(POP NEWS) See Ya; Protest; Pioneer; Fantasy; Targeted; Not Yet; Evolved; Sugar; Jeer-ney; Loopy; 2some; Details; Losing It!

• SEE YA: Annette Funicello Dead at 70!

• PROTEST: Rubio Joins Brouhaha Over Beyonce, Jay-Z Cuba Trip!

• PIONEER: The Life and Death of a Feminist Fighter!

• FANTASY: Amazingly Elaborate Hoax Targets Megachurch Pastor, Joel Osteen!

• TARGETED: Gay Former Swedish MP Attacked on Greek Vacation!

• NOT YET: Immigration Reform Bill Will Not Include LGBT Families!

• EVOLVED; Drag Queen Sings Amazing Protest Anthem Against Russian President Vladimir Putin in Amsterdam, AND Putin Says Russia Does Not Discriminate Against Gays!

(POP NEWS) Winning; Milestone; Confused; Icon; Brutal; United; Seeds; History; Not In; Posh; Junk; Grindr; Compassion!

WINNING: The Story Behind TIME Magazine's Gay Marriage Cover!

• MILESTONE: DOMA Plaintiff's 'Spectacular' Day for Me!  

• CONFUSED: Court Sounds Skeptical About DOMA!  

• ICON: Red Symbol of Gay Support on Facebook Is Awesome !  

• BRUTAL: Russian Gay Activist Brutally Attacked in Front of Journalists After City Bans Pride Parade! 

• UNITED: Activists Arrested in White House 'DADT' Protest Reunited This Morning in Support of Lt. Dan Choi!

(POP NEWS) Shocker; Bring IT; Trans-late; Bad Move; Non Endorsed; Stray; Swan; Deep; Art!

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(POP NEWS) BLASPHEMOUS; UN-LAWFUL; TORCHBEARER; PDA; VALUES; JEALOUSLY; HUMOR; NATURAL!

• BLASPHEMOUS: Mother Teresa 'Anything but a Saint,' Says Study!

• UN-LAWFUL: WA Florist Tells Longtime Gay Customer That She Won't Do His Wedding Because of Her Relationship with Jesus! 

• TORCHBEARER: Texas Woman Faces Assault Charges for Bloody Beating of Gay Son with an Electrical Cord!

• PDA: Kiss-In Planned for California Mall That Threw Out Gay Couple!

• VALUES: Gore Was Against Al Jazeera Deal!

• JEALOUSLY: At Acid Attack's Center, a Ballerina?

• HUMOR: Hey Taylor, Learn to Take a Joke!

• NATURAL: Matt Damon Did His Doggie-Style 'Liberace' Sex Scene with Michael Douglas in a Single Take!

(POP NEWS) Good or Evil; Censored; Leadership; Walk this Way; Black Geese; Sensor Proof; Posh; Seksee; Walk Out; Sparkle!

• GOOD or EVIL: Hugo Chavez Dead at 58!

• CENSORED: Texas High School Pulls Lesbian Couple's Photo from Yearbook!

• LEADERSHIP: 97 Percent of Lawmakers Who Voted for Marriage Equality in NY and WA and Ran in 2012 Were Reelected!

• WALK THIS WAY: Hawaii Senate Passes 'Steven Tyler Act'!

• BLACK GEESE: Ballet Villain Cops to Bolshoi Acid Attack!

• SENSOR PROOF: Artist's Clothing Line Protects Wearers From ... Drones?

• POSH: 1.5K Counterfeit Hermes Purses Seized in LA!

• TOO SOON: TV's Rhoda Has 3 Months to Live!

(POP NEWS) Global Affair; F-Bomb; Clogged; Cheap; Well Deserved; Offended; Inclusion; Tops; Tab; Toxic; Finally; Senses; Ripped; Stand; Change!

• GLOBAL AFFAIR: Iran Fumes Over Argo's Oscar Win! 

• F-BOMB: Jennifer Lawrence Reveals What She Was Thinking When She Fell on the Stairs at the Oscars!

• CLOGGED: Toilet Floods Oscars Lobby!

• CHEAP: No Laughs Over Onion's Super Nasty Oscar Tweet!

• WELL DESERVED: Twilight Bites, Wins 7 Razzies!

• OFFENDED: Anti-Gay Megachurch Pastor Spurned by Tim Tebow Speaks Out!

• INCLUSION: UFC President Dana White On Gay Fighters: 'If You Are Gay, I Could Care Less'!

• TOPS: Johnson Wins 2nd Daytona 500!

(LIST) the 10 Hottest SUPPORTING ACTORS and 5 Bad SUPPORTING ACTRESSES!

by Louis Virtel

 

The 85th Academy Awards are at last upon us, and unfortunately we only have a few more days to think about the eternal hotness of some of the men they honor. As a companion piece to our Hottest Best Actor countdown, I present to you an important follow-up: The 10 Hottest Best Supporting Actor performances. Heath Ledger, Javier Bardem, and Christian Bale were too inhumanely grotesque to warrant inclusion, I'm sort of sorry to say. But who wasn't? Check 'em out below.

(POP NEWS) Blame Game; Huge; Moving Inward; Offensive; Milestone; Decline; Accepted; Weed; Payout; Not a Fan; Sour Grapes; Size; Freaky!

• BLAME GAME: Russian Wrestling Coach Claims Masculinity-Hating Gays to Blame for Sport Getting Cut from Olympics!

• HUGE: Marriage Equality Legislation Filed in Texas!

• MOVING INWARD: Illinois Senate Passes Marriage Equality in 34-21 Vote!

• OFFENSIVE: AP Digs in Heels on Discriminatory 'Husband' and 'Wife' Guidance!

• MILESTONE:Gallup Breaks Down Percentage of LGBT People by State in Largest Study of its Kind!

• DECLINED: Gay Missouri Teen Told He Can't Bring Male Date to Prom!

• ACCEPTED: Same-Sex Couple Set for National Cemetery Burial!

(POP NEWS) Never Out; Stumble; Da Bomb; Confused; Detention; Fatal; Best in Seattle; Puppy Love; On His Back; Kate; Faux Pas; Diva!

• NEVER OUT: Former NYC Mayor Ed Koch Dead at 88!

• STUMBLE: Aaron Schock Not Sure Why He Doesn't Support Gay Marriage: 'Uh, Well...I Just Haven't'!

• DA-BOMB: SF 49ers Brooks and Sopoanga At First Deny Participation, Then Say They Didn't Know 'It Gets Better' Video Was for Gay Kids!

• CONFUSED: Manti Te'o's Hoaxer Says He's a Recovering Homosexual, Like 'a Recovering Drug Addict'!

• DETENTION: Bill Would Make Schools Out Gay Kids to Parents!

• FATAL: Snowmobiler Dies After X-Games Crash!

• BEST JOB IN SEATTLE: Washington Puts Out Call for Pot Consultants!

• PUPPY LOVE: Internet Saves 'Gay' Dog!

(POP NEWS) Manti's Man; Trans-form; Dominant and Free; HIV; Mad to Death; Proof; Re-Booted; Show-off; Suck up!

• STALKER: Manti Te'o Hoaxer Wanted 'Relationship' with Him?

• TRANS-FORM: German Soldiers Growing Breasts—on One Side!

• DOMINANCE: Russian Duma Passes Ban on Gay 'Propaganda' in 390-1 Vote on First Reading!

• FREE: British Government Publishes Landmark Bill to Legalize Same-Sex Marriage, with First Vote in Early February!

• NOT-TARGETED: HIV's Origins Stretch Back Millions of Years!

• WIDE-SPREAD: 2nd Hospital Warns 1.9K of Possible HIV Exposure!

• MAD TO DEATH: Woman in Aptly Named Crazy Love Movie Is Dead!

• PROOF: Beyoncé Wasn't Lip-Syncing?

• RE-BOOTED: JJ Abrams to Direct Next Star Wars Movie!

• SHOW OFF: Matt Damon Gets Revenge on Jimmy Kimmel!

• SUCK UP: Zuckerberg's New Friend is ...Chris Christie?

(POP NEWS) FAB Michelle; Historic Obama; Exposed; Iconic; New Path; Stand; Mystery; Dope; Attractive; Smart on Swift; Mum, Trendy!

• FAB: Michelle Obama's New Hairdo 'Bangtastic'!

• HISTORIC: Obama's New Official Portrait!

• EXPOSED: Mona Lisa Sent to Outer Space via Laser!

• ICONIC: Dear Abby' Dead at 94!

• NEW PATH: Former NJ Governor Jim McGreevey Has Given Up Quest for Priesthood, Wants to Get Married! 

• STAND: Boy Scout Camp Leader Comes Out in YouTube Video, Speaks Out!

• MYSTERY: Gay Rumor Mill Ramping Up Over Manti Te'o 'Dead Girlfriend' Hoax!

• DOPE: Armstrong Doped in All 7 Tour de France Wins!

(POP NEWS) Rice; Progress; Cat Fight; Bieber; Hazzard; Obama on Pot; STD; Found; Pride; Bitch; Wet!

• GRACED: Susan Rice Pulls Name From Secretary Of State Consideration!

• PROGRESSIVE: More From Third Way's Report On Marriage Equality In Washington!

• CAT-FIGHT: Fists Fly, Men Wrestle in Ukraine Parliament!

• DEADLINE: Only One Week Left To Raise Money For Queer NYC Bookstore!

 

• TWISTED: Justin Bieber Targeted in Twisted Murder Plot!

• PIONEER: Carole King First Woman to Get US Song Honor!

• PUNK'D: Radio Pranksters Get Death Threats, Bodyguards!

(POP NEWS): Monty and Liz, BFFs; Ravi's Denial; Lez-Men; Madonna Threatened; F-Bomb; Lost and Found!

• DEVOTED: Never-before-published photos of achingly beautiful BFF’s Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift! 

• DENIAL: Dharun Ravi: I Didn't Out Clementi! 

• LEZ-MEN: “Mad Men” star Elisabeth Moss talks to The Advocate about her character’s sexuality and more! 

• THREATS: Author of St. Petersburg's Anti-Gay Law Will Attend Madonna Concert, Prosecute If Necessary! 

• F-BOMB: Kim Kardashian Flour-Bombed! 

• TAXED: British Plans No More Super-Cheap Booze! 

• TYPE-CAST:When Did Hoodlums Start Wearing Hoods? 

• BANNED: NJ Middle School: No Hugs Allowed! 

• LEAPED: Lost Disney Rabbit Back After 80 Years!

GOD: Some Russians Worship Putin— Literally!

At the Chapel of Russia's Resurrection, in a village 250 miles east of Moscow, the parishioners pray to a most unusual patron saint—Vladimir Putin, who they consider a reincarnation of St. Paul, reports Der Spiegel. The church was founded by a woman who calls herself "Mother Fotina" and claims to be a reincarnation of Joan of Arc. "I proclaim what God has revealed to me," she says. Fotina once led the "Center of Cosmo-Energetic Medicine," but now she says that the Holy Spirit changed Putin once he became the leader of Russia, just like Saul became Paul in the Bible. And she is not the only one with such beliefs—across Russia, admiration of Putin is escalating into religious worship. Posters in St. Petersburg, Putin's hometown, have depicted him as an angel. Polls indicate that 57% of Russians have seen signs of a Putin cult developing, and 52% approve.

REBEL: Arrests made at Moscow Gay Rally!

The AP has released video from the scene. Is that an anti-gay counter-protester making the Hitler salute?

PROTEST: Gay Activists Attacked In Russia!

Gay rights participants who were taking part in an unapproved pride parade in Saint Petersburg, Russia today were attacked by a group of anti-gay protesters. 14 LGBT activists were arrested as were some of the anti0gay attackers. Russia's most highly visible gay rights advocate (and OUTview Fan) Nikolai Alekseyev was one of the jailed but was released soon after.

The AP reports: "I've seen a lot of things in six years of holding such events in Moscow, but I've never seen such cynicism in St. Petersburg," said Nikolai Alekseyev, Russia's highest profile gay rights activist, who was himself briefly detained.

Activists held their protest beside a monument to city founder Peter the Great, "because Peter the Great founded a city with European values," Yuri Gavrikov, head of the Equality group said Friday. President Dmitry Medvedev has insisted Russians share European values today.

UK Gay News has lots of detailed information on the attacks. The photo to the right captures the moment right gay activist Alexander Sheremete was attacked by an hateful anti-gay protester. Sheremete reportedly suffered head and lips bruises.

GLAM SHOCK: Adam Performs In Moscow, Reacts To Violence at Gay Rally!

Lambert performed at the Maxidrom Festival in Moscow yesterday, the same day that Dan Choi and 17 other gay rights activists were attacked and arrested near the Kremlin.

He tweeted: "So shocked that this happened today at the same hour and same city as I was performing in."

Choi saluted Lambert via Twitter today.

SILENCED: More than 30 arrested at Moscow gay rights demos!

(AP) — Moscow police arrested more than 30 people trying to hold two unauthorized gay-rights demonstrations in the capital on Saturday.

Opponents of gay rights scuffled with the demonstrators and with police. A police spokesman, Maxim Kolosvetov, told Russian news agencies that 18 gay activists and 14 opponents were arrested.

Moscow authorities routinely ban gay rights demonstrations. Although homosexuality was decriminalized in post-Soviet Russia, anti-gay sentiment is high and authorities justify the bans on the grounds of trying to prevent fights.

Activists tried to hold a demonstration at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier outside the Kremlin and later outside the mayor's office.

The attempted demonstration at the first site appeared aimed at connecting gay rights with the Soviet Union's stand against Germany in World War II, which remains a cornerstone of Russian national pride.

The demonstration ban "is particularly shocking because during the Second World War, Muscovites stood against the Nazis who thought to exterminate Jews, homosexuals and Communists, but now the mayor of Moscow is colluding with new-Nazis," said Peter Tatchell, a British gay rights activist who has taken part in several demonstration attempts in Moscow.

Russian Activist Nikolai Alexeyev Storms Off Live TV Show During Homophobic Debate

Russian gay activist Nikolai Alexeyev stormed off the stage of a TV show after an unfair debate stacked against him with Russia's version of Maggie Gallagher and a homophobic host.

Here's some of Chicago activist Andy Thayer's first-person account: Alekseev was debating Alexander Hinstein, a deputy in the State Duma (parliament) and member of Vladir Putin’s United Russia Party. The last straw was when Solovyev, host of the nationally broadcast show, Poednivo (roughly “The Dual” in English), called on an audience member who accused gays of physically threatening her young daughter.

Alekseev tore off his microphone and walked off as the cameras rolled. Shortly thereafter, the LGBT members of the audience also walked out.

Deja Vu: Moscow Officials Ban Gay Pride Rally, Again!

Moscow officials marked the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia today by banning a Gay Pride rally scheduled for May 28, UK Gay News reports:

The reasons given by the deputy mayor of Moscow, Ludmila Shvetsova, is because of “the impossibility to provide security” – and a high number of letters of protests received by the City Hall against this event.

“The reasons for banning the Moscow Pride this year are exactly the same reasons used in the past years – and for which the European Court of Human Rights judged against Russia for violating the European Convention on Human Rights, Pride chief organiser Nikolai Alekseev.

“Russia has decided to mark the Day Against Homophobia by showing, once again, its homophobic policy towards its LGBT citizens.

He revealed that an application would now be made directly to the Russian President.

Organizers plan to hold the rally anyway.