Recommitting themselves to their media outlets, PlanetOut executives announced that they'll sell cruise line boat chartering RSVP to former competitor Atlantis.

PlanetOut CEO Karen Magee says the company, which publishes Out and The Advocate, will get back to its roots:

From a corporate perspective, we believe this transaction demonstrates to our shareholders that we are continuing to deliver on our commitment to leverage our strengths by simplifying our business model and emphasizing our core competencies. We are focused on ensuring that we are in the best position to realize our full potential as the leading media and entertainment company exclusively serving the LGBT market, while also strengthening our balance sheet.

The move shouldn't come as a surprise: the company's been fighting financial disaster for months and many predicted PlanetOut would ditch the cruise line. The company also recently reverse split its stock, compressing ten shares into one.

Those shares are currently trading at $12.65.

• Jennifer Lopez popped over to David Letterman's Late Show to announce she's pregnant with a leather baby.

• Jeanne Phillips aka Dr. Abby supports gay nuptials: "I believe if two people want to commit to each other, God bless 'em. That is the highest form of commitment, for heaven's sake."

• Romney v. Giuliani over taxes. Tonight's debates should be interesting…

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London's Underground needs to get with the gay times. Literally. The mass transit system successfully petitioned Gay Times magazine to switch out an advert they found offensive, citing one of the models' state of "unnecessary­ state of undress".

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In perhaps the biggest bit breaking news in the homo history, guppie-loving, nuptial-having non-profit Family Pride announced today that they'll be live blogging from Rosie O'Donnell's Family Cruise - you know, the cruise that said "fuck you" to the Bahamas?

From FP:

As many of you know, the Family Pride team will be providing the dynamic workshops, programs and speakers for the passengers on this summer’s Rosie Cruise (July 7-14). In addition, our team will be blogging live from the ship to share our experience with everyone back home! So stay tuned for updates!
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Our team looks forward to seeing many of you aboard the cruise, and is excited to bring the experience to everyone back home on the mainland.

We can hardly wait to have a real time feed of all the dirty diapers, lesbian exchanges and minute-by-minute updates on Rosie's family frolicking, tan lines and bowel movements!

The internet really does make dreams come true…

John Michael Moody II needs to learn to keep his hands to himself. Well, that's what federal marshals said when they arrested him for copping a feel on a Southwest flight from Indianapolis to Jacksonville, Florida. Moody, a lawyer, stands accused of repeatedly (and drunkenly) groping a male flight attendant, offering him money for sex and general disorderly conduct. Moody also allegedly asked the cabin crew, "Where's the gay section?"

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Australia ain't the only country with homos only establishment. Turkey's Planet Victorya, which opens in July, stands as the nation's first queers only accommodations.

The inn's manager, Faruk Ok explains:

There are several gay-friendly hotels in Turkey, but ours is the first to be 100 percent gay and lesbian. It will not accept guests outside this concept. [But] part of the personnel is also gay or lesbian.

What? You won't let straights stay there, but they can work there? That's stupid. If you're going to discriminate, you should do it right. Or, better yet, not at all..

If the owner's are hellbent on banning heteros, we can't help but wonder how they'll weed them out. Does one have to suck dick to get a room, or something?

• Israel's Tourism Ministry just launched a "Proud" ad campaign aimed at attracting more gay visitors.

• Meanwhile, Israel's ultra-Orthodox population has vowed to protest this year's gay pride. Shocker.

• The ultra-Orthodox may not have to protest. Israeli Parliament is may consider a bill to ban all "dangerous" public gatherings.

• Homo author Brent Hartinger just released a new teen book, Dreamquest, which concerns a girl who discovers a movie studio that produces people's nightmares. It may not be gay, but it sure sounds queer.

• Poland v. The Teletubbies (and the 1990's).

• Lindsay Lohan wants the press to respect her rehab privacy. In related news, pigs started flying…

• A Kevin Federline scored tribute to Rosie O'Donnell's time at The View.

• Portuguese gay activists wag their finger at the Russian government over this weekend's shameful pride happenings. They also take some time to blast the distressingly quiet European Union and Portuguese Prime Minister José Sócrates, who appeared in Moscow yesterday for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin:

The presence and silence of José Sócrates, the Portuguese prime minister, who was in Moscow and is about to take EU presidency, are [an example of] the double standard of the EU, whose rhetoric seems to be using human rights only when financial interests are not at stake.

And snap…

Jamaica's garnered quite a reputation for being anti-gay. And for good reason - last month alone, the Caribbean island saw at least three separate anti-gay attacks. All the negative publicity recently led a group of Canadian gay activists to cancel a conference meant for the island's pristine beaches.

Now, Jamaican journalist Betty Ann Blaine's trying to turn things around. Well, the public image, at least. And much of her efforts are spent building up the nefarious, shadowy "homosexual lobby":

It is very important that we understand that there is the homosexual community, and then there is homosexual activism.
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First of all, the global homosexual lobby must be told unequivocally and unapologetically that Jamaica is not a homophobic country - we are a Christian country. The fact that many Jamaicans are bad Christians is a completely different matter altogether. For Jamaicans, the issue of homosexuality is a deeply cultural and spiritual matter. In the eyes of Jamaicans, to say that homosexuality is right, is to say that God is wrong, and that will never happen.

If Blaine's all about maintaining the island's "natural" Christian tradition, perhaps she's keen on reinstating slavery and segregation? The colonizers did, after all, introduce religion and repression in tandem…

Jamaica, beware of homosexual backlash [Jamaica Observer]

French design visionary Philippe Starck really shoots for the stars.

In addition to designing Mexico's space port for Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic, Starck has been commissioned to design a new, more fashionable space suit. Don't expect any clunky helmuts or cumbersome padding, however. Like so many of his designs, Starck's suit screams "stream-lined":

The whole style of the rocket on the inside, the clothes and accessories, I have tried to make the most immaterial as possible. The style is dematerialization.

Starck finds the idea of material so vulgar, NY Times' Eric Wilson explains, that he originally envisioned Virgin Galactic's passengers naked.

As Virgin Galactic gears up for its first flight, Starck also struck a deal with Louis Vuitton to design a line of space age. Starck kept his trap shut on the details, but Wilson writes:

Starck would only hint at what they are developing: something made of transparent materials, roomy enough for cosmic incidentals so that an astronaut could strap it onto a spacesuit and not look lame.

Who knew the future would be so fashionable?

Anthony Niedwiecki and Waymon Hudson got an earful after arriving to Fort Lauderdale last week. While waiting for their luggage, the couple of six of years heard what sounded like a Biblical condemnation of homosexuality. Shocked and a bit confused, they boys thought they had imagined it. Until the message played again. South Florida's NBC6 reports:

A gay couple is asking for an investigation after they claim they heard threatening comments announced over the intercom system at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.
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"My partner said, 'Did you hear that?' And I said, 'I kind of think I did,'" said Anthony Niedwiecki. "Then about two minutes later we heard it again. 'A man who lies with a man as if he were lying with a woman shall be subject to death.'"

"It was almost so threatening that I was frightened," said Waymon Hudson, Niedwiecki's partner.

Certainly not the kind of talk one would expect from a public airport.

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• Marc Jacobs has apparently headed back to rehab. The designer flew to Arizona after presenting his latest collection in Paris. This is his second stint - he successfully combated a heroin addiction back in 1999. Let's hope this one sticks. [FWD]

• Charles Spencer calls Tennessee Williams' lost play an "unexpected pleasure and a genuinely enlightening glimpse into Williams' art and heart". [Telegraph]

• Italian conservative and anti-homo politician Paola Binetti lives Christ's pain through a spiked metal garter. [Observer]

• The benefits of a gay nudist cruise? No dry-cleaning bill. [Globorati]

• Is gay blogger Ben Nicholas a big, big, BIG liar? It sure looks that way. [M4M forum]

• Rest assured that if you write a note to designer Helmut Lang, it will end up in Purple. [New York]

• Meanwhile, Karl Lagerfeld says, "I don’t think I’m too good for what I’m doing." Well, that's a relief. [New Yorker]

• Ryan Seacrest's big date? His mommy. If that ain't gay, we don't know what is… [TMZ]

• Andrew Christian + scantily clad underwear models forced to restrain themselves lest they frighten the newscaster = one remarkably entertaining clip. [Google Video]

• Two foolish 21-year old Colorado college students have been arrested for allegedly attacking two homos. Luckily, it seems like it was a pretty even fight. [Rocky Mountain News]

• LSU's lady basketball coach Pokey Chatman has resigned after poking one of her ladies. [AfterEllen]

It seems like former Village person and forever homosexual Randy Jones will be trading his chaps for an eye patch. The singer has teamed up with Carnival Cruises for an eight-day floating fag fest. Not only that, but legendary photographer Ron Galella will document the boat wreck for posterity, thus ensuring you have at least one thing to talk about at family reunions.

Now, we're sure you're wondering - why in the world would we want to spend more than a week of our lives cruising the ocean with Jones and his gay gaggle? Quite honestly, we don't know. It sounds kind of…how do we put this delicately? Terrible.

While we may not be sailing with the ever-smiling Jones, we're totally psyched about his new movie, Lawn of The Dead, which Jones describes as "a cross between Dawn of the Dead and Caddyshack in which a new fertilizer causes the dead to come back to life on a golf course built over a Civil War cemetary". Zombie Civil War vets and Randy Jones? That may be the most deliciously campy thing we've ever heard. And, of course, we love it.

As for that cruise - if you're interested, head on over to Alice Travel's website, get their number, call it and ask for Phyllis. Also, be sure to poke around Jones' virtual digs, too.

We're a little late getting today's installment of Jimmy Im's adventures at Whistler's annual ski-centric WinterPride. But, in all fairness, Im got up a little late, himself. So late, in fact, that he didn't get a chance to show off his new skills on the slopes. Poor boy.

He did, however, make his way to the climbing wall (look at those bulging muscles!), get in a little shopping, did a little self-pampering and got flexed his super sissy powers at a super-hero themed underwear party.

Sounds swell, but reads even better…

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It's the third day of Queerty correspondent Jimmy Im's week-long adventure at Whistler's annual WinterPride: the gay ski event of the year - although, how many gay ski events are there, really?

Regardless, in today's entry Jimmy gets down on the slopes. Like all beginners he had to start of slow and get into the groove. Being the filthy minded scamp that he is, he noticed more than a few similarities between the great white ride and riding dirty.

Of course, that's hardly the end of it: poor Jimmy later found himself at a spa and sex toy party. Don't worry, he may not be able to ski, but the bitch can certainly roll with the best of them.

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Queerty correspondent Jimmy Im's certainly dedicated to his craft. And when we say "craft", we mean boozing it up with thousands of hot gay guys at Whistler's annual WinterPride.

In yesterday's edition of "Gays Gone Wild: Whistler", Mr. Im (pictured above with an equally adventurous friend) offered a bit of an introduction to the annual queer ski fest with a little Vancouver pre-gaming.

Well, today he finally makes it to the resort town for a some fancy hotel action, exciting ski action and, of course, some hot action action. Now that we think about it, we're not exactly sure why we didn't go, instead. Oh, right, court order…

Oh well, good thing Im's got his eye on the gay prize. Read what we mean, after the jump.

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