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Who knew Jude Law could make such a fierce drag queen? Granted, we've seen the uncut actor "hanging out" (so to speak) previously, but this time (s)he looks as though (s)he's done this sort of dress-up thing before - horrific Amy Winehouse-ish wig notwithstanding.

Before you get your manties in a bunch, it's not like he's doing some full-scale musical revue somewhere or has come out screaming "It's Raining Men." No, the (by all accounts) heterosexual actor gets swirled up for his appearance in director Sally Potter's new film Rage.

The plot centers around a young blogger at a New York fashion house shooting behind-the-scenes interviews and footage for some project he's working on. By all accounts it's a bit of a snore-bore (rather shocking, coming from the woman who brought us the rapturous Orlando), but it does also feature such luminaries as Dame Judi Dench, Steve Buscemi, John Leguizamo, Dianne Wiest, and the familiar-with-drag Eddie Izzard, all interspersed among some oddish newcomers you'll probably never hear from again.

Praise the pigskin! A hot, studly, and forward-thinking NFL superstar has scored a touchdown and quickly made himself a true role model. Baltimore Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo attended an Equality Maryland event recently to celebrate the relocation of its headquarters from Silver Spring to Baltimore. According to an article that appeared in today's Washington Blade, Ayanbadejo said "If Britney Spears can party it up in Vegas with one of her boys and go get married on a whim and annul her marriage the next day, why can't a loving same-sex couple tie the knot?"

Now, I've had a thing for the guy for a while. (His choice of bad Ed Hardy shirts notwithstanding.) He's a doting dad with killer pecs and a nipple ring, can hoist large objects above his head while opening his mouth, can thrust his crotch forward while pulling an MJ, has killer guns I just wanna curl up in, has a body to die for, and a brother named Femi who I'd totally wanna threeway with.

The brothers had a webisode site that seems defunct now, but you can still see their YouTube videos. Check out their MySpace page for more pics, and click here for the full Blade article.

Sometimes I'm surprised by how perverse straight people can be when it comes to homosexuals. To many, the mere mention of a gay person seems to stimulate some heretofore uncharted area in the heterosexual's Lizard Brain that quickly associates "homosexual" with "Ew gross two dudes and their buttsecks ew."

This seems to have been the case for officials at a San Diego County school, who categorized a sixth-grader's Power Point presentation on politician and civil rights advocate Harvey Milk as falling under the umbrella of "sexual education," requiring parental permission slips before the other students could be exposed to the radical leftist 12-year-old's propaganda slide show. This classification flies in the face of the hard fact that, having reviewed the presentation myself, there are no mentions in the student's project of: vodka tonics, disco remixes of R&B songs, poppers, Adam4Adam, bathhouse etiquette, or butt plugs, which constitute several an elective course on gay male sexuality.