Lane Hudson made history when he blew Mark Foley's page loving lid. The Florida Congressman resigned and revealed his homo ways. The Republican party fell over itself trying to cover-up a cover-up. And the nation enrolled in collective therapy after reading Foley's incriminating, cringe-worthy instant messages with under age boys. The virtual smoking gun.

No doubt the entire debacle would never have gone down had it not been for the internet and, of course, blogs. You may remember the whole drama started when Hudson posted those IMs on his anonymous blog, StopSexPredators. But Hudson's just some gay dude, right? Right. Hudson proved himself to be a formidable political operative, all with the click of a mouse.

We know we don't need to tell you blogs are more powerful than anyone ever imagined. And, as Hudson writes for AlterNet, they ain't going nowhere:

The blogosphere is a living breathing medium, responding to the input it receives from the public and its readers. Jump into the blogosphere and make your voice heard.

You know what they say: if you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

Looks like we're here to stay, homies, so take a little ride with us. We drive fast, but take our time on the curves, if you know what we mean... (Wait, what do we mean?)

• The Mark Foley scandal may have been the best thing for the Congressional page program.

• Viktors Birze, the man accused of inciting the attack on last year's Latvian gay pride, has been charged with public disorder. Sweet, sweet, justice.

• Wait, maybe Details did deserve that GLAAD award. Psych!

• Hayden Panettiere does not appreciate being called Lindsay Lohan. Motherfucker.

• Want to read the entire Michael Musto Out article on "The Glass Closet"? Click here to live your dream.

• The mystery of Helvetica: it's bigger than you think.

• Colt star Gage Weston (seriously?) gets down on Workout!

• The A Brief Smile scandal gets some ink. And we're quoted! Read our editor's entire statement, after the jump.

• It's Wednesday. You know what that means. Well, yes, the week's half-way over. But, more importantly, it's time for some Good Times: the Queerty-sponsored, eastern bloc-housed, Jimmy Im-spun, Svedka-soaked weekly party. This week's special treats: guest DJ Kurvin and the launch of Genre's spring break issue. Hopefully they'll make up for that MOTY scandal. Get the deets, after the jump.

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Mark Foley better have a good lawyer. In case you've been in a coma for the past six months, the former Congressman resigned after former HRC employee Lane Hudson published text messages between the then-closested Floridian and underage Congressional pages.

In one of the messages, Foley asked a 17-year old if a girl had given him a handjob over the weekend. When the man said, "no", Foley raunchily replied: "Good so your getting horny... i am hard as a rock...so tell me when your reaches rock". Now, Mark Foley's erection may land him in the slammer.

Foley Back From Rehab; Florida Considering Charges [ABC]

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Former Congressman Mark Foley may have left office in a haze of homo-flavored scandal, but that doesn't mean he's not still lurking where you least suspect him. His picture graces the program for the 10th annual Prism Awards - a show which describes itself as such:

...A nationally-televised awards show recognizing the accurate depiction of drug, alcohol and tobacco use and addiction in film, television, interactive, music, video, and comic book entertainment.

How appropriate.

The programs were printed up last year, before Lane Hudson helped instigate the page scandal in which we all learned that Foley has a thing for the lads.

As if Foley's picture in a program on addiction isn't notable enough, consider the accompanying quote:

It’s important to highlight the success of recovery. As many say, it’s one day at a time. And all of those people need the support and the affirmation that they are not suffering alone and in silence.

Question: do instant messages to underage boys count as silence? You're not technically making any noise - unless, of course, you count all the salacious moans of a sexually frustrated closeted Congressman...

We've been pretty artsy as of late, so for today's installment of The Youth Issue we've decided to get all theoretical and shit with this fanciful conversation between homo-journo Jesse Finkelstein and queer theorist, Dr. Bertholdt Heindreich.

After the jump, see what Finkelstein and Heindreich has to say about the evolution of so-called "Youth", the relationship between guppies and gays and why the Mark Foley's scandal's not only insanely boring, but speaks volumes about the establishment's fear of children.

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Putting Mark Foley's name back in the headlines, the Justice Department's internal investigators issued a memo deriding the Federal Bureau of Investigations for taking too long to stop the disgraced gay, allegedly alcoholic and molested former Republican Congressman from soliciting teenage Congressional pages. (Phew...)

The memo insists the FBI should have acted decisively in July, when it first learned of Foley's frisky messages. An official also claims the FBI misled the media by saying Congress gave them too little information.

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So, in case you don't know: 2006 is done and gone. What perfect timing for those media watchdogs GLAAD to release their annual list of the baddest of the homophobic baddies. To mark the blessed event, President of all that is good and homo-some Neil Giuliano again reminds us of his organization's indispensability in the only way he knows how: with histrionics.

The amazing and unprecedented visibility of our lives and the issues we face every day makes it imperative that GLAAD respond decisively to such blatant bigotry. Every day, we are on the front lines of the fight to change hearts and minds, in sometimes easy, sometimes heart-breaking circumstances. The media has a responsibility to make certain our voices are heard and our community is visible. This will be achieved when we convince those around us that our lives and our relationships deserve nothing less than full equality and respect.

Oh, that's why GLAAD exists. We thought it was to publish ludicrously long reports on a gay character in The Green Lantern. Our mistake.

While the addition fan favorites Don Imus and New York Post cartoonist Sean Dalmus (who, by the way, we still think has balls of steel for his Jim McGreevey/Mark Foley send-up) come as no surprise, we must have been snoozing when Tucker Carlson ranted about New Jersey trannie teacher, Lily McBeth (pictured above, looking pretty as a picture).

I’m pretty tolerant of whatever people want to do, very tolerant, in their private lives. If men want to dress up like women that’s fine. I think it’s dorky, but you know, it doesn’t hurt me. If a person voluntarily undergoes castration, that is totally different. That is an act of a crazy person. That’s like setting your hair on fire or blinding yourself. You are unstable if you voluntarily castrate yourself simply because you feel uncomfortable in your own sex and I don’t want a person that unstable teaching my kids.

Hmm, we thought Carlson castrated himself long ago (that's why he's gone so bloated). Anyway, McBeth may have chopped off her penis, but ain't nothing more unstable than a pundit who's willing to humiliate himself on Dancing with the Stars for a little extra publicity. And that's a fact, Jack.

If you're at all interested in joining the lynch mob, click here for some GLAAD patented fun. (Fun not guaranteed.)

• You should nominate your favorite blogs for the 2007 Web Bloggies. And when we say favorite blogs, we mean us.

• The Christian Post reports that Christian book publishers have been yanking Ted Haggard's books with more fierceness than he yanked Mike Jones' prick. They're also worried his writing career's dead. Um, right - he may no longer write on happy marriages, but we're sure there's a book in his future. Call it a hunch.

• Speaking of Mike Jones - he just won Joe.My.God's Queer of The Year contest. In his acceptance speech, Jones says, "To all who voted in the Queer of the Year, I would like to thank you even if you did not vote for me. Every one on the list deserved to win." We love a gracious hooker winner.

• Logo's announced a new lesbianic weekly internet talk show, according to Good As You. It's called "What She Said". How clever...must be those buckets of Viacom bucks.

• Pink News UK reports that Police and Security Minister Tony McNulty and some chums are considering making racist, homophobic and other derogatory incitements illegal. Can you imagine never being able to call someone a cracker faggot? We shudder at the thought.

• So, Justin Timberlake's apparently done with Cameron Diaz, according to Star Magazine. Interesting, because we kind of forgot about them. Okay, okay, we forgot about her.

• Lane Hudson does not approve of Dennis "Hasturd" Hastert's official response to that whole Mark Foley/Page scandal. How do we know? Well, he said so on his blog: News For The Left.

How are we not going to read an article entitled, "Why are All Republican Homosexuals Such Nasty Homosexuals?"? If there's a more pressing question, we haven't heard it. It is from this inquiry that progressive U blogger Tuffgong launches an utterly ridiculous (and equally riotous) examination of the great gay GOP debate, complete with a person-by-person outline of the scandalous gay GOPpers, including Mark Foley:

Mark Foley, when not massaging the sensibilities of the rabid gay hating Republican massive, spent his idle hours trying to coerce young men into massaging his sphincter into a shit flecked state of hot pink elasticity.

"Shit flecked state of hot pink elasticity"? That's perhaps the most vile, wickedly genius description of gay sex we've ever heard. We're in love with you, Tuffgong.

Mr T. concludes:

..It is no wonder [the GOPs] anti-gay. I mean, if the only gays I knew were like those guys listed above, I'd be fucking terrified of them too.

It is with this statement that we must disagree. We're not homophobic, nor do we know any of the men, but we're still fucking scare of them. Imagine waking up with Foley looming above your bed - that's enough to turn an otherwise friendly, rosey anus into a horrified, constricted brown-eye. In fact, just thinking about it's tightened the old boy up a little. There go our afternoon plans.

Time Magazine's again rounded up the year's most intriguing, controversial and just plain newsworthy people for their "Person of The Year". While they claim that the person of the year is you, we didn't see any pictures of you. Nor did we see any pictures of us. Or them.

We did, however, see a picture of Mark Foley's least favorite person: Lane Hudson. The former Human Rights Campaigner and blogger with a cause is included in a group of fifteen techies who may headlines this year.

Sure, Time Magazine may honor Hudson, but that doesn't mean he's on the train to superstardom. Or, even employment. He tells journo Lev Grossman:

Everyone told me, 'Oh, you're going to have so many opportunities now... Everyone is going to offer you a job.' Well, nothing has materialized yet... I like to tell people that I'm the only person fired over this whole scandal... and I'm the person who told the truth.

Oh, poor Lane. There's always a place for you here. Of course, we pay in poppers and blowjobs, so you'd do better pulling a Mike Jones and landing a book deal. We'll read it. The sexy bits, at least... (What, you expected more from us?)

For today's installment of The Boundaries Issue, we'd like to open the floor to Mr. Lane Hudson. As we're sure you're all aware, Hudson's the once-mysterious Human Rights Campaign employee who lost his job after posting Mark Foley's naughty messages to Congressional pages. Those messages, of course, cost Foley his job, among other things.

After the jump see what Hudson has to say about breaking political boundaries, American heroes and former President Bill Clinton. In true Hudson style, his words will undoubtedly elicit a reaction.

And don't forget to check out Hudson's blog: News for The Left.

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It's been nine weeks since the House Ethics Committee started its investigation into whether or not officials covered-up Mark Foley's electronic love notes to Congressional pages. We've been on pins and needles waiting to see what would come from all the contradictory chronologies, accusations of lies and old Dennis Hasturd's dubious memory.

Nine weeks is a long time, so we expected to be rocked by today's press conference in which the Committee released the 3000+ page report. We wanted heads to roll. We prayed Hasturd would be deflated. We yearned for some salacious detail from which we could spin story after story. But, like so many other dreams, these too have been shattered.

We're absolutely astounded by how absolutely bored we are by the findings: no rules were broken, there was no big conspiracy, nor will anyone be held accountable for years of collective silence. Snoozefest.

All we get is the measly admission that officials were remiss in protecting the Congressional pages and the meager hope that they'll be more vigilant in the future. Oh well, at least we still have Foley's criminal investigation.