Us Weekly EIC Janice Min's earning that GLAAD nomination! The tab-rag's website included homo TR Knight and Mark Cornelsen as part of their burning, itchy question: "Who is your favorite spring fling?" Oh, God, do we have to choose?!

We may have to abstain from this one, but will point out that Knight and Star-worthy Cornelsen are holding their own against Rihanna and Chris Brown, who are also pretty cute.

We're on the edge of our flinging seat!

Janice Min's got her mind on your fingers - as in she wants them crossed.

The Us Weekly EIC can barely contain her excitement that her magazine has been nominated that GLAAD nominated her tab-rag for their gay-friendly coverage. She's so thrilled, in fact, that she squeals all about it in this week's editor's letter.

Min has some stiff competition in Entertainment Weekly, CosmoGirl!, Newsweek and The Advocate, which - no offense - shouldn't really get an award for being gay friendly. Just saying…

On a related note, we bet Star's EIC Candace Trunzo regrets that whole "not normal" gay kiss thing, huh?

GLAAD and The NY Post are forever warring.

The latest brouhaha comes after Rupert Murdoch's daily ran a story about gender transitioning in Iran. As you can see, the title's pretty inflammatory.

The Post must have known the gays would be on their print-soaked asses, so we can't help but wonder if The Post has been using elementary taunts to woo the gay media watchdog. The paper is, after all, penned for people with a grade school education. (And that's why we love it!)

Los Angeles Times' Tom O'Neil ought to know better. The entertainment reporter - whose column revolves around award ceremonies of various ilks - recently admonished GLAAD for not including The Kite Runner in it's media awards. And gay activists aren't happy. Find out why, after the jump…

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Homo media watch dogs over at GLAAD aren't pleased with John Gibson's anti-gay Heath Ledger remembrance: "Gibson’s remarks are vulgar and disgusting. It’s sickening that Gibson would exploit Heath Ledger’s tragic death to promote such hurtful intolerance." C'mon! Are we surprised? Gibson's a punk!

HX Media continues to - um - evolve…

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Heath Ledger's death has definitely become the most important news story of the 21st century. Period.

For example, GLAAD released a statement within minutes of the actor's reported overdose. Meanwhile, it took the media watchdog four days to release a statement on the MRSA scandal. So, what gives? That's exactly what Michael Petrelis and his pals have been asking - and GLAAD has been answering.

Excerpt from one of the non-profit's PR pros, Cerissa Cafasso:

The MRSA story involved complex medical research. When we first heard of the story, we needed to get fully educated on all the issues.

To this end, we consulted with The Gay & Lesbian Medical Association. Their expertise informed our ability to analyze the media coverage accurately.

We felt it judicious to take the necessary time, care and caution to understand completely the story so that we could offer the best suggestions for media to report on the MRSA strain in the most fair and accurate way.

That's fair, although even we knew the story would blow up into a gay panic. It doesn't take a media activist to figure that one out…

While we're on the subject of nauseating bigots…

Despite the fact that University of California at San Francisco apologized for its staph-related gay panic, the Concerned Women of America have extended an invitation to gay groups to "help curb the spread of a potentially deadly strain of Staph infection".

Because Concerned Women for America (CWA) cares deeply for the health and well being of all Americans, CWA is sending letters inviting the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, GLAAD and Lambda Legal to put aside profound ideological differences with CWA — for the sake of the lives and health of their members — and to call for commonsense steps to help curb the spread of a potentially deadly strain of Staph infection.
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Matt Barber, CWA's Policy Director for Cultural Issues, said, "We now have a wonderful opportunity for ideological opponents to come together for the common good. Steps must be taken to keep this MRSA outbreak, which is occurring within certain segments of the homosexual community, from becoming a more widespread epidemic.

"HRC and other homosexual groups have a profound leadership role in their communities and a responsibility to protect their members from behaviorally related threats to their health and well-being. Therefore, these groups should publicly condemn those specific 'high-risk behaviors' which this study has concluded are responsible for spreading MRSA among homosexuals."

Um, right…

GLAAD announced its nominees for the 19th annual GLAAD Media Awards yesterday in Sundance. We've included the entire list after the jump, but we'd like to point out that trans issues and people have a special presence:

…Material based on transgender issues has earned a number of nominations this year — most notably the work of columnist Christine Daniels in the LA Times, nominated as Outstanding Newspaper Columnist. Daniels received a fair bit of media attention in April 2007 as male sportswriter Mike Penner, who revealed in a surprising column that he was a transsexual male and would be undergoing a sex-change operation. Penner returned to the LAT — and her sports column — as Christine Daniels after the surgery and now blogs about her transition the blog, "A Woman In Progress." Similarly-themed articles in Newsweek, the St. Petersburg Times, and Salon and on TV on MSNBC, the Tyra Banks and Oprah Winfrey shows, 20/20 and the now-defunct Paula Zahn Live on CNN were also honored.

If only GLAAD honcho Neil Giuliano and his gays were running Congress, huh?

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Ann Coulter, Isaiah Washington and Bill O'Reilly - is this an asshole convention? No, silly! It's GLAAD's round-up of 2007's year in hate speech.

The media watchdog compiled last year's most headline grabbing gay bashings, like when General Peter Pace called gays "immoral". Ah, sweet, putrid memories…

William Sledd's certainly moving up in the world. Bravo executives are apparently so captivated by his minstrel act, they're extending his internet act into a half-hour train wreck, Hey, Bitches!. It should be called, "Hey, GLAAD, can you do something about this?"

Production honcho Frances Berwick couldn't contain Bravo's collective excitement:

With over 80,000 subscribers and more than 3 million channel views to date, William's sense of humor and style have clearly struck a chord with the American public. The response to William on OutZoneTV.com has been overwhelming. His charm and sense of fun are infectious. People are asking to see more of him and his life.

We New Yorkers will be seeing a lot of Sledd: he's reportedly packing it in and headed to the Big Apple. You've been warned.

Brian Williams made a gay peace offering yesterday. And no everyone's taking it…

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• Alright, we don't really want to look like DNA's newest cover model, Vincent Gough, but we don't mind looking at him. See more, after the jump. And, of course, thank DNA and photographer Pedro Virgil!

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