Morning Meme: Sean Hayes Is a Stooge, Alec Mapa Wins In "The Winner Takes All" and k.d. lang Says "I Confess"

Sean Hayes is set to play Larry in The Three Stooges, joining Will Sasso as Curley. I’ll be honest, if any of the Stooges ever pinged my gaydar it was always Curley, but I can see Hayes in this role – he’s a great physical comedian.

Don’t get any ideas, Mr. Jensen.

Texas is pushing a bill that would require any university that has a GLBT studies program to spend an equal number of dollars promoting heterosexual studies. I just hope they wrote the law as reciprocal, because I’d love to see a bunch of liberal academics decide to explain how 99% of everything in the world promotes heterosexuality, so they need to dump billions into gay studies to equal things out.

Voting opens today fo the MTV O Music Awards, and some of your favorites are up. Head on over and make the gay voice heard!

Torchwood is still the same show, just with a much, much bigger budget thanks to the Starz partnership. All the John Barrowman quotes are fantastic, but I’m sure what you want to know is “And the notoriously bi-sexual tension?" "Jack will have his little dabblings and the audience will get exactly what they want. And I had a lot of fun doing it!’”

Pixar has pushed the release of Monster University, the Monsters, Inc. prequel back to 2013.

In an attempt to build a patent portfolio so large that no one can ever think of suing for infringement again, Google has logged an opening bid of $900 million for the intellectual property of Nortel.

RuPaul has an explanation for critics that RuPaul’s Drag Race favors the high fashion queens rather than the campy ones. “What we're looking for is someone who can really follow in my footsteps: Someone who can be hired by a company to represent their product, someone who can put together a sentence on television and present themselves in the most incredible way.” Which makes sense, even if I wish it wasn’t like that.

Just as Sir Elton John goes on late night and tells the musical Glee haters to get over themselves, Ryan Murphy comes out and sounds positively contrite in regard to the Kings of Leon. Frankly, I think he’s been possessed, because I’ve never known him to be that polite.

Playbill has an awesome photo gallery of Tony Kushner’s The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Key to the Scriptures. I wish I lived in New York City. And made enough money to go to plays.

After Patton Oswalt retweeted bad reviews of Charlie Sheen’s Detroit show, Sheen loyalists have been brutal on the gay friendly comic, and called him "jealous," a "homobiker," and "Kevinjames nuts shiner [sic]."

A plug for Statler and Waldorf. The Muppets in the balcony conceived by out Muppeteeer Richard Hunt need your votes to beat Super Grover in the Muppet Madness tournament.

A woman attacked a painting in the Gauguin exhibit in the National Gallery, screaming “This is evil” and later justified her actions towards the $80 million painting Two Tahitian Women as being “very homosexual. I was trying to remove it. I think it should be burned.”

In possibly the worst sounding movie in history (so bad that if it had been announced Friday I would have presumed a joke), Will and Jaden Smith are going to star in a dark science fiction movie by M. Night Shyamalan.

But in what’s shaping up to be an incredibly sexy movie, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth are set to star as the male leads in The Hunger Games.