Morning Meme: "Husbands" Doesn't Want To Be Britney, Hugh Jackman Trains Shirtless, and Is "Gossip Girl" Going Gay?

While we didn't see the rash of teen suicides this fall that 2010 brought, all is still not well for gay teens growing up in America. 14-year-old Jamey Rodemeyer has taken his own life after enduring years of bullying. No child should ever get to the point where they feel there is no hope, because then society has failed him. And Jamey went from hopeful enough to record an It Gets Better video to taking his own life in five months.

Disney has licensed Avatar from Fox and plans to create a large attraction for their theme parks centered around Pandora, with James Cameron consulting.

In a move that surprises me and well, everyone else, Madonna is reportedly recutting her movie, W.E. in response to critics at the festival screenings. Is she mellowing as she ages?

As someone who enjoys being single, I'm more than happy to celebrate National Single and Unmarried Americans Week. At a time when single people are constantly under attack, gay or straight, and being pressured to settle down and marry, it's good to know that the studies bear out that society would basically collapse if we all married and focused on our relationships.

We've had our issues with Cenk Uygur here at AfterElton.com, but we can't deny that they're at least willing to defend their opinions, no matter how wrong-headed they are. So I look forward to their voices coming to us every night on their new show on Current TV.

In what may be my favorite Aww! moment of Don't Ask, Don't Tell repeal news, Navy Lt. Gary Ross wed his husband Dan Swezy at the stroke of midnight in Vermont, in uniform.

A new MTV-Associated Press poll finds that most U.S. teenagers don't get offended with insults like "fag," "slut," and "retarded" when used online, especially when used inside their own social circles. When asked in broader terms about the use of the words, nearly all say that it is unacceptable, creating an interesting dichotomy.

Former MGM chief and staunch Republican Harry Sloan is perfectly all right with the Buffett Rule, requiring equity in taxation rates, and want the Republican party to stop defending the indefensible. "You guys are giving millionaires and billionaires a really bad name."

ABC has bought a television project from Nicholas Sparks, which means the beginning of the end of television. The Watchers is about a fallen angel searching for his human soul mate. Just a thought: wouldn't that have been easier when you still had your angel powers?

Brett Berk at Vanity Fair asked Harry Shum., Jr. and Ashley Fink who should  become the next topless poster child for Glee now that Chord Overstreet was gone. Shum voted not for himself (not that we're surprised) but for Kevin McHale. Ashley Fink went for Mark Salling, who has always been a bit clothing impaired on the show to start with. Find out what else Brett asked.

While Vulture loved the wording of the description for Arias with a Twist by another critic ("An hour of watching a drag queen get flushed down a toilet.”), they seem to think that this isn't a bad thing, and can be rather fabulous if the drag queen is Joey Arias.

Bill O'Reilly says he'll quit working if President Obama manages to enact the Buffett Rule for tax rate parity. So, have you called your Senators yet?

Speaking of O'Reilly, he allowed hateful anti-trans, junk science Dr. Keith Ablow to come on his show and claim that Chaz Bono wants to chop off Shiloh Jolie-Pitt's breasts. It really does make you rethink the First Amendment at times.

In what has to be the most misleading headline of the week, E! asked Which Gossip Girl Character Is Going Gay? Let's face it, the show teases gay more than the straight bartender at the gay club flirting for tips.

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