Gay singers Beth Ditto and Sam Sparro put on a tawdry show at last night's Glamour Women Of The Year Awards, where Ditto brought home the prize for Best International Musician. Sadly, her mock fellatio garnered no top honors.

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Is it us or was potentially overrated Kylie Minogue trying to capitalize on Kanye West's Daft Punk-inspired futurism at last night's Brit Awards? Also, what song do you think lesbian Beth Ditto and ever-ambiguous Mika performed together? Not "Big Girls," we sure…

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We're not exactly sure why, but lesbian singer Beth Ditto and sneaky genius Jarvis Cocker decided Heaven 17 and Carol Kenyon's 1983 hit, "Temptation". We've included the original after the jump.

You can decide which you prefer. Or, of course, you may decide they're both utter crap, which would be understandable.

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• Bid2Beat AIDS' eBay auction keeps on trucking. Our favorite item of the day? This "rare," autographed The Gossip album. We're not sure what Beth Ditto means by "No Lust Is Good Enuff," but we're pretty sure that's not how you spell enough. Anyway, the current bid's $11.99. We expect it to be at least $12.35 next time we check. If it's not, well, AIDS wins.

• Michelangelo's final sketch?

• Gay activist Bob Kohler no longer living. R.I.P.

• Amy Winehouse doesn't only have a raging coke addiction, she's got six Grammy nominations, too!

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It took her a long time, but big girl Gossip singer Beth Ditto grew to accept herself. The 26-year old tells The Telegraph she's happy being a "big fat dyke". All the negativity came from others:

I didn’t hate my body. Other people hated it, which was really hard to understand. It wasn’t me who thought I shouldn’t wear a bikini, it was my mom or my friends. It never came from inside. It always came from outside.
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[My confidence] comes from being unhappy in my skin when I was younger. You can spend all that energy trying to change who you are and not get important things done, or you can accept it and do what matters. If what matters to you is starving yourself and working out, then that to me is so depressing. In the meantime you could be making a really amazing song or painting a great picture or meeting people who actually care about you.

That's right, girl. Although, there's something to be said for a bit of calisthenics. It's good for the soul.

Beth Ditto and her Gossip girls did it real big at the ongoing Reading Festival. Ditto made headlines earlier this year when British music mag NME reported she blamed the size-zero in part on gay men.

Ditto recently sat down with The Advocate to clear the air, saying NME misquoted her: only fashion industry fags that help perpetuate thin is in images. Ditto also emphasizes her love for feminist action:

I'm a radical feminist, and first and foremost, I'm a woman. That's something I'm perceived as by the whole world, and I get the options handed down to me that are handed down because I'm a woman.

Ain't that the truth!

Gay entertainer Beth Ditto hasn't always been so outspoken. Apparently The Gossip singer's Arkansas-based family didn't approve of the gays.

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• Beth Ditto and The Gossip got down at Glastonbury. And when we say down, we mean as far down as she could go. Miraculously, her underwear made it further.

• Canadian Anglicans split on gay nuptials:

In a tense vote after nearly two days of debate at the church's synod in Winnipeg, lay and clergy members voted in favour of a motion that would have allowed dioceses in Canada officially to authorise blessings. But the church's bishops voted against the move by 21 votes to 19, meaning that the motion failed, because it needed to be passed by all three groups.

God almighty! Can't they just have a schism and get on with it already?

• Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov may find himself grounded. Human rights activists are protesting his anti-gay ways by asking the international community to restrict him to Russia.

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Outspoken out singer Beth Ditto's got no love for Karl Lagerfeld and his ilk. The large and in charge The Gossip vocalist blames size-centric gay designers for the world's alarming body culture:

If there's anyone to blame for size zero, it's not women. Blame gay men who work in the fashion industry and want these women as dolls.

Men don't know what it feels like to be a woman and be expected to look a particular way.

Oh, please, Beth! You're being ridiculous. First and foremost, gay designers don't dress women as dolls. They dress them how they'd want to be dressed if they didn't have a wang.

Second, we know what it's like to be expected to look a "particular" way. We're gay! Everyone expects us to look a particular way. It's skinny jeans in New York! Board shorts in Malibu! Horns and hooves in Alabama! It's really quite exhausting…

Thank god for New Yorker's music critic, Sasha Frere-Jones. Had it not been for SFJ's ever attentive ear, we never would have heard of lesbian hip-hoppers, Yo Majesty.

The ladies - Shunda-K, Jwl. B and Shon-B - hail from Tampa, Florida, and have dedicated their bass-heavy, unrefined sound to giving the world what it needs: "soul stirring". And with lyrics like, "Rub on my monkey, kiss on my monkey, feel on my monkey," they're stirring more than just souls.

We're so excited by the girls' sapphic sounds, we've included not one, not two, but three videos! Above you'll see the video for "Club Action". After the jump you can get down on "Hustle Mode" and an interview between Yo Majesty and The Gossip's leading lesbian (and Keira Knightley's weight-gaining "inspiration"), Beth Ditto.

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Actress Keira Knightley has come under fire after doctors blame her rexoid public image for the death of a 12-year old girl. Fighting fatty-hating fire with fatty-loving fire, the skeletal 22-year old claims to be looking to lesbian The Gossip rocker Beth Ditto for inspiration, according to dlisted:

When [Beth Ditto] was performing she started taking all her clothes off. I stood there watching her strip, thinking, 'Oh my God, that woman is so sexy.' She has the most amazing body.

There's only one word for that statement: bullshit.

Although, we bet Ditto's flattered - the singer recently blasted British retailer Top Shop for their skin-and-bones collaboration with waifish Kate Moss.

The Gossip lead singer and known lesbo Beth Ditto didn't pull any punches when she refused to play a tune at retailer Topshop. The popular store - which uses svelte Kate Moss as their model a guest designer, asked the rocksters to perform at their London shop, but the heavy-set Ditto wasn't having it.

I don't think it's fair to put my face somewhere where they would never let me in there to wear their clothes. I want the respect that Kate Moss gets. If they want our music they've got to actually do something to earn it. I can get money anywhere, I don't need your money unless you're going to do it my way.

They don't want to dress people that look like me, that have a normal body, a bigger body, whatever. I mean I don't really know why they want The Gossip to do things for them, I don't understand because if they saw me in the street they'd never give me the time of day. I like me, I think that other girls like me, they need people like me, people who feel really strongly and will say no.

Ditto insists she won't heed their call unless they offer her a job designing clothes for plus-sized ladies. Until then, she'll be a no show.

Good for you, Ditto. We loved you before, but now we adore you!