Morning Meme: NOH8 For Isaiah Thomas, Gay Circus Clowns, Ryan Murphy's Big Deal, and Prop 8 Hits Sunday News Shows

Plus Jane Lynch to host SNL, Emma Thompson trash talks Audrey Hepburn, and Gareth Thomas is free!

If you’re in New York City tonight the Prop 8 ruling will be celebrated in true gay fashion, with a party at the night club Therapy. Hosts include hunky Nick Adams, Hunter Bell, Jose Llana, Jason Tam, and more.

A week after topping the Independent’s Pink List, Gareth Thomas does a feature interview where he admits to moments of doubt after he came out and had homophobic insults hurled from the field. But past that moment, "I'm beaming. I'm constantly beaming," he admits, flashing a toothy grin, reconstructed after rugby took away his real incisors. "I always thought the world was a horrible place and that justified me lying. But what I found is the world isn't a dark place... The truth has set me free."

Kikenny, the nastiest team to fling insults at out hurler Donal Óg Cusack, is holding a major grudge for Donal calling their fans “The GAA’s version of Stepford Wives.” Said Kikenny president Nickey Brennan, “Donal Og Cusack's book and his ungracious (and to be honest totally unnecessary) comments about Kilkenny hit a nerve, not just with the players, but with Kilkenny supporters at large. Those 'Stepford Wives' comments from the Cork custodian will continue to haunt him for as long as he is involved in Cork and Kilkenny clashes.” To me, that sounds like a threat.

On November 9^th you’ll be able to buy all seven seasons of the Golden Girls in a 25^th Anniversary Complete Collection – packaged in a replica of Sophia’s purse.

NBA legend Isaiah Thomas and his son, up-and-coming DJ Joshua Thomas are the latest celebrities to pose for the NOH8 campaign. We really can’t emphasize enough how having major athletes as allies can go to change minds. Plus, they’re both hot.

Emma Thompson was talking about the My Fair Lady remake she’s working on, and she’s going to raise some eyebrows with what she said about the original film, “I'm not hugely fond of the film. I find Audrey Hepburn fantastically twee. Twee is whimsy without wit. It is mimsy-mumsy sweetness without any kind of bite. And that's not for me. She can't sing and she can't really act, I'm afraid.”

Dan Swimer introduces you to the sitcom Grandma’s House, co-created by him and Never Mind the Buzzcocks presenter Simon Amstell. If the writing on the show is like the writing in the article, it will be either incredibly funny, or give on a headache. Probably vary from week-to-week.

The sci-fi site io9.com tries to explain Prop 8 through a science fiction lens, specifically that it’s about personhood and rights, where in the future it might be aliens, androids or AIs.

Adam Shankman is directing an episode of Glee, but he swears it’s not the one we think it is. Since I only know the musical themes of a few shows, I hadn’t really given it much thought.

Billy Murray is a clown. An actual facepainted, goofy clown, with Ringling Bros. “But I am an out clown, and proud of who I am, so I hope by talking about it I can get more people who are like me out to the show, and show me some support, and show some for the other performers who may be homosexual but may not be out as well.” That’s just a sentence that struck me as odd.

The Wachowskis  are starting to audition actors for Cobalt Neural 9, their “hard-R, gay soldier/Iraqi national” film. But they won’t let agents read the whole screenplay, just parts. The rest is a secret. This has everyone terrified, because it’s a hard-R film with a gay love story, and agents believe depending on content, it will be good or bad for their clients.  I can’t wait to see if they can find an up-and-comer to try the film, like a Liam Hemsworth. This challenges the whole Hollywood system around gay roles.

This article from the Daily Mail is one of the worst examples of stereotyping gay men I’ve ever read in my life, under the guise of a positive, fluffy, lifestyle piece. Don’t say I didn’t warn you when you read Why every mum should have a gay son.

Since we’re talking about crazy English people, the staff at Chessington World of Adventures donned scuba equipment to put a bikini on a statue of a mermaid in a walk-thru underwater tunnel after people complained teens spent too much time looking at her stone breasts. Never another word from Brits about Yanks being prudes. Go look at the pictures.

Robbie Williams married his actress fiancé over the weekend. If I live to be a hundred, I will never understand gay men’s fascination with Robbie Williams.

In a surprise move, Gov. Schwarzneggar filed with the court to not have the ruling against Prop 8 stayed and to have marriages resume in California.

Jane Lynch is going to host Saturday Night Live in October. I’ve never said this about SNL before, but this I’ve got to see!

The New York Times has a fawning profile of Ryan Murphy in advance of Eat Pray Love coming out this week. Julia Roberts admits she didn’t even know who he was when she agreed to meet him for the movie, “I fell totally under his spell. We’re sort of like best girlfriends now.”