• We love how the people who make Spider Man's costumes act like they're job's so boring. Seriously, why are they so nonchalant about it. If we had those skills, we'd be all like, "What, motherfuckers? We've got the coolest job in the world, so you better have something good to say if you're going to come around here jabbering that jaw of yours." Then we'd make ourselves a hot costume and live our our Ass Licker! fantasies.

• Eeks! And sounds like we already have a super-villain to fight: parishioners from the Colorado Springs-based Grace Church and St. Stephen's Parish have broken off from the American Episcopalians and are aligning themselves with Peter Akinola and his baddies.

• No more modeling for Reichen. No, no. He's using that body to write a second book.

• We never thought Jonathan Zhang would top last week's rousing investigation of why you should wear underwear, but we were wrong. This week he takes on cheating - to which he readily admits. Yes, it's true, Zhang used to sneak around. But not anymore. He's all sorts of happy with his new man. The proof's in the pudding: "True, the never-ending temptation of the dirty SMSes and hot men at the clubs are still there, but I’ve found my perfect dish, and he tastes different everytime I eat him." We're never, ever sucking dick again.

• Gawker went to the Black Party and all they got was this lousy link. Oh, and a bitching case of crabs.

• Sarah Wheeler once lived as a lesbian. Now, she's fighting gay adoption rights. She's like the queer Benedict Arnold. Only a woman, so she'd be Bettina. Or Benedicta.

• Newsweek answered our prayers! They've compiled made our a list of America's top 50 Rabbis! And you know who's on there? Sharon Kleinbaum: Hebrew Homo activist extraordaire! Our hero:

That's right, girl.

• Friendly warning to America's Next Top Model's Nigel Barker - the kids from New Now Next have been stalking you. We don't think you're in any danger, but you may want to be careful when/how/where you do your stretches. Also, if some faggots ask you to spot them, throw the poor boys a bone. Especially if you're wearing short shorts. [New Now Next]

• Lance Bass is writing a memoir not-so-cleverly entitled Out of Sync. [Entertainment Tonight]

• Gawker wants you to rename it. [Gawker]

• Meanwhile, Bass' ex's (Reichen) ex and former Amazing Race contestant, Chip Arndt, hopes to raise 100,000 to fight AIDS. Cool, right? What's not so cool is that his correspondent MySpace page plays "Here Comes The Sun". What about Michael Jackson's Ryan White memorial tune, "Gone To Soon"? Too depressing? Okay, what about "You've Really Got Me" by The Kinks? Oh, wait... [MySpace]

• Largo's would-be city womanager Steve Stanton's still deciding whether to appeal his firing after announcing impending sex change. [St. Petersburg Times]

• No more gay only bars in England. Contrary to what you may think, this is a good thing... [Pink News UK]

• Universal Press Syndicate vows to continue publishing Ann Coulter's column. [TPM]

• No Idol for The View. [TMZ]

• Holy fucking shit!! Stonewall reopens in 5 days! OMG! We're totally hyperventilating! Hurry, someone remind us how much we don't care!! [NY Observer]

• Don't forget Good Times tonight at eastern bloc with guest DJ's Baby C and Sparber. Details and some pics from a previous installment, after the jump...

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Our memory must be failing, because we forgot to mention the New York Daily News' rundown on NJ gay "marriage". Good thing those gay loving Gawkers posted on it earlier today, pointing out that a particularly queer couple, Christopher Dean & Keith Denick, have perpetuated years of stereotypes by singing their vows and vowing to have a "fabulous" reception. Despite the fag's best efforts to have the gayest wedding in town, the article's lesbian subjects, Elena Cardona & Liz Quinones, seem to have out-fagged them. The article describes their musical selections:

Elena will walk down the aisle to Bette Midler's "Wind Beneath My Wings." "I cry every time I hear it because the words are so touching," says Liz. The first dance is to Shania Twain's "From This Moment." Elena's Mother and Daughter dance is to Celine Dion's "Because You Love Me."

• It's Anglican war in Tanzania. Literally. Archbishop Peter Akinola called in an extra bishop, former army colonel Archbishop Nicholas Okoh.

• "No Tongue," says Courtney Cox on her not-so-Dirty lesbian kiss with Jennifer Aniston - a detail that doesn't really matter, considering that no one's watching.

• Gay Floridian foster parents lose custody of HIV baby! Yeah, that about sum's it up.

• Gawker has a crush on a man-loving, folk song-singing, baby-sitting Brooklynite named Ryan. Pass it on.

• Some Euro gay rights groups have joined forces to combat anti-gay bullying. So, bullies, you'd better watch your asses. Those Euro homos fight dirty.

• Speaking of dirty, you should head on over to Eastern Bloc and get drunk with us. Jimmy Im will be there spinning. Info below.

While gay marriage continues to grab headlines, there are too few headlines about bareback sex. Countless gay men knowingly participate in bareback sex - and at least one of them has dedicated his blog (Confesssions of a Bareback Blogger) to recounting his anal piracy.

We were all over this story a few weeks back, posting our reaction on what can only be described as an an unsettlingly valid addition to the blogosphere. The kids posted a similar story. It seems they got so many intriguing comments that they decided to have a little heart-to-heart with the anonymous writer. Here's a sample from the very end:

Gawker: What else would you like our esteemed readers, most of whom were shocked and appalled by your blog, to know?

BBB: I am not this sick diseased monster that I am being assumed to be. I have a sexual preference and that preference is to have sex without a condom. Sure, there is MAJOR risk in that - life threatening risk. But the same goes for smoking.

A lot of people say, "Well, you are putting two people at risk." That is not accurate. When I have sex, the other person knows what is going on. I have consensual "bareback" sex with people. There was one instance where that was not the case - and I accept any consequences.

Two cartoons in a row? Are we mad? Well, yes, yes we are, but that's beside the point. The point is that we found this over at Gawker and figured you'd want to see it. It's the comic from today's New York Post, the leader in slanted, irresistibly offensive news owned by the grandfather of bigotry, Rupert Murdoch.

As the Gawks point out, not one stereotypical stone's gone unturned:

We're not sure which hand-drawn gay stereotype is our favorite: there are so many to choose from! Village People reference? Check! Umbrella drink? Check! Limp wrists? Check! AIDS ribbon? Check! Light loafers? You'd better believe it! He even gets a hamster in there (note the cage behind McGreevey)! Still, even with this cornucopia of homophobia, we're going to have to give the nod to what's going on in the bedroom, where a teddy bear holds what appears to be a big black dildo. You've got to hand it to Sean; he knows it's an accumulation of small details that really brings the bigotry to life.

Whatever, we think it's one of the best things we've ever seen. Who doesn't like a little homophobia early in the morning, especially in illustrated form? Plus, the cartoon McGreevey's right - Foley and his ghostwriters could make a bundle. He should take the advice, because we sense he's going to have to pay a lot of lawyers.

Perez Hilton is at it again and Gawker is having none of it. Apparently, Hilton is getting a little too big for his blog britches and is beginning to alienate some of those who once held his site near and dear.

Now Perez’s site does have the readers. Read his comments section and draw your own conclusions about the quality of such a readership, but even though they’re many an idiot, there is a shitload of them. We gotta give the boy props for that.

So Gawker decided to call Mario out on his bullshit concerning this Playboy party. We don’t know if we agree with them 100%, but now that Perez has become the subject of his site, and not the real celebrities he once attacked, we don’t care to bother with it so much. His fashions though, they’re too offensive to not note.

Living in LA should allow him access to the world’s top stylists. So we’re at a loss that she continues to be photographed in these duds. Come on girl! You’re big time Perez: TV, radio, all your LA friends, your millions of fans. There is no excuse to wear those outfits.

You’re becoming a cartoon, the very person you once lampooned. Which, we guess, is sadly the idea.

Perez Hilton Makes Us Hate Ourselves [Gawker]

• We love Varla Jean Merman. This is just more proof as to why. [Frontiers]

• Poor members of the AFA. They go through so much just to hate us! [Manhattan Offender]

• Pete Burns continues to prove he is the UK’s Janice Dickinson. [WOW Report]

• Rich has schooled us on Italo Disco, the “heavily synthesized, heavily arpeggiated, Moroder-inspired post-disco disco that thrived from about '79-'87.” The Sylvester track posted is pure heaven. [Four Four]

• Justin Timberlake is set to open a LES restaurant. With one announcement, the Lower East Side is officially over. [Gawker]

We refuse to utter that horrible "B" word around here. You know, "blogosphere." But we were compelled to list some of the gayest things in the world of blogs from 2005. There were many, but these take the big, pink, wedding cake.

5. Towleroad Does Brokeback. We don’t care if anyone tires of Andy Towle’s Brokeback Mountain coverage. We think it is just the reason why blogs kick butt. He has been meticulous in his coverage and we are certain more than one person in the “real” media has used his site as a resource.

4. Logo Does Blogs. Logo, the MTV gay network, actually made television personalities out of gay bloggers this year. Bloggers on TV? We know, a scary thought. But Andy, Perez, the Malcontent, and even our very own Bradford all snagged a spot. Now if we only knew who had the highest ratings.

3. Jossip Does Queerty. We know we already said we were the Coming Out story of the year, but this is our list and we’ll do what we want with it. Yes, we deserve to be on the So Gay! 2005 list of Blogs because, well, because we say so. The Internet got a little gayer this year. We take full responsibility.

2. Yahoo Does Gawker. Yahoo made it clear that it believes in the importance of blogs when it struck a deal this year with Nick Denton’s Gawker Media. The deal sees Gawker content on Yahoo News. A bit short of the Weblogs Inc./AOL merger, it still makes us smile Cheshire smiles. The thought of Gawker’s content appearing on mainstream news channels is hilarious.

And now the #1 gay blog event of the year after the jump.

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• The strike enters day three and we’re cool with that. We have some, um, shopping to keep ourselves busy. No, really. [Gawker]

• One of The Gays’ favorites, Christina Ricci, is heading to television. This is a good thing. She is guest starring on the boring Grey’s Anatomy. This is a bad thing. [Yahoo News]

• We got an email claiming that French rugby players are wimps compared to the Aussies and that the Aussies too have a nude calendar available. The boys from Down Under got naked to raise money for indigenous and non-indigenous kids from rural areas. We just love the website: Naked guys next to children. Because they so go together. [Koori Kids]

• Dolce & Gabbana have created the gayest phone ever. It is a gold Razr and only 1,000 were made. We want one. [Gizmodo]

• Pulling an Andy Towle, Out and the Advocate created a special website dedicated to Brokeback Mountain. It features interviews, articles, reviews, and multimedia for all you BM obsessives. [Advocate]

• Tampons frighten the gay men we know. But women and men, Jew or not should get a kick out of this. Time to make the Tampon Menorah. Via Gawker. [Tampon Crafts]

• The Gays love the Wizard of Oz. They hate the Wizard of Oil. This is a funny read. [Dudehisattva]

• Gay.com selects Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero as its Person of the Year. Time to book a flight to Madrid to celebrate. [Gay.com]

• There is a transit strike in NYC. But it's not affecting the Queerty staff. We sit chained at our computer all day delivering the gay news for you, the readers. We don’t get out anyway. [Reuters]

• A bunch of pretty boy gays showed up at a pretty boy bar in pretty boy Los Angeles to fete a book about naked pretty boys. We still don’t get why it was on Gridskipper though. [Gridskipper]

• Erasure are planning a spring release of Union Street, an acoustic album of underrated and forgotten tracks. Some of our faves made the cut. Via Arjan.

• The Manhattan Offender has a message for the ladies. In fashion, that is. Gawker has a different take.

• We scored a copy of Mary J. Blige’s new album The Breakthrough and it is hot, hot, hot. The diva even sings with and covers U2. Want a taste yourself? Check out Pop Bytes.

• Not a soul that reads this site could win the Mr. Hetero pageant. Of course, we wouldn’t want to either. Rip up copies of Oprah's magazine? Heck no. We have them cataloged and stored in airtight bags. They'll be collector's items some day, you know.

• Brokeback Mountain is released today. Check out Andy’s site within a site dedicated to the gay cowboy film. It’s the virtual equivalent to this shrine to Paris Hilton. And are we bad gays to want to see The Chronicles of Narnia more?