There's so much to say about what you're about to see that we don't even know where to begin. So, we'll start at the beginning: the video came from two readers.

One reader described it as "appalling" and promised that we would be "insulted". Another reader - in fact, our old friend Joe from The Cup of Joe, presented it thus: "For those of you who haven't seen the joy that is this video".

Now, those are obviously opposing statements, but let's just say both reviews hold water.

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When Narcissus looked in that pond, he saw a work of art. It's only natural, then, that we take a look at actual works of art. After the jump, Interview Magazine's assistant editor, Justin Conner, takes a look at narcissism in art and finds its socialite younger brother: the dandy.

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Oscar Wilde's only grandson, Merlin Holland (would it kill the family to name their children John or Mike?) has made it his life's work to research his witty homo grandfather. Merlin (no he isn't gay, he's a het) is standing up for his grandfather's kind. Holland has his panties in a bunch over a recent Russian newscast.

Holland is particularly angry over a Moscow TV station running an "overtly homophobic" report. It "quite clearly intended to convince the Russian public that homosexuality is the affliction of a depraved and decadent minority in Western Europe," Holland wrote in the letter, a copy of which was obtained by the news agency.

You know we always love it when our straight supporters come to our aid. Even more so when they're lineage is that of a famous witty queer. But maybe Holland is just lobbying for a prestigious spot as a LGBT straight ally on this year' s Out 100 list. Either way Oscar would be proud and probably have something clever to add. Which we do not.

Oscar Wilde's grandson calls on Putin to protect gay rights [The Advocate]

Wikipedia.org is an extremely gay-friendly information source. True, their listing of gay icons comes up with a STOP sign warning you that “the inclusion of certain people in this category is disputed.” But that might be more because gays dispute among themselves whether they want to see, for instance, Liberace on the list then because Liberace himself would object to being on it.

Tammy Faye, Petula Clark, Patty Duke; they’re all there. Going a little higher on the brow, there’s Josephine Baker, Betty Buckley, Christina of Sweden and Martha Graham. Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas made the cut, as did their latter-day equivalents Paul Lynde and Charles Nelson Reilly. Some of these icons may be more familiar to you than others; to learn more about Theda Bara, go here.

The Wikipedia.org gay icons page makes homo research a breeze; one little mouse click on the icon of your choice and you’re taken to a page just brimming with information about what put the LGBT in the icon. Who knew that Jamie Denton played basketball at a junior college, or that when Hildegard Knef appeared in the first nude scene in German cinema, the Catholic Church Nazis spit swastikas? This icon page is so user friendly that if you click on RuPaul and then see the word “Genderfucking” but don’t know what it means, you can click on it to have the definition spelled out, as if by a university professor addressing a total moron.