He may have vetoed California’s landmark gay marriage bill in September, but now the Governator’s looking for some love from the gays. To that end, he’s hired lesbian activist Susan Kennedy as his new chief of staff. We’re not sure what Kennedy—a respected activist and longtime Democratic official—gets out of the deal, but […]

Amidst all the furor over the Pope’s new directive barring even celibate gays from the priesthood, we caught this little detail over on AmericaBlog. It seems the cranky Pope Benedict XVI has a yen for designer wear, including Prada shoes and Gucci sunglasses. He’s even bringing in his own fashion house to provide […]

From today’s Page Six: There’s another reason to dig Charlize Theron. (You know, besides her being massively hot.) She recently told the TV show Extra that she and boyfriend Stuart Townsend aren’t planning getting hitched just yet. Says Theron: “We came up with a new idea that we said we would get married […]

For the music lover in your life: Love Honey, a sex-toy company in the UK recently debuted the iBuzz, a vibrator/iPod add-on that attaches to your music player and buzzes in time to the beat of whatever song happens to be playing, and vibrates more intensely on louder volumes. Looks like it can’t be […]

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Apparently People has learned this exclusively, but it happened last month. No news yet on the name. We’re guessing it’s not going to be Helena.

Via Salon: Well, Martha Stewart’s Apprentice got the boot after low ratings, but her daughter and on-air “advisor” Alexis Stewart seems to have rebounded quite nicely. Alexis has a new radio show on the Sirius Satellite network, as part of the all-Martha, all-the-time channel. Called “Whatever” (seriously) the show features Alexis and a […]

The Queer Eye for the Straight Guy boys are mixing it up next season, and they sent out a casting call to PlanetOut for potential makeover subjects. They’re looking for a gay guy who’s on the verge of coming out to his family, a teenager who thinks he’s Fab Five material, and “a lesbian […]

Last week, a gay guy wrote in to Dan Savage wondering where he could meet “guys with pies” (as he so eloquently phrased it). Seems he has an intense attraction to hypermasculine men with vaginas. Savage replied that he gets at least a letter a month from gay-identified transmen lamenting their difficulty in […]

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