Morning Meme: Friendly Fire Strikes Mitcham and Roberts In Oz, Danny Miller Gets Good News, and Katy Perry Wins

Plus James Franco's baby face, sex advice from young Republicans, and milk does Sofia Vergara's body good.

Over the weekend Aussie Olympic swimmer Stephanie Rice exclaimed “Suck on that faggots!” on Twitter when Australia triumphed over South Africa. I awoke Sunday morning to out rugby player Ian Roberts not accepting her apology, out comedian Tom Ballard joking about it, and out Olympic diver and all around cutie Matthew Mitcham trying to add context.

Mitcham knows Rice, and says “To those asking for my opinion (inc. media): I know a lot of ppl are upset by what Steph Rice said. I agree, it was offensive & very thoughtless, but being friends with her for 2yrs, I know she is not homophobic. She meant no malice, & she has apologised for her careless comment posted in the excitement of the moment. That's enough for me to forgive a friend. Now I have to focus on my exam tomorrow. Eep!” Update:Rice has lost her endorsement deal with Jaguar over the incident. I'd go buy one of their cars to thank them, but they're expensive.

As we begin the final countdown on As the World Turns, Eric Sheffer Stevens reflects on LuRe and how the show treats gay characters. And he’s not pleased with the lack of sex for LuRe, “Listen, you and I have talked about this before — their love story is not a natural progression. And it’s because it’s a gay storyline. LuRe doesn’t move in a natural way a normal couple would progress. Um, given that, I have nothing more to say about that. It’s not [fair].”

The New Zealand musical Songs for Guy has opened, and the premise is simple – re-writing pop songs to be sung by a guy, to a guy. The show's writer Kip Chapman says his straight friends are always asking him if there’s anything in the show for them. He tells them that’s what he wonders every time he walks into a standard guy-meets-girl-love story. But “If people come along and see that love is just love, that really is the most powerful thing."

If you had already “liked” us on Facebook, you would have seen snicks’ 20 of the hottest tennis players of all time, and the debate on whether he should have included John McEnroe.

Danny Miller picked up two TV Choice Awards over the weekend for his portrayal of Aaron on Emmerdale. He won Best Soap Actor, and his coming out storyline won, well, Best Storyline. Somebody call Bruce Vilanch, because this awards show obviously needs a writer, if only to title their categories.

This letter to the editor of the New York Times about Ken Melhman’s coming out will make you cry ... or you’re more heartless than I am, and if that’s the case I’m not sure how you’re still alive.

Meanwhile, this excerpt from a Patton Oswalt comedy routine explains the basic issues with conservatives and gays, and just how illogical it is. I’m not a fan of Oswalt at all, and I really don’t like the windup he uses to get to this rather profound NSFW punchline, but the rightness of what he says can’t be denied.

The New York Times used multiple investigative reporters to discover that Christwire.org is satire, which I think we told you many months ago. But hey, maybe they had to cut down the tree, pulp it to make newsprint, fuel the trucks, and deliver the papers.

They also bring us the breaking news that Japanese artist Murakmi’s creations Kaikai and Kiki will be terrifying  40-foot balloons in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Vulture has named Katy Perry their Stupidest Thing of Summer. I nominate her for the decade.

The latest study of brand reputations shows that Target has taken a major hit to their name value since donating to the anti-gay MN Forward PAC. They had started to recover after the initial gay press furor died down, but that was when the “lamestream media” picked up the story, and it looks like the damage may be permanent.

This three pages of Sex Advice from Young Republicans was dumber than Megan McCain’s latest parrot-box talking points, but page three broke new ground for equality when having a three-way.

Blah, blah blah, rally against marriage equality. Blah, blah, Tony Perkins on Prop 8 ruling, “If (the ruling) stands, in one generation we will have gone from banning the Bible in public schools to banning religious beliefs in society.” Not sure how he gets that, unless he doesn’t get this.

Stevie Nicks says her upcoming album is some of her best work ever, “At a certain point, I'm going to get too old for this, but making this album really shows that I'm not done yet.”

 Sometime around January or February we’ll get to see the Lady Gaga-designed Polaroid camera, of which “the design's pretty wacky.” We would expect nothing less.

TV Guide has an exclusive image of John Stamos in scrubs poised over the open mouth of Matthew Morrison from the Britney Spears episode of Glee. He also spills that he’s in the Rocky Horror episode, but not what character he’s playing.