Sir Ian McKellen has been at the forefront of the marriage movement for years, and has been fairly vocal about the fact that his career got better when he came out. So he's been good for visibility, and good for the fight. So I'm going to give him some leeway in this "quote" from the NY Post where he seems to advocate taking to the streets to "break windows." There's more than one ellipsis in that quote, and I'm betting we're missing something.

Amongst primetime male television stars, Simon Cowell is the top earner, raking in $75 million last year. Donald Trump came in second, and Ryan Seacrest came in third with $38 million. Which he's gonna need to feed his new housemate.

The Washington Post ran an interesting piece in support of marriage equality, and how it will be good for straight marriages by keeping unhappy homos from marrying heteros, making both people miserable eventually. Wait - both people miserable, isn't that just marriage?

When I first got the news that a gay man, George Smitherman, was running for Toronto mayor I was excited. That's a pretty large city after all. But then I heard he had previously been a Canadian cabinet minister but might have left that much bigger post over a scandal. Then I read that the scandal wasn't really about corruption but about a failed computer system that we can't build in America either. So now I don't know if this mayoral run is a good thing or not. Can a Canadian please explain it to me? 

Christine Baranski is going to make another appearance on my favorite thirty minute comedy, The Big Bang Theory. I'm covering this because I have the firm belief that anything Christine Baranski does, she does for gay men. Gossip Smurf doesn't have a clue about her story on the show, but he's trying to spin it that she sleeps with Sheldon. I don't buy it - Sheldon reproduces by budding - like a sponge.

Tracy Morgan had a stand up gig at Carnegie Hall Friday night, and folks that were expecting his "aww, shucks" humor from 30 Rock were stunned at his dirty humor. People walked out of the show, though it's unclear whether it was him joking about the Obamas making a sex tape, or saying homosexuality is a choice.

The U.S. Supreme Court has reinstated the death penalty against Robert J. Van Hook, who murdered a man he met in a gay bar in 1985. An appeals court had overturned the death penalty sentence based upon 2003 case law. 

Joe Cada chose to play poker instead of going to college. Well, the $8.5 million he just won in the World Series of Poker will buy a degree or two. The 21 year-old just became the youngest champion the tournament has ever had, with his mom looking on.

I'm somewhat sick of writing about American struggles for gay rights to a global audience that comes here for entertainment news, so I'm going to condense some things. Rep. Barney Frank says they'll deal with Don't Ask, Don't Tell repeal when they do the next Pentagon budget - for 2011. Rhode Island's governor is such a homophobe, he vetoed a bill that would have let the partners of gays and lesbians make funeral arrangements. Washington, D.C. moves a step closer to marriage equality when the bill was passed by committee. 

Repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell is going to be a necessity, since the American Family Association (the folks boycotting The Gap over not using the word "Christmas" - they get around) has a blog up calling for all Muslims to be kicked out of the American military. All 20,000 of them. Somewhere, I have a feeling the Klu Klux Klan is going "Damn, that's racist!"

There's a prequel to Pride, Prejudice, and Zombies out, and it's called Pride, Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls. There's nothing gay about it, but I love the book cover.

Brazil has had a failure at a massive hydroelectric dam and has plunged half the country into darkness. Awesome picture of Copacabana Beach at the link.

So Berlin has closed an old airport, and has a huge space open by the city. What to do with it? How about build the world's largest man made mountain and have tourism and parks on it? One architect thinks it's the perfect solution. Nobody has a clue how to do it, or if it's environmentally sound, how much it would cost, or where the materials would come from, but a bunch of people are excited.

Esquire Magazine has released an Augmented Reality edition this month, which could be really cool and sexy. But it's not. Basically, they put a bunch of weird barcodes all over the magazine, and if you show them to their software through a webcam, you get interactive video you can control by tilting the barcode. No word on how you see the video while holding the magazine in from of your screen for the webcam to read it.

Breaking news out of Utah has the Salt Lake City Council unanimously passing anti-discrimination laws for GLB person in housing and employment after the Mormon Church suddenly endorsed the idea. There's been rumor Dustin Lance Black's Prop 8 documentary is so powerful, the church actually felt they had no choice.

Video Meme

We've got a selection of video that didn't seem to fit anywhere else, but we felt your lives would be better for having seen.   

Miss J. Alexander, of American's Next Top Model fame (and the teaser pic), has a new book, Follow The Model, which comes out today. And when he was on Tyra today, we found out he has something else: a son. It's not his biological child, as he and his ex-boyfriend sort of stirred up their batter for a French lesbian, but he's actively involved in the child's life, and see if the pictures of the two together don't make you go Aww!

Yesterday, Disney's Up came out on video. In honor of that event, enjoy this CollegeHumor.com parody of the life of the Pixar lamp, Luxo.

Finally, enjoy this video of a cat and a breakdancer, and try and have a better day than they did. The cat, I understand, is fine, btw, so hold the hate mail.