• Out Magazine's Jason Lamphier's penned a stellar review of 69 Love Songs: A Field Guide, L.B. Beghtol examination of Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt's three-disc epic. [Out]

• Homo-journo Wayne Besen's using his linguistic abilities to celebrate notable LGBT activist, such as Lane Hudson and Mike Rogers. Ass kissing never read so sweet. [Wayne Besen]

• While Besen's celebrating activism and outing, British actor John Barrowman is celebrating his gay-nups to long-time boyfriend, Scott Gill. [All Headline News]

• If there's a better way to commemorate James Brown's life than sticking his rotting corpse in the Apollo theater, we haven't heard it. [AP]

• Speaking of the dead: the family of Stuart Lubbock's (who died at British actor Michael Barrymore's house) family must be happy to hear that the investigation into his mysterious death's been reopened. It seems the coppers have some new leads. Nothing like a good cold case. [Pink News UK]

• What could be more exciting that news that nudie musical Naked Boys Singing has been optioned for the big screen? [Reuters]

• Certainly not the news that beleagured Turkish homo-journo Umut Güner's trial starts on Thursday. We're not really celebrating that. If he gets off, however, we'll totally party. [AKI]

• Another thing we're not celebrating? The fact that Rosie O'Donnell really can't leave this Donald Trump thing alone. She's again speaking gibberish in a blog entry about the equally childish blow-hard. [r blog]