New York residents Evan and Addison (left and right) recently became domestic partners. Our editor sat down with them to talk about growing up gay in Texas, Devo and how things get slippery…

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Good news for Colombia's queers:

Gays in Colombia may add their partners to health insurance plans, the nation's highest court has ruled, building on an earlier decision granting inheritance rights to same-sex couples.

Friday's ruling by the Constitutional Court cannot be appealed.
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Colombia Diversa, which defends the rights of sexual minorities, says the country has 300,000 gay couples.

The government's still pondering pension rights. Gay rights activists, however, haven't given up the good fight. Says Virgilio Barco, “It looks like the only way for us to enact this last provision will be through another appeal to the Constitutional Court." Regardless, Friday's ruling pushes the South American nation in the right direction.

• Country crooner Faith Hill does not tolerate other women's hands on hubby Tim McGraw's package. An overzealous fan learned that the - (turn and) cough - hard way when she got too friendly at a concert this weekend. Hill wasn't trying to make any friends when she chastised the cock grabber:

Somebody needs to teach you some class, my friend. You don’t go grabbin’ somebody else’s, somebody’s husband’s balls, you understand me? That’s very disrespectful.

Read those first two sentences and tell us that's not the best study in contradiction since the concept of "friendly fire"

• Two lawyers, their sex club tenant and the legal space in-between.

• French actor Michel Serrault, best known for his stage and film work on La Cage aux Folles (The Bird Cage), has died.

• AfterElton offers you ten gay superheroes "you (probably) haven't of"! We know Lord Fanny. She's awesome. Except when she turns into that scary monster. That's not so awesome.

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Colombian conservatives killed the queer high yesterday after they squashed a comprehensive gay rights bill.

The bill, which passed last week, would guarantee gays many of the same rights enjoyed by their straight countrymen. President Alvaro Uribe supported the bill, but his political allies weren't having it. El Tiempo reports via Blabbeando:

…Several Uribe-allies from the "La Ú" party did not endorse the initiative… The decision drew an irate reaction from senator Armando Benedetti, the main sponsor of the bill, who requested the expulsion of those who voted against the project from "La Ú."

Though it may seem like dark days, pro-gay activists have sworn to avenge the bill's death.

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• Fifth time's the charm down Colombia way. The Latin American nation's Congress approved a bill giving same sex couples a variety of new rights, including the social security and inheritance rights for couples who've lived together for two years. Of the vote, former First Son and gay activist Virgilio Barco said, "This makes Colombia a more democratic, more open place. It marks the first time that legislation like this has passed at a national level in Latin America."

• Canadian Border Services seize crude queer comic:

The on-line versions of the Justin books tell the story of a gay man who is reunited with his 18-year-old son, Justin, after several years. Justin moves in with his father and soon confesses his sexual attraction to him. In the two books, the two are depicted having oral and anal sex and, in one scene, Justin's father urinates on him.

Gross, but still shouldn't be censored.

• Kenneth Walsh's, like, totally crushing on (American) footballer Brady Quinn.

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Now, in actual news, Colombia's Constitutional Court has ruled that gay and lesbian couples have the same property rights as straights. The ruling came after a gay rights group argued that the court's use of man and woman when referring to property rights violated the constitution. The court agreed. BBC elaborates:

The decision applies to those who have been living together for two years.

A gay rights group, which had sought the clarification from the court, said at least 100,000 couples would benefit.

A court source said it did not mean same-sex civil unions - which are part of a bill currently being debated in Congress - had been approved.

Catholic and other religious groups blasted the decision, insisting it threatens the oft-referenced "family", an argument we don't really understand - how does two homos having joint custody over a television alter the cultural landscape?

• A Paula Abdul dating show sounds like the perfect televised train wreck we've been waiting for. If there is a God, her dating pool will be filled exclusively with American Idol rejects. [Zap2it]

• The DGA hearts Ang Lee. We'll soon find out how much the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sceinces loves Lee and Brobeback. Oscar noms are out tomorrow. [BBC]

• China does not heart Brokeback Mountain. [BBC]

• A gay Colombian man, currently in Orlando, wants the U.S. to grant him political asylum because of increased homophobia in his native country. But is landing yourself in a state run by George Bush's bro really a step in the right direction? [Miami Herald]

• Guy Ritchie will be best man at Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's wedding. We would be super-happy fags if Madonna somehow ends up godmother to the most beautiful baby in the world. [Digital Spy]