Sir Ian McKellenhas revealed that he's going to marrySir Patrick Stewart. Well, he's going to 
officiate Sir Patrick's wedding. He's done it before for a civil partnership, he says.
Which seems at odds with the Methodist Church in Winston-Salem, that has decided not to perform any marriages until they're allowed to perform same-sex marriages. I always felt it was a nice gesture to say you weren't going to wed until everyone could, but probably unnecessary. Sir Ian obviously thinks so – what about you?
Add Funny Or Die to the list of Steve Jobs biopics, this one starringJustin Long and based on fifteen minutes research of looking at Jobs' Wikipedia page. I wonder if The Woz will approve of this one more than the Ashton Kutcher pic?
The two teenagers from Steubenville, OH who were on trial for the rape of a drunken high school girl from neighboring West Virginia have received guilty verdicts. The teens were convicted of violating the drunken girl and posting pictures of the affair on social media. Sentenced as minors
, they'll only serve one and two year sentences.
MPs are making plans to make Westminster Chapel, below parliament, non-denominational. As an Anglican chapel, it could be restricted from hosting same-sex marriages. Catholic mass is already held in the chapel, so changing it to be truly non-denominational only makes sense.
Kate Middletonsays that the gender of the royal baby still isn't known, but that she wants a boy (get those heir questions out of the way), but Prince William wants a daughter.
Frank Bruni thinks that the selection of the new pope is the perfect time for the Catholic Church to stop talking about sex. "It’s on matters of sexual morality that the church has lost much of its authority. And it’s on matters of sexual morality that it largely wastes its breath. By insisting on mandatory celibacy for a priesthood winnowed and sometimes warped by that, by opposing the use of contraceptives for birth control, by casting judgment on homosexuals and by decrying divorce while running something of an annulment mill, the church’s leaders have enraged and alienated Catholics whose common sense and whose experience of the real world tell them that none of that is wise, kind or necessary."
The return of Jesus might work out the same for all sexualities.
Oscar producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron say that everybody missed the joke on Seth MacFarlane's"We Saw Your Boobs" bit at the Oscars. “It was not about the women that were mentioned; the song was about him being a bad host and him being a juvenile, which was why he was a bad host.” That makes about the tenth explanation I've heard, and none of them are sticking. Why don't we just admit it sucked and move on?
Can one man own the word"Queer" for an entire nation? From the reactions some Brits have to the word "queer" would anyone in the UK want to?
Has Hollywood abandoned the steamy sex scene in movies? Is it now the domain of HBO and Starz as a result of making movies targeted at teen boys?
Researchers in France are claiming to have"functionally cured" 14 patients with HIV. The key was starting anti-retroviral therapy early, no later than 10 weeks after infection. Then treatment can be stopped. Unlike the Berlin patient, HIV remains in the body of those "cured" but doesn't take over the immune system in the absence of drugs.
Despite news that Jason Mamoa was cast as Drax the Destroyer in The Guardians of the Galaxy, the role has gone to wrestler David Bautista. Interestingly, while Bautista doesn't have the necessary green skin, he already has remarkably similar tattoos.
Wouldn't you love to be the one who gets to go to bed with Yigit Pura?
The one-night-only Jake Shears band for the GLAAD Awards
Athlete Ally's Hudson Taylor with Brendon Ayanbedejo and Chris Kluwe
Since signing up for Splash, Drake Bell seems to be forsaking his traditional suits for the shirtless look. We all win
Not that we expected any different, but Senator Portman coming out for marriage equality hasn't changed the mind of failed presidential candidate Rick Santorum, who thinks marriage is designed by nature rather than the state. He also trots out his comparison that you can call anything anything, but it doesn't make it true. Remember the napkin line last year?
Game of Thrones is going to war, and they aren't skimping on the soldiers that will die in the fields. But I can support anything that advocates killing Jeoffery.
Planes is the non-Pixar, non-Cars spinoff about a crop duster who has a need for speed among the fastest planes in the world. Does anyone think that Disney isn't even trying anymore?
I would like one of these beds for my office at the day job. For that matter, I'd like one for my home office too - that 20 feet to the bedroom can be brutal before the coffee maker is finished.
Luke's Change: An Inside Job is a remarkably serious look at the idea that the destruction of the Death Star was an inside job, done in the style of the 9/11 conspiracies that still rage out there. They may have a point, since I always found the idea that the Death Star had a flaw like this was ridiculous, much less that Luke could hit that target.
I know you're not supposed to interact with wild animals, but it seems every couple of years you get someone providing water to a koala. And if you're going to choose a wild animal to assist, you may as well choose one that is as laid back as a koala.
