Best. Gay. Week. Ever. (September 18, 2009)

It's been quite a week out there in the pop culture landscape and we know you have a lot of choices when it comes to which websites you choose to visit. And we find it very flattering that week after week so many of you decide to come to AfterElton.com.

In fact, we'd like to take a moment to say we actually feel quite honored that you choose ... What are you doing? Excuse me!

Wait a minute! I'm talking! Don't push—

Well, that was certainly rude!Now I know how poor Taylor Swift felt!

Now this is how I like my Eggs! True Blood's Mehcad Brooks recently had this to say to Honey Mag about folks who oppose gay marriage:

I find it really offensive. I just find it really problematic when you start throwing people’s rights away. Until we get our gay brothers and sisters back into a realm of consciousness that everyone else is in, it’s just not right. A woman who’s getting married — it’s probably going to be a gay man who made her dress, and a gay man who’s doing her hair and makeup, but he can’t get married. How messed up is that?

Let's just hope he still feels that way even after Alan Ball killed off his character! 

Seattle's brilliant local paper The Stranger recently contacted donors to the referendum trying to overturn Washington state's domestic partner laws. The Stranger's gay reporter asked four donors, Why do you hate me? The responses he ranged from the expected "I don't hate you, I love you!" to the "defending the institution of marriage" bullcrap all the way out to the total nutty such as:

I don't [gay people]. Actually, they are the ones overturning police cars. When Harvey Milk was shot, the gay people in San Francisco just went crazy. They smashed in store windows and turned over cars. They tried to light fires. They are the ones doing the violence. They aren't getting beat up. If you want to look at haters, [the gays] are the haters, not the Christians.

Yeah, that's why you're voting on my rights. It's shocking how obsessed these people are with our sex lives, and it's even more shocking how ignorant they are about what they are even voting on.  

Earlier in the week, we reported that retired NBA player Tim Hardaway's foundation was doing a charity event to raise money for the gay teen youth organization The Trevor Project. The Miami Herald reports that Hardaway has come a long way from his "I hate gay people" days and now believes:

Gays and lesbians, we don't have to accept the act, but we have to accept them as people. Especially children, we don't want them to kill themselves. We want them to live their lives as they want to.

However, Hardaway still has some lockerroom issues, noting that when it comes showering "We have a right to know. We'd say, `How do you want to do this? Do you want to go into the shower first, or do you want me to go into the shower first?"

Uh, thanks, Tim, but I think I'll just go shower somewhere else.

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