London's G-A-Y Bar may soon get a new mama.

Mean Fiddler, the entertainment company that owns G-A-Y and G-A-Y Late, announced that it's considering an offer from music and entertainment investors, MAMA group, which owns myriad music venues and publications, including The Fly. Melvin Benn, Mean Fiddler's managing director, confirms the offer:

We consider the offer to be positive and are currently awaiting confirmation of that offer being confirmed before a final decision is to be taken. We anticipate the offer to be formalized in early August.

G-A-Y Club - a regular venue for the likes of Kylie Minogue, Madonna and Enrique Iglesias - may also find itself in Parliaments line of fire: politicos are considering using the Astoria hot spot for a new subway station. That would s-u-c-k.

British actor Lee Mead twirls at a press call for the London revival of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, proving once again that everything look when getting screwed.
Those of you familiar with the Bible know Joseph as Jacob and Rachel's child who can interpret dreams. His brothers couldn't handle his attention and sold him into slavery. Talk about sibling rivalry!

Of course, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice put a music - er - spin on the legendary story. We haven't had a chance to see this revival (it officially opens July 17th), but judging from these pictures, lead Mead does a swell job making the Bible - and enslavement - tempting.

An estimated 1.5 million party people lived it up at this year's Europride in Madrid. The revelers toasted Spain's government for its inclusion, including the government's 2005 passage of gay marriage and historic trans rights laws.

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• We saw a line of people waiting for the iPhone. They were all playing with their soon-to-be old phones. We think they're insane, as is the rest of the country.

• Talk about a tabloid wet dream: Francesca Hilton, daugher of Zsa Zsa Gabor and Paris Hilton's late grandfather, Conrad, called Zsa Zsa's current (ninth) husband, Prince Frederic von Anhalt, a faggot. von Anhalt's claim to fame, besides being married to Gabor, would be his claim that he fathered Anna Nicole Smith's baby. The icing - it went down outside a court house. And TMZ got it on video. Tune in for a special peek into Paris' future. (Cue splooge.)

• Mitt Romney's a cat person:

Romney placed his family dog, an Irish setter named Seamus, into a kennel leashed to the top of his station wagon for a 12-hour family trip from Boston to Ontario in 1983. Despite being shielded by a wind screen the former Massachusetts governor erected, Seamus expressed his discomfort with a diarrhea attack.

Romney claims the dog loved riding on the roof in a swirl of liquified shit: "He scrambled up there every time we went on trips." Scrambled? More like slid.

• London Pride ain't afraid of no car bombs. The parade marches on tomorrow. With a mock Eurovision to protest anti-gay nations.

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• We're not sure if you've heard, but pseudo-celebrity and professional fuck-up Paris Hilton went to prison today. The hotel heiress must complete a mandatory sentecen after driving under the influence of alcohol and stupidity on a suspended license. Sarah Silverman gave her a fitting send-off at the MTV Movie Awards and New York's Madame Tussaud's gave Hilton's wax replica a timely make-over. We've never heard of the fames wax museum changing a figure's costume to fit their incarceration status. 'Tis the inexplicable power of Paris Hilton…

• It's anti-gay Bingo! Brought to you by Willie Hewes!

• London has unveiled the fucking radical Olympics 2012 logo.

• One hit from Hostel director Eli Roth's penis and you're a goner.

• Jackson Heights, Queens' Gay Pride needs to seen to be believed.

• George Clooney would help save Laguna Beach's gay bar, the Boom Boom Room, but he doesn't want anyone to think he's gay. Brad Pitt would, too, but he's too busy sucking George Clooney's dick.

• Ad sales in gay media grow faster than their straight counterparts, but can they last?

• The Fragrance Awards - the best smelling awards show this side of the awards show calendar. Now in video form.

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Sir Ian McKellan and Mayor Ken Livingstone joined the crowds during London's gay pride parade (the last and biggest stop of EuroPride 2006) — but we know you're more interested in seeing the floats, the signs, and of course, the mens. While this year's attendance of 40,000 didn't meant organizers' expections of 500,000 – a huge number expected because the event didn't conflict with the World Cup; last year's coincidided with the Live 8 concert but still drew 250,000 – the event has been labeled a success: no major brawls between the crowds and police, and protestors were all but ignored.

Gay Pride comes to London [Reuters]

• The man who murdered prominent Jamaican gay rights leader Brian Williamson has pleaded guilty, but the police refuse to call it a hate crime, saying it was a "robbery gone wrong." We are unsure why a robber would bother stabbing someone 70 times in the neck if they didn't have another agenda. [365 Gay]

• Mary Cheney supports gay marriage! Who knew? [ABC]

• Cuba gets its own Queer As Folk, except there is only one queer and he's not shown kissing or touching his partner. But they talk about it, and that's enough to offend some Havana residents. [BBC]

• A gay London police officer may run for mayor, but only if asked. How polite of him. [Pink News]

• Nine men are being held in a Cameroon jail for being gay. The government refuses to release them despite international protest. [UK Gay News]

British grocery store worker Caroline Gardener became an instant hero a while back when she chucked a sack of flour at a motormouthed customer’s head. What would warrant such behavior? We can think of several things but in this instance an irate customer angrily called Ms. Gardener a “filthy dyke” after she informed him the store was out of lime cordial.

She told the tribunal: “I didn’t go for his throat, I just went for his collar because he had really upset me. When he called me a filthy dyke I had a pack of flour in my hand and, although I regret it now, I threw it at the back of his head. He then turned round and said, ‘You are a dyke and you’re going to get the sack’.”

The store fired Ms. Gardener, but this week a labor board ruled that the customer was abusive and that she must either be rehired or paid a settlement. Apparently, the irate customer failed to learn life lesson number one, which is never piss off a lesbian with a sack of flour in hand. Trust us, we know from experience.

Lesbian was unfairly sacked for throwing flour at a customer [The Times of London]

• The musical The Gay Life has been renamed The High Life and is being revived in NYC. The word “gay” apparently means something entirely different now then it did when the play originally appeared in 1961. Loving show tunes however means the same thing: you are a big, nelly, homo.

• London’s founder of the gay alternative scene has died. Simon Hobart was responsible for Popstarz, Ghetto, and Trash Palace.

• The HRC’s "Tom, the Token Gay Friend" ads are very gay. And as Rob Thurman points outs “gay (as in jolly, handsome and attractive) rather than gay (as in judgmental, humorlessly and sour).”

• The NO/AIDS Walk was cancelled due to Hurricane Katrina this year. The NO/AIDS Task Force is now doing a Virtual Walk, with all the fun of fundraising without the sweat and blisters. Help them out if you can.

• Gay characters are emerging on film as cops, athletes, and cowboys. And no, it’s not a film about the Village People.