After winning an Oscar for the mind-bogglingly boring, "I Need To Wake Up" from An Inconvenient Truth, lesbian rocker Melissa Etheridge told reporters: This is the only naked man that will ever be in my bedroom.

Ms. E also expressed her shock and dismay over beating out Dreamgirls:

Dreamgirls is what music and movies are about. It's a musical, and it's what I grew up loving. Had there not been three songs...you might be talking to a different person here.

Is she trying to say that Dreamgirls was so good that the Academy couldn't make a decision and, thus, threw her a statue? If so, we agree.

But, congratulations anyway...

The New Yorker's full of surprises this week. First, there's their cover - "To a New Beginning" by Owen Smith - which features two women locking lips. And what's more: they're black. Now, we've been reading The New Yorker for a long time now and we don't remember ever seeing lesbians on the cover, let alone black lesbians. We find it pretty thrilling.

Another interesting bit comes courtesy music critic Sasha Frere-Jones. Reviewing Clipse and Young Jeezy's respective albums, Frere-Jones narrows in on the ubiquitous references to cocaine. Sure, coke's presence in popular music's nothing new, he says, but this new brand of rapper brags about their success as dealers, not takers. But that's not the part that intrigues us most - we're impressed by his Frere-Jones' familiarity with cocaine colloquialisms.

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Beyonce may be young, rich, talented, famous and gorgeous, but that doesn't mean she doesn't yearn for more. Like what? Well, like the undying love of the world's homosexuals.

Those crazy kids from here! (the other gay television network, i.e. not Logo) caught up with Ms. Knowles at last night's Dreamgirls premiere. As true queer journalists, they got to the meat of the matter:

HERE TV – “How do you feel about being a gay icon?”
BEYONCE – “It’s definitely my goal, and my dream.”
HERE TV – “To be a gay icon?”
BEYONCE – “Oh absolutely. That’s the ultimate thing I could be. That’s the ultimate compliment for me.”

Beyonce's not a gay icon? News to us. Now we have to go tear down all our posters, toss all our Beyonce-endorsed merchandise and take out this ridiculously blonde weave. Thanks a lot, Beyonce. We'll hate you forever! Or, until we decide to start loving you again. Which ever comes first.

One photo is all it took to make us completely forget Brokeback Mountain. We now have a new movie obsession. Beyoncé is the new Michael Jackson. She's that white.

Dreamgirls [Official Site]