Downlow culture gets probed from another angle this spring.

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Barack Obama took some time yesterday to address the Donnie McClurkin controversy.

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Bad news for porn lovers. Porn impresario Phillip Bleicher and his company, Flava Works, have been ordered to shut down his Miami operation. Bleicher, who Jasmyne Cannick recently declared cold war upon, had been using a residential house to run one of his websites, but apparently it didn't live up to the city's "codes."

After 10 hours of listening to evidence and arguments, Miami's Code Enforcement Board ruled late Monday that Phillip Bleicher's Flava Works, an Internet porn production and distribution company, is illegally running an adult entertainment business out of a single-family home at 503 NE 27th St. — zoned for residential use — and ordered that those operations cease.
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The website is CocoDorm.com, where visitors can, for a fee, watch live video streams from the Edgewater house, where chiseled young males are paid $1,200, plus room, board and meals, to live in the two-story home for a month and have sex with each other on schedule.

Don't worry, though, the boys may not be working the streets. Bleicher plans to appeal. His lawyer insists the company's protected by the first amendment and vows to fight. "We're not going to put our tail between our legs…"

No punchline required.

(Image note: Some of you will notice we changed this story's image. Bleicher objected to our using any likeness to his magazine, Flava Life. We thought it was great publicity, although we think this picture's far more appropriate.)

Jasmyne Cannick has a war of words on her hands.

Flavaworks' porn producer Phillip Bleicher filed a $250,000 lawsuit against the sappho-journo and other gay bloggers after they wrote about his run in with Chicago's Department of Health, a phony charity and an investigation down Miami way.

According to Cannick, Bleicher packed up his Chicago-based company, which operates Cocoboyz, Thugboy and PapiCock, and moved the crew to Miami after getting busted for unsafe sexual practices. Bleicher says that's bullshit and wants Cannick to pay.

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Not all the gays are hating on faggot-flinging Isaiah Washington.

Sappho-journo Jasmyn Cannick - one of the leading voice in the fight against Shirley Q. Liquor - started a petition to save the former Grey's Anatomy star, seen here receiving an NAACP Image award.

According to Cannick, Washington's firing smacks of racism. And she wants ABC to right their wrongs.

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We must have fallen through a warp into the Bizarro dimension or something. We're stunned that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People handed Grey's Anatomy actor and TR Knight faggot caller Isaiah Washington the Best Actor in a Television Drama at their Image Awards over the weekend. Perhaps they're not that concerned about his scandalous past. Or maybe he's that good of an actor. Or, more likely, the competition just really, really sucked.

Of course, the organization's got bigger problems: leader Bruce Gordon stepped down after a measly 19-months in charge. Apparently he didn't see eye-to-eye with the board.

If you're interested, sappho-journo Jasmyne Cannick's got the video of Washington's speech. Not coincidentally, he thanks her. Cannick defended him during the whole faggot scandal. We don't get mentioned. He must have forgotten.

The Shirley Q. Liquor fallout just keeps on - er - falling…

Ms. Liquor and her creator, Charles Knipp, came under fire a few weeks ago after Jasmyne Cannick and GLAAD (among others) came out against the gay white man's straight black face. Now the editors over at The New York Blade have joined the fray.

Yeah, they're a little late, but you have to cut them a little slack - they are, after all, a weekly.

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While we're on the subject of Martin Luther King, we'd like to point you to an article by our old friend, sappho-journo Jasmyne Cannick.

In said article, Cannick uses King's his 1963 "Letter from Birmingham Jail" to scold black leaderes for their Tim Hardaway-related silence.

Cannick insists that black leaders' muteness only proves that they're just as complicit in homophobic oppression as their white predecessors. By eschewing the inflammatory issue, black leaders are derailing King's dream and creating a nightmare for queer blacks.

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Jasmyne Cannick, board member of the National Black Justice Coalition, presents a very persuasive argument against the blatant anti-gay messages in hip-hop music. Artists popular in gay clubs, including Missy Elliott and Mary J Blige, contribute to albums filled with hateful "kill the faggot" lyrics, yet gay people toss off such messages and convince themselves their favorite artists really don't think like that. Yet really, they have no idea what the artists think; but the lyrics are there, clear as can be. It is perhaps a conflict of the ages: you can insult a gay person, as long as they can dance.

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