Morning Meme: Eric Balfour Fights For Equality, Whoopi Defends Tracy and What "Wet Hot American Summer" Almost Was

Hunky Matt Lanter was asked for a comment about his costar Trevor Donovan abruptly departing 90210. He doesn’t know why, either, “It’s a shame; [Trevor] did a beautiful job in his role. I don’t know the situation, but I think he’ll be back for a few more episodes.” That sounds like drama, but I think it’s just because Donovan reached the mandatory retirement age.

In weird weather news, a freaky heat pocket raised the temperature in Wichita 20 degrees in 20 minutes. The heartland of America seems to be having issues.

After hearing arguments on why Judge Walker should have recused himself from the Prop 8 trial because he’s gay and in a long-term relationship and based on the questioning, it’s extremely unlikely Judge Ware will rule against Walker.

Rep. Allen West (R - FL) is so anti-gay, he fired an intern that retweeted a Scissor Sisters tweet in response to Tracy Morgan. I’ll grant you, maybe retweeting Scissor Sisters from the official Congressional account wasn’t bright, but it probably was an accident.

Dave Rubin of Ben and Dave’s Six Pack got into a Twitter battle with Tracy Morgan’s best defender, Roland Martin at CNN. Martin’s smug superiority and dismissive attitude led to Rubin cutting the conversation short, but you can truly see the agenda Martin is advancing is better suited for Fox News.

Jon Favreau highlights why making Iron Man 3 is so complicated: How, once you’ve revealed Tony Stark to have assembled an unbeatable team in The Avengers, do you make a standalone movie? Did Tony lose their cell phone numbers so he can’t call for backup?

The Weinsteins have picked up U.S. distribution for Madonna’s latest project, W.E., about a New York woman who becomes obsessed with King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson.

This might possibly be of interest only to WV natives, but while I was down at WV Pride I met Bradley Milam, the first full-time employee for Fairness WV. Nice young man. He recently had an op-ed in the Charleston paper about the dangerous gay-baiting language being used to report on a controversial state official. Milam did a nice job of pulling together the facts.

Modern Family’s Ed O’Neill recently said he was asked to join HBO’s movie about Phil Spector, with Al Pacino and Bette Midler. But they only offered him scale, which is about $40,000 for six weeks of work. Setting aside that’s higher than the annual median income in the U.S. for a year, he has a point – Midler and Pacino aren’t working for scale. So he went to Hawaii instead. But it’s Rob Lowe’s reaction when he hears “scale” that’s the gem – he thinks $40,000 for six weeks is “exploiting.” But Chris Colfer looks distinctly uncomfortable.

Yesterday I mentioned that Gay Girl In Damascus was actually a 40-year-old American male. Now we have news that the editor of Lez Get Real, the popular lesbian interest blog is a 58-year-old male using his wife’s name without her knowledge.

Defense Secretary Gates says that he sees no reason that certification for repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell can’t happen this month, meaning full repeal would take effect sixty days later, well in advance of Republican bills to derail it. But there are still anti-gay amendments that must be fought.

And it turns out that the old “common wisdom” that beer is good for athletes is more true than we had believed, but only for non-alcoholic beer.

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