Celebs We Lost

We lost a lot of talented people in 2008, but their work will live on forever in film and video.  Take a look at some of the highlights below.

Watch These Clips Now: Kathy and Anderson!

Starting with the night before New Year's, Kathy and Anderson call Kathy's mom -- who's drinking her box of wine -- and hilarity ensues.  The clips from the actual New Year's broadcast are below -- including the infamous one where Kathy yells at a heckler and provides the world with an insult that's an instant classic!

Point-Counterpoint: Beer or Something Harder?

Let's cut to the chase: do most gay men drink beer, or do they stick to the hard stuff? An informal poll around the Gay.com offices yielded some surprising results, so we decided to explore the topic of potent potables a bit more.

Soup Really IS Good Food!

There’s a tempest in a soup pot brewing up all over the internet.  It seems that Campbell’s Soup has taken out advertising in the Advocate.  The ad – for Swanson’s broth - highlights a lesbian married couple raising a kid, eating soup.   The ad associates Campbell’s soup (via Swanson broth) with family and wholesomeness and traditional American values, despite whatever surface level changes these values manifest themselves in these days.

Best of 2008 - You Pick the Winners!

We asked you who's "in vogue" this year, and you gave us the ladies with an attitude and the fellas that put you in the mood. So let's start our celebration of 2008 by Vogue-ing to the year's biggest names. (Apologies to Madonna.)

Just move to the music and go with the flow.

Kathy Griffin, Hillary
Sarah Palin (wannabe)
Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae
Wanda Sykes is now a gay

Carrie Bradshaw, back on screen
Meryl Streep does "Dancing Queen"
Phelps and Mitcham in the pool
Olbermann sends Bill to school

Tina Fey gives good Gov
Portia, Ellen show their love
Nastia, Justin, WALL-E too
Barack Obama, we love you!

Fellas in the blogosphere
Watching Britney grow her hair
Make your choice without a fuss
You chose these names, so don't blame us ...

VOTE!

We let you decide the top five nominees in each of our Best of 2008 categories, and now it's time to choose the winners. It's up to you who'll be crowned the best of the best in the realms of Sports, Entertainment, Politics and Community, so make sure to vote in each of the following 10 questions and click on the Cast Your Vote box at the bottom of each question so your vote is counted.

Week in Review: 12/13 - 12/19

Our Top Stories This Week:

• Obama Defends Choice of Evangelical Pastor
• Best of 2008! - You Pick the Winners!
• 2008: A Spike in Gay Violence?
• My Two Penguin Daddies
• U.N. Gay Rights Statement: Why The U.S. Hold Up?
• 'Get To Know Me First' Before You Vote Against My Rights

"Ex-Gay" Billboard Snatched Faster Than A Bad Wig

P-FOX (Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays) didn't pay Clear Channel one red cent to post an offensive "non revenue" billboard in Tuscon. The so-called not-for-profit organization says they support families and advocates for the ex-gay community.

A Slap In The Face?

The selection of Rev. Rick Warren to deliver the inauguration invocation by President Elect Obama has been called “a slap in the faces of the millions of GLBT voters” by some gay leaders. Rev. Warren is the author of bestseller "The Purpose Driven Life" and is the founder of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California, the fourth largest church in America.

Rufus Wainwright's Gay Marriage Remarks Whip Up Controversy

Rufus Wainwright wants to make something clear—he's not against gay marriage.

Still, he has been portrayed as being against gay marriage—especially by the online media—after a recent interview with New York Press. When asked by the newspaper how he felt about the passage of Prop 8, Rufus mused, "Oddly enough, I'm actually not a huge gay marriage supporter."

That said, he went on to tell the newspaper that he didn't think the government had any right to tell people whom they could or couldn't marry. More specifically, Rufus said, "I personally don't want to get married, but I think that any law or amendment to the constitution that deals with sex and love should just be banned in general. I don't think any government should encroach on what goes on in the bedroom at all. Frankly, if you want to marry a dog, why don't you go ahead and marry a dog, I don't care. I'm a complete libertarian, and so I really disagree with it."

Get To Know Me First before you Vote Against My Rights

In the wake of the disastrous outcome of the Prop 8 vote, and the disastrous campaign that “led” that effort, individuals and groups are popping up to move the fight on to its next steps.

This may be end up being a better approach; decentralizing the efforts away from one group, a group that this writer – along with many others – thinks badly, badly mismanaged the No on 8 campaign, and instead bringing in multiple groups with multiple perspectives to work on multiple fronts.

One of these groups is GetToKnowMeFirst.org.  According to a press release they are a: