Best. Gay. Week. Ever. (March 30, 2007)

LOST CAN GET LOST
Just like the Lost podcast promised last week, Thursday night's episode of the show revealed Lost's gay character to be Boone (Ian Somerhalder). And wow! Wasn't it worth the wait to see Lost finally add such a breakthrough gay character! I'm still reeling from amazement!

Okay, Boone wasn't gay so much as bisexual. And he's been dead for a long while and probably won't be appearing too much more because of that little inconvenience. And we learned he's bisexual not because he confessed his deep, abiding love for Jack or because he had a heartfelt coming out scene, but because of one line of dialogue in a flashback. In the flashback he's in the airport when his stepsister Shannon criticizes him for hitting on every cute guy he sees. That's it. He doesn't even hit on a hot flight attendant. And did I mention Boone had the hots for Shannon? So that's the gay character Lost finally coughs up for us after all these years. Puh-leeze.

I guess we should be grateful that Boone is dead and we won't be seeing anymore of his stopping to hit on every guy. Or his sister. Or both. Of course, now Somerhalder will get an Advocate cover and a GLAAD award, but I'm not complaining. Much.

SPEAKING OF THE GLAAD AWARDS
The Flying Monkeys tried to attend the GLAAD awards, but even though I dressed them in their cute little tuxes, they couldn't get past security. But they did report all of the beautiful people were there including Jennifer Hudson, Patti LaBelle, and the really, really beautiful Tom Ford. (To see lots of pics visit New Now Next. Of course, the GLAAD awards aren't just about being beautiful (though it sure helps...), but about honoring the mainstream media for their portrayal of the GLBT community to mainstream America.

So who did the best job of presenting in the mainstream media? It's no surprise that Project Runway won Outstanding Reality Program or Scissor Sisters won Outstanding Music Act. But some of the less sexier winners include Frank Rich for Outstanding Newspaper Columnist, Ben de la Cruz, Pierre Kattar and Sholnn Z. Freeman for Outstanding Digital Journalism, and Marc Jacobs for Outstanding Advertising—Print. For a complete list of winners go here.

For a quick laugh about the controversy concerning GLAAD's decision to exclude content by non-mainstream providers (that would be Logo [who owns AfterElton.com] and here!), check out Stephen Colbert's very funny take!