Morning Meme: Lee Daniels Honored, Lesbians for Justin Bieber, and Nick Youngquest - Unwaxed!

Plus Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Ed O'Neill on Modern Family's kissing controversy, and did Ellen kill American Idol?

GLAAD held their San Francisco Media Awards over the weekend. Among many recipients, Cybill Shepherd received the Golden Gate Award, Lee Daniels received the Davidson/Valenti Award, and Robert Hanson, the president of Levi Strauss America, received the Local Hero Award.

That had to feel good to Lee Daniels, who revealed that in his youth, his dad beat him, he was the object of bullies, and contemplated suicide.

Angelo Garcia, who was once the youngest member of Menudo, has come out as gay in TV Notas. This follows a recent nude photo shoot he did for gay magazine ParagonMen.

Rumor has it that Yahoo! is trying to buy Huffington Post, but if Huffington won’t sell, they’ll settle for a rich content licensing deal. Yahoo! remains the only tech company trying to become a newspaper retroactively.

Tip to major chain pubs: If you’re going to have a manager who makes homophobic comments, at least hire one smart enough not to do it to the GLBT group of a major political party who has a press department big enough to run national elections.

According to the New York Post, there are roving bands of lesbian Justin Bieber fans who call themselves “Biebians.”  Also, Harry Connick Jr. is a better father than I could ever be.

E.M. Forster quit writing once he started having sex with men at age 38. I have several really funny jokes that don’t work on a family blog.

Tea Party voters say gays are too powerful in politics for our percentage of the population. My question to them is “Based on what?”

AIDS consortiums in South Africa are upset that FIFA’s policy of “sponsors only” distributing products in World Cup venues prevents them from distributing free condoms. South Africa has the largest number of HIV positive people, with 5.7 million infected.

Congratulations to local hero Pauley Perrette, who has signed a new deal to keep bringing Abby to our televisions on NCIS.

This weekend was Gay Pride semi-locally in Charleston, WV. We were fortunate enough to have the paper run this editorial from a straight ally on why, and how, she fights for equality. In a small town, this is progress.

A straight man got tired of his homophobic family, so he came out as gay to them, even though he’s straight. They disowned him. I’m not sure that was the plan.

Ed O’Neill finds the Modern Family gay kissing controversy “half amusing, half annoying.” My issue at this point isn’t the lack of kissing, because I bought their plan when we asked them.  My issue is the rude dismissal the cast and crew has had with the concerns. I certainly find the show less interesting now.

Fox News probably mistook them as Tea Party protesters based on their misspelled signs, but they have a story on people protesting the National Spelling Bee, because they want the English language simplified. “Enough” should be spelled “enuf” according to these folks.

Carrie Fisher, who has had a few gay men in her life, is turning her one-woman show Wishful Drinking into an HBO documentary.

Brent Bozell has a huge piece over at Townhall.com decrying the “Glee Agenda.” If you guessed the “Glee Agenda” was the “homosexual agenda” to these people, then ding-ding-ding! It turns out those Neanderthals who tried to beat Kurt in the Lady Gaga episode are the victims. Gee, Ryan Murphy, do you think you want the fundamentalist Christians to have their own character?

Oh, and conservatives are saying Ellen Degeneres is the reason why American Idol's ratings were down 9% this year. Actually, they say it's because she's a lesbian. I thought it was because it didn’t have Adam Lambert.

Hey, Americans - you know how we picture rugby hunk Nick Youngquest, right? Smoking hot, oiled, sexy in the pages of Tetu or Attitude. Like this:

He's very pretty and shiny.

Thanks to some seriously active Twitter stalking on my part, and using out star Gareth Thomas as a fact checker for real accounts, I started following Vince Mellars, who combined with Gareth on a bus trip with Nick. This is what Nick looked like in the early morning at the hotel:

Hello, fuzzy!

You probably heard that Gossip Girl's Chace Crawford got arrested in the parking lot of a bar with a single joint. He posted bail for the misdemeanor possession charge and left. My question is this: Did they actually put him in a prison jump suit for that brief period, or was he just unfortunate enough to be wearing an orange shirt when he got popped?

At least he wasn't wearing stripes?

Someone print a new prop newspaper for television to use. This one goes back to Married...With Children at least, and was used as recently as Modern Family. Poor Ed O'Neill has had to read it on at least two different series. Is that Dallas at the bottom?!?!?!

Does that woman who has a picture in the paper get a royalty check?

One of the takeaways from this interview with Andy Bell from Erasure is that he's a little disingenuous. Don't get me wrong, Andy is hot for an aging rock star (rock stars don't age well), and the body is great. But if he's shocked that a 24-year-old might not want to fall into his bed, he's spent way too much time around groupies. Sure, some younger guys appreciate how good older guys can be in bed, but not all of them. So how good does Andy look? Check out the video for "Call On Me."

Yet another clip from Scott Pilgrim vs. the World surfaced on the MTV Movie Awards last night, and it has the advantage of having Michael Cera getting hit repeatedly with a skateboard. I know I should seek counseling for my anger issues with Michael Cera, but he's just awful.

They also released the first teaser trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. It has all the charm of the first half of the book, which is to say none. Don't get me wrong, I loved reading Harry Potter, but the first half of Deathly Hallows is bleak.