Does topless Putin do it for you?

Alfonso Signorini, a Canale 5 TV show host, has revealed that his gay lust is stoked by the Russian Prime Minister, hardman and judo enthusiast Vladimir Putin.

"When I saw his naked torso and a slain Siberian tiger lying at his feet, I almost had a stroke. Won-der-ful!" Signorini said.

"He is my erotic dream. I find him absolutely astonishing.

"I'm attracted by his charisma and his icy glance."

Well aren't we all? And his homophobia is just such a turn on too.

Gays mourn as Sarkozy marries his girl

The dashing son of the President of France has married his childhood sweetheart.

Jean Sarkozy, 22, second son of the President, exchanged vows at his local town hall with Jessica Sebaoun, 20.

He was elected as a regional councillor in the city of Neuilly-sur-Seine (think Chelsea) earlier this year and as you can see from the pic below is keen on small animals such as ferrets.

Well done that drag queen - Iris mocked

We had to share this picture from the Belfast Telegraph:



The city's most famous drag queen showed up at a protest rally yesterday - read all about it here.

Camp attack! Simmons mulls run for Congress

It's all stars and stripes, spangles and spandex for anti-fat crusader Richard Simmons, who hinted at a desire to run for Congress while speaking on Capitol Hill Thursday.

 

Testifying before the House Education and Labour Committee, on the issues of battling childhood obesity and increasing school exercise programs, fitness guru Simmons, 60, said in a half-kidding tone, "I want to have the respect of a Congressman, I want to talk like a Congressman, and maybe, someday, I'll be a Congressman."

 

Then, answering about three minutes of follow-up questions, Simmons adopted a politician’s rhetoric to address the press. Simmons said at one point that he would be available for the people.

 

"However I can be of use," he said, "If my country wants me, I'll be there for my country."

 

Sticking close to his life-long purpose of awareness, education and implementation of healthy eating and exercise, Simmons said, "(The new president) is going to have to look at the statistics of what's happening to our kids," Simmons told CNN Radio. "And then he's going to say who we can turn to? And it certainly isn't the Ghostbusters."

 

Using professional wrestler turned Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura as an example of a celebrity figure who successfully transitioned to a politician, Simmons said he’s not ruling the idea of running for Congress out.

 

Simmons closed the hearing by saying he would defer to his advisers to determine how to proceed.

 

“After this Congressional hearing, I will go home," Simmons said, "I will talk with my Dalmatian dogs, I will pray to God and then I'll see what else I can do to help."

 

 

 

   

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Video: Germany's annual Christopher Street Day parade in Berlin.

While the Bulgarian police crack down on Sofia's first gay pride parade after a firebomb of a gay bar, and 150 homophobic mobsers attack gays, the LGBT community party on Christopher Street in Berlin. Buttocks galore.

Anderson Cooper not my boo

Because news in America is increasingly becoming part reliable media source/part for profit business hodgepodge, CNN has launched a line of t-shirts playing off this week’s awkward on air exchange between host Anderson Cooper and political analyst Donna Brazile.

The shirts, which read, Anderson Cooper, 'You’re Not My Boo’, are available at CNN.com, playing off the exchange that went down this week between Cooper and the ling time democratic political advisor.

The exchange went down on Cooper’s 360 when the host asked Brazile for any campaign information presidential hopeful Barack Obama might have shared with her that he hasn’t shared with the American public.

“Now Anderson, you’re not my boo,” Brazile answered jokingly.

“I wanna be your boo,” Cooper fired back to a then obviously flustered Brazile, who later asked, "Are we still on TV—I think I’d better watch my words."

The funny exchange quickly became one of the most watched videos of the week on YouTube and now, CNN has run with the publicity and attempted to coin a lasting catch phrase out of the exchange.

Adam Higgins - © 2008 GayWired.com; All Rights Reserved

Dunkin Donut "terrorist" ad is shelved

After drawing serious fire from Fox News commentator Michelle Malkin and other ultra conservatives, Dunkin’ Donuts has pulled a new ad featuring America’s domestic sweetheart, Rachael Ray, wearing a scarf that looks like a keffiyeh, a traditional headdress worn by Arab men.

Though the company initially tried to brush off complaints about the scarf in question, Malkin’s commentary on the subject in her syndicated column yesterday was incendiary.

In the column, an outraged Malkin wrote: "Popularised by Yasser Arafat and a regular adornment of Muslim terrorists appearing in beheading and hostage-taking videos, the apparel has been mainstreamed by both ignorant and not-so-ignorant fashion designers, celebrities, and left-wing icons."

Combined with the growing right wing rage on the web over Ray’s fashion statement, Dunkin Donuts was convinced to change course with respect to the ad.

In a statement, Dunkin' executives explained: "In a recent online ad, Rachael Ray is wearing a black-and-white silk scarf with a paisley design. It was selected by her stylist for the advertising shoot. Absolutely no symbolism was intended. However, given the possibility of misperception, we are no longer using the commercial."

In response to the announcement, Michelle Malkin said:

"It's refreshing to see an American company show sensitivity to the concerns of Americans opposed to Islamic jihad and its apologists."

So much for Rachael Ray making fashion statements.

Score another for the right.

Jonas Oliver © 2008 GayWired.com; All Rights Reserved.

Video: Monty Python and the Democratic convention

A bit of mid-afternoon hilarity from PinkNews.co.uk Towers.

Enjoy.

Wanted: Lesbian mum

We want to hear from you.

MPs are to consider the "need for a father" when women access IVF or fertility treatments - but what about the reality of babies, fathers and lesbians?

Are you a lesbian or bisexual mother? Did you use IVF or fertility clinics?

Or did you have to use "DIY" insemination methods?

We want to tell YOUR side of this story.

We have heard from the politicians, the priests and the family values groups, now we want to hear from women who have been through it.

Please send an email with a short explanation of your circumstances to news@pinknews.co.uk marked 'BABY.'

"Homosexuality" is 140 years old today

One hundred and forty years ago today, on May 6, 1868, the word homosexuality was invented.

Before then, there were very few value-neutral words to describe people who experienced romantic or sexual attractions toward others of the same sex.

Pejoratives such as “bugger,” “molly,” “sodomite,” or “pederast” were common, words loaded with condemnation and shame. But as the budding science of sexology began to grow, and as same-sex loving defenders began to speak out about what same-sex love was all about, their first problem was with how to name it. “Abominable vice” wouldn’t do.

A new word was desperately needed to describe their lives and feelings.

The love that dared not speak its name couldn’t. It didn’t have one.

Read the rest of this article here.