Morning Meme: Chicago Bulls' Joakim Noah Screams "F*ggot," "I Was A Teenage Wearbear," and Has Lady Gaga Made Gay a Brand?

What I find most stunning about Why Lady Gaga's 'Born This Way' May Save the Music Industry isn’t the staggering amount of money that’s

generated around Mother Monster.  It’s that at the top of the article there’s a picture of Lady Gaga surrounded by brand logos she works with – Polaroid, Estee Lauder, Spring, Virgin Mobile, and… a rainbow flag. Gay is a brand now?

A high school sophomore who challenged Tea Party favorite Michelle Bachman to a debate on the Constitution has been getting death threats for her trouble. Some of those “real Americans” are even threatening to rape her.

Should we be boycotting straight weddings on principle, even for our oldest friends? Probably not unless we don’t want to have any friends. But we can definitely shop at the low end of the registry.

Yesterday, Harvey Milk would have been 81-years-old. And yesterday, the Trevor Project opened a call center upstairs from the HRC gift shop, in what was once Harvey’s iconic camera shop.

Brad Pitt’s Tree of Life won the Palm d’Or at Cannes. Naturally Terrence Malick didn’t show up to collect the trophy.

TV Line is down to the final vote for the all-time favorite American Idol performance, and it’s Kelly Clarkson’s “(You Make Me Feel) Like a Natural Woman” vs. Adam Lambert’s “Mad World.” I think the Glamberts can take her.

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides “bombed” at the domestic box office, plundering only $90.1 million for the weekend. But overseas it took no prisoners, raking in over $256 million.

Japan decided they had suffered enough and deported Russell Brand when he went to attend his wife, Katy Perry’s concerts.

The FDA has approved their first new HIV pill in three years. Johnson & Johnson’s Endurant is an alternative to Atripla, for people for whom Atripla has ceased working. It will likely be paired with Truvada later in the year for a complete treatment, which will then make it cost so much money no one will be able to afford it.

About the only disaster that happened on Rapture day was a volcano erupting in Iceland, which was surely caused by them having a lesbian Prime Minister.

I love monkeys, and a monkey in a dress should be a slam dunk for me, especially on the red carpet. But this just wasn’t her color.

As prom season winds down, one metro area found acceptance for same-sex prom dates varied wildly by school. But I’m so proud of some of these kids.

You probably read that the Minnesota House decided to pass a bill putting a Constitutional ban on gay marriage on the 2012 ballot. When Stephanie wrote her Minnesota Rep. Tony Cornish using an HRC form to protest, she got a response: Rep. Tony Cornish said "Give it a rest!!!!!!!!!!" Really responsible to his constituents, isn't he?

Chicago Bulls center Joakim Noah undid most of last week’s progress of gay acceptance in sports by screaming “f*ck you faggot” to a fan during a game with the Miami Heat.

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