We're not game show watchers - except for Jeopardy - so we missed this mess on CBS' Power of 10. Luckily old Andy Towle caught the jaw-dropping ignorance:

Even after 26 years of effort by experts to dispel myths about HIV, 47% of Americans (or at least the 1,000 Americans polled by the show for this question) still say they would not swim in a pool with someone with the virus.

That's some sick shit.

Homo media watchdogs GLAAD released their first ever televisual comparison today, the Network Responsibility Index.

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On Friday we mentioned that former CBS producer Dick Jefferson's filing a lawsuit against the network. Jefferson alleges CBS News Senior Vice President Linda Mason and CBS News Weekend executive producer Patricia Shevlin tried to muzzle him after Jefferson's anti-gay attack in St. Marteen.

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• Dick Jefferson, one of the two CBS employees beaten last year in St. Martin's, alleges CBS fired him for speaking out about the attacks."I thought I was doing the right thing, but CBS made me feel like I was doing something wrong," he says. Now he's filed a $50 million sexual orientation discrimination lawsuit against the network.

• Irish politico Ian Paisley will not apologize for referring to gays as "repulsive". We refuse to apologize for calling him a dickhead.

• Everyone's talking about how Elizabeth Edwards will be appearing at San Francisco pride. Big fucking deal. We'd be more impressed if her husband, Presidential candidate John Edwards, were to show.

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• Because schadenfreude's much, much funnier when its Japanese.

• Costa Rican lawmakers put forth same-sex nuptial bill.

• Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum will be one of New York Gay Pride's grand marshals. Mazel tov!

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• NewsBusters, the watch dog group dedicated to "exposing and combating liberal media bias", are taking aim at GLAAD the group released a statement in which president Neil Giuliano "urges" the media to commemorate Falwell as a homo-hating monster:

As they look back on the life of the Rev. Falwell, media have an opportunity and a responsibility to reflect on the outdated, hurtful attitudes and beliefs he embodied…

It's an important opportunity to take stock of how far our nation has come in moving toward a more respectful and inclusive society, and how far we still have to go.

Newsbusters go on to accuse CNN of buying into the Falwell bashing:

On Anderson Cooper 360, CNN correspondent Randi Kaye, who raised eyebrows in December for a story worrying about Saddam suffering when he hanged, shared no comparable horror at the death of Falwell. Her transcript read like a commercial for GLAAD… Anchor Anderson Cooper titled his segments "Faith and Fury," and fury was certainly in heavy rotation on CNN.

If only Evangelical revisionists were in charge of the media…

• America's Next Top Model's (Ms.) J Alexander warns touchy-feely fans to back off: "I knocked a lot of people in the nose and knocked a lot of people in the head and knocked a lot of people in the chest for grabbing up on Miss Jay."

• California-based gay activist Larry Sprenger has died. Sprenger's work with the Municipal Elections Committee of Los Angeles helped close bath houses to stop the spread of AIDS.

• CBS' Kiddie Nation proves that reality television really is for children.

• St. Petersburg Pride banned! The city's just too dang busy, you see?

• Wanna see some cute boys? Sure ya do! Especially when they're fine ass D&G models posing in their undies…

• Just so you know, Antarctica's still melting.

Now some good news: four people have been convicted in last April's hate crime against CBS News employees, Ryan Smith and Dick Jefferson (pictured after the attacks). The men were leaving a bar while on vacation in St. Maarten's when they got into an altercation with four French nationals.

The nationals were incensed over the duo and their friend's apparent homo ways and took it out with the help of a tire iron. The force of their blows left Jefferson's skull cracked and gave Smith temporary brain damage.

CBS coincidentally reports:

Three citizens of the island's French half — Glen Cockly, Micheline Delaney and Allan Daniel — and a man from the nearby French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, Michel Javois, were found guilty of public violence and grievous bodily harm by Judge Jan Bosch.

Bosch determined that Javois, nicknamed "Duracell," was the one who assailed Smith and Jefferson — who are employees of CBS News in New York — with a tire iron as they left a bar with friends on April 6 while vacationing in St. Maarten.

When the story first broke, many debated whether or not Smith and Jefferson should have actively shrouded their homosexuality, as they were in a region known for its anti-homo vibe.

Smith notes: "It was because we were gay. Period. There is no question."

Of the verdict, Jefferson said: "Personally, I'm happy they reached a guilty verdict. Emotionally, it raises a lot more questions than it answers." Still, he's not entirely convinced people will get the message:

The people of St. Maarten should also ask whether the sentence sends the clear message that if you wrongly attack visitors, the punishment for endangering the island’s lifeblood will be steep. Also, does today’s sentence soothe the anxiety of visitors who now worry if they will be treated fairly should they become a victim of a crime?

Sadly, we're sure the verdicts won't mean the end of homophobia on the island. Still, it certainly can't hurt.

Indentified only by his nickname "Duracell," the fourth suspect in the St. Maarten gay bashing of CBS employees Ryan Smith and Richard Jefferson has been arrested — after turning himself in. He's accused of beating the two friends with a tire iron that fateful day in April and has been hiding out in St. Martin, the French side of the island.

Duracell's identity hasn't been released In accordance with Dutch law prohibiting suspects to be named before they stand trial. While we await the trial – which could very well be months away – brush up on Ryan Smith's story about the attacks. Especially the part where the legal system is inherently biased against him and Richard already.

St. Maarten arrests main suspect in beating of gay NYC tourists [AP]
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