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We've all heard offensive jokes, and some of us may have told jokes we thought were harmless but wound up receiving an "I don't think that's funny."

This week, Daniel confers with vlog star Joy Nash about gay jokes. Deciding what jokes pass inspection is no laughing matter. Well, actually, it is.

Check it out after the break!

Every week we pick the gays who we think have made the biggest splash in television (or pop culture in general) and leave it to you, the keepers of the flame, to decide who will be crowned Gay of the Week. We'll announce the winner on Friday, and that champ will reign until a new set of challengers are introduced the following week to try to steal his title.

Last week, we gave an honorary, in memoriam crown to "Friend of Dorothy (Zbornak)" Bea Arthur.  This week we've got four new contenders vying for the throne, including two from the same soap opera. Will they split their vote and open up a path to victory for either a flame-haired former ice skater, or a pair of globetrotting gay brothers?

Check them out after the break, and vote for your favorite!

"It might be Armageddon and all that, but my hair is fabulous!"

Everybody's favorite glam rocker lends his soaring pipes to the theme song for Roland Emmerich's latest end of the world blockbuster. Lambert's devastating vocals are a nice complement to the film's world destruction visuals. We've got the over the top music video after the break!

Jude Law and Robert Downey Jr. in Sherlock Holmes

Via our corporate parent MTV, we've got a first look at a new trailer for Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes. What is immediately apparent is that Sherlock (played by Robert Downey Jr.) has been turned into a kick-ass action star. 

They also seem to be having fun with the close living relationship between Holmes and crime solving partner Dr. Watson (played by a still painfully handsome Jude Law). The way these two bicker lovingly with one another it could almost be Hart to Hart set in the Victorian age.

Check it out after the break!

Our asshat nominees this time out included an NFL running back, a Canadian Prime Minister and his speechwriter, and two hatemongering groups trying to preserve "traditional marriage" by scaring voters in Maine & Washington.

The fear peddlers from Maine take the prize this week. 

Results after the break, as well as a suggestion as to how you can get involved in defending gay marriage in Maine. 

Dennis Hensley interviews four friends who all have new books out.

First up is Dave White. Dave's previous memoir was the hilarious Exile in Guyville. His new book is Love is a 4 Letter Word.

Next, Dennis speaks to Robert Rave, author of Spin. His novel is about a young male publicist trying to make it in New York. Perhaps not incidentally, Robert used to work as an assistant to Lizzie Grubman.

Our Alonso Duralde explains why his 101 Must See Movies for Gay Men makes for perfect bathroom reading.

Finally, Dennis talks to Derek Hartley (co-host of Sirius Satellite's The Derek & Romaine Show about his collection of essays, Derek's Collonade: A Life in Columns.

It's a very literary Driven to Distraction. Check it out after the break.

Every week we pick the gays who we think have made the biggest splash in television (or pop culture in general) and leave it to you, the keepers of the flame, to decide who will be crowned Gay of the Week. We'll announce the winner on Friday, and that champ will reign until a new set of challengers are introduced the following week to try to steal his title.

Last week, Irish hurler Dónal Óg Cusack deservedly took the crown for being one of the scant few professional athletes to come out while still active in their sport. This week we've got four new contenders vying for the throne, including one posthumous honorary nomination! (Well, two posthumous nominations if you count the gay character who's show just got canceled by NBC.)

Check them out after the break, and vote for your favorite!

In this helpful video clip from The Onion's Today Now, parenting expert Anna Stepehnson (author of Actually He's a Boy) explains the Halloween dilemma faced by families of effeminate boys:

"Unless you lock him in the house you run the risk that the ladyboy will sneak out on his own dressed as a ballerina. And you'll find him pirouetting on somebody's front porch with the whole neighborhood watching."

I sure wish they'd had helpful human interest stories like this when I was growing up. It might have spared us all from that unfortunate Tinkerbell costume debacle back in '79.

Video after the break.

Open relationships can be treacherous waters for a loving couple, but can it be done successfully? This week Daniel sits down with comedian Chip Pope and discovers that territory that seems to be "no holds barred" actually has some pretty significant do's and don'ts.

Could you handle the rules of an open relationship? Find out after the break!

Our asshat nominees this time out included a British newspaper columnist, a pair of heinous (or Heene-ous!) parents, Idi Amin's old stomping grounds, and a proudly homophobic singing hillbilly.

The British columnist takes the asshat crown. Did anyone give her a run for her asshat money?

Results after the break.