• Moscow's mayor may have banned gay pride, but the Russian government supports the queer right to assemble.

• Gay rights activists may have cheered Italy's potential civil partnership law, but Pope Benedict XVI ain't feeling so cheery. (Surprise, surprise.)

• Potential GOP Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee may not want to comment on Mary Cheney's pregnancy, but he does say he doesn't support gay marriage.

• Scissor Sisters may be uber-talented, but it doesn't really translate on their second Passions appearance. (Or the first.)

• Howard K. Stern and Larry Birkhead may think they're Dannielynn Marshall Stern's papas, but Zsa Zsa Gabor's hubby, Prince Frederick von Anhalt says he's the real deal.

• The Red Cross may ban men who have sex with men from donating blood, but Cleveland officials think they're wrong.

You know you've made it when you're on a soap that features a child witch that communicates through thought bubbles. It's almost like being in a comic book!

(PS: We love when the elder witch, Tabitha, says, "What do you think this is, Wigstock?" Also, why didn't the band realize they had been transported to a soon-to-be cancelled soap opera until after their performance?)

Related: Scissor Sisters All Up on Passions and Shit

If there's one thing we love, it's when famous people play themselves on soap operas. We don't know why - maybe because it creates the illusion that the sudsters take place in the real world, which, of course, makes us feel better about the shit storm that's become our lives.

Lucky for us, Scissor Sisters will be making a two-day appearance on NBC's supernatural soap, Passions. Now, we've never really followed the show's storylines (Days, all the way), but we do know it's one of the campiest things on television, making it a perfect venue for the flamboyant fivesome.

While we haven't seen any of the footage, we do know that wee witch Endora "conjures" the Sisters from their CD and that they'll perform "I Don't Feel Like Dancing" and "Land of a 1000 Words". In a video interview, the kids say they're huge fans of the show and hope it will expose them to a new audience.

We hate to burst their buble, but we're not sure the show has an audience. Rumor has it the peacock network's looking to ax the show by fall.

Chris Austad has been on the cover of Abercrombie & Fitch Quarterly, Cosmo Girl, and has appeared in the daytime soap Passions. This, of course, means that he’s going to end up on Sean Cody any day now. And he'll probably be wearing a sailor hat. (Hint: click on the jump.)

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