5,000 gay hippies/fascists/anarchists/whatever marched on the Capitol building in Sacramento, California this weekend demanding equality. No on 8 leader Geoff Kors vowed "We will take this back to the ballot if we have to and get our rights back" and many, many inspirational speakers spoke, but who remembered what they said after Margaret Cho took to the stage, transformed into supergay Joan Baez and pulled out her acoustic guitar?

Though she didn't announce the title of the song, based on the chorus, it seems it's called "Shove Proposition 8 Up Your Ass" and in it, she says many terrible things about Mormons, their underwear, the sexuality of Jesus and all other sorts of of stuff which would be horribly offensive if it didn't rhyme. But we're not so stupid as to question a rhyming, singing Margaret Cho on an acoustic guitar. Sing it out, Louise.

Here's a woman who needs no introduction: the incomparable Margaret Cho, who recently sat down with Queerty correspondent Matt Bell to discuss, among other things, Barack Obama, marrying gays, Trans Rights her new show and getting a shot in the vagina…

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Margaret Cho's homo stock just went up - if that's even possible. Joining the ranks of Kathy Griffin, the comedienne has been bestowed with the power to officiate marriages. And, of course, she's going for the gays:

[Cho]was recently deputized by the city of San Francisco to perform gay marriages there.

Cho actually married two couples during the Bay Area's gay pride festivities, she announced last night at the opening of the Outfest film festival in downtown Los Angeles.

"It's a very empowering thing to be able to preside over these ceremonies," she tells me. "We've been working on this for such a long time."
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I'm very happy to preside over all the ceremonies that I can," says Cho, whose new VH1 series, The Cho Show, debuts next month. "I'm going to make sure I have the right certification to do it."

Since it's Friday and sort of topical, we've included a bit of Cho's same-sex nuptial-related stand-up after the jump.

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Margaret Cho and Ellen DeGeneres have been besties for years. The great writer's strike of 2007/2008, however, has put a strain on their working relationship.

The power of visibility can never be underestimated. For this, [Ellen] will always be my hero. She gave us the ultimate gift, herself, her true self, and with that gift, she made us all proud to be who we are. That is why when she asked me to do her show I was absolutely thrilled. I love her show! Especially the dancing!!! But with the writers on strike, I am unable to do it.

This was a very difficult decision to make. I absolutely love Ellen, for a million reasons and for a very long time, but because of the way that I was raised, because my political views are they way they are, because I believe that workers should have the power and the ability to make their lives better, because many of my close friends are the ones picketing, I cannot cross the picket line.

Does the Writer's Guild not see that their frivolous "fair pay" protests are destroying people's lives? Not to mention the staggering amount of books in danger of being read. It's madness!

Rosie O'Donnell unveiled a new line of paintings last night at New York's New World Stages. As you can see, the dolled up O'Donnell employed the tried and true spirograph technique - and a bit of her own personal psychosis.

A slew of supporters showed up to, well, support O'Donnell's big moment, including a dreaded Susan Powter, Cyndi Lauper, Charles Busch, Margaret Cho and former View colleague Joy Behar.

Barbara Walters must have been otherwise engaged.

Life isn't all fun and games for comedienne Margaret Cho. The 38-year old entertainer does, indeed, feel for disgraced Senator Larry Craig, a man who's become a national punchline. Cho tells journo Julie Bolcer:

I feel sorry for him. I think it’s really sad. What a tragic character. He’s tragic. People like Ted Haggart [sic] – that’s tragic. Or Mark Foley. These are living tragedies. They’re people who want to be part of a society that does not want them, and so they’re willing to be secretive about their sexuality and hide who they are, and really who they are is not bad, it’s not criminal at all. But it drives them to sort of criminalizing acts. It’s really sad.

Cho also told Bolcer she thinks Hillary's hot and "has got that ‘hot for teacher’ kind of feeling". We're sure Clinton's tickled pinker than the pinkest labia.

[PS: Cho's also promoting her NYC cabaret show, The Sensuous Woman.]

Bless Margaret Cho. The 38-year old actress talks shit like a goddess. Appearing on The Stephanie Miller Radio Show promoting her new off-broadway show, The Sensuous Woman, Cho offers her unedited - and dead-on - thoughts on conservacunt Ann Coulter. And, like so many conservations about Coulter, this one starts discussing female-to-male trannies:

MC: [Sensuous Woman co-star Ian Harvey's] a trans-guy. He's F-to-M.
SM: Maybe he's the only one who knows the answer to the question: what is Ann Coulter? What is she, exactly?
MC: I don't even know. I don't even know. She's terrible, though. I just think she's such a tennis lesbian. She just looks like your tennis instructor you have a crush on, but you can't help it, because you hate her…

It's funny, 'cause it's true. Except for the crush bit. We'd rather fuck sandpaper, which, we imagine, would be a lot like fucking Ann Coulter.

Head over to virtual matter for the entire interview.

Music and style have always gone hand-in-hand. David Bowie helped bring glam to the mainstream. Kurt Cobain's greasy hair and seemingly unstylish self gave us grunge. And now rockers The Cliks and their well-suited image may change the way people look at female fashion - and gender.

For this installment of The Style Issue, we sat down with The Cliks lead singer and founder, Lucas Silveira, a trans man who knows a thing or two about looking good.

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• Radio With A Twist launches this weekend all over the USA and the first guest is Margaret Cho. We’ll be listening. [Radio With A Twist]

• George Clooney on Sam Alito, “I don’t want to do any damage to the Alito nomination, but Grant and I were at a midnight screening of Brokeback Mountain last night. Judge Alito was there. He had been there since, like, 3 o’clock I think. Wearing chaps. A big cowboy hat, chaps and that funny bolo tie thing.” [Open All Night]

• Poor Kathy Griffin! Divorce filings, being fired from E!, and now a botched Lasik surgery. Girl has some bad luck. [Lady Bunny]

• The Gays love their hair. A San Francisco doctor has advice on products, coloring, and what to do when you start losing your hair. [Gay.com]

• Can’t get gayer than this: Images of Rafael Verga mashed with Madonna’s “Hung Up.” Seriously, we’re sure Apple is even over the song by now. [Oh la la Paris]

• Oprah's style bitch Nate Berkus has finally published his own design book. Lucky for us, he's in almost every picture.

• Sheryl Swoopes adorns the cover of the new Advocate demonstrating that holding large balls still puts a smile on her face.

• A UK register's office is replacing pictures of "Romeo and Juliet on a Swing" with gaudy landscape paintings so as to not offend gay couples. Guess they're totally fine with offending our sensibilties.

• Madge says she first fell for her husband when she saw him with his shirt off. That settles it. She's definately a "gay man in a woman's body."

• Margaret Cho's Bam Bam and Celeste will close Outfest's Fusion film festival. We have high hopes for what could be the best fag/fag hag road trip movie ever.

• Margaret Cho returns to television with a Fox sit-com. Let's hope the netwok's execs are nothing like the weight Nazis over at her former TV home, ABC. If so, they may insist the already trim Cho dwindle down to the size of its malnourished star, Mischa "Skeleton" Barton.

• A former homo male nurse is accused of offing several gay men, chopping them up, and then tossing the bits along a New Jersey freeway in little plastic baggies. And you say serial killers aren't creative nowadays.

• Fabian Basabe gets pissy if people say his old man is broke, but is totally okay with being labeled a queer. We just call him annoying as all hell.

• RuPaul and Lady Bunny will be in WeHo this weekend for the Kimberly S CD release party at Factory. Work it.

• We don't think the new study that says gays love snapping up Volvos, Volkswagens, and BMW's makes us sound shallow and materialistic. It makes us sound stylish and materialistic.

One of the funniest women alive, we queers absolutely adore Margaret Cho, the world’s premiere fag hag. She’s also hip enough to have joined this blasted blogging phenomenon on her own site. Cho’s just released her fourth concert film, Assassin, and stars in the upcoming self-written gay road trip comedy, Bam Bam and Celeste.

Will you be getting into your rough relationship with ABC for the upcoming All-American Girl DVD commentary?

Yes! And it is actually a great DVD set. It was so surreal watching the thing - after what seems like a lifetime.

Are there any blogs that you surf regularly?

I love Atrios, Buzzflash, Daily Kos.

What do you personally get out of blogging?

It is like a journal entry, and I can reach lots of people very fast!

Are there any things about yourself that you are reluctant to blog about or put into any of your films?

I don't think so unfortunately.

What is your greatest source of inspiration?

My parents. They came here with $125 in 1964 and they still have it!

After the jump, the fab Ms. Cho dishes about her favorite queenie governor and her humps.

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•Dan over at Ex-Gay Watch shows us this wonderful graphic showing ex-gay testimonials from Exodus. Apparently God speaks to people in night clubs and has the power to cure AIDS. Hallelujah!

•Wed-Rock, an evening of all-star comedy and music performances to voice opposition to the Arnold's recent veto of the gay marriage bill, is set for November 7th in Los Angeles. The eclectic line-up includes Andy Bell, Margaret Cho, Nina Hagen, Alan Cumming, John Cameron Mitchell, Kelly Osbourne, Yo La Tengo, and Yoko Ono.

•Get ready. This Sunday churches across the country will discuss the "tough issue" of porn. Oh my! That is a missionary position we are down with. Thanks Brian.

•Singer Chris Cagle reenforces stereotypes about country music fans by releasing a press statement saying that he has found out his new baby was fathered by another man. A guest spot on Maury Povich and a new album dealing with his pain we bet are in the works. Thanks Johnny

•Andy gets a snapshot of the new gay on Real World Key West. Are we the only one who thinks the bartender looks a lot like Mr. Towle?