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Vanity Fair McCain Cover Tips Hat to New Yorker Obama Controversy

GayWired.com - July 23, 2008 - 3:36pm
Vanity Fair has stepped into the fray over a controversial New Yorker Magazine cover featuring a cartoon Barack Obama as a terrorist by issuing their own faked John McCain parody cover this week. The Vanity Fair McCain cover cartoon features the presumptive Republican presidential nominee hunched over a walker with wife Cindy McCain cradling an armful of prescription pill bottles.
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WNBA Shoving Match Sees Sparks' Lisa Leslie Shoved to the Court

GayWired.com - July 23, 2008 - 2:38pm
First it was the ladies of NASCAR, and now it's the ladies of the WNBA that are getting rough and tough. Well, at least three ladies and one gentleman, and it all happened with just about five seconds remaining in the game! At one point during the scuffle, it appeared as though Shock assistant coach Rick Mahorn knocked the Sparks' Lisa Leslie to the court.
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Shirley Maclaine Shuts Clueless Elisabeth Hasselbeck Down on 'The View'

GayWired.com - July 23, 2008 - 2:04pm
Actress and reincarnation advocate Shirley MacLaine cut The View's Elisabeth Hasselbeck off at the knees during an on-air interview Wednesday. MacLaine, renowned for her books detailing her belief in past lives and her affinity for 'alternative' medicine and remedies, at one point looked an under-informed Hasselbeck in the eye and cut her off saying, 'I don't know what you're talking about.'
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Gay Bashing Radio Host Michael Savage Dropped from Radio Network

GayWired.com - July 23, 2008 - 1:55pm
Talk Radio Network host Michael Savage has been dropped from a Mississippi radio network after making defamatory comments about autistic children on his show last week. The Savage Nation host, who has repeatedly bashed the gay community on air, called autistic children 'brats' and said autism is nothing more than a 'fraud'. Savage has also lost at least one major advertiser over the inflammatory remarks.
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George Michael Says Public Sex Arrest was 'Deliberate'

GayWired.com - July 23, 2008 - 1:42pm
Currently touring the United States to promote his greatest hits album a twenty-five year anniversary package aimed at reintroducing himself to the American audience George Michael sat down with Good Morning America's Chris Cuomo this morning to talk about losing his lover to AIDS, his ongoing battle with drugs and that public gay sex arrest, something he says in retrospect he thinks was done deliberately.
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This Gay Week in Sports: Ian Thorpe, Danica Patrick

GayWired.com - July 23, 2008 - 3:30am
Skating welcomes another homo to the fold, but sadly, not Johnny Weir; Brady Quinn slaps a gay hookup site with a cease and desist letter; Ian Thorpe gets pithy with pronouns; girl-on-girl smackdown starring Danica Patrick; Brett Favre gets all teary eyed over quitting and the British Show Jumping Association sexes it up.
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Straight Girl in a Queer World #26

GayWired.com - July 23, 2008 - 3:00am
HIV/AIDS activist, educator and counselor Sherri Beachfront hosts a here! Networks podcast from her unique perspective as an HIV+ 'Straight Girl in a Queer World'. This week: Legendary female impersonator Bobby Etienne recalls his incredible career from La Cage Aux Folles to performing as Tina Turner.
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Book Club: Joel Derfner, Author of 'Swish'

GayWired.com - July 23, 2008 - 3:00am
The man who taught us how to pen the perfect gay haiku is back with another challenge to become the gayest person of all time. Joel Derfner talks to GayWired.com about failing miserably at drag queen finishing school, stopping short of starring in gay porn and his forthcoming musical taking place in a concentration camp.
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Inner Vision: The Attraction of Distraction

GayWired.com - July 23, 2008 - 3:00am
Hi. My name is Lisa…and I'm a TV junkie. It's true I LOVE me some Law and Order, Family Guy, MTV Cribs and so on. Now I know there are those who scoff at the notion of anyone being hooked on TV, but lest ye raise a furrowed brow and be judged by your own voracious consumption of laptops, cell phones and Blackberrys, hear me out. Distraction, in all of its forms can make us forget what we're doing, where we are, where we're going. That's what makes it so seductive and appealing and dangerous.
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Media Blender: This Week in the World of Lesbian Gossip!

GayWired.com - July 23, 2008 - 3:00am

It's all about The L Word! Ilene Chaiken taunts the lesbians with tell of an online continuation of the show and a spin-off starring who knows; Jennifer Beals, Leisha Hailey, Katherine Moennig? This just in... Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson in a lesbian relationship... duh. The Emmy Award nominations are in and Tina Fey, Mariska Hargitay, America Ferrera, Holly Hunter and Glenn Close are leading the pack. Plus, Salma Hayek makes way for Penelope Cruz.

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Barack Obama Only Hope of Repealing 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell', Democrats Say

GayWired.com - July 22, 2008 - 11:30pm
Democrats convening the first congressional hearing on the military's 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' policy since its enactment 15 years ago say electing Barack Obama to the White House is the only hope at getting it repealed. While Obama supports a repeal of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' and says he will work with military leaders to get it done, his opponent John McCain thinks the existing policy is working.
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Gay Advocate John Edwards Reportedly Caught Visiting Mistress Rielle Hunter

GayWired.com - July 22, 2008 - 5:45pm
Former presidential candidate Sen. John Edwards paid a night-long visit to his long-rumored mistress Rielle Hunter and to their supposed love child at a Los Angeles hotel Monday. Edwards was caught staying with Hunter at the Beverly Hilton through the wee hours Monday night into Tuesday, The National Enquirer reported.
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Celebrity Bitch Smackdown: Wendy Williams vs. Omarosa

GayWired.com - July 22, 2008 - 5:28pm
Reality personality Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth appeared on today's episode of Wendy Williams' eponymous daytime chatfest The Wendy Williams Show and immediately got testy for no apparent reason at all. Before long a full on cat fight broke out that led Williams to later describe Omarosa as 'a delusional, D-list, pathetic woman.' After she kicked her off her show, of course.
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Fort Lauderdale Gay Enclave Victimized by Gay Hate Crime

GayWired.com - July 22, 2008 - 4:41pm
Wilton Manors, Florida is a city with over 13,000 residents, approximately 35 to 40 percent of whom are gay. Late last week the community was hit by an inexplicable anti-gay attack that has left residents, gay and straight, stunned.
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Lesbos Residents Lose Court Case Over Use of 'Lesbian'

GayWired.com - July 22, 2008 - 4:00pm
Residents of the Greek island of Lesbos who sued to ban the use of the word 'lesbian' in reference to gay women have failed to prove their case in court. An Athens court has dismissed the case, ruling that the word did not define the identity of Lesbos' residents and could be used freely by gay organizations and the media.
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'Dark Knight' Star Christian Bale Denies Assault Allegations

GayWired.com - July 22, 2008 - 3:15pm
Actor Christian Bale, star of the latest Batman film The Dark Knight, has been released from jail after being arrested on assault charges. The 34-year-old actor surrendered himself voluntarily to police in London after his mother and sister told police he had assaulted them. Bale has denied the allegations.
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Ian Thorpe Ends Gay Rumors, Says He's Dating a Girl

GayWired.com - July 22, 2008 - 2:05pm
For years, probably since his appearance at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, many have been speculating, and most gay men have been hoping, that the Thorpedo gold medal winner Ian Thorpe was indeed a homo. Well, don't count on it.
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Thank You for Being a Friend; Golden Girls' Estelle Getty Dead at 84

GayWired.com - July 22, 2008 - 1:52pm
Golden Girls star Estelle Getty died in her Los Angeles home at 5:35 a.m. Tuesday morning. Beloved as the snappy Sophia Petrillo on the hit show Golden Girls, Getty, 84, died three days short of her 85th birthday. She had been struggling with illness and battling Lewy Body dementia for years.
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Outfest 2008 Coverage: 'The World Unseen' and Awards Night

GayWired.com - July 22, 2008 - 1:00pm
A beautifully shot film with breathtakingly hot actresses Sheetal Sheth as the rebel café owner Amina and Lisa Ray as Marina, the beleaguered, bi-curious housewife and mother, The World Unseen, epitomizes unfulfilled lesbian desire. Plus, it's Awards' Night under the stars at the Ford Amphitheater and did the stars ever come out! Oh wait… most of them are already out.
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Christian Bale Arrested in London on Assault

GayWired.com - July 22, 2008 - 11:27am
His Dark Knight may have claimed the box office throne over the weekend, but actor Christian Bale didn't have long to celebrate before being arrested on assault charges. The 34-year-old actor surrendered himself voluntarily to police in London yesterday after assault charges were brought against him by his mother and sister.
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