Yesterday Brandon Routh arrived in Japan, continuing the Asian leg of his Superman Returns publicity tour. And what's that he brought with him through the airport? A gay? (Actually, we've got no idea whether the fella in the purple polo is Brandon's friend, handler, or just an excited traveler.) A couple more shots, after the jump.

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Superman is gay. Superman isn't gay. Is the debate moot yet? We saw Superman Returns last night and, after a rather lackluster build up to an anti-climax, we're inclined to let this whole plotline vanish into comic book circle jerks on principle alone. But then Brandon Routh had to go and get himself immortalized yesterday at Madame Tussaud’s House of Wax here in New York — and bring his beard girlfriend Courtney Ford, who refused to leave his side. Yes, we've all heard the rumors about Routh dating Superman Returns director Bryan Singer before they made the movie. And yes, we spotted Routh and his lady friend just as attached at the MTV Movie Awards. But, just for a moment, can we leave the fella alone? Well, leave him alone at least as long as it takes you to get through the photos, after the jump.

Brandon Routh's Girlfriend Too Super? [OAN]

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• Brandon Routh continues his press rounds on David Letterman and, to the dismay of The Advocate's editors, doesn't say anything about Superman being gay. [Malcontent]

• In deciding whether Congress can halt funding to universities that disagree with the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy and prohibit army recruiters on campus, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts refers to gays only as "homosexuals." Does it matter? [Detroit Free-Press]

• Rick Santorum is going after female voters with his latest campaign effort for U.S. Senate reelection. He's got a shiny new website and everything! [PageOneQ]

• When a gay pride is a small Arkansas town gets little to no attention, organizers see it as a good thing. [THV 11]

• New data suggests the population of gay men is rising in one Indian region. That, or more queers are finding it less risky to report their behavior. [Times of India]

• Two murderers convicted of killing gay bar owner Jody Dobrowski in England received sentences of at least 28 years each in prison. [UK Gay.com]

• Brandon Routh makes us want to swallow. Milk, that is. Notice the bulge has been photoshopped down a bit. We may faint. [SocialiteLife]

• If posts today have been slow, we're sorry. We've been reading Letters To Marc Jacobs all day. And we thought The Manolo was random. [LTMJ]

• Our favorite lesbian Amazon superhero must hit the silver screen ASAP, if for no other reason than to repair the damage done by Halle Berry's Catwoman and Storm tragedies. [Novaslim]

• Arjan interviews Keane, a.k.a. "The New Morrissey," about their new album. Keane is superb! [ArjanWrites]

• Salon publishes the "Feelgood Gay Parenting Story Of The Day," about a NY Times article on gay adoption gone right in Massachusetts. If you're not registered to read the Times, just read Salon's take, it's just dandy. [Salon]

The Sun recently ran a story about the hot new Superman, Brandon Routh, noting that his "supersized lunchbox" gave studio execs a headache. That's not what it gave us.

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• Aside from being totally discriminatory, "Don't ask, Don't Tell" is also a colossal waste of time and money. [Reuters]

• New Superman Brandon Routh's bulge isn't naturally super. The codpiece under his uniform is padded. Shucks. [Zap2it]

• A travel company in Montana wants to make sure that you too can have a Brokeback Mountain vacation. And when you do, be sure to re-enact that scene in the pup tent. [Times Mirror]

• Blizzard wants the world to know that its games are "gay-freindly." [BBC]

• Just in time to join the 21st Century, India is reconsidering its ban on homosexuality. [Pink In The News]

• We're pretty sure that most of the astronomical budget for Superman Returns is going toward reducing Brandon Routh's bulge. [NY Post]

• South Africa's Gay and Lesbian Alliance is being slammed as a "joke" made up of "one publicity-hungry man." No, it's not Matt Drudge. [The Herald]

• Chicago's upcoming Gay Games are bringing some people to tears. We'll be sure to bring plenty of Kleenex on our way to the Windy City. [Wednesday Journal of Oak Park]

• We'd love to see a Gay Walk of Fame in Palm Springs. But Kevin Spacey probably won't appreciate his name being mentioned for consideration. [The Desert Sun]

• Clay Aiken is trolling the net for online gay hook-ups?! You don't say! [Queer Day]

• Warner Bros. wants to reduce the size of new Superman Brandon Routh's oversized package, giving gays everywhere a little less reason to see the film next summer. [The Sun]

• We would never have guessed it but Bill Gates and his wife make time to hang out with Indian trannies. [The Washington Post]

• The so-called "king of (hetero) strip clubs" is gay. Queerty's two degrees of separation to the man now makes complete sense. [St. Petersburg Times]

• You can now walk for a good cause and never have to get out of bed. [The Advocate]

• The World Wide Web turns 15, which was about the age we were when we first accessed gay porn online. [CNN]

• The book Sextrology has been selling like crazy all over the globe without having to filter any content. Not anymore. Russia has de-gayed the book without obtaining the consent of the authors or publisher HarperCollins.

• If you haven't yet seen the teaser to Superman Returns starring soon to be Hollywood "It Boy" Brandon Routh, check it out. All we have to say is "Tom Welling who?"

• Over 6,500 gay marriages have occurred in Massachusetts since the State Supreme Court ruled that queers should not be excluded from attending marriage counseling. Congrats, people.

• An openly gay State Senator from Vermont was seriously injured in a car wreck yesterday. We hope he gets better. So far we haven't heard anything from those tactless fundamentilsts claiming this was caused by some wrathful gay-hating God.

• John Waters's "dog crap-eating tranny" state of mind invades the OC. His photography show is now at the Orange County Museum Of Art.

• Andy has some photos of a recent hazing by the Marquette University lacrosse team. We're bummed Bill O'Reilly wasn't there to cover that wild collegiate episode.