• Good God. The Brokeback Mountain shirts being auctioned off on Ebay went for over $100,000! [Ebay]

• News of the World's anonymous source has more info about the gay soccer player orgy story, this time with even more kinky sex. Says the source: "But they're not gay. It's normal for some of them to do this." Um, sure. [News of the World]

• Tom Ford continues to attack hot guys during photoshoots. Jake didn't seem to mind Ford's hand shoved down his pants. [Towleroad]

• The next time meth addicts log onto a gay chat sight looking to "party n' play," they may just end up up talking to a drug counselor instead. [NY Times]

• Lindsay Lohan hearts Angelina Jolie [Zap2it]

• Brits love Brokeback Mountain (and Jake Gyllenhaal) just as much as their neighbors across the pond. [Zap2it]

• The country's largest Catholic university is offering a minor in queer studies. This can only be considered progress if the required classroom textbook is not the Bible. [Newsweek]

• New Jersey doesn't define marriage as strictly between a man and a woman. That means gay marriage may already be legal in that state. [NJ.com]

• Trannies are the new gay cowboys. [The Wichita Eagle]

• RIP Professor Dorius, a man who was run out of town by a bunch of old ditties just for looking at a few pretty pictures. [SF Gate]

The Oscars are going to be one big Brokeback party: Heath, Jake, Michelle, Ang have all been nominated. The film also got a best picture nod and leads the pack with 8 total nominations. So whether you loved it or not, all this Brokeback talk is sticking around a bit longer.

'Brokeback Mountain' Gets 8 Oscar Nods [Yahoo]
Full List of Nominations [Yahoo]

What kind of mom sets forth from her womb the uber-hotness that is Jake Gyllenhaal? Naomi Foner-Gyllenhall, that’s who, and a profile in the LA Times delves deep into the psyche of the screenwriter (Running on Empty, Bee Season) and, more importantly, mommy to Jake. Mother Jake talks about letting go:

"But then I realized that Maggie knew more than I did," she says. "I saw the movie(Secretary) and I realized she had turned it into a film about the woman's power — this was what she chose and so it was empowering."

When Jake dropped out of Columbia University after two years, she wasn't thrilled either. "But the idea of a parent is to let them be who they are."

We like Miss Naomi and we definitely think we’ll help her on her quest to let Jake be who he is. As long as the “who” is a “gay movie star.” Regardless, the article gives some interesting insight into the young years or Jake’s upbringing that might come in useful when you run into him at a bar. We’re sure he would appreciate us more if we talk up his mom.

The kids are all right, and so is their mom [LA Times]

• After repeatedly affirming his heterosexuality in interview after interview, Jake Gyllenhaal is now saying he doesn’t remember shagging Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain. [MSNBC]

• Gov. Schwarzenegger’s new lesbian chief of staff says she doesn’t Google herself anymore. Mostly due to sites like this. [NY Times]

• As a teen Madge used to lie to her dad to go to gay clubs. Yet even more we have in common with her. [Female First]

• Someone burned the word “fag” onto the lawn of a gay man in San Jose, California. That’s so much less dramatic than a burning cross. [San Francisco Gate]

• Dr. Charles Socarides had always insisted homosexuality was a condition fixable with treatment. He died on Sunday. [NY Times]

• Lesbian grocery store owners in Nepal are being harassed by homophobic soldiers. It's foolish for many reasons, but mostly because everyone knows you just don't mess with people that serve your food. [New Kerala]

• Want to know if you're neighbor's a homophobe? Well now you can. [Know Thy Neighbor]

• Texas' same-sex marriage ban might not be the worst thing to hit the state's gay community. A serial killer sounds like a much bigger problem. [Star-Telegram]

• We excitedly mentioned the possibility of gay unions in Australia yesterday. Today not so much. [The Australian]

• We're off until Tuesday, but we wanted to leave you all with a holiday gift: footage of a rumpshaking Jake Gyllenhaal and his Santa Claus hat. Enjoy. [A Socialite's Life]

Like any homo or het with an open mind and good taste would, we just loved Brokeback Mountain. Both Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal were so utterly convincing as gay lovers. Some people (let’s call them managers, agents, and PR people) worry that audiences might find them a tad bit too convincing.

The PR person’s job gets much easier when male and female co-stars fall in love and have a baby together. He's straight!

But what do you do about that other (single) gay cowboy? Why you have him affirm his heterosexuality in interview after interview, occasionally dropping hints that he’s definitely a tits man!

His PR people work overtime:

The actor concedes that the most exciting moment during filming was when Anne Hathaway, as a rich girl out to lasso a husband, exposes her breasts to him. "Months and months of repression," he says, laughing, "and finally … "

We’re just thankful Jake and his people isn’t overdoing it the way a certain toothy, Joey from Dawson’s Creek marrying religious leading man does.

And if you ever do decide to play on our team, Jake, we'll be waiting.

Gyllenhaal Becomes A Man [USA Today]

Looks like this is going to be the year of the gay cowboy. Brokeback Mountain has earned 7 Golden Globe nominations. We feel that Jake and Anne Hathaway were robbed though. Beautiful and subtle nuances existed in both their performances that were not as obvious as in Michelle and Heath’s characters. It is a shame the Hollywood Foreign Press did not see what we saw.

Regardless, it’s a big day for the gays. Woohoo Cowboy!

Brokeback earns 7 Globe nominations [CNN]

• We spotted an Abercrombie-clad Jake Gyllenhaal at M Cafe in Hollywood yesterday lunching with a girl we think we can safely assume was only an assistant. Here's further proof that slender Jake really enjoys regular macrobiotioc meals.

• Robbie Williams takes the Tom Crusie course of action when accused of being a homo. Sue 'em. And win.

• AMERICAblog has unearthed some interesting info about the identities of two Ford officials who met with AFA last week to discuss pulling ads from gay publications. Ford insists its decision was purely a "business" decision. Well we're insisting our boycott is a "business" decision as well.

• France only allows artificial insemination for straights, so dykes in that country are running for the Belgian border in order to get shot up with man juice.

• Boston College has requested a school-sponsored dance lose its gay theme. We don't see why. The only students that show up to those things are fags and fag hags anyway.

Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal’s matinee idol mugs continue to flood the magazine newsstand with the promotional kick for Brokeback Mountain. Of course each magazine interviewer seems to pretty much ask the same thought-provoking questions we expect them to ask; what it was like to have hot sweaty gay sex with one another.

Crush-of-the-moment Jake decides to not talk down the movie’s queer factor in the new issue of Entertainment Weekly, instead opting to reveal to the world that he’s a pretty brave guy.

Here he congratulates himself on tackling his own fagophobia:

What made me most courageous was that I realized I had to try to let go of that stereotype I had in my mind, that bit of homophobia, and try for a second to be vulnerable and sensitive. It was f—in' hard, man. I succeeded only for milliseconds.

And then (Ang) Lee made them repeat the sex scene 13 times.

Oh, that Ang. Sure he’s a het, but we like to think he made Jake do take after take as a sort of service to us, the gay community, making sure to squeeze out every little bit of homophobia left in his hot body.

Whatever. We just hope those extra sex scenes end up on the DVD.

• A police raid has turned up traces of cocaine, in all places, on Michael Jackson's underwear. And here you thought it was an excessive amount of plastic surgery that fucked up his nose.

• The U.S. has condemned the mandatory administration of hormone injections to those 26 men arrested for marrying in the United Arab Emirates over the weekend. Now UAE officials are claiming it's not going to be a forced treatment, but "optional." And by optional they mean required. Or else.

• Feeling a celebrity sex-tape void in your life? Don't worry. That Colin Farrell video might be out just in time for the holidays.

• After vetoing a bill that would have legalized gay marriage in California, Governor Schwarzenegger tries to make good with the ticked off queers in the Golden State by possibly appointing a dyke as his Chief of Staff.

• We want to congratulate Trent who finally snagged a meeting with dreamboat Jake Gyllenhaal at the Brokeback Mountain premiere last night. We're living vicariously through this one, people.

• Blondie, the New Wave band lead by Debbie Harry, is being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Madonna and Gwen owe a lot to her. So if you are gay and not familiar, you need to run to iTunes and download Parallel Lines, now.

• Blogasm took the time to interview Bradford. Yes, he talks about masturbation.

• "We came up with a new idea that we said we would get married the day that gays and lesbians can get married. The day that law is passed, we'll get married" — Charlize Theron, regarding her boyfriend Stuart Townsend on Extra. Now, we can forgive her for the bore that was North Country. Thanks Brian. Via her and her.

• You queens can rest easy. The Simple Life is returning to television. Now if only E! would pick up The Comeback.

• Michael Lucas on the stupidity of Jake Gyllenhaal. Classic.

• First Jake played down the queer factor in Brokeback Mountain. Now Heath attempts to make it appear like the straightest gay love story ever told.

• Madge loves the gays so much she's producing a Melrose Place-type drama for Logo.

• In our opinion there's only one person who should be banned from the boy scouts. He's the guy wearing a sequined glove, plastic nose and carries a chimp named Bubbles.

• A novel aimed at teens, which involves meetings between gays over the Internet, has been banned in a Tacoma-area school district due to its "casual and loose approach to sex" and not because it's a book about a bunch of queers in high school. No, really.

• Last week the city of Poznan, Poland denied a LGBT group a permit for a pride march saying it would “be a serious danger to social order and property.” Supporters showed up anyway and were promtply arrested. Whew. The threat to Poland's frail social order is over.

Sure we love Jake Gyllenhaal. We haven’t even tired of the sudden barrage of films he’s been in this season like were with those Jude Law duds last year. We can even forgive his Toby McGuire sneer on the cover of the new Details. But inside the mag Jake reveals his take on the lovelorn gay cowboys he and Heath Ledger play in Brokeback Mountain. He procedes to confuse his own character’s sexuality:

He (Jake) doesn't believe Ennis and Jack are gay. "I approached the story believing that these are actually straight guys who fall in love," he says. "That's how I related to the material. These are two straight guys who develop this love, this bond. Love binds you, and you see these guys pulling and pulling and tugging and trying to figure out what they want, and what they will allow themselves to have."

When two men do a lot of “pulling and pulling and tugging” with one another it usually means one thing. They’re big flaming fairies.

But is Jake just trying to deflect those gay rumors following him around longer than crack in Whitney Houston’s system? Could be.

I've never really been attracted to men sexually, but I don't think I would be afraid of it if it happened.

God, what a tease.

• We're not into golden showers, but according to the IMDB "before success as an actor, Jake Gyllenhaal worked as a lifeguard. He never had any life-saving incidents, but did perform one lesser rescue. A swimmer had been stung on the leg by a jellyfish, and Gyllenhaal helped relieve the pain of the stings — by urinating on the swimmer's leg." Thanks SloppyJoe.

• Some gays over on Gay.com give advice on pick-up lines that actually work. One states “Just stare at me until we make eye contact.” Because that’s hot, not creepy.

• Um, why weren’t we invited to this?

• Out is about to release its OUT 100 list of the people who have made significant contributions to gay life. They are also throwing a party tonight and we’re going. Mission: meet Sharon Stone.

• Classic Toby has returned: “If there's one thing I like, it's a muscle-bound stud who casually wears a jockstrap stuffed with the trappings of a mid-90s rave. “ Thank God.