Not exactly lovely weather out there for the first day of the Festival of World Cultures, murky skies and the threat of rain. Although, what am I saying, that’s your average irish summer day! If you are heading to Dun Laoghaire, enjoy the expierence. Right, news!

Those cute russian lesbians are still fighting the fight! They don’t give up easily these girls, gayrussia reports

A Russian lesbian couple filed today a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights against the denial to register their marriage in Moscow.

In preparing the complaint, the couple’s lawyers used a recent decision of the Court given in the case of the Austrian gay couple, Schalk & Kopf, when the judges recognized that a same-sex couple can enjoy the same right to respect for family life than a heterosexual couple.

Who didn’t get a self satisfied smirk upon reading the headlines the last few days following this headline

Catholic church embarrassed by gay priests revelations

Using hidden cameras, the weekly Panorama, owned by Italy’s prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, captured priests visiting gay clubs and bars and having sex. The Vatican does not condemn homosexuals, but it teaches that gay sex is “intrinsically disordered”. In one of his earliest moves, pope Benedict barred actively gay men from studying for the priesthood.

Staying with the Guardian, they have a lovely article on Julian Clary

There was never any great announcement. I was an effeminate child and it was obvious to most people – people would call me gay when I was at primary school. When I had my first national newspaper interview, the headline was “Gay Clary.” I was a bit taken aback, but my parents said, “We liked it.”

Apologies for exposing you to the Daily Fail, if you can just focus on the main body of text and avoid headlines about Ali Bastian (who??) getting steamy.

Words such as ‘jolly’ and ‘guffaw’, which the publishers say are seldom used by youngsters nowadays, also fall by the wayside.

I don’t know about that, I am going to try and bring the words jolly and guffaw into conversation over the next few days and see the reaction. Then again I’m not a youngster so maybe it won’t work?

From the people at Comic-Con, I LOVE this

Super Heroes vs. the Westboro Baptist Church

They’ve faced down humans time and time again, but Fred Phelps and his minions from the Westboro Baptist Church were not ready for the cosplay action that awaited them today at Comic-Con. After all, who can win against a counter protest that includes robots, magical anime girls, Trekkies, Jedi and…kittens?

Unbeknownst to the dastardly fanatics of the Westboro Baptist Church, the good folks of San Diego’s Comic-Con were prepared for their arrival with their own special brand of superhuman counter protesting chanting “WHAT DO WE WANT” “GAY SEX” “WHEN DO WE WANT IT” “NOW!” while brandishing ironic (and some sincere) signs. Simply stated: The eclectic assembly of nerdom’s finest stood and delivered.

Fab

Lindsay Watch Alert: Lindsay Lohan gets visits from ex Samantha Ronson, on day 3 of jail stay

The deejay spent an hour inside the Lynwood lockup and declined to speak with reporters.

Jezebel had an interesting point to make on British Vogue’s interview with the out model Freja Beha Erichsen

What Vogue can’t or won’t say, but what is totally obvious to anyone actually interested in this woman and her life, is that Freja Beha Erichsen is an extremely successful model and she dates women. She is a PJ Harvey-listening, tattoo-having, tomboy-dressing, public-photographs-with-her-girlfriends-allowing, Danish supermodel lesbian. Lesbian. Lesbian. Why is that word so hard to say, Vogue?

Yesterday, I was amazed to read Cheerleading is ‘not a competitive sport’ rules judge

Okay, firstly, if the likes of golf and snooker and Darts for Sappho’s sake is considered a sport how can they say cheerleading is not a sport? I tried to discuss this with my work colleagues yesterday and was shot down completely. Cheerleading, according to them, is all about short skirts and pom poms, they are not athletes.
How are they not athletes? Have you see some of the stuff they do? The throws? The routines?

Feministing, which recently launched their new look website, articulated it a lot better then I ever could

Yes, cheerleading has a shitty, sexist history, a history of girls on the sidelines cheering for boys, of girls as human trophies for men’s athletic achievements. Yes, it is still sexist in that the guys get to compete in pants and the girls must compete in skirts and sometimes midriffs tops. Yes, it has a dismal rate, like gymnastics and cross country and figure skating lots of other sports, of body image issues and eating disorders. And yes, the music is unfreakingbearable.

BUT.

There can be no doubt that cheerleading of this kind, the kind done against other cheerleading teams, is a sport. It takes talent, skill, practice and teamwork. It’s competitive, in that there are objective ways to determine if one team performs better than another.

Not really news and not even gay, but look at how flexible the lovely Shakira is?

Granted if you have a hangover, the pink might be attacking your eyelids at the mo

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