Pinkie Merengue Shimmer takes on Oscar's red carpet
Palm Springs drag queen Pinkie Meringue Shimmer takes on fashion at the Academy Awards and we have to agree about Beyonce. "Beyonce was BOOTY-LICIOUS. Oh my, she looked FABULOUS. What an incredible figure and that black dress!" As for the others, "there was this girl named Catalina Mereno, with some other name in between those two that I could not spell. Anyhow, did you see her? I swear it looked like she was wearing a backpack on her walk down the red carpet. Then I looked again and it was part of the dress! I tell you some of these people do not have a mirror."
Before Robin Williams presented the Best Animated Feature award at the Academy Awards last night, he paused to remove a large piece of white tape from his mouth, then proceeded to mock those who are connecting cartoon characters with pro-gay messages. "They tell me now that SpongeBob is gay. SquarePants is not gay. Tight pants maybe. SpongeBob Hot Pants? You go, girl!" We've told you about Dobson and others going after SpongeBob SquarePants claiming the character was designed "to desensitize very young children to homosexual and bisexual behavior." Williams went on to suggest suggested other cartoon characters throughout history may also have been gay. "What about Donald Duck? Sailor top, no pants. Hello?" Williams said. "Bugs Bunny. More dresses than J. Edgar Hoover at Mardi Gras. Hello?" Williams concluded.
Sex In The City star Cynthia Nixon has taken her newly found lesbian relationship with Christine Marinoni to the next level. We told you when she made the split with her live-in boyfriend Danny Mozes last November and started seeing Marinoni. The pair have been splitting their time between a house on the Upper West Side Nixon had shared with Mozes and Marinoni's apartment in Park Slope. Now the pair and Nixon's two kids, Samantha, 7, and Charles, 2, have gotten a place together in Brooklyn. A source 
We told you, thanks to a secret source at ABC, that Bree's son Andrew would be coming out on Desperate Housewives. Those of you who love the show as much as we do haven't forgotten Andrew being caught making out that night in the swimming pool, naked, with new character Justin. Sean Pyfrom, who plays Andrew on the ABC television series, had this to say though 
Eighties hottie Samantha Fox, who now goes by Sam, was in a car accident near Stockholm with her partner, Myra Stratton. "I'm lucky to be alive," Fox says. "The car veered out of control and flew into terrifying somersaults. We were flung around like rag dolls and lay trapped after it landed on its roof. I could smell petrol and was terrified it would explode." Firefighters pulled the women, two other passengers and the driver out of their 4x4. Fox was treated for whiplash and Stratton has a back injury. Everybody else is pretty banged up, too.
Married gay and lesbian couples criticized Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney's recent remarks to a group of South Carolina Republicans calling them "derogatory" and "disrespectful." Led by Julie and Hillary Goodridge, have requested a meeting to discuss his statement. "To us, it sounded as if you were using certain Massachusetts families either to garner applause or as a laugh line," said the letter. "We urge you to be more circumspect as you travel the country and remember that you represent all of the families of Massachusetts. To reduce gay families to a political talking point is not only unfair, it's mean-spirited." What did Romney say? [
We've told you that the new Dr. Who is coming to the BBC, but we didn't know that 
Eva Sfura of Griffith, Indiana, feared telling her mom, Maria, that she is lesbian. What Eva didn't know was that her mother would embrace her, literally and immediately. "You gave birth to this child. God gave you this gift," Maria says. "God put children on this earth for a reason and he gives you a responsibility to raise these children and he tells you to love them the way he has loved us. Anybody that can turn their back on their child is not a parent. How can you tell someone all these years, 'I love you,' and then turn it off like an electric switch." This happy ending brought to you by Queer Day.
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Kevin Millar, the scruffy first baseman for the Boston Red Sox, is going to become a project for Queer Eye's Fab Five. He is, however, setting some ground rules - like declaring that his ridiculous mullet is off limits. "They wanted to shave my head. I said no," Millar said yesterday. "I told them they could do something to my face, my toes, my nails, my wardrobe. But more so, we're going to make over the field." Millar's referring to a little league baseball field in a Florida hurricane struck community. The episode would be filmed during spring training with makeover work being done on the field and on Millar. When someone suggested the Fab Five might recommend some designer duds, Millar quipped, "I don't think I can wear Italian collared shirts on my Harley."
A year ago New Paltz Mayor Jason West stood atop a platform in the Village Hall parking lot, with a throng of reporters and spectators looking on, 
USA: Southeast Alaska Gay and Lesbian Alliance's first winter prom was 
Sharon Stone told Access Hollywood that her character in the upcoming Basic Instinct sequel will be having a bisexual relationship. “There is lesbian love,” Stone told Billy Bush. "That's the thing in Basic Instinct, there is always a lesbian love," she said, adding, "We are doing my favorite part--we're testing for her now." Asked whether or not she was interested in a real life same-sex experience she said with a smile, “Why not? Middle age is an open-minded period.”
John Aziga, a man living with HIV, has been 
They're making a movie of the Tony award winning Broadway musical "Hairspray," the show based on the John Waters movie "Hairspray." In the original Divine played Edna Turnblad. On Broadway Harvey Fierstein played Edna Turnblad. And who will be playing Edna Turnblad in the movie adaption of the musical adapted from the movie? Variety reports John Travolta "has the inside track." New Line Cinema's Neil Meron, who is co-producing the film with Craig Zadan, told Variety, "We're exploring everything, and all our opportunities are open. The best people (will) get the job." Filming begins in September.
Yes, we know it's just a TV show, but we felt a little queasy when we read that the L Word would pair up narcissistic drama kitten Jenny with fantasy bad girl Shane. Turns out, they're just going to be roommates. Also this season, Jenny meets the pin that will burst her bubble of self-absorption in a fiction professor played by Sandra Bernhard. “I'm not here to read the autobiography of Miss Jenny Schecter,” Bernhard spits at her. Someone had to say it.
Amazing Race winner Reichen Lehmkuhl is looking for a new printer for his sexy beefcake posters after his current one realized Lehmkuhl is "a homosexual." Lehmkuhl, who won the CBS reality television show with his then partner Chip Arndt, received a letter that explained, "I can not continue to help promote a homosexual community, lifestyle, or individual. I have decided to give you a 30-day notice, in which you can find another printing company to do this work for you." The printer, Mark Jones of Vacaville, California, discovered that Lehmkuhl is gay after visiting Lehmkuhl's website. Apparently Jones had been living under a rock. Jones wrote, "Your web site is helping to promote a homosexual lifestyle. Not only in adults, but in underage children as well."
Conservative Representative Brian Duprey proposed a state bill in Maine that he says is about gay rights and we say his intention is otherwise. Duprey wants to forbid a woman from ending a pregnancy based on the projected sexual orientation of a fetus, assuming in the future that scientists can fine the "homosexual gene." He says, "I have heard from women who told me that if they found out that they were carrying a child with the gay gene, then they would abort. I think this is wrong." We do too, and using this argument merely as a tool to bring abortion to the table is as well.
We told you last year about Tampa, Florida-area student 
Golf World magazine ran a photo of Mianne Bagger as a 14-year-old boy posing with Greg Norman at a golf clinic and Bagger hopes that at some point in her golfing career she'll be known for more than who she once was. The Adelaide, Australia resident made her European tour debut Thursday in the ANZ Ladies Masters, 
A UK research study has revealed that gay men use the same strategies for navigating as women do - using landmarks to find their way around. But gay men also use the strategies typically used by straight men too, such as using compass directions and distances. In contrast, lesbians read maps just like straight women according to the study of 80 heterosexual and gay men and women. "Gay men adopt male and female strategies. Therefore their brains are a sexual mosaic," explains psychobiologist Qazi Rahman. "It's not simply that lesbians have men's brains and gay men have women's brains."
"Queer Eye for the Straight Girl's" lesbian Honey Labrador has her mother to thank for her outlook on life. "My mother was a single mother raising three kids,'' Labrador told the Boston Herald. "She gave me this ability to really believe there was nothing I couldn't do. I kind of went into life not thinking I was a minority, not thinking I was different. And it was having this mom who was so totally supportive." Labrador herself also plays mom to her 15-year-old daughter named Zoe. In addition to Queer Eye she recently produced and starred in the upcoming "April's Shower," a movie about gay marriage, and she's even formed her own production company called Siren.
In White County, Georgia, school officials say they can't make a decision on the Gay-Straight Alliance some of the kids want because the club has changed its name to be a more general club focusing on diversity. But they still had the hearing about whether to allow a gay-positive club at all. Plenty of supporters, shown, and detractors turned up. "If only the school board had half the courage of my 16-year-old," said one parent and teacher who encouraged his daughter to stand up for her principles and support the club. A spokeswoman for PFLAG urged the board to "Please examine your hearts and make (schools) safe for all children, not just the religious right's children."
Rob Halford, the frontman for heavy metal's Judas Priest, is proud that he'll be remembered as the first metalhead to come out of the closet. During an MTV interview in the mid-1990s, Halford made the announcement without any fanfare and he has never regretted it. He also claims it did little to alienate his fans. That's why he's urging other heavy metal rockers to follow his example. [
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Jerusalem police may cancel World Pride 2005 claiming they'll be overburned by the unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and won't be able to provide adequate security. The 10-day, "Jerusalem World Pride 2005," is slated to take place mid-August, just four weeks after Israel's unilateral withdrawal. 9,000 Jewish residents are slated to be evacuated from their homes as part of the plan, with many likely to leave only by force. "We are examining this issue [of canceling the parade] based on the security needs on the ground," Jerusalem police spokesman Shmuel Ben-Ruby said today. No word on when the final decision will be made.
Raju and Mala are among three lesbian couples making headlines in India by publicly declaring their relationships and calling themselves married. The law is silent on gay marriages and same-sex couples are taking advantage of this loophole, performing marriage ceremonies and living together. They're still vulnerable though. Homosexual sex is still a crime punishable by up to 10 years in prison, a law enacted while India was under British colonial rule in 1861.
While Jay McCarroll has been our Project Runway personal favorite from day one, we must admit we didn't think he'd actually wind up winning the whole thing. Throughout the entire series he didn't walk away with a single challenge, continuing to take another step forward without ever stepping clearly into the winning limelight. Last night's finale, however, truly revealed his amazing creativity and vision, something that was perhaps stifled by the show's weekly assignment and time constraints. As his models 
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We've been trying to ignore it, but now topless pictures of Paris Hilton with MTV star Eglantina Zingg have 
Eden Riegel's groundbreaking, 4½-year run as lesbian Bianca Montgomery on "All My Children" is coming to an end, as Bianca runs off to Paris with a gal pal. Riegel says she's saddened by the fact that after she leaves the show, there won't be another major gay character in daytime. "I think that is a shame. I would love to see other gay characters and other story lines dealt with, and the great thing is that we've opened the door so it should be easier," she says. In the meantime, Riegel, whose lesbian sister was part of her inspiration for Bianca, is off to L.A. to try to land a pilot.
They met through an online friend, and have been close ever since. Maya Marcel-Keyes, daughter of conservative politician Alan Keyes, and her girlfriend, Bria Murray, gave a nice, long interview to Metro Weekly about growing up with conservative parents. Murray's sent her to one of those gay-cure seminars, which she says was fascinating. Marcel-Keyes, meanwhile, says she understands why her dad cut her off financially when she came out publicly. Murray doesn't, "but instead of spending my time being angry and bitter about what's going on, what can I do to be a positive force? I didn't ask for this. Maya didn't ask for this. But it's happened."
British police officer Gamal Turawa says it isn't easy to be black, gay and a cop. Wherever he goes, at least one of those realities makes him stick out a bit. Turawa admits he initially used the police service to hide his true self. "It was one way of covering up my sexuality and hiding who I really was. I wanted people to see me as a black police officer rather than a gay man." Turawa says he was inspired to come out by Ian McKellen, and got to thank him in person at a recent gay pride event.
Our favorite New Zealand MP Georgina Beyer 
USA: Aaron Price shouted homophobic slurs and epithets at Gregory Love, pictured, before cracking Love's skull with a baseball bat in a dorm shower at Morehouse College. Jurors, however, didn't rule the attack a hate crime because of the gay panic defense. How do you take on that kind of tactic? In Atlanta, a symposium on 
Wisconsin Senator Tim Carpenter 
Massachusetts' Supreme Judicial Court agreed in late January to hear a challenge to the 1913 law being used to bar out-of-state gay couples from getting married in the state, but no announcement was made until today. It seems that oral arguments on the 1913 law are tentatively scheduled for September, said Joan Kenney, a spokeswoman for the court. "We're optimistic about our chances because the court has already decided the commonwealth can't deny marriage rights to gays and lesbians," said attorney Michele Granda, who is representing eight couples challenging the law.
Sandra Bernhard will be doing something special on the WE Channel on Oscar night, 
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