As Seth & Amy would say, "Really, Washington Post? Really, you're going to deliver another puff piece on a hate leader hiding behind faith and 'traditional marriage' without identifying this person as a bigot? Really?" Except that's just the what the newspaper did with a profile of Bishop Harry Jackson, the fearmonger who professes his anti-gay marriage crusade is "not a mission of hate." And no, the newspaper didn't call him on it. Continued »

Jeff Tomsik, star of today's Morning Goods, was shot by Bruce Weber for Abercrombie & Fitch. That shot of him at right is from his 2006 campaign. So surely, getting plucked out of obscurity to bare your abs — and ass — for the famed gay photographer means you've made bank and can relax your way to riches, right? Haha. Continued »

That's the hope of just-laid-off Blade editor Kevin Naff, who, after gathering supporters tonight for a pep rally, plans on publishing a new print paper by Friday. Continued »

Join us in writing some alternative headlines for this riveting discovery: "A preliminary report commissioned by the nation's Roman Catholic bishops to investigate the clergy sex abuse scandal has found no evidence that gay priests are more likely than heterosexual clergy to molest children, the lead authors of the study said Tuesday. The full report by researchers at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice won't be completed until the end of next year. But the authors said their evidence to date found no data indicating that homosexuality was a predictor of abuse." Continued »

For all the shots Rachel Maddow has taken at Sarah Palin, she kinda had it coming. Continued »

Was this The 700 Club, or Fox News? It's sometimes a hard call to make when you discuss homosexuality and religion in the same conversation. Continued »

Juan Antonio Martínez Matos, the 26-year-old alleged murderer of Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado (pictured, right), believed he was cruising for female prostitutes in Caguas, Puerto Rico. And when he found out Mercado was a man? That's when he killed — and burned, and dismembered, and decapitated — him. Continued »

How is one Danish anti-violence advocacy group working to combat attacks on women? By letting angry men — or just curious web surfers — "Hit The Bitch," getting their virtual frustration out in an online "game." This is a terrible idea. Continued »

While the District of Columbia just decided that allowing the people to vote, via ballot initiative, on same-sex marriage would violate the city's Human Rights Act — because popular vote should not decide civil rights — the State of California finds itself fielding five just-approved ballot measures to reverse Proposition 8, the ballot measure that last year let voters strip away marriage rights in the state. (To be clear, activists say there will only be a signature drive for Love Honor Cherish's ballot initiative.) If there's ever been a more clear reason why federal marriage rights are necessary, it is this situation: Some Americans can have their neighbors vote on their marriage, while others cannot.

Ryan Ryenolds, Jake G., Bradley Cooper, R. Patts, and Beckham all made People's Sexiest Man Alive issue, which crowned Johnny Depp as this year's winner (he also won in 2003). So did the magazine find any gays sexy this year? Continued »

As the Catholic thought police tried — and, miserably, failed — to prove same-sex marriage in the nation's capital would somehow make their religious teachings a hate crime, one smart alec has gone and created a website that's one part WhoSigned.org, and 10 parts Blog Active. That is: A public registry of any Catholic priest belonging to the Archdiocese of Washington who is a big homo. Or, involved in a seedy hetero affair when he should be celibate. Continued »

Well here's one way to tell the editor-in-chief of a major gay magazine to fuck off: replace "fuck off" with "chill," and then his "send" on your Twitter account. Which is how Adam Lambert is responding to Out's Aaron Hicklin, who was all, "Why you so scurrred of being gay?" Continued »

That didn't take long at all: Larry Johnson, the NFL running back ousted last week from the Kansas City Chiefs for his Twitter "fag" scandal, has found a new home willing to traffic in hate speech. Continued »

Well that's really got to stick in Lady Gaga's craw: Because she's been nominated for Best Dance Recording at this year's Grammy Awards, the pop tart is ineligible for the Best New Artist award, according to the Grammy's bizarre rule structure. But hey, it's not all bad news! Continued »

MORNING GOODS — He's been a face for Abercrombie & Fitch and American Eagle. He's been shot by Bruce Weber and Gregory Vaughn. We'd say twenty-three-year-old Ohio native Jeff Tomsik is doing something very, very right. Continued »

A group of Orthodox Jewish rabbis in New York City are demanding Americans don't just think of the Mormon and Catholic churches as hateful places of worship, but synagogues too! It's unclear how many "prominent rabbis" are joining a memo published in the conservative Zeh Journal, or exactly who they are, but a "broad consensus of Rabbis surveyed" (cherry picked?) want to fight back against the notion the Jewish community is on board with New York State's gay marriage movement. Continued »

You know that 0-31 record on gay marriage being bandied about? As in, we've lost 31 state marriage battles across America? That sounds like a terrible batting average when it comes to gays securing their marriage rights. So what if we forget about the states that banned same-sex marriage, via constitutional amendment or state law, and focus only on the losses in states that we chose to battle in. As in, Maine and California. On that front, we've really only failed twice. Sounds like fuzzier, albeit happier math to us!

Continuing the trend of gays and blacks running talk television (see: Wanda Sykes, Ellen), Oprah's home decorator-cum-household name Nate Berkus is getting his own syndicated chat fest. Continued »

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→ Just a tease of what's to come in Levi's Playgirl shoot. But remember, it doesn't get much more X-rated than this. Continued »

"Gender definitely does exist. And where I stand on the fembot issue is this: A Cybertronian robot should have the right to marry anyone he or she desires, provided that they are consensual beings." —Transformers writer Mike Costa, settling the debate over gender (and gay marriage) in the tron universe Continued »