Some gay folk celebrated Reverend Jerry Falwell's death, but not The Advocate's fagling homo-journo, Tully Satre.

Satre, who once spilled ink admonishing so-called bisexuals, writes that we homos must preserve our "dignity" whilst discussing the homo-hating reverend's death, "It is in times like these that our wit and will is tested and we must stand with dignity".

Of course, Satre understands that it's hard to keep a straight face in the face of our enemy's death, so he sucks inspiration from the holiest of holy books: The Lord of the Rings. Except, of course, being a young gun, he prefers his books in film form.

I am reminded of a quote from the film Lord of the Rings, when Gandalf says that “Many that live deserve death and some that die deserve life…do not be too eager to deal out death and judgment.” As minorities, we ask to be respected as human beings. We expect people to treat us with dignity and to look beyond our sexual orientation or gender identity. Why then do so many people focus on the politics of Mr. Falwell and find in them reason to celebrate his death?

That's an easy one. We focus on Falwell's politics because, as far as we know, he didn't have an actual soul to mourn. He had become nothing more than an over-inflated ideologue hellbent on celebrating our own deaths. It's only fair, really.

It may strike some of you as queer that The Advocate chose actor TR Knight for the cover of their annual Pride issue. His may have been one of the most anticlimactic coming outs in homo history. The events leading up to the Grey’s Anatomy star’s October 19, 2006 People-hosted revelation were far too explosive to afford Knight a proper, prideful arena.

Co-star Isaiah Washington had an altercation with another Grey’s actor, Patrick Dempsey, reportedly shouting, “I'm not your little faggot like [redacted].” Tongues immediately started wagging and the media – including ourselves – began speculating as to whom Washington referred. More than a few fingers pointed at the initially timorous TR...

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Jim McGreevey and Dina Matos McGreevey aren't the only couple with a book war on their hands. Former Real Worlder (and Queerty editor), Dan Renzi alleges that his journo-ex, Johnny Diaz, used him as inspiration in Diaz's new book, Boston Boys Club.

The book - Diaz's first - follows the trials and tribulations of a gay Latino man named Tommy Perez. While Diaz admits Perez's life parallels his own, he adamantly denies that he based Perez's boyfriend, Kyle, on Renzi - who did not know of the so-called similarities until after The Advocate approached him about the article.

We have to admit, however, Kyle does sound a bit like Renzi: a "lean, preening model and former reality show star who makes a red-carpet entrance into the club every Thursday as if a swarm of cameras still follows his every move." Despite these characteristic coincidences, Diaz tells The Advocate:

Kyle is not Dan. There are a lot of former reality stars out there who want to be models. The characters in the book are all composites of people I've met and known over the years.

Renzi ain't buying it.

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Pete Wentz has developed quite a gay following. And for good reason. Fall Out Boy's bassist recently admitted to getting down with the fellas, but only a bit of a snog. No dick action, unfortunately. Make no mistake, he'll readily admit another man's attractive. His distaste for the dick comes not from socially constructed homophobia, but from his distaste for...well, dick.

Speaking with Brandon Voss, the 27-year old rockster remarks:

...Honestly, I’m not a real big fan of penises. Like my own, whenever I look at it, I just don’t find anything attractive about it. I can’t believe girls are into it. It blows my mind a little bit. So that’s the biggest problem. I’d love to share clothes with a dude and have all those benefits, but I just can’t get past that thing. It’s just weird-lookin’.

And a vagina isn't a bit queer?

Speaking of gay epithets, Wentz speaks quite eloquently when discussing another distaste: anti-gay speak...

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• Johnny Hazzard as the porn star-cum-singer with a new (music) video, "Deeper into You." [Gay Porn Blog]

• Whitney Houston as NewNowNext's Ultimate Diva. [NewNowNext]

• Jeanne Moos as the one of the smartest reporters in history who also compares Shiloh Jolie Pitt's cuteness with that of a baby panda. [Best Week Ever]

• UK gay couples as themselves getting full adoption rights. [The Times]

• Lane Hudson as the troublemaker who recalls what he thought nine weeks ago. [The Advocate]

• Star Jones and Al Reynolds as the illustrated versions of themselves courtesy of Pretty on the Outside. Co-starring Santa. [Pretty on The Outside]

• Porn producer Michael Lucas as himself describing himself to Hedda Lettuce as "I’m an evil Jewish mongoose high on silicone." Happy Chanukah/Hanukkah! [HX]

People love Barack Obama. They go absolutely ape shit over his every word. We're talking panty flyin' hair pullin' madness. Sure, all this hoopla looks good on paper, but do his politics? Reverend Irene Monroe thinks not.

In a piece published by both The Advocate and The New York Blade, the columnist rails against Obama's narrow-minded LGBT perspectives. These perspectives, she argues, stem from an ill-conceived and certainly misguided Christianity:

As a supposedly bipartisan politician who understands and reconciles opposing views, and a non-doctrinal Christian whose personal identity and life journey shaped his lens to include those on the margins, why then, I ask, is this presidential hopeful not united with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer voters on the issue of marriage equality?

...[H]is affinity to conservative Christian beliefs not only informs his decision on the issue of marriage equality, but it also solidifies his decision about us in a community of believers like himself.

Monroe goes on to dissuade queers from reading his book, The Audacity of Hope. Which, you know, is good advice: you never, ever want to know what America's politicians are thinking.

While we're on the subject of fag-rags, Media Daily News has issued a report on the decline in readership for two of the biggies: The Advocate and Out Magazine. While both titles have seen a boost in subscriptions, ad revenue's not looking so hot.

...The Advocate appears to be building its subscription base, adding about 14,000 subscribers in the first half of 2006 compared to the same period in 2005. That's 16.4% growth... In October, ad pages fell 23.3% compared to the same month last year, while rate-card revenue was down 3%. For the year to date, ad pages are down 14.4% from the same period last year, while rate-card revenue fell 2.3%.

Meanwhile Out...has seen ad pages fall 8.3% and rate-card revenue 3.4% for the year to date. That's despite healthy 11.8% year-over-year growth in subscriptions according to ABC, ending around 122,000 in the first half of 2006.

The report cites the internet and the rise of gay cable stations, i.e.: Logo, as the primary factors for the fall. Of course, this information can't be used as a marker for all gay publications, because The Advocate and Out are the only ones who submit such numbers. Why? Because despite the recent set-backs, they're still the biggest kids on the gay publishing block.

Regardless, we sure do feel bad for the kids in the ad department...

You may recall a story back in September in which we highlighted Peter Tatchell's call for the UN to fight criminalization of homo-relations.

Well, now Tatchell's got a little help from a French man named Louis-George Tin. The founder of the International Day Against Homophobia, Tin (along with a laundry list of the planet's biggest names, including Desmond Tutu, Meryl Streep and Salman Rushdie) calling on the UN to require member states to revoke anti-gay laws. In an interview with The Advocate, Tin says:

...[T]here is already U.N. jurisprudence in our favor. In 1994, Mr. Toonen, a citizen of Tasmania, who had been condemned for same-sex relationships, won his case in what was then the U.N. Commission on Human Rights—it said his arrest was a breach of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and of the right of privacy. So we just ask the U.N. to extend this jurisprudence to other countries—75 in the world!—where same-sex relationships are still forbidden.

Tin's campaign has two primary elements: a media blitz to raise awareness and a battle within the UN Council on Human Rights.

In light of the recent execution in Iran, we hope the UN's receptive. We don't really like to see the homos hang. Well, not from their necks, at least...

We found this story over at Gay City News and thought we'd pass it on to you.

According to Richard Fumosa, managing editor over at Alyson Books, Barnes and Noble cancelled an event for the nebulously titled Paws and Reflect: Exploring the Bond Between Gay Men and Their Dogs after a publicist named Nancy Nicholson said that the book dealt with a "sexual reference with which she was uncomfortable."

Her discomfort arose from "two lines in an imaginative, non-memoir piece" found in two essays about Alexander the Great and Nietzche. The content, it seems, containts content "unsuitable for members of area animal rescue organizations to whom she had planned to pitch the event."

The article goes on to suggest that Nicholson actually didn't cancel the book, but that a representative from Alyson Books actually pulled the plug.

Another source, however, has told Gay City News that the cancellation decision was actually made by Alyson after hearing of Nicholson's concerns. According to that source, Barnes & Noble was willing to go ahead with the reading but Alyson pulled out.

Hmmm, we don't know who to believe on this one. Alyson Books falls under the giant LPI Media umbrella, the same company that brings us such fag-rags as The Advocate and Out Magazine. We're inclined to think they wouldn't pull the plug on the event. We suppose it depends on the amount of unsavoriness found in the contentious two lines. They'd have to be pretty gnarly to end an entire publicity event.

We know you kids can't get enough of this Mark Foley scandal, so here's link to The Advocate's Q&A with Kurt Wolfe, the reporter who outed Foley in an Advocate article a decade ago.

While the entire thing's a good read, what we find particularly interesting is that one of Wolfe's sources in the story was a congressional page who Foley had sent sexually explicit emails. Wolfe says:

One of our sources for Foley had been a [congressional] page. He was an adult when I was speaking to him, but he was a minor when he was a page. He told me that he had been the recipient of many inappropriate sexual communications from Foley. That changed the whole story. I contacted [Foley’s] offices for comment. I told them that we were running the story and that one of our sources was a former male page. The response was pretty nasty and ended with a hang-up. Now the angle is now “who knew what, when.” I can’t [attest] to the current [GOP] leadership [knowledge], but I can [attest] to Foley’s staff. They were notified.

We wish we could say that we're shocked by this revelation, but we're not. What we are a bit surprised by is that Wolfe didn't follow his journalistic instincts and delve deeper into the situation. We would have been on that story like stink on shit.

• Multi-Church service will contain no gay bashing, thank you. No, not even a light smack... [The Royal Gazette]

• The UN is none to pleased with Cameroon's treatment of gays. You know what that means...well, really not that much. [365 Gay]

• The Advocate takes a long, hard look at straight men flaunting it for gay men. Oh yes, a long, hard look... [The Advocate]

• Lithuanian Parliament thinks gay materials may corrupt minors. It sure as hell corrupted us... Gay NZ]

• Gay Republican insists, "Mark Foley doesn't represent me." No, really, he doesn't: I'm from Minnesota, he's from Florida... [Donklephant]

• If K-Fed can fill up Webster Hall, we'll sell our second child. We're far too attached to the first, but the second? Not so much. [Gawker]

It's been a little while since we checked in on Tully Satre, The Advocate's fagling diarist. Last time, we heard from him, he had posted a harangue at the wave of so-called bisexuality spreading among him classmates.

Well, it seem he got a lot of flack from that piece, and now he's come out not so much to defend himself as to make himself out to be the ultimate gay martry. With guilt-inducing venom, he bemoans:

Last year, my junior year of high school, which is also known as the cardinal year in high school, I knowingly allowed my grades to slip. I went from having a solid 3.5 GPA to becoming a C student in most of my classes.

I did it for you, the person reading this article. I did it for the kid I met 15 minutes ago down the road who was kicked out of his house because he came out as bisexual to his single mother...I probably will not make it into my dream school. I have probably hindered my career in theater. But you know what? I. Don’t. Care.

Hmm, while we're all about people fighting the good fight, maybe Satre would be better off balancing his equations rather than nailing himself to a cross. But, that's just us.