan, a moment on stage with his idol.

South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are working with Avenue Q co-writer Robert Lopez to bring all your terrifying Mormon stereotypes to the boards of Broadway in their new musical, Mormon Musical, which will star the ubiquitous Cheyenne Jackson, who you know from Xanadu, YouTube and every gay party camera wall in the city. Jackson says of the show:

"It's hilarious - very acerbic and biting. It offends everybody but does what 'South Park' does best, which is by the end it comes around and has something great to say…I play the main missionary, Elder something."

The show starts rehearsals next month, so you can probably expect funny undergraments, baptism for the dead, repressed polygamy and sexual confused missionaries sometime in early '09. If you're hoping for non-stop Mormon bashing set to song, you might want to wait for the reviews frist, Parker and Stone's reputation are built on skewering everybody equally, so you may find yourself a target, too. Then again, their very first musical forray was called Cannibal!

Proving that it's not just ex's who live in Texas, Austin man Jonathan Smith fulfills your hump day wedding fantasies.

A quick note to the Morning Goods monkeys: I hear your desire for diversity and have been trying to give you all shapes, colors and sizes, but I will let you in on a little secret– until Queerty converts the attic into a photo studio, we have to use what's out there– and there's a lot of smooth, muscle twinks clogging up the intertubes. You want older guys with some hair on them from time to time? Me too. Be the Morning Goods you want to be and shoot me some places I can find a wider variety of guys and I'll give em' to you. Fly my pretties, fly.

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