Morning Meme: Lance Bass For NY Marriage, John Cena Is Just Misunderstood.

I’m going to do something I don’t normally do: Go over to this disgusting, cowardly, unsigned editorial against New York marriage equality in the NY Post and read the comments. Because the comments are great.

One of those Real Housewives people, Bethenny Frankel, is filming a talk show pilot, and evidently Ellen DeGeneres is backing it. While I wish Ellen all the best, I have Bravo blocked on my cable box just so I never come in contact with these women. Now they’re spreading.

Evidently piercing cats to make them look goth is a thing. It’s also animal cruelty according to the judge.

Remember those gay, musical monster movies from your youth? No? You will if you catch I Was a Teenage Werebear at Frameline. Oh, and by the way, I’m cheating on you guys.

This story about United/Continental and how they handled the luggage of a gay couple is terrible. It also has a picture that might be NSFW. You’ve been warned you may be both angry and embarrassed.

Joshua Jackson (forever Pacey) and Melissa McCarthy (Mike & Molly) will be up early July 14^th to read the Emmy nominations.

The Book of Mormon cast recording skyrocketed to the #3 position on Billboard, largely spurred by the Amazon $1.99 sale. It’s the highest charting Broadway album since record began. But can we trust the charts with pricing stunts like this?

HBO is developing The Viagra Diaries into a series for Goldie Hawn. I adore Hawn, and would watch just about anything she chose to do. But I do fear a lot of old people sex from the title, and if I wanted to see that, I could just put a mirror on the ceiling.

I’m excited to see Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s documentary The Last Mountain, because I’m very against the mountaintop removal it’s fighting. In West Virginia, at the rate we’re destroying our beautiful mountains to get coal out cheaply, we’ll eventually be as flat as Kansas. These are scars on the earth you can see from space.

Will Hugh Jackman play Jean Valjean in the movie version of Les Miserables? Should he?

Marriage equality sailed through the New York State Assembly yesterday, but still appears to be one vote short in the Senate, which spent four hours in conference yesterday while the Republicans tried to decide if they will even allow it to come to a vote.

Weird Al Yankovich skewers Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, Pink and Britney Spears on his new album. This is in keeping with him poking fun at the biggest songs around, so fangirls stand down, this is not an emergency.

I wonder how bruising it is to Russell Crowe’s ego that now he’s not considered for the part of Superman, but of Superman’s father?                                                  

Are blow up dolls more dangerous than guns? I guess it depends on what you’re doing when they pop. Admittedly, the kid was dumb, but the law here is dumber.

Madonna is headed back into the recording studio this summer.  Are we still excited about that?

This would be a good time for progressive Christians in Kentucky to speak up.

Michelle Bachman thought a former nun who tried to talk to her about gay rights was kidnapping her and ran screaming from the room. And that’s really one of her saner moments.

“Persons of interest” have been identified in the mugging and beating of Washington Blade reporter Chris Johnson in Rehobeth Beach over Memorial Day weekend.

The U.S. Department of Education has issued guidance that the Equal Access Act applies to Gay-Straight Alliances, and schools must treat all student organizations equally.

Jaleel White says that as he got older, the tight, high-waisted pants he wore as Family Matters' Urkel became a problem as he developed noticeable bulges. The network sent notes.

For some reason, I don’t find it odd at all that Freddie Mercury had a piano as a headboard to his bed. But I find it a bit of a stretch that “Bohemian Rhapsody” was Mercury coming to terms with being gay and his abandonment of his previous identity.

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