• Fine, we get it: The Boy Scouts don't want homos running their programs. But that doesn't mean a newspaper needs to agree with them — and go so far as to call sexual orientation discrimination a "non-issue." [Northeast Times, via]

• A brilliant answer to a needless problem: On the heels of Archbishop George Niederauer forbidding San Francisco's Catholic Charities from placing foster children with gay couples, the non-profit org is teaming up with California Kids Connection to act as a middleman — and thus bypass SFCC's anti-gay mandate. [ABC San Francisco]

• Don't think Jake and Heath are the only homos on the big screen. Robin Williams plays a gay man in The Night Listener,while Little Miss Sunshine has Steve Carell and The Groomsmen features John Leguiizamo going gay. Meanwhile, Quinceanera and Shock to the System: A Donald Strachey Mystery both feature members of the family. [LA Daily News]

• U.S. Senate candidate Katherine Harris (R-Fl.) is facing even more controversy, with her fourth campaign manager tied to an org that's accused of using fraudlent practices to collect signatures on anti-gay rights petitions. [Raw Story]

The Berkeley Sea Scouts, a boys club that is affiliated with the Boy Scouts of America and teaches sailing, carpentry and plumbing recently lost their free berthing priveleges because the Boy Scouts discriminate against gays and atheists. Since it costs around $500 to berth a boat in Berkeley, the Sea Scouts are pretty pissed that they can't receive the benefits of the policy without following its non-discrimination rule.

That's why they are taking their ill-fated fight to the U.S. Supreme Court where it may or may not be heard. We personally are thrilled that all those Sea Scout boats won't be cluttering up the harbors in Berkeley, because we've been on the waiting list for a berthing spot for months now.

Scouts Head To Supreme Court Over Gay Ruling [365 Gay]

Everyone knows the Boy Scouts is a pretty homophobic organization, and one NY state senator is lobbying the governor to keep those stick-widdling, marshmallow roasting haters out of the governor’s mansion.

State Senator Thomas Duane of Manhattan was invited by the Twin Rivers Council of the Boy Scouts to join them at the Albany mansion. The group is planning a reception Thursday on character-building programs.

In a letter to Governor Pataki this week, Duane, who is openly gay, says the governor is sending a bad message by allowing "a discriminatory organization" to use state facilities.Pataki spokesman Kevin Quinn tells the Albany Times Union the governor won't ban the Boy Scouts, calling them "an American institution."

Actually, while we loathe discrimination of any kind, we do thing the Boy Scouts should be allowed to hold their little reception inside the mansion. We hear there are a few pink badge-wearing scouts who are just dying to get inside and do a little redecoration. The Interior Design merit badge is a hard one to come by and when given the opportunity, you gotta’ jump if you wanna’ go full Eagle Scout.

Gay state senator wants Boy Scouts kept out of executive mansion [NY Blade]

• First Jake played down the queer factor in Brokeback Mountain. Now Heath attempts to make it appear like the straightest gay love story ever told.

• Madge loves the gays so much she's producing a Melrose Place-type drama for Logo.

• In our opinion there's only one person who should be banned from the boy scouts. He's the guy wearing a sequined glove, plastic nose and carries a chimp named Bubbles.

• A novel aimed at teens, which involves meetings between gays over the Internet, has been banned in a Tacoma-area school district due to its "casual and loose approach to sex" and not because it's a book about a bunch of queers in high school. No, really.

• Last week the city of Poznan, Poland denied a LGBT group a permit for a pride march saying it would “be a serious danger to social order and property.” Supporters showed up anyway and were promtply arrested. Whew. The threat to Poland's frail social order is over.