• Kyra Sedgwick, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences CEO Dick Askin and Jon Cryer are thrilled to be reading announcing the Emmy nominations.

• Fattie v. Fattie: Perez Hilton challenges Jason Davis to hot dog eating contest. And, also, a race. He's so health conscious!

• "First gay Latin star" Jade Esteban Estrada to play villain in Bruiser and Scratch video game.

• Cathy Horyn recalls Versace murder.

• God bless Tammy Faye: dying of lung cancer, weighing next to nothing, still going strong and appearing on Larry King tonight.

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We're sorry to make you wait so long, but we wanted to build a little suspense. As promised, here's part two of our interview with queer artist, Robert W. Richards. In part one, Richards gave us a little background on his life growing up in Maine, moving away, finding his his first love and surviving his first tumultuous, yet symbiotic relationship.

In this conclusion, Richards chats about a veritable pot pourri of subjects, including living with Peggy Lee, working on Grand Theft Auto, hitchhiking for the sake of music and how he's achieved his ultimate artistic goal.

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It appears even nerds don't like gay people. A survey out of The University of Illinois - "The Gaymer Survery - finds that 52% of the 10,000 respondents think that gay gamers face discrimination. It's a tragic situation, one researcher Jason Rockwood hopes his findings will help alleviate:

Gay gamers experience a double-edged sword of prejudice. The mainstream gay culture and media is not supportive of video games. Then you have the video game culture that is not supportive of gay culture… I'm hoping this survey would shed some light on how or why people go through such a process.

Don't we already know how and why people go through this "process"? People don't like homos, people tell homos they don't like them, homos get sad. Pretty straight-forward, actually.

But, kidding aside, we're totally serious when we say we're sorry for anything negative we've ever said about you gaymers. We had no idea you had things so rough. It sounds like a virtual nightmare.

The survey also found that gaymers are more likely to choose attractive avatars than their hetero counterparts. Good to know you kids are just as superficial as the rest of us…

We've never understood the concept of video games based on television shows. We saw a commercial for the Desperate Housewives game and were confused for weeks.

While the sudster's virtual conversion perplexed us, it seems the Little Britain's computerized incarnation's pissed off Eurogamer's James Lyon. He describes the digital diversion thus:

Irredeemably awful. It's an affront to licensed videogames. It's a title that needs to be placed in a trebuchet and slung directly into the heart of the Daily Mail in order to teach them a thing or two on what kind of vile game they should really be campaigning against.

Well, good thing we never planned on playing it.

In fact, we probably wouldn't have even covered it had our sources over GayGamer not provided us with this image of gay actor Matt Lucas' Vicky Pollard doing some sort of fart-fueled skate trick. Seriously, we haven't seen anything that good since those John Roberts videos.

A group of gay gamers are taking on Games Radar over the website's preposterous article, "Are They Gay" in which they dissect a number of video game characters to find out what makes them, well, gay.

For example, the game-obsessed geeks take a look at Kratos from the video game, Gods of War:

Sure, he's violent, full of rage and enjoys pleasuring generously breasted ladies, but he's still a buff, bald-headed, semi-naked Greek Adonis that isn't shy of flashing an inch or two of thigh. He also 'accidentally' killed his wife and daughter. Which probably means he's got a grudge against women. Or something.

Sure, it's a bit offensive and perpetuates negative stereotypes (are there really any others?) that gay men hate women, but it's not really that disrespectful. It's just plain absurd.

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• Keith Boykin pays tribute to Luther Vandross for Out Magazine. [Out]

• Gay People's Chronicle has discovered that Carol Channing doesn't like the homos. She does, however, like their money. [Gay People's Chronicle]

• SOVO chops it up with some gay veterans. [The Southern Voice]

• Metro Weekly delves into the mind of Andrew Sullivan. [Metro Weekly]

• Jono and HX Magazine get in the holiday mood. [HX Magazine]

• AfterElton likes playing with Gay Gamer Flynn Demarco's joystick. [AfterElton]

• Is Donkey Kong art? French Culture Minister, Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres seems to think so. [International Herald Tribune]

• Does former Wisconsin congressman Steve Gunderson think the proposed marriage amendment's anti-gay? Yes. [La Crosse Tribune]

• What does Madonna like? Pissing people off, of course. [Star Magazine]

• So, how much did Art Cologne make this year? Oh, about $95 million. [Bloomberg]

• What can be done about Judaism and homosexuality? Jesse Green has some ideas. [Nextbook]

• Should journalists call Larry Craig gay? Some say yes, some say no. [Poynter Online via The Cup of Joe]

We're not big gamers ourselves, but we whole-heartedly support gamers (we're all part of the nerd brotherhood, you know), especially when they send us clips of their video game alter-egos getting down on some pixilated homo action.

This particular clip comes from our friends over at Gay Gamer, you know: the site for "boys who like boys who like joysticks" (yeah, really clever, that).

Anyway, in Rock Star Games' controversial new offering, Bully, you not only get the chance to beat the tar out of school yard hooligans, but there are also four different homos who are more than willing to lock lips. Not above virtual love, the Gay Gamers fell in love with a nice, video casanova, who boasts that he's "such a player" and asks if he's "a totally awesome kisser." Sounds like a real winner.

It's too bad this particular virtual homo didn't fall as hard. A GG writes:

I was shocked later, when I went into the town near the school, to find my blonde hunk holding hands with a red haired jock while waiting in line for the movies. Needless to say, my heart was broken…

Oh, babe, don't fret - you've got so much more than that stupid boy. Like what? Well, flesh and blood, for starters. Dreams. A reboot button.

Perhaps you've heard of The Left Behind: the wildly - and disconcertingly - popular book series about the Biblical apocalypse (pictured, looking pretty horrific). No? Well, they've sold over 60 million copies. Yeah, scary shit, right?

Like all good 21st Century franchises, the books have transcended media lines into the wonderful world of video games. Now people all over America can fight their own virtual holy war. Yay!

Of course, what would a Christian end of the world game be without an Antichrist? And what would an Antihrist be without a little gayness? Michelle Goldberg writes for New York Magazine:

The novels’ Antichrist is one Nicolae Carpathia, who’s the secretary-general of the United Nations when the Rapture comes (and, incidentally, is the bioengineered son of two gay men). Soon enough, he becomes Global Community Supreme Potentate, masking his diabolical intentions with promises of peace and disarmament.

See? Proof that gay couples can't raise healthy children. You think things are going swimmingly: little Nicky learns how to walk, then he learns how to read, then - WHAM! - he learns how to raise hell. Literally.

• Hey, if an action-hero actor with no political experience can become governor of California, why shouldn't the same be true for a sex therapist? We suspect he'll do a better job, anyway. [365 Gay]

• Madge pulls an Angelina and adopts an African baby. By the time this trend pans out, there'll be no more babies on the entire continent. [Mollygood]

• A convenient tally of congressional sex scandals. Ain't nothin' better. [Proceed At Your Own Risk]

• GLAAD gets its wish: more gay television en route. What's more, it comes from the creators of Will & Grace. Super… [TMZ]

• The New York Times takes a look at Christopher Street's new generation. Those kids get more press than us. [The New York Times]

• You know there's a problem when people wonder whether Pac-Man eats dick. [Kotaku]

We've always had an intense love for videogames from an early age. Whether it's fighting, racing, role-playing, or strategy, we've been up for it, and have even been perhaps a little too immersed at times in virtual worlds (though we're dealing with that). We don't usually like to use Queerty as a platform for talking about our own personal hobbies, but there is a reason, we promise: someone wants to know!

There is a survey that is the first-ever academically approved study on gay video gamers, or "gaymers," as some like to be called. It examines issues ranging from gays playing video games as a means of coping with social isolation to the use of video games as a way to play sports without being discriminated against. It's interesting stuff, especially if you're a "gaymer" yourself.

One item they didn't look at was the fixation by some gay men on kick-ass girl characters (in fighting games, in particular). Maybe we'll start our own study.

Take the survey here.

First-ever survey of gay videogamers [Washington Blade]

Our childhood wasn't filled with Nintendo or even Super NES, but we did have GameBoy (okay, the lame GameGear too). And before we donated that GameBoy to a Costa Rican foreign exchange student, we spent endless hours on that tiny screen trying to get past a seemingly impossible level in Zelda. If only we knew then that manipulated the moves of the game's hero, Link, would foreshadow our coming sexuality realizations.

Now, in the June issue of Out, our childhood protaganist finally gets his due: Link is named video gaming's hottest character. Sure, the body dysmorphic disorder in all of us might want to pin his ears back just a tad, but his small, chiseled frame is enough to recreate our childhood longings .. to beat the damn game.

Know a hotter video game character? We want to hear about it. Leave your virtual world suggestions in the comments.

Link immortalized in gay magazine [GAF]

The producer of the new Desperate Housewives videogame claims she is trying to attract female players, but we suspect it will be a bigger hit with all the fags who have dreamed of the day they could have a conversation (even a computerized one) with Bree Van De Kamp.

In the game you play an entirely new housewife, and can be a nice neighbor or complete bitch. Plus you'll be able to do whatever you want on Wisteria Lane, including "uncover or create new scandals." We hope it is possible to sneakily take pictures of the wizened Teri Hatcher with no makeup on and hold them for ransom.

'Desperate Housewives' inspires video game [Reuters]