Relax! I'm just fooling with you (though try not to think about William and John last thing when you get to bed tonight!). The winners were actually Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom which, frankly, shows a real lack of creativity. Couldn't the ladies have shown a little more imagination than picking the two actors already paired together in the biggest picture of the year?

FOR YOUR VIEWING PLEASURE
At the box office this weekend, those of you in LA and New York can check out Steve Carell playing a jilted gay lover in Little Miss Sunshine. If you're looking for something a little more action oriented and lot more mindless, Colin Farrell is starring in the film version of Miami Vice. That one has Oscar contender written all over it, no?

Your options on DVD are substantially more promising this coming week. First is V for Vendetta out on August 1. Adapted from the graphic novel by Alan Moore, V still ranks as one of the best big budget movies to include a gay storyline I've ever seen. Check out our review of it here. Also out this week is WTC View, Brian Sloan's new movie about a gay man trying to find a roommate in the harrowing days after 9/11.

On this week's episode of Work Out, Jackie's homophobic, born-again Mormon mother drops in for a visit. Turns out Jackie's girlfriend and mom don't particularly like each other. Really? There's a shocker. Actually, I continue to be pleasantly surprised by the show. Yes, it's filled with pretty people. Hello? It's called television! But Work Out continues to explore surprising issues, such as Jackie's struggle whether or not to freeze her eggs, how to find some way to come to terms with her mother's right to be homophobic, or how best to help a very overweight woman avoid the drastic consequences of undergoing gastric bypass surgery. Plus, Jesse is so nice to look at.

SORRY, BUT THE WEDDING IS OFF
On a personal note, this coming February Brent and I will celebrate our fifteenth anniversary. (We started dating when we were eleven. Prove otherwise, I dare you!) To mark the occasion, we were going to get married thanks to Washington State's Supreme Court recognizing same-sex marriage this past Wednesday. The only problem is the court didn't recognize that right. They didn't even direct the state legislature to create the “separate, but equal” institution of civil marriages. Instead, they used very twisted logic about procreation to reserve the institution for straight people only.

So to Justices Gerry Alexander, Charles Johnson, James Johnson, Barbara Madsen, and Richard Sanders who voted for discrimination, let me say congratulations on aligning yourself with history's segregationists, bigots, and other shortsighted folks who belong in the rubbish bin of history. I only hope you live long enough to see history judge you.

And to Justices Bobbe Bridge, Tom Chambers, Mary Fairhurst, and Susan Owens, you're all invited to our wedding when freedom and justice for all actually means something.

Now I'll shut up so you can have the BEST.GAY.WEEK.EVER!

That's it for this week! Check back next Friday for a new installment of Best. Gay. Week. Ever., or read previous installments here.

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