• Just like traditional media, gay media continues to consolidate: Nine-year-old Instinct magazine buys 8-year-old travel quarterly Gay Travel News. At last, a fair battle against LPI Media. [Advocate]

• National Underwear Day took Times Square — and Elton John and David Furnish watched in earnest. [PAYOR]

• Gay couples looking to challenege Washington State's Supreme Court ban on gay marriage will get two more weeks to file papers. [Seattle Post-Intelligencer]

• Massachusetts has dismissed claims by an assault victim that medical personnel delayed treatment and physically and verbally attacked him for being gay. [Boston Herald]

• White collar firms are working harder than ever to attract gay MBAs. [Business Week]

• So Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn are engaged? For real this time? Then why is Jen's publicist denying it? [Jossip]

• Naturists at a British beach have been banned from the area over concerns it's a breeding ground for gay sex. [BBC]

• Pressure builds to have HIV/AIDS considered the word's prime epidemic. [PharmaLive]

Oh, so you heard that it's National Underwear Day? And you're celebrating by wearing your most prized Baskits, 2(x)ists, Ginch Gonchs, and Waxes underneath that dreary suit, aren't you? Yes, we most certainly understand that this invented un-Hallmark holiday is a marketing ploy orchestrated by Freshpair that began in '03 , but we're slaves to any corporate agenda that involves showing off a bulge. Cue the hot models trolling Manhattan with free swag and email listserv signup sheets.

National Underwear Day [Freshpair]

• Because you need another World Cup website, Objectivo launches. [Objectivo]

• More than 100,000 signatures have been collected protesting Jersualem's August gay pride march, declaring "holding of such a parade in Jerusalem, of all places, is a great blow at the ages-old Jewish character of the city and its holy values, for the Jewish and non-Jewish public in Israel and around the world." [Arutz Sheva]

• Though gay couples in the Czech Republic can now legally wed, few are choosing to do so with the media spotlight turned on. [365 Gay]

• And lastly, we won't be publishing tomorrow, given the Fourth of July holiday. One half of Queerty is spending it in Toronto, where it's just another summer day; the other half will be in sticky New York City, watching the fireworks shoot off from the East River. Where, what, and with whom are you spending your Fourth? (And for more on how the Fourth of July is gay, click here.)

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With a summer TV slump, we're enjoying the air conditioning between two shows: So You Think You Can Dance (and so you think you can shut up and not make fun of us?) and Lucky Louie, the new Sunday night HBO sitcom where the cuss words fly as often as the (male) nudity. It's the un-P.C. sitcom you just with NBC could air during Thursday primetime. And it's episodes like last night's – where Louie and his two cohorts somehow turn a conversation about the Fourth of July into one about America's gay roots – that we're telling our friends about the show.

Lucky Louie [HBO]

• Ryan Seacrest supports "don't ask, don't tell." At least when it comes to questions regarding his sexuality. [The Trentonian via Gawker]

• Andy has plenty of evidence that suggests Punxsutawney Phil is gay, but what we really want to know is if he's a top or a bottom. Since he's into burrowing himself into holes, we suspect it's probably the former. [Towleroad]

• Elton John's upcoming aging rock star ABC sit-com is not based on his own life. And don't you even dare call him "over-the-hill." [Reuters UK]

• Swedish prosecutors are no longer pursuing a Christian nut who has compiled an online gay death list. Um, sounds rational. [The Local]

• You know what makes us "physically sick?" Knowing there are people out there who have never heard of Brokeback Mountain. [Times Mail News]

• Texans will make sure gays can't marry in that state but they'll take as much GLBT money as they can get! [CBS 11]