Best. Gay. Week. Ever. (April 4, 2008)

THIS WEEK'S COLUMN BROUGHT TO YOU BY PROZAC
Last week's column elicited suggestions that I was perhaps being a tad bit harsh (see: Jack, Captain. Cooper; Gwen) and angry.

I honestly didn't feel angry, but I promise this week's column will be like wrapping yourself in a warm, fuzzy blanket while drinking a mug of hot cocoa as your grandpappy reads you Goodnight, Moon. And if anyone says otherwise you're a *!@# *&#$% and **@$!^@#. So there.

CLIK MAGAZINE CLICKS OFF
Rod 2.0 has some rather sad news about CLIK Magazine: the leading periodical for black gay, bisexual and transgender men will stop publication. In a farewell posted on the magazine's website, publisher and editor Dwight Powell says they have "reached the end of the road" after ten years of publication. Rod indicates that there are plans for the magazine to return down the road — which would be a very good thing.

Dwight Powell, center

HEATH LEDGER WOULD'VE BEEN TWENTY-NINE TODAY
Pretty much everything there is to say about what a waste Heath Ledger's death is has already been said. I imagine his roles as Ennis Del Mar in Brokeback Mountain and The Joker in The Dark Knight will be the ones he's most remembered for. We can only wonder what else he might have done.

You can visit this online remembrance site for Heath if you've got something you'd like to say.

Heath as Ennis Del Mar and as The Joker.