Yeah, that's right -- we're not afraid!  So here:

-- the Barbra Streisand Barbie Doll is a must-own!

-- the Lambda Literary Foundation is wrong in its decision to refuse awards to heterosexual authors

-- I still refuse to see the next 'Twilight' movie, even after the new poster:

-- Kyle Freeman is an activist hero for counter-suing Canada Blood Services after lying about his sexual orientation

-- Kylie Minogue is God:

(actually, that last bit's not controversial at all, now is it?)

Blog today?  Are you kidding?

The new Madonna greatest hits DVD is out!

With 47 videos to watch, I should be back in time for tomorrow...

People are talking about the too-little-too-late flip-flop on gay marriage by former US president Bill Clinton -- explained again in an interview this weekend:

Oh, thanks for nothing, Bill -- your support today means very little compared to how you threw gays under the bus when you actually had power (and any similarity to our current situation with Barack Obama is painfully coincidental!).

Fact is, on the ally scale, Bill ranks only slightly higher than anti-gay conservative leader (and mother of a gay son) Phyllis Schlafly, who told a room full of wingnuts this weekend that the "attack on marriage" they're always on about isn't the fault of homosexuals but moreso those horrible, horrible feminists:

Gay activists clearly still have a lot of work to do...and it looks like we'll be doing it without much help.

Some choices are harder than others:

Watched the new ABC show Eastwick and the first episode of the series that grumpy TV critics are already calling "Desperate Housewitches" was predictably bad.  But if I had so rightly avoided it, I'd have missed out on Canada's own Paul Gross being very funny and looking this good:

What to do next week with episode two?

On the web, Puma athletic wear has introduced the oddest new website -- a stock ticker with male and female models who strip down when the market falls.  No one wants to see the stock market tank again but now I'm tempted to hope it does!

And finally, an international incident that has us playing "Which Homophobe to Cheer For?"  The asshat British soldiers who went all faux-gay for "Womanizer" or the Canadian woman with anger-management issues who attacked them for "being perverted?"  (The UK papers have clearly made their decision.)

Fortunately, I've got a weekend to mull it all over -- have a great one!

Good news all around today -- for me, I capped off Celebrate Bisexuality Day by going to a preview here in Toronto of Buddies in Bad Times Theatre's sexy and scandalous new show Neon Nightz -- a wildly entertaining ode to the Montreal strip club scene in the '90s starring Sasha Van Bon Bon and Kitty Neptune:

And thanks to the wonders of the internet, I didn't have to miss out on last night's episode of Glee, featuring this utterly ridiculous and wonderful scene:

The show was hilarious and poignant and proof that the gays have taken over the airwaves.  Sure, I didn't think anything could top the news that Heather Locklear is returning to Melrose Place but there's also been the adorable coupling of frathouse roommates Calvin and Grant on the ABC Family college-life series Greek:

What amazes me is the lack of controversy over this show -- there's an interracial gay couple in a show on the aimed-at-teens ABC Family network yet not a peep from the wingnuts?  Ah, progress!

This is why this pop culture stuff matters, of course -- it's what's helping kids to now come out as early as eleven.  Now we get to see if all that "family values" talk really holds up as these brave kids demand support.

And finally, the best potential news of all:  successful trials of a possible vaccine against HIV!  As always, it's too early to celebrate but even other researchers appear dazzled by the news today.

Only trouble is, all this good news leaves me nothing to snark about, which is....what's that?  Stephen Harper skipped out on the United Nations for a visit to Tim Hortons?  When Canadians asked just how useless he could be, he said, "Double double?"  He thought Ban Ki-Moon meant order a cruller instead?  Did he tell the other world leaders he'd be there in a Timbit?

Oh that Stephen -- like Tim Horton's, he's always there for me!