• Dance badboy Matthew Bourne (he of the all-male Swan Lake) talks about the matter-of-fact gay couple in his highly sexualized Carmen adaptation, The Car Man (recently revived): "You do mid-week matinees, you get a sea of grey hair, but they love it. They're as open to it as anyone else, they love the raunch."
• Candace Trunzo apologizes for the "not normal" gay kiss captioning in Star, and it's actually one of the more believable things I've read come from magazine.
• Baby meets bathwater, yet again: Philly school district prefers to remove all "special month" designations (like Black History Month and such) rather than deal with hubbub over Gay and Lesbian History Month. Next up: school district decides to remove all students from school rather than deal with gay and lesbian students.
• Courtney Love is glad that we gays are over the vogueing thing and have found our rock-and-roll souls, and she wants to party with us. At least, I think -- I haven't used my crazy person spelling decoder ring on it yet.
• Gay-fave Johnny Depp to play Barnabas Collins in the big-screen Dark Shadows movie?!! Why am yelling?! Oh right -- because that's AWESOME!
• Our pal scribegrrrl over at AfterEllen.com cobbled together all the gay-related bits of the much-touted Kyle XY episode from earlier in the week. It's even better than TiVo!
• Don't forget to check out this week's joint BEST.GAY.WEEK.EVER. column, in which Michael and I share roving reporter duties and bring you some dish from the TCA Conference and the Design Star premiere party (we hit the star-studded cocktail parties so you don't have to!), as well as other gay tidbits for the week. Have a great weekend!

Friday

Late Night with Conan O'Brien (NBC) 12:35 AM EDT
Emmy-nominated actor Neil Patrick Harris is a guest on tonight's show. I wonder if they'll talk about NPH's sweetie's rumored move-in.

Saturday

Camp Out (Logo) 9:00 PM EDT
Ten teenagers spend their summer at the first LGBT Christian youth camp in this documentary premiering tonight.

Graham Norton (BBC America) 10:00 PM EDT
This weeks guests include Little Britain's Matt Lucas, Andrew Lloyd Weber and a performance by Sinead O'Connor. I'm very curious what the meeting between Norton and Lucas will be like.

Kyle XY (ABC Family) Midnight EDT
This is your chance to catch "Free to be you an me" a gay-friendly episode where controversy erupts over gay students who want to attend a school dance.

Sunday

Big Brother (CBS) 8:00 PM EDT
With Dustin set as Head of Household who will he nominate? More importantly, will he be able to keep that power from going to his head? (Seems unlikely since it happened to every other HoH.)

The Kill Point (Spike TV) 9:00 PM EDT
The second part of the hostage crisis miniseries we told you about on Wednesday debuts tonight in its regular time.

Earlier this week ABC Family's sci-fi teen mystery Kyle XY aired a gay-friendly episode in which the main characters learned a lesson about discrimination against same-sex couples. The response from gay and lesbian viewers was one of pleasant surprise, although the haters of course came out full-force on the show's message boards with the usual bigoted rhetoric in tow.

AfterEllen.com's Malinda Lo had the opportunity to nab Julie Plec, supervising producer/writer of Kyle XY, at yesterday's TCA conference and get a few comments on the episode and series in general, and we're tickled to be able to share it here.

AfterElton.com: The episode, "Free To Be You and Me," was so positive and so inclusive, and I was wondering if Kyle XY would ever take the next step and have a gay character on the show.
Julie Plec: I think that it's always a possibility. I mean, I'm a big believer that what you never want to do is … just introduce a gay character for the sake of having a gay character. You really want it to be born out of who that character is and what they're going through in life. And because we're a tight-knit group of seven, it would take a lot of time to evolve the ability to bring somebody like that into their life so that it's not just the guest star of the week. I love it when they do it on other shows because it's very important, but to just kind of like, "Hey guess what? This character is coming out, and it's very painful," and you know we'll never see them again — I don't want to do it that way. I think that as seasons go on, there's always the possibility of that, because I think a positive portrayal in television is like sort of the most important thing we can do. We got hammered on some of the chat boards for that.

AE: Did you really? I was wondering if you got any negative feedback.
JP: There was a surprising reaction to what was considered an amoral presentation of the gay agenda, like pushing the gay agenda. … You know, the angry kind of response … it's what you would expect, but I was really surprised and disappointed … because I thought it was such an innocent, positive portrayal, deliberately not heavy-handed and deliberately not guest star of the week-based. Just, you know, a nice story about Kyle who is a person without judgment, without bias, who innocently wouldn't even think anything would be any different than anybody else. I was surprised.

Thanks to our readers, we learned that this week's Kyle XY included a gay-themed storyline, with a controversy breaking out at Kyle's school over gay students at a dance. The series focuses on a mysterious teen with no memory (or belly button, for that matter) who therefore needs to re-learn how society functions. It's been noted for its very frank discussions on sexuality and drugs, earning Kyle XY a TV-14 rating.

Unsurprisingly, the gay-friendly episode has riled up a few viewers, as can be seen at the Kyle XY message boards:

I was under the impression that ABC Family was designed for family viewing ... wholesome family viewing but apparently not! Just when I thought I had found a safe and semi-clean program to watch in KYLEXY you turn it into all the illicit behavior that most parents are trying to teach their children to stay away from!!

It is just me, or does writing it as "KYLEXY" sound like something that'd better fit on late-night Cinemax?

Unfortunately, the discussion immediately turns into the kind of shouting match that has me avoiding message boards at TV shows' official websites. Still, I am curious about what could have offended "missbettiefay63" considering that Kyle XY has to this point followed the lead character's sexual maturing with the honesty of a Judy Blume novel. And honestly -- if this person is getting all wound up over what sounds like a fairly innocuous gay-friendly episode, we hope for her sake she doesn't catch any of ABC Family's newest sex-and-booze-filled morality gauntlet, Greek. Poor bird might have a coronary.

The episode in question, "Free To Be You and Me" airs again tomorrow night at Midnight. I've been hearing good things about Kyle XY, so this gives me a good excuse to finally check it out.

It has been announced that ABC Family gay-fave (unexpected combo, right?) Kyle XY, which stars Matt Dallas as the mysterious, navel-less, titular teen, will be returning to the tube on June 11th. Fans of Dallas and of the show can read a few more spoilery predictions in this article -- but we'll mention that in this season Kyle explores the extent of his powers, winds up back at the Trager household, and gets a love interest (we're gonna go ahead and guess that it's a young lady).

Fans of Dallas might be interested to learn that he once played gay in the direct-to-video 80's horror spoof Camp Slaughter, which involves a group of modern-day teens who get stranded at a haunted summer camp that is forced to relive the same night over and over again -- the night back in the 80's when all the campers were killed.

Dallas's thoroughly modern gay teen, Mario, falls for one of the boys from the 80's -- and in true slasher style, things soon take a turn for the worse. Though obviously shot on a shoestring, the movie's got a fun premise and is worth checking out if you're a fan of Dallas. Here's a scene, to wet your whistle...

(Click READ MORE for the clip of Dallas in his gay horror movie role!)