Get excited, readers! The McGreevey divorce trial begins this week and we can be sure to hear all sorts of salacious, nauseating details of how the former NJ Governor and his Missus got down in the bedroom.

Dina Matos-McGreevey alleges that hubby Jim duped her into marriage by lying about being a bit bent. Jim McGreevey's lawyer, Stephen Haller, has already leaked how they'll be contesting Dina's allegations. And it ain't pretty:

Plaintiff [Mr. McGreevey] will testify at trial that he needed to have a disrobed male present in the room with them when the parties had sexual relations in order to maintain an erection.
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This tends to prove that plaintiff was at least bisexual, a fact which should have been obvious to defendant prior to the marriage.

Will the day come when we're not fascinated by disgraced politicians' penises? Probably not. Or, at least, we hope not!

America's contrived civil unions can be so taxing!

Just ask Jason Smith and Settimo Pisu, a civil unionized couple from Hartford, Connecticut.

The boys tried to file their taxes on H&R Block's TaxCut Online website, but received quite a rude message: "We don't support Connecticut civil union returns." When will the internet learn manners?

Connecticut passed civil union laws over three years ago, but the national tax company has yet to update their online system. Instead, it directed them to a local H&R Block office or an "online professional," which apparently costs a pretty pink penny.

The perfectly suburban Smith and Pisu are incensed. As they should be…

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United Parcel Service united with the gays today. Well, gay business owners, at least.

The international courier signed on as a partner with the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, thus giving it access to millions of bent businesses. UPS diversity director Lisa Johnson lauded the move as both economically and socially progressive:

Partnering with the NGLCC not only helps LGBT businesses grow by conducting business with UPS, but we also gain access to excellent suppliers. Expanding our process to include LGBT-owned businesses reinforces our commitment to supplier diversity.

UPS previously made homo headlines when they challenged New Jersey's illiberal civil unions.

Jacqueline McGreevey becomes a pawn once again!

Former New Jersey governor Jim McGreevey rebutted his wife Dina's fraud charges by using their six-year old daughter as evidence of his sexual sincerity. Dina claims the politico - who came out in 2004 - duped her into a loveless marriage, but McGreevey insists little Jacqueline's life proves otherwise:

Whether or not Dina Matos McGreevey knew her husband, former Gov. James E. McGreevey, was gay should not matter because there was a marriage that produced a child, and thus no fraud was perpetrated, McGreevey alleged in divorce papers released today.

Air tight!

Jon Corzine kinda sorta came out against civil unions yesterday. The New Jersey governor told reporters that he has "significant concerns" about the legislation, which a commission just found to be flawed.

Said Corzine: "The report does raise significant concerns about whether the law has effectively granted same-sex couples the same rights and benefits of every other family in the state."

Despite his hesitancy, however, ally Corzine will not push for gay marriage until after this November's election. While on the surface it may seem like Corzine's skirting the issue, but he's most probably trying to keep wedge issues off the table lest he fuck up the Democratic game.

Today's the day! The New Jersey Civil Union Review Commission will release its official report this afternoon. Non-profit Garden State Equality got its gay hands on the complete document and posted it at Civil Unions Don't Work. They've also provided some videos of men and women testifying before the Commission that civil unions are flawed. We've included one such testimony above. It's the most exciting thing we've seen since we woke up.

In addition, GSE started airing a new 60-second radio ad this morning on - you guessed it - how civil unions don't work. Listen to it here.

New Jersey's getting some gay history for the New Year. Neptune Township Committeeman Randy Bishop's set to become the Garden State's third openly gay mayor.

Bishop, who will be sworn in at noon Tuesday for his second three-year term on the committee, is also expected later in the afternoon to be picked as mayor for 2008. When that happens, Bishop will be one of two openly gay mayors serving this year in New Jersey, and one of only three in the state's history.
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The list of openly gay mayors in New Jersey is short: Democrat Gina Genovese became the state's first openly gay mayor in 2005 when she was chosen for the position by the Republican majority on the Long Hill Township Committee. She no longer holds the office.

As in Long Hill, Neptune's mayor is chosen by the Township Committee.

In November, Tim Eustace, a 10-year member of the Maywood Borough Council, became the state's first openly gay mayor elected by popular vote.

Current Neptune Mayor James Manning Jr., who also won re-election this year, said Bishop does not follow a "gay agenda" in his policy decisions.

"Randy approaches everything as a caring "person,'" Manning wrote in an e-mail. "His lifestyle has nothing to do with him leading the township."

Well, isn't that refreshing?

• The footage may be janky, but the new Batman trailer makes us believers.

• Beware the breast cancer: men whose foremothers had breast cancer may be at greater risk.

• Rhode Island's lesbian divorce heads to the state's Supreme Court.

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Jim and Dina McGreevey were scolded like children in a Jersey court yesterday.

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