Morning Meme: Ricky Martin Takes Angelo Garcia to the Deep End, Old Spice Voicemail Generator, and Barrowman Goes Cruising

Plus Louis Van Amstel's sexy new look, a PSA from cats, and the degaying of Cholly and Flytrap.

The Kids Are All Right expanded to 38 screens this week and wasn’t able to maintain its record-breaking average from last week, but at $27,285/screen, it was still top dog over all the limited releases on a per-screen basis.

John Barrowman wrote a travelogue for the Daily Mail about the cruise he and Scott took with his parents to the Caribbean, and how much they enjoyed just staying on the ship and lying in the sun and hitting the spa. Granted, most people buy a t-shirt on their vacations, but John and Scott bought a villa on Antigua.

In their Withering Glance column, Rick Nelson and Scott Peck tell Minneapolis-St. Paul all the cool stuff they should be doing, wearing, and reading for the summer, and were kind enough to put AfterElton.com on the list. Hi, guys!

Did I mention that West Virginia appointed a temporary senator to replace the recently deceased Sen. Robert C. Byrd? Did I mention that Sen. Carte Goodwin is hotter than if Rep. Aaron Schock and Sen. Scott Brown had a love child?

I really can’t tell if this article is parody, or if they’re just nuts. Even when I nosed around the rest of the site, I had no idea if they were making fun of the right wing, or if they were just so far right TheOnion.com had to throw up their hands in defeat. Anyhow, here’s Baskin-Robbin Retires Flavors – Is Obama Responsible?

In Menudo, we know we had two gay members, recently out Ricky Martin, and “always out” Angelo Garcia. Angelo recently posted a picture of Ricky teaching him to swim when they were just kids.

Lady Gaga had the Westboro Baptist Church protesting her St. Louis concert, and took to Twitter to tell her Little Monsters not to engage or even acknowledge the protesters. What she said is a true work of art, even if it’s way over 140 characters.

I don’t know much about Marvel’s Cholly and Flytrap comic from the 1980s, but apparently Wilmer, who was an effeminate gay male, hasn’t just been degayed in the hardcover reissue, but has been turned into a girl, clumsily, because the character repeatedly tells people around her “But I’m a girl.” The new publisher Radical says it was a “creative, not editorial, change.”

Degrassi: The Next Generation continues to break new ground, beginning a storyline with Adam, who presents as a boy even though he was born a girl. This will be Degrassi’s first storyline about a transgender person, though they’ve been at the forefront of gay and lesbian storytelling from their beginning.

Movies That Could Be Improved By Bacon. Charlotte’s Web is my favorite, the poster is perfect.

I’m really not thrilled with this interview with The Real L Word creator Ilene Chaiken. She’s defensive about how trashy and wild the show is, and insults Gimme Sugar in the process. Then she busts out “The culture at large can handle gay men being funny, but I can't think of very many gay male characters in dramas.” In fact she’s fairly dismissive of shows with gay men throughout, like Queer as Folk. If you can’t support your own show without trashing everything in sight, maybe it’s unsupportable?

Comic-Con may be coming up, and Caprica may have a panel, but don’t expect SyFy to announce a renewal or cancellation. They’re probably saving the fate of our gay gangster for the Television Critic’s Association. Good thing editor Michael Jensen is going to that.

You can enter your phone number in the Old Spice Voicemail Generator, make a few selections, and seconds later you have an outgoing message from Isaiah Mustafa in that classic Old Spice cadence.

In this list of Mad Men’s Ten Sexiest Scenes, they managed to include Sal almost having sex with a bellboy at #10. I wonder if he could have made the Top Three if he’d gone through with it?

The I Write Like tool that says I write like either James Joyce or Dan Brown has been subjected to some analysis. Text from the most common authors was fed in, and while James Joyce does indeed write like James Joyce, Stephen King writes like Dan Brown, F. Scott Fitzgerald is like H.P. Lovecraft, and J.D. Salinger is like Arthur Conan Doyle. Not exactly consistent.

Over at Good As You, they’ve discovered that the National Organization for Marriage’s bus is adorned with stock photos of families, not actual families that support the hate group that has been drawing tens of people to their rallies.

You can vote for Danny Miller in the Inside Soap Awards 2010 for his work as Aaron.

The Jersey Shore cast that doesn’t get talk show appearances is refusing to film for the show unless they get better contracts. I think they overestimate their bargaining power.

Finally responding to critics of the racism evident in the Tea Party Movement, the Tea Party Federation has kicked out the Tea Party Express and leader Mark Williams over what has to be the most disgusting piece of racism written in the last 40 years. I wonder when they’ll tackle the homophobia?

This week the program Australia Story focuses on a housewife who has become an unlikely advocate for gay rights. The story will be introduced by “Farmer Dave” who came out on Big Brother.