What started as a high school feud ended up as a hate crime charge for two Crystal Lake, Ill. teenagers. IOne of the unidentified 16-year old girls had recently fallen out with a male friend. As part of her childish revenge against him, she and her cohort printed up some pamphlets of the boy kissing another boy.

The young ladies also decided to include some decidedly, devilishly unladylike messages, such as "God Hates Fags". Those flyers landed the girls in juvenile court on Tuesday, where they face charges of hate crime, obstruction of justice and disorderly conduct.

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• Crazy comedy duo Joey and David drum up some laughs with this Gap-spoof. Also, QueerSighted's Kenneth Hill thinks that David's "hot". Pass it on.

• Hyatt Hotel ain't down with gay romance. A Houston branch of the hotel chain removed gay romance novelist Lauren Baumbach's very homo promotional materials. When she tried to reason with a customer service representative, he cut her off, "I’m not discussing this with you.” Must not be much of a reader.

• Boy George allegedly has a history of hiring whipping boys. From pop bitch: If George's New York neighbours are to be believed, [Auden] Carlsen is not the first escort he's picked up for this purpose. One tells us that George often brought young chaps back to his apartment for a session with whips and chains. The neighbour regularly resorted to banging on the walls and shouting, "Can you just finish him off quietly, for Christ's sake!"

• White House tells Press, "Only you can or cannot support Tony Snow."

• The World of Coca-Cola Museum will host an Andy Warhol exhibit. Because how else will the World of Coca-Cola Museum be taken seriously/get visitors/get press?

• Iron Man's movie suit revealed! (PS: Robert Downey Jr as Iron Man? Our nerd side says, "no", but our inner art fag says, "yes".)

• Illinois lawmakers are considering a bill to abolish the written consent law for HIV test. If passed, doctors will be able to test patient's blood without their approval and/or knowledge. While this may help curb infection rates, it also blurs the line between a person's rights and public health. Should doctors try to stem HIV, even if it means violating a person's right to privacy?

An Illinois House Committee on Human Services has approved a civil unions bill for legislative debate. Openly gay representative Greg Harris, who pushed the a similar bill last year, hopes that despite the narrow passage (5-4), the measure will garner widespread support from the general House.

Illinois is ready now for civil unions. The outpouring of public support shows it's ready for civil unions, and I hope one day it will come around to the concept of same-sex marriage.

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• Another blip on the gay radar for Desperate Housewives: Though Marcia Cross insists she's straight, co-star Eva Longoria hopes she'll get to go gay. [Contact Music]

• Patricia Todd knew her being gay might be a campaign issue when she campaigned for a seat in Alabama's state legislature. But now, having defeated a black candidate in a run-off election, it's her white skin that's become the center of debate in a primarily black district. [AP]

• Speaking of race, is it possible to be white and on the downlow? Maestro of all things relevant to the under-34 set, Benoit Denizet-Lewis investigates. [Slate]

• The friendly NYPD we just saw marching in New York's gay pride parade can now be seen issuing citations to gay bar patrons. [Towleroad]

• Illinois voters will not be deciding on a gay marriage ballot measure: The Board of Elections on Friday followed procedure and refused conservative organization Protect Marriage Illinois's signature list for being too small. [Bgay]

• Enough about Anna Wintour and The Devil Wears Prada. Let's turn our attention to Vanity Fair's Graydon Carter — and who will be his Meryl Streep. [Jossip]

• It's Lindsay Low-hang-an. [MollyGood]

NOTE: So you noticed our technical dalliances over the weekend, did you? Oh, you didn't? Then forget we ever said anything. But if you did notice some unpleasant downtime (though accompanied by a pleasant downtime note), we're very sorry. We were moving things around with the big machines that keep Queerty pumping like a rhino in heat. But let us know if you find anything amiss, won't you?

• Online personals can be more than finding a guy who likes to PNP. The recently launched Lavender Womyn Personals connects single lesbians as well as couples and lesbian families with children for reasons, we imagine, go beyond foursomes. [Lavender Womyn Personals]

• Last night media wagging sibling Jossip hit up Out editor Aaron Hickln's party — and asked all about what Johnny Knoxville was doing on the cover, and whether we'd ever see Lance Bass there. [Jossip]

• CosmoGIRL – one of the only teen girl titles still around, it seems – is beginning to look more and more like a bi/lesbian rag. [After Ellen]

• Daniel Craig hopes you'll give him a chance as the new James Bond. [AP]

• Check out a whole new side of Travis from So You Think You Can Dance. [PITNB]

• Gay marriage opponents didn't collect enough signatures to get their referendum on the Illinois ballot — so now they're heading to federal court, calling the process of getting on the ballot too burdensome to be constitutional. [Chicago Sun-Times]

• And vote, dammit, in Queerty's Men of MySpace competition. It's time to choose a winner already! Vote here.

• Gays may receive inheritance rights in Israel, but no marriage. Does this mean that they will have special rights that unmarried hetero couples lack? We hope so, just because it would be funny. [365 Gay]

• HIV tests will be part of a standard check-up at the doctor as early as next year if the CDC has their way. We think this is great news, but suspect it will lead to a dramatic drop in doctor's visits. [SeattlePI]

• The gays are making a push to elect more gays on the state level. This will result in gayer state legislation, making every state nicer for gays. Nice strategy. [USA Today]

• Illinois voters will vote on an anti-gay-marriage amendment this November, so don't forget to go to the polls. [Chicago Tribune]

We certainly don't like to dirty our fingers by pointing them in blame, but it seems there is a bit of a scandal brewing in Illinois.

Louis Farrakhan, the irascible Minister of the Nation of Islam, told the audience at his annual "Savior's Day" in Chicago the root of all evil in the world comes down to the Hollywood Jews, for promoting "lesbianism, homosexuality," and other "filth" in society. "It's wicked Jews, false Jews that make it a crime for you to preach the word of God, then they call you homophobic!"

Unfortunately, a member of the Illinois Commission on Discrimination and Hate Crimes is Sister Claudette Marie Muhammad, Louis Farrakhan's Director of Protocol at the Nation of Islam. And she invited other members of the Illinois Commission to Farrakhan's speech. That must have been fun.

The Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, says he had no idea of her involvement with NoI. In fact, he knows her as Claudette Marie Johnson.

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• Even death threats from crazies all over the world isn’t stopping Dolly Parton from adoring the Gays. [USA Today]

• Lee Tamahori only received a slap on the wrist over his drag/queen prostitution arrest. That might have just trned him on some more.He’s kinky enough to be a masochist. [Defamer]

• We didn’t think there was anyone left in the country that didn’t watch The Daily Show. Illinois’ governor better get himself cable. [ABC News]

• You’ll be closer to Madge than ever before when she starts touring smaller venues this summer. But is also means she’s going to charge us twice as much as she did during her Re-Invention tour. [MTV]

• A drag queen, who moonlights as a nightclub singer, is running for Parliament in Italy. Um, she’s got our vote. [Reuters]

• Finally someone who is not attempting to cash in on Hollywood’s recent lovefest with the Gays. Adam Sandler-Kevin James’ fake queer comedy is without a director. [The Advocate]

• Brits have awarded Tom Cruise with the title of "most irritating" star. No word on if they find him to be the gayest star as well. [The Guardian]

• Now playing in LA is the lesbian musical The Breakup Notebook. Melissa Etheridge isn’t the only dyke with a great set of pipes. [The Breakup Notebook Official Site]

• Ryan Seacrest may have replaced Kathy Griffin as queen of the red carpet, but at least we’ll get another season of her Bravo reality show. [Reality TV World]

• Illinois has become one of the few states in the nation to have laws on the books prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation. That’s 15 states down and 35 more to go. [CBS 2 Chicago]

• Texas' first statewide GLBT magazine is no more. RIP TXT Magazine. [Dallas Voice]