Bette Midler and 50 Cent teamed up yesterday for the opening of the Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson Community Garden in Jamaica, Queens.

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The Jossip kids are all sorts of gay today! We're always laming, but our siblings offer up some queer tid-bits, as well.

First up, Lance Bass loving Whitney laments the boy bander's visit to Bette Midler's The Showgirl Must Go On last night. You gossip mongers should note that Lance is pictured with Ben Thigpen. Glad to see they worked through that alleged skid.

Meanwhile, over in Jossip land, tongues are wagging over some love connection speculation: "After watching the Project Runway Reunion Special last night, did anyone else think that Chris March and Rami were together?"

And, finally, we have Janet Jackson on Vibe over at Stereohyped.

Jackson's not a lezzy, but we won't hold it against her.
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Will Wikle is everywhere: television, radio, and the emergency room. The jack of all trades recently answered some questions from our intern Christopher Rudolph and dishes on Omarosa, Bette Midler, and his romance with LOGO’s Jason Bellini.

Hey, Will! What have you been up to?
Right now, I'm at the Genius Bar inside the Soho Apple Store watching two 7 year olds argue about the hard drive capacity on their iBooks. It's pretty amazing considering that at that age, I was out in the fields of Mississippi eating mud and making HeMan give head to Skeletor.

How did you like Fashion Week?
I was fortunate enough to attend very inspiring, rad shows. For the first time ever, I can say that I now completely view fashion design as a true expressive art. As I listened to my boyfriend interview Richie Rich backstage at Heatherette, I was reminded of the passion and actualization of inspiration that goes in to "making it happen.” Besides Heatherette, I loved both Yoko Deveraux and Project Runway. But mostly just going to PR with Bradford. Now that we all know who made the final three, I can say that I am very upset that everyone won't get to see Kara Janx's line…If I was a trannie, I would only wear her evening dresses.

How has your life changed after Big Brother?
That's such a tough question. I obviously didn't return to the same life that I left, which was both good and bad in so many ways. Great things have happened for me: I started a new job at a different hospital, I signed on with LOGO, I started with Twist, yada, yada. But life was hard for me too. You know, I naively expected to be affirmed by my 15 minutes on TV….like every self confidence issue I ever had would disappear simply because I had achieved some level of being recognizability. Well, that was the exact opposite case. I went through a pretty intense depression after that experience was over. It was a real challenge to figure out who I was again and be proud of that person. I had some great friends and family to help me out and I came out a better dude because of it. So, it's all good in the end.

More after the jump.

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Bette Midler once said: “I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.” She apparently has no memory for a certain demographic that had a lot do to with her success. BM once told Larry King she thought gays were too promiscuous to get married; asked about the question of gay rights more recently on CNN’s Showbiz Tonight, she hemmed and hawed and said she believes we should have our rights, sort of.

Hey, BM! Have you talked this one over with your Big Business co-star Lilly Tomlin? We’re really thrilled for you that you’ve found happiness with Martin von Haselberg, aka Harry Kipper. But with your refusal to come out squarely in favor of our rights, the wind beneath your wings smells like it could use a quality roll-on product.

Look, we understand you got your start performing in a gay bathhouse, accompanied by Barry Manilow. Oh, look at that, two BMs for the price of one! Really, Bette, your attitude towards us is just plain shitty, and thankless.

Bruce Vilanch recently took time from his busy schedule to chat with Bradford Shellhammer about the blogs he reads, the Bush administration, and this year’s Oscars. He also dishes on a few of our favorite divas.

Ok. Hi Bruce. We at Queerty love you. And we are sad we missed your show Almost Famous 2005 in San Francisco. What did we miss?

Full-frontal nudity. The first three rows had to move back.

You have so many projects lined up. Tell us about Queer Duck?

I play myself. It's a stretch. But it's never gotten in Jerry Seinfeld's way. This is a feature-length version of the cartoons that used to follow Queer as Folk on Showtime. They once had me pop in as a guest joke, and we all thought that this time I should do the voice instead of Mercedes McCambridge.

And Celebrity Fit Club! This is one of our guilty pleasures. We only wish you were on the same season at Jackee. How did this come about?

I think I can lay the blame at the feet of ant. Which is better than laying ants at the feet of, oh never mind. He recommended me and when they called they said we're hoping you can add some humor to the proceedings. Losing weight is such martyrdom that people give themselves over to their own drama. Maybe it's because they're deprived of the one thing that they could count on — food. It's a pity party three times a day. So I'm trying to do it and have a few chuckles along the way.

After the jump Bruce talks about Bette, Whoopi, and Miss. Ross.

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Peggy Lee died in 2002 but we wonder how often she rolls in her melodic grave when her songs are remade. Unfortunately, she was still around when Madonna butchered her way though Fever in the mid-90’s.

In Bette Midler Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook, the Divine Miss M takes on Lee's greatest hits and makes them her own. Both women are amazing vocalists, but did Bette really have to record this short album (it logs in at about only 30 minutes)? Since her last album was a songbook of Rosemary Clooney tracks, we would have much rather preferred some original material from her this time around.

We're a little concerned about the direction Bette's recording career is going. We fear it might only be a matter of time before she puts out a Lesley Gore or Marianne Faithfull tribute album. Actually, that might be sort of cool. Sort of.

And in case you were wondering, Bette's version of Fever doesn't suck as much as Madge's.