In what can only be described as the oddest of coincidences, we received a heads-up from Mr. NewNowNext himself—John Polly—only moments after posting about the disconnect between Logo and GLAAD's spin on Jennifer Aniston's still-unresolved "Vanguard Award." The bad news is that we're still trying to get to the bottom of it; the good news is that MTV Canada follows the traditional dictionary definition of "vanguard" to the letter in a hilarious PSA that, naturally, has no chance in hell of ever making it to broadcast airwaves in the U.S.

Thankfully, John hooks you up with all the linkage you'll need to see every public-servicing minute!

We received a press release from Logo officially announcing that they'll be broadcasting highlights of the Los Angeles GLAAD Media Awards at 9pm Saturday, April 21, so if you missed the glitz, glamour, gayness and grandstanding earlier this week, well, today's your lucky day.

We'll be watching—if only in hopes of determining once and for all what a GLAAD Vanguard Award is. Even Logo and GLAAD are in disagreement: in their press release a "Vanguard Award" is presented as "honoring media professionals who have increased the visibility and understanding of the LGBT community," while Logo's official blog says GLAAD's definition of "Vanguard" is any "celeb who's willing to show up."

Hopefully GLAAD and Logo will get their story...um, "straight" before Saturday. Stay tuned!

So, we've got some good news and some bad news. Which would you like first? The good news? Okay...

The good news is that Logo's announced plans for a Noah's Arc movie. That's right: they're developing a feature-length script for Noah, Ricky and the gang. Pretty exciting, no? Earlier this morning, The Advocate reported:

The film is currently in development, and the story is expected to pick up after the show's second-season cliff-hanger finale. The film project, to be released in 2008, opens the possibility for sequels and additional television seasons.

Rod 2.0 says that the show's been canceled. He did a little poking around actor Christian Vincent's MySpace page and found this disheartening note: "I have been asked for months about Noah's Arc returning. There will NOT be a third season."

We have to admit we're a little sad about this. We got surprisingly attached to Noah and company. Sure, the show got a little...shall we say...creative with their storylines and some of the acting needed improvement, but where else will we get televised portrayals of black gay men?

We just received an email from John Polly at NewNowNext about his interview with the former Jehovah Witness gay twin songsters, Jacob and Joshua (pictured on a conga line to hell). It's only be a few days since the boys got the boot from their church, but it seems they're already falling in with Satan.

JP: ...I know Jehovah’s Witnesses don’t celebrate Christmas or any traditional holidays, but what are your plans for this time of year?
Jacob: Nick, my boyfriend is going to go home to Nashville and celebrate Christmas with his family, and I’m just going to be here in Los Angeles. Joshua and I will be here, and we’ll get together with friends, and we’ve gotten some wonderful gifts from friends... The holidays thing is all very new to us. After a lifetime of not celebrating holidays, when the holidays roll around I have no idea what to do! [laughs]

Joshua: I feel in the holiday spirit, I love all the lights and all the presents and everybody’s sense of giving. Jehovah’s Witnesses where we grew up would be horrified to know that I’m celebrating Christmas...

(In case you're wondering how NNN managed to get the boys on the line, it's because the blog's owned by Logo. Logo, of course, airs the twins' reality show. Ah, the sweet smell of gay media incest. But Mr. Polly's a total mensch, so we won't hold it against him.)

You may have heard that gay wonder twins Jacob and Joshua Miller of Logo's Nemesis Rising have been excommunicated from the Jehovah's Witness for being total cocksuckers. While it's certainly terrible the boys will burn in hell for all eternity, we're more concerned with the lonely existence they'll have here on earth. The singing duo explained in their statement:

According to Jehovah's Witness doctrine, being "disfellowshipped" means that we have been found guilty of unrepentant gross misconduct. Our immediate family is to have limited or no contact with us. And all other practicing Jehovah's Witnesses around the world are not to speak with us ever again.

As for the boys - what's going to become of their career? Wasn't the fact that they're Jehovah's Witnesses part of the schtick? Sure, singing gay twins are great, but we thrived on the drama of their seemingly contradictory religion. Now they're just two douches who make shitty music and happen to be gay. Snoozefest.

There's no denying the rise of gay media. Ever since The Advocate first enveloped the nation in its newsie blanket of gay love, local weeklies, notable monthlies and those damned sites have helped fill a necessary voice. They're all well and good, but ain't nothing compares to the success of Viacom-backed television station, Logo.

Since its debut in 2005, the station's grown exponentially, broadcasting faggotry of all varieties to over 25 million homes. It's certainly a force to be reckoned with, a fact Fortune Magazine's Marc Gunther makes in a recent article on the expansion of gay media. While there's still room to grow, Gunther highlights the station's most vital value: "...[T]here's little doubt that for the viewers and for the people working at Logo, most of whom are gay or lesbian, this is more than another cable TV channel. It's a cause."

Of course, it wouldn't be a media-related story without a quote from everyone's favorite queer media watchdogs, GLAAD. Entertainment media director Damon Romine says, "Logo has really become like a campfire that GLBT people are gravitating towards..." It sure is, Romine, it sure is. Then we all snuggle in a rainbow tent and rehash horror stories from our youth and talk about how they'd be good on Logo, but great on network television.

• GLAAD be damned! Kim Ficera's got some words on the potency of homo-words. [AfterElton]

• The Logo kids ask the biggest question in all the gay land: who is the ultimate diva? We vote for Morrisey. [NewNowNext]

• William Sledd: yet another a gay man who thinks he's the most fashionable thing on the planet. Everyone knows that title belongs to us. [The Daily Reel]

• Dozens of Uganda's most famous songsters are singing to help AIDS victims. (Except, we're assuming, not the gay ones.) [allAfrica]

• Why dye your own roses when you can buy 'em for $6 a pop? Because you're gay, silly, that's why. [Dirt]

• BBC says no to gay dancers, only to backtrack and say they don't. Not surprisingly, people aren't convinced. [UK Gay News]

• Some Spanish activists are none-to-pleased over a dictionary's heterofied definition of marriage. And, you know what, they're gonna spell it out for you. [The Advocate]

• Paris Hilton's butt is so yesterday. Today's all about Stuart Townsend's tush. [!! omg blog !!]

We've been following the Mark Foley scandal like would-be porn stars follow Michael Lucas. No matter how many opinions, facts, and testimonies come our way, we couldn't stop wondering: what do Jacob and Joshua, the Jehovah's Witness fag pop-star twins from Logo's Nemesis: Rising, think about this whole mess?

Our anguish knew no bounds: we couldn't eat, we couldn't sleep. We couldn't even masturbate! What's more, The Golden Girls no longer made us laugh! We feared there'd be no escape from our nightmarish existence.

Luckily, those white knights over at Radar came to our rescue:

RADAR: So what do you think of Mark Foley?
JACOB: Nightmare! What a shame that a gay man gets thrust into the spotlight because he's trying to molest children. That's terrible PR.
JOSH: It's like he just came out to try to, I don't know, to injure the Democratic Party or something.... Jacob, why are you rolling your eyes at me right now?
JACOB: Stop talking.
JOSH: It's like you're so overwhelmed that I would be talking at all.
JACOB: He has no idea what he's saying. God, just sit there and be quiet.

Now, let's see what Dorothy and the posse are up to...

We have to give a shout out to our friends over at the Logo-sponsored New Now Next

We wanted to write a post a few days ago about how we love receiving music from publicists, but so often our dreams of the next hot thing are dashed by something like that: the Sarah McLachlan's new album, a bag of shitty tea, and a tiny candle. It's a sweet idea, yes, but just a little too niche-marketing - what we mean by that, we'll let you figure out.

Oh, and to that publicist, if you're reading this: don't send us music that comes with anything that catches on fire. Unless it's a spliff. We'll take that.

To celebrate this weekend's premiere of the BBC's adaptation of The Line of Beauty on Logo, our friends over at AfterElton have interviewed Dan Stevens, the dreamy actor who plays the central character, Nick Guest.

Discussing the generational divide over gay "issues", Guest's woeful love life, and England in the 1980s. Of Guest, Stevens (pictured, in character) says:

...I did sympathize with Nick's condition of just wanting to be completely absorbed and consumed by this fantasy world that he's encountered. A world that initially he feels embodies all of his aesthetic ideals It's beautiful, the way the story is constructed, in that this world slowly crumbles, and is left ringing quite hollow. And a lot of people's memories of the '80s were of quite a hollow, superficial decade. I don't think that's necessarily true, but it's certainly an interesting facet of the decade, that money and power had all sorts of strange effects on the way people interacted and behaved.

We guarantee you'll love it, or your money back. (Tricky, huh, because there's no money involved!)

The Two-Spirit American Indian story's a perfect segue into this here sneak preview of Logo's new reality show, Jacob and Joshua: Nemesis Rising.

Premiering October 16th, the series follows the coming out and career struggles of gay Jehovah's Witness singers, Jacob and Joshua. Yow, sounds like the boys have a lot going on - but don't take our words for it (as if you would), watch the clip and decide for yourself.

The National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association has announced the homo journo honorees for 2006. And, of course, we've been snubbed. Again. So, who were the big winners?

That cutie-patootie, Jason Bellini of CBS News on Logo (does that make CBS gay or just curious?) took home the Journalist of The Year Award. Good for him. We don't know him personally (shocker, right?) but we're sure he's just a swell guy.

And, for all ten of you who care, we've posted the rest of the winners after the jump.

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