Best described as a sad coda to the three separate (but equally stupid) releases GLAAD pushed out yesterday, watch as they announce their, uh, "joy" that The Unpredictable Gay—who they've treated like a Mudblood of Magical Homosexuality they can't quite figure out, but who they feel politically responsible for nonetheless—has finally had his moment of "vindication."

Adam Lambert's performing on The View:

"ABC has taken a step towards fairness by inviting Adam Lambert to perform on The View," said Jarrett Barrios, President of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD). "GLAAD has been advocating against the double standards that have been applied to Lambert as an openly gay performer. We thank community members and allies for voicing their concerns with ABC so that entertainers like Adam have the opportunity to be broadcast into living rooms across America."

Earlier today GLAAD urged constituents to contact ABC to express disappointment. Throughout the day, GLAAD continued conversations with ABC that began two weeks ago when the network announced the cancellation of Lambert's performance on Good Morning America following his performance on the American Music Awards.

But really, this just begs the question of Just who the fuck becomes a publicist like this? They have to have the worst, just, like, the worst achievement complexes. Again: "Earlier today GLAAD urged constituents to contact ABC to express disappointment." Yeah, it's true, but it's something to tout? GLAAD will never acknowledge the way they mishandled this entire incident, so why not highlight the last-ditch attempt to give off the appearance that they cared about winning this battle? Note the lack of strong language, like "condemned," which isn't even that strong of a word, which is what they were supposed to do to ABC. Instead, they played softball, or as Moylan put it:

They even provided email addresses and phone numbers so the outraged gays could call and email ABC about how upset they are. Why not provide Barrios' email and phone number so we can call him and express how disappointed we are in GLAAD for bungling this. At this point, Jeffrey Dahmer is as good for gay visibility as GLAAD is.

Right he is. And Lambert got The View, of all places, a show so serious in nature that Danny DeVito can show up wasted, motorboat Barbara Walters' tits, plug his Limoncello, and leave without so much as a slap on the wrist. Why not just have him throwing together houses for The Poors with the scary tweakergay from Extreme Home Makeover. Because, you know, straight people watch Jimmy Kimmel and Dick Clark, and they require straight performers, right?

I'd write about GLAAD fucking the dog on this one, but they'd clearly have an easier time condemning me as both an enemy of the gays and dogfuckers than they would ABC for segregating and then winning the relegation of their kinda-cause célèbre to The Yenta Hour, but you know what? They did. Hard.

It's like ABC is GLAAD's boyfriend and they asked, "Do I look fat in these jeans?" and GLAAD said, "No, but I like these other jeans better." And their boyfriend said, "Oh, so you think I'm fat." And then GLAAD said, "We did not say you're fat. We just like these jeans." And then boyfriend responded, "It's us or the jeans!" GLAAD answered, "Can't we just have you both?" The short answer, is no, but here is how it went down.

The first release, which was carried on TMZ at 8:30 yesterday (and which you read about here), said that ABC didn't cancel Adam Lambert's performances on Jimmy Kimmel and New Year's Rockin' Eve because he's gay but because he can't stick to a script and they didn't want to be "caught off-guard." The corporate-loving non-profit thought that was OK.

When everyone was up in arms, they sent an update at 9:30 this morning, saying that they aren't condoning ABC's behavior, but asking for it to clarify its position on the terms "caught off guard."

GLAAD's discussions with ABC focused on confirming that his sexual orientation was not a factor in their decisions. ABC confirmed this is not about a same-sex kiss or his sexual orientation but about being "caught off guard." GLAAD asked ABC and calls on them for clarification on "caught off guard" so that the community knows why Lambert is being denied the opportunity to perform on the network.

So, they'll support ABC if the "caught off-guard" part is not gay-related, but they'll hate them if it was? And isn't it up for them to decide, not to just pass along ABC's party line?

They had some 'splainin' to do, and it came in the form of another update, this time from Jarrett Barrios, President of the group.

We appreciate ABC's commitment to gay and transgender inclusion in other programming. However, let us be clear that GLAAD remains steadfast in our assertion that Adam Lambert is being subjected to a double standard by ABC as an openly gay performer. We do not support ABC canceling Adam Lambert's past and future performances. We urge the community to reach out to ABC and express their concerns that Adam Lambert is being subjected to a double standard.

Looks like the cleared up that "caught off-guard" part, and it means that they were mad because Adam was making out with a guard, and he was male. Now they are upset, and you should be too! They even provided email addresses and phone numbers so the outraged gays could call and email ABC about how upset they are. Why not provide Barrios' email and phone number so we can call him and express how disappointed we are in GLAAD for bungling this. At this point, Jeffrey Dahmer is as good for gay visibility as GLAAD is.

Here is the press release they should have sent out: "Dear ABC, Thanks for Ugly Betty and Modern Family, but for canceling Adam Lambert, you totally suck. If you don't fix this, all the gays are going to hate you and GLAAD is going to stop taking your money and giving you our pointless awards. Also, there might be protests, and you know that no one makes a sign or comes up with a clever chant like the gays. Don't mess with us. Give Adam his job back. Love, GLAAD."

Instead they tried to please both their gay constituents and their corporate masters. Guess what, guys, you're never going to do both, so it's time to pick a side and stick to it. It will save you a lot of updates in the future.

The Democrats have a one-seat majority, so, of course, the bill went down 38-24. Not a single Republican supported it.

Meanwhile, Washington DC's city council embarrassed all of us by overwhelmingly approving gay marriage.

Openly gay Sate Senator Tom Duane sponsored the bill. The State Senate generally doesn't vote on anything until passage is ensured, but, to his credit, Governor Paterson pushed the Senate to actually vote on the marriage bill instead of letting it wither and die in legislative gridlock, as Senate leaders preferred.

Debate quietly began this afternoon, with the bill's supporters generally being more vocal (this speech, from Staten Island Sen. Diane Savino, is particularly moving). And then it went to an up-and-down vote with no one having any idea whether it would pass or not, and then it didn't, because some Democratic senators are cowards, some Democratic senators are bigots, and all the Albany Republicans are both.

Update: these are the Democrats, many of whom have received gay money, who voted Nay on equality: Carl Kruger, Bill Stachowski, Ruben Diaz Sr., Joe Addabbo, Darrel Aubertine, Hiram Monserrate, Shirley Huntley and George Onorato.

Tonight at 8pm on all the networks you can hear the president talk about a scary war that will surely give you and your children nightmares when you could have been watching Charlie Brown and Linus in a sneaky Jesus Christmas special. Now we have to wait a whole week to see the Peanuts gang as well as the debut of Prep & Landing, the new animated Christmas show produced by Walt Disney. Barack Obama hates Mickey Mouse too!

And guess what is on tomorrow night? Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer on CBS. Thanks to Obama this gay rights parable will triumph over Charlie Brown's thinly-veiled conversion attempts. While he may hate everything that is holy and American, at least he loves the queers.

Oh, right, like half the population. Here's right-wing panic site World Net Daily's aghast summary of the game, via Wonkette:

The elf reveals he specializes in assassination, and the other character replies, "I bet you're good at a lot of things."


The elf responds, "Mmmm, that's quite an offer, especially coming from another man – if we are both speaking of the same thing."


If the player selects the response, "I suspect we are," the elf agrees to have homosexual sex with the character.

WND then quotes selectively from gay blogs ("Gay geeks rejoice, all your gaming fantasies have come true") and YouTube comments ("We're a bisexual nation living in denial") and provides a list of retailers (like Wal Mart!) presumably for boycotting. Because, you know, if there's one way to make gay sex look hot and appealing, it's by showcasing it with stilted dialog, jerky body movements and elf ears, in a role playing videogame like Dragon Age. Hottt.

We're sorry that this country is so full of homophobic prudes that kissing a guy on stage and simulating oral sex will elicit more than 1,500 complaints and get you kicked off of GMA.

Lambert was scheduled to appear on the show tomorrow—a critical gig, since his album, For Your Entertainment, just came out—but that has been canceled. "Given his controversial American Music Awards performance, we were concerned about airing a similar concert so early in the morning," a spokesperson for the show told the NY Times Arts Beat blog.

This is all the gays fault. We did what we always do and we overestimate just how much we are accepted by society. It may seem like apples and oranges (or butches and femmes) but Adam Lambert is just like what happened in California with Prop 8. We thought there was no way that the good people of California could hate gays so much they would vote down gay marriage. Well, we were very wrong.

The same thing happened here. All of the gays were telling Adam, "Keep it real. Get all faggy. You owe it to us, and they'll love you for it." He responded with a performance that was so gay that he shot rainbows out of his eyes and turned Whitney Houston in a unicorn that he rode across the stage and threw Ryan Seacrest on the back of it and they made out for 17 minutes straight. Oops, too gay. Now we've ruined it for Adam and he's going to end up playing piano in a gay bar and dying bitter and alone just like Jobriath.

The worst part about this whole thing is that we have now negated all the progress Lambert made by being an openly gay pop star in the first place. Now when the next very talented flamboyant rocker comes along all his managers and agents (most of them gay) will say, "Oh, you have to stay in the closet. Look what happened when Adam Lambert sashayed on stage at the AMAs. America will hate you."

That said, this isn't the worst thing that could happen to Lambert. He's getting plenty of attention just as his album is coming out—negative or not. The people who were offended by his dry humping were never going to buy the album anyway, and this flap might just give him enough street cred to get some people clicking the download button iTunes. We hate to make the same mistake twice, but maybe getting all nelly was the right move.

Apparently Lambert has been offered a replacement gig on CBS' The Early Show (caution, Perez Hilton link ahoy). Adam if that doesn't work out, you are welcome to perform here at Gawker HQ, and we'll let you get as queer as you wanna be. You can even put pink pancakes on Nick Denton's head. The only thing gayer than that is—well, your performance at the AMAs.

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Both the new poster, seen above, and the old one, seen here, feature stars Colin Firth and Julianne Moore. The first poster especially makes it look like the two are in bed together. Even the trailers show the pair making out. This is interesting because the movie is about George (Firth) a gay man who is trying to put his life back together in the early '60s after the death of his gay lover. Moore plays Charley, his best friend and fag hag.

Ford not only directed the movie but also adapted the screenplay from the novel by the very gay Christopher Isherwood and financed the whole thing himself. He's had his hand in every decision made about the movie (can't you tell by the posters, which use the same font as his Tom Ford labels?). So, why is he trying to degay it now?

For your consideration, below are the two trailers for the movie. The first was released in September and includes a smooch between Firth and Moore, but also Firth and another man. This says to the audience, "Faggotry ahead!"

The second one is the "official trailer" which is essentially the same, but has a few images edited out, including the one of the two men together. Moore, whose role is actually relatively small, is all over the trailer and kissing the protagonist. So, just what is Ford trying to do here? He knows he has the gay audience sewn up (he could direct a dog taking a turd and the fashion gays would give him their $12.50) so he must be courting the straight Mad Men watchers with his stylish drama of sexy lives in the early '60s. But would they care if they knew this was a gay movie? Or will they feel deceived when they show up and find out it isn't a love story?

And who really cares about either. A Single Man is this year's Brokeback Mountain—a stylishly filmed gay movie with tons of good reviews, tons of advanced buzz, and high Oscar hopes. Since Ang Lee busted down the doors for the pink prestige picture, why is Ford headed back for the celluloid closet?

Lambert is one of the annual Out 100, the best, brightest, and biggest in the gay world as chosen by the very queer magazine. While Lambert is very open about his love for the men, it's still thrilling for interviewers to hear him talk, awkwardly, about having sex with women. Check out this quote about the time he tried to go down on a woman:

"It was a little gross because I don't think she was as clean as she could've been. It wasn't the act of it that really turned me off. I don't really remember. I was 18 and I was drunk. Or maybe I was 17... The point of the matter is that I would not rule it out. The idea is intriguing.

We love that you're trying to blur the lines of sexuality, Adam, but you're not especially convincing when you say "Ew gross, it smells like fish!" in one sentence and then, "I'd still hit it," in the next. And you're doing this wearing eyeliner and a bowtie in a magazine that is about as straight as a piece of spaghetti in boiling water. Why not just be happy being a man-loving homo? There's no shame in that. Especially for Out readers who would much rather hear about what Kris Allen looks like in his boxers than about your lady lust.

Speaking of women, it seems like Out may be ending their own inappropriate love affair with women. After having two straight women on the cover for their Out 100 issue in 2006 and 2008, last year they were down to only one (Katy Perry). We have another straight lady on this year's cover, Cyndi Lauper, as well as Wanda Sykes, a real live lesbian! It's great that the two women on the cover this year aren't just some pop tarts who want to sell more records to the gays, but a long-time gay activist and one who had the strength to come out on the national stage after the Prop 8 nightmare in California.

In fact, the list seems gloriously devoid of straight girls and full of actual homosexuals. Other honorees include: director Rob Marshall, "don't ask, don't tell" activist Dan Choi, actor Neil Patrick Harris, Spanish director Pedro Almodovar, recently out Kelly McGillis, Rep. Barney Frank, the transitioning Chaz Bono, and Broadway's Arthur Laurents.

Window Media owns the Southern Voice and David in Atlanta, the South Florida Blade and 411 Magazine in the Fort Lauderdale area, the Houston Voice, and the Washington Blade, which celebrated its 40th anniversary in October (and where I worked for a number of years). This morning Atlanta gay blogProject Q Atlanta reported that a sign had been placed on the office of the Southern Voice and David, stating, "It is with GREAT regret that we must inform you that effective immediately, the operations of Window Media, LLC and Unite Media, LLC have closed down." In a sad indignity, employees are told to return to the office on Wednesday with boxes to pick up their belongings. We hear that employees are currently huddled in the parking lot in Atlanta, not sure what to do with themselves and dealing with the local media that has come to report on the closure.

Though the Washington Blade is still online visiting the websites for any of the company's titles lead to an error message, and no one is answering the phones at the Washington Blade. Several gay websites are reporting the Blade is also closed. The Blade's website posted a notice on Friday looking for an editorial intern, so this must have been quite a surprise to all employees. A call to the Blade's editor, Kevin Naff, was not returned. Update: The Blade staff just confirmed the closure on the newspaper's Twitter.

Window has been in financial trouble for some time, and was placed in receivership by the Small Business Association in February because it violated it's contract with the SBA and didn't have capital from individual investors equaling half of the $38 million it had borrowed from SBA. It's not a shock that this happened and, without niche newspapers in major markets, the gay media will continue to move online, just like everyone else. It's sad to see a big gay landmark close—especially one with the reputation for excellence that the Blade had—but isn't that the greatest form of equality?

About 15% of actual working physicians are members of the AMA, which means they're not terribly representative of doctor opinions, but it's all they got, and it has generally not been a fan of government health care. In the '60s, the AMA warned that Medicare would destroy the fabric of American society and kill all the olds. (Now they oppose any cuts to Medicare of any kind, of course.) But then they endorsed the House health care reform bill! And then, apparently drunk on liberal praise, they went on to endorse gay marriage and the abolition of Don't Ask Don't Tell and medical marijuana.

The AMA noted that bans on gay marriage lead to health coverage disparities. Then, in a counterintuitive bit of logic, they said DADT was also hazardous to the health of the LGBT population (you'd think banning them from the military would, on the whole, do a lot to keep gays and lesbians alive, but there is an issue with doctor-patient confidentiality and military doctors being forced to report the sexual orientation of personnel who go to see them).

Finally, they reversed their 12-year position on the demon weed. The AMA used to say marijuana should remain a Schedule I controlled substance, which is insane what is wrong with this country, but now they say that if it is going to be used medicinally that there should probably be some controlled clinical trials involving it, which is impossible under its current classification as "a substance that will get your daughter raped by a colored jazz musician."

So aside from that whole "arranging a doctor shortage" thing the AMA is looking pretty good these days!

Today we watched Alexander on Tyra give a girl the courage to tell her mother that she is a lesbian. However, by being true to himself and successful for the unique brand of fashion and flair that he brings to the table, Miss J is helping kids come out of the closet every day. He has made a career of teaching people how to walk with their head held high, and that's just what he's doing for gay people, one flouncy step at a time.

Sure, he may only be a flamboyant fixture on a reality television program, but Miss J is bringing gay black street culture to audiences all over the globe and we owe him desperately for that. When little girls in Kansas are shaking their finger and calling something "Fierce," it's not because they've been to the Christopher Street Pier lately. Alexander never had to come out of the closet (like some silver-haired news anchors) because he was never in it. It wasn't easy for a tall sissy from the South Bronx—as he says in his new book Follow the Model—but he was never afraid to be himself and always had the strength to strut his crazy self out in public even when it might not have been the easiest thing to do. Check out his own silly coming out story in the video below.

Alexander won a Teen Choice Award earlier this year, showing that the kids who watch the show think he's great no matter who he sleeps with. But he's not only spreading acceptance among the show's young viewers and serving as a success story. While he may not be the most mainstream role model for young gay men and women, he is certainly one of the best. Coming out isn't easy for anyone, but for those who fit into more stereotypical gender roles, it can be a little bit easier. Miss J is here to stand up for the sissies and the queers and the freaks, and the people who can't hide behind a butch exterior or a little bit of lipstick and just pass as heterosexuals when it's easy or convenient. He is gay with a capital G, and he lets every natural born babygay at home know they're not alone and that they're better off for the special brand of outrageousness that they've been blessed with by their fairy godmother.

The story of Medhat Mohamed is one of those scandals that the Post created by its own will power. Mohamed booted a gay couple from his cab for making out in the back seat. He says that he was afraid they were going to cause him to get in an accident. The couple says they were merely hugging, but Mohamed says they were about to have full-on sex. The truth is somewhere in between.

The Post hopped on this "scandal" and, next thing you know, the mayor is saying he's a "disgrace", he lost his job, and he might have his taxi license revoked. Peyser asks:

How did a hardworking immigrant who toiled on the night shift, giving rides to all kinds of people — including some who are abusive or intolerant of him — become Public Enemy No. 1?

Um, maybe because your newspaper made him out to be in the first place!

As for Mohamed's continued claims that he would have kicked out a straight couple for the same offense, we continue to find that hard to believe. Heterosexuals are always to engage in all sorts of PDA and the worst thing that happens is someone chides, "Get a room." In some parts of the city (and the country, and certainly the world) a gay couple even just holding hands can get them kicked out of cab, beat up, or killed—and that is nothing like the drunken maulings that men routinely give women outside of straight bars after last call.

Peyser, however, hates all sex equally, so we believe she would think that any couple clutching in a cab would be equally catastrophic. You can certainly call her a prude, but you can't call her a homophobe.

And then they lied about it to John Aravosis. (Sort of.) Which is just fucking stupid. It's one thing to not bother to support your gay constituency, it's another to insult them.

We're told OFA is organizing an effective health care lobbying campaign, but it still looks like the DNC is neutering OFA's progressive tendencies and OFA is still distracting the DNC from organizing for non-Obama-related local campaigns.

No matter how many times Jackman obliquely denies the gay rumors, they still persist. Maybe Tina Fey & Co. were just saying that gay guys love The Boy from Oz , and really why wouldn't they? He's handsome, buff, and loves a good show tune. The only thing that could make him more appealing is if he were related to Madonna.

Don't ask, don't look

In this town, gay rights trump religious and aesthetic sensitivities every time...
Next time, pal, don't look. It's safer.

Look on the bright side, gay liberals: The New York Post is finally standing up for the rights of Muslims! The right to discriminate against you, specifically. Baby steps.

And what about this dude's right to fuck horses without being sentenced to three years in jail, Andrea? It was a female horse!
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The sculpture, titled Noisette, is intentionally meant to recall a glory hole, which (for the non-homosexuals reading this leftist gay gossip blog) is a hole cut into a wall or door that a man places his penis through in search of an eager orifice on the other side. The interactive ad—placed as a banner across the top of the page and box in the lower right corner—is just as fun as the real sculpture, and the tongue pops out of the hole when the mouse moves across it. Please do not try to see what happens when placing a penis on the ad. That would be very NSFW, unless you work at a porn theater.

The Saatchi Gallery blog describes Swiss-born, New York-based Fischer's sculpture as such:

Noisette is of course, also seriously naughty. It is surprising to realize that many viewers don't quite perceive that the sculpture refers to a bathroom glory hole, that classic "meeting" place for [cruising] gay men. The piece intermittently shifts from humor to more profound issues such as loneliness, compulsion, repression and self-loathing. But the surface, sideshow quality of the sculpture is so satisfying as to be worth the visit.

We know that there are plenty of homosexuals on staff at the Times websites, why didn't one of them speak up and say, "Um, guys. I've never been to one, but my friend, he told me that this is like a glory hole, and we might not want to have that on the homepage. Aren't there any other ads we could use?" Who cares, we're glad they didn't.

Here's what the homepage looked like when we found the ad:

NOM raised a zillion dollars or so from hateful bigots across the nation whose names they refuse to disclose, which is, of course, a violation of state campaign finance law. But if it works, who gives a shit? 53% of Maine voters agreed that if the gays get married, they will attempt to force the children to learn, in public schools, that gay people exist, and that they should not be beaten to death for crimes against God.

Once again we learn the shocking truth that putting the civil rights of minority groups to a popular vote does not work very well. Crazy, right?

Here is a classic sketch from The Dana Carvey Show that is more relevant than ever, again: