451Press blog LezKeepItReal interviewed Christopher Chan on his a unique coming out experience. Chan, you see, did one better than declaring his sexuality to the extended family over Thanksgiving dinner—that kind of stuff is child's play to this generation—no; Chan came out to billions of people on YouTube.

This isn't the first time we've heard of someone coming out via video, but it is the first time we've read a follow-up to someone's video. Chan says after posting the video, his relationship with his mother "improved drastically. Although she doesn’t trust me."

• Thats right folks! You can own a piece of history - hooker-turned-activist Mike Jones is auctioning off his old massage table. And, no, he's not keeping the money - it's going to charity. The current asking price's $500. Someone out there must be willing to top that...get it? [eBay]

• We wanted to post the music video for M's New Wave classic, "Pop Muzik", but some schmuck disabled its embedding code. So you're just going to have to watch it the new fashioned way. [YouTube]

• Speaking of YouTube - Turkey lifted its silly ban. [The Age]

• GLAAD has officially entered the war against Ann Coulter, but have the tides already turned? [San Francisco Chronicle]

• Patrick Letellier may not like running, but that didn't stop him from trotting along to fight AIDS. [MSNBC]

• Anglican priest Shawn Sanford Beck may have lost his job for supporting gay-marriage, but he's not about to change his mind. Well, done, Beck. Sorry about the job thing, though. Think about it this way - you're a total martyr. [Winnipeg Sun]

• Fuck! We totally missed trans activist and professor Jenny Boylan's appearance on All My Children! [TMZ]

• Egads! A British man lost sight in one eye after a gay attack. [Gay UK]

• Down-low: the myth that would not die... [Slate]

Boy, those Turkish do take their history seriously. They've banned YouTube after some Greek jokesters made a video implying Turkey's founding president, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, likes boys. Making fun of Ataturk's strictly forbidden in Turkey. Refusing to rise above, a Turkish citizen suggested that homosexuality started in Greek - a somewhat valid point, actually.

A Turkish spokesperson at the London Embassy said the government has nothing to say about the matter:

The videos included parts which insulted Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, our founding father. There is no explanation from the Turkish government, it was a court verdict. English profanities were placed on top of the Turkish flag and pictures of Ataturk.

This story got us to thinking - we wonder if we're banned in Turkey. We have a feeling we probably are...hey, any Turks out there??

Frat boys with homosexual urges is not such a fresh joke anymore, but this skit from MadTV digs a bit deeper. With two great performances by the actors and a clever script, we ended up LOLing more than once.

[via Modern Fabulousity]

• YouTube finds a way to make some cash off those 100 million video views: advertising. And what better way to kick things off than with Paris Hilton. [AdAge]

• Lance, Jake, and Matthew get their dues in Details' Anthropology column. [TMZ]

• One million podcast downloads later, Feast Of Fools podcast co-hosts take home an Emmy. [After Elton]

• Straight-to-DVD queer series Christopher Street comes alive, at least online. But hey, there's a trailer for you to check out. [Christopher Street]

• Matt Lauer .. hot? [TMZ]

• Seventy-three girls in South Africa are selected to be educated through the Oprah way. [Jossip]

• Shopping + Social networking = ThisNext. [ThisNext]

So you enjoyed yesterday's clip of "weatiez" tearing his shirt off and flexing for the camera? Well there's more where that came from. Seems weatiez is quite eager to share his undeverloped pecs (though how lovely they are) with the likes of you folks. It's half embarrassing. But plenty worth watching, though he's no Jeremy Lory.

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Oh YouTube, always our mid-day guilty pleasure. Watching your buff denizens flex in front of their $30 webcams brings us so much joy, we'd just hate to see some media conglomerate come along, snatch you up, and turn on the censorship filter.

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If you've spent any time in The Castro – or have paid attention to gay culture for at least 10 minutes &ndash you'll know San Francisco's gay district (that is, the gay district of "the gayest city in America") battles Manhattan's Chelsea (and, shortly, Hell's Kitchen) for the most over the top ubiquitous displays of gay culture. For one new Castro resident, that's just disgusting.

My Little Dildo Pony [yossarian jumped]

• It the scandal over the heavily contested Pentagon document overblown? [Law Dork]

• Tonight at the WYSIWYG Talent Show (which two of your editors have performed at) in New York: Way Gay: Even Gayer Gayness, featuring some of our favorite gay bloggers including Manhattan Offender and Joe. My. God. [WYSIWYG]

• There's more to YouTube than wrestlers in singlets and Kylie Minogue videos. The GLBT Historical Society is launching its own YouTube channel stuffed with archival footage of queer video. [Advocate]

• When not in Hawaii shooting Lost, Matthew Fox enjoys skinny dipping at night. With friends. [Out via Queer Beacon]