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Perez Hilton has sunk to yet another record low this week with his offensive despicable blogging about Michael Jackson's emergency hospital admission that lead to the King of Pop's tragic death. Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson-Wentz are part of a mass Twitter boycott of Perez.

Primetime gay for pay lesbians move over, you’ve got company: ABC’s rookie dramaFlashForward just joined the ranks of network shows with lesbian story lines.

Federal Judge Vaughn Walker’s decision to overturn Prop 8 in California last week was a milestone for gay rights.  Really, it was a very important notch in the belt for the gay rights movement nationwide. It appeared as though same sex marriages would -- once again -- be legal in one of the most populous states in the union. He wrote in his ruling that they have no right to appeal as his decision striking down the state law would have to be defended by Gov. Schwarzenegger and/or Attorney General Brown.  And Schwarzenegger and Brown have both publicly called for marriages to resume immediately.

It's the end of lesbian television as we know it with The L Word kicking off its final season, so kiss goodbye Jennifer Beals, Mia Kirshner, Kate Moennig and the gang. Meanwhile Leisha Hailey's about to do time in the big house.Oprah gushes over Kate Winslet Globes, Melissa George scrubs out of Grey's and Kara DioGuardio is one hot reason to tune into American Idol.

In the tradition of illustrated memoirs like Fun Home, Portland-based queer illustrator Nicole Georges's first full-length graphic novel, Calling Dr. Laura, takes readers down a page-turning rabbit hole of familial deception, secret histories, and half-truths. But don't let that scare you off.

Indie film fave and star of High Art and Six Feet Under, Patricia Clarkson, delivered an empowering and moving keynote speech calling for gay rights at a New Orleans HRC function recently. Quoting Tennessee Williams and invoking humor, Clarkson railed against same-sex marriage inequality and Don't Ask Don't Tell.

After years of wondering what’s next in the world of toys comes the heady news that SexToy.com will be leading a team to launch the first vibrating adult sex toy into space on October 8, 2011. Of course, we’re not sure if the gurus at SexToy.com asked NASA what Sally Ride might have snuck into her overnight bag, but so far the space agency isn’t disputing the company’s claim to be the winner of the horny space race.The space craft will be equipped with a still and video camera that will send images of its best selling vibrator back to Earth. The company says that “rigorous experimentation” with the toy led scientists to develop a way to send the vibrator into space.

Hot on the heels of Evan Rachel Wood's casting as Sophie-Anne, the lesbian vampire queen of Louisiana, True Blood has found her a play thing: Lindsey Haun will play Sookie Stackhouse's (Anna Paquin) cousin Hadley Hale.

My first time on skis? On the French Alps.