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Meme: Peter Dinklage Joins "X-Men:Days of Future Past," Chubby Checker Sues Over the Chubby Checker, and Dame Maggie Doesn't Watch "Downton Abbey"

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Peter Dinklagehas joinedX-Men: Days of Future Past in an unknown role, Peter Dinklagebut let's be honest, Dinklage makes pretty much everything better.

GLAAD is meeting with CBS over a transphobic slur onMike & Molly. Mike described "the she-male incident of '08" to his friend. GLAAD will also address what they call a disturbing trend towards GLBT people on the network, which is always at the bottom of GLAAD's rankings.

Olympian Oscar Pistorious, the man who ran on artificial legs, has been charged with the murder of his girlfriend. Details are scarce, but it was either a Valentine's surprise gone wrong or something much darker.

Celebrities including Jessie J, Florence Welch, Ben Drew, Ai Weiwei, Elizabeth Hurley, Paulo Coelho, George Takei, Kelly Osborne, Lara Stone, Stephen Fry, David Walliams, Jamie Oliver and Shane Warne are pricking their fingers and showing a drop of blood for Valentine's Day in support of theElton John AIDS Foundation as part of a #LOVEISINMYBLOOD campaign.

A Utah high school briefly became involved in a conflict after flyers for the annual choir fundraiser said that students could send a singing Valentine to only their opposite sex partners. The school quickly backtracked on the issue and called it a "miscommunication."Trevor Wright

Trevor Wright, the star of Shelter, which you voted the #1 Gay Film will be hosting a Google Hangout Saturday, February 16th at 4PM EST.

Elon Muskis fighting with theNY Times over a review of his new Tesla Model S that left the reviewer stranded without a charge. Musk released the vehicle logs showing huge detours and improper charging, but the NY Times reviewer says that he was acting on advice from Tesla engineers he called.

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) have filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court stating that DOMA allows same-sex members of Congress to skirt ethics rules about hiring family, and should be struck down. Interesting angle, but CREW tends to find those.

37 Senators have sentPresident Obama a request to sign an executive order to protect GLBT workers from discrimination until ENDA can be enacted sometime in the distant future.

Today, a 150 foot asteroid will pass a mere 17,200 miles from earth, which in space terms, is incredibly close. That's a fraction of the distance to the moon, and well within the radius of many of our satellites. NASA is fascinated, but not worried that it could impact the earth. But if it does, it's been nice knowing you!Chubby Checker

Chubby Checkeris suing HP over a Palm OS app that was downloaded a mere 84 times on the defunct platform. The app, Chubby Checker, was to help you check the size of your chubby. The lawsuit is for $500 million, saying that the 60s music star has suffered harm from the cheekily named app that no one had heard of until the lawsuit was filed.

When conservationists in Australia found a large pod of dolphins stranded in shallow water, they relocated a baby dolphin from the pod into deeper water. Once the baby started emitting distress calls, the pod moved immediately to the deep water to rescue it, giving us all the feels.

Andrew ChristianThe National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association (of which I am a member) has sent an open letter to the AP about their memo to restrict the use of the terms "husband" and "wife" when referring to same-sex couples. Most notably, they state "Language choices like these have an impact. Such reporting can reinforce the idea that marriages between same-sex individuals are fundamentally different from marriages between a man and a woman. "

Andrew Christian, noted for his sexy underwear and even sexier videos, has teamed up with Wet to put condoms and lube in every underwear order they ship for the next three months in order to promote safer sex.

 

 Dom surprised Travis Wall with a romantic breakfast in bed for Valentine's Day

 While Jake Shears had something else in mind for his fella when he spent the day at Mr. S

 Dan Feuerreigel looks sexy as he prepares to hit the gym, not that he needs it

 While Matthew Mitcham provided sassy moral support for fellow Olympian Charlotte vanVeen when she hit the pool for rehab

 

Vulture describe Two Mothers as the best and the worst film at Sundance. It stars Naomi Watts and Robin Wright as two single mothers, best friends, raising two incredibly sexy sons on a beach. Their world becomes unbalanced after the sons begin sleeping with each other's mothers, and involves a four way.

 

The Big Bang Theory's Mayim Balik isn't just an actress, she's a scientist both on the show and in real life. She talks about her love of science and how she was fortunate enough to be able to translate her degree into her character on the show, while encouraging girls to get into science.

 

The question that i see posed by this video is whether a gay bar is like a dog park, or a dog park is like a gay bar. Or perhaps there's really not that much difference at all.

 

I'm a bit confused by this instant fascination with the Harlem Shake, but I'll watch anything creative with hot guys in Speedos, so here's the UGA Swin & Dive Team performing the Harlem Shake underwater.

 

Maggie Smith sits down for a rare interview with 60 Minutes, and confounds the interviewer by saying she's never watched Downton Abbey. A lot of actors don't actually watch their finished work, but it's Dame Maggie's closing statement in the clip that really sets her apart.

 

A year ago home goods maker John Saint Denis put out a sexy, touching video about Paolo and his young French boyfriend Marc. Now they're back, living in a fabulous Paris flat, but facing separation as Paolo's job is relocating to the United States, where his relationship with Marc has no status for immigration. See how it all turns out, and how they partnered with the Human Rights Campaign.

 

We're back with another episode of Doof Daily, with my favorite Phineas & Ferb evil scientist taking on pop culture, this time Instagram, which I basically hate, but for different reasons. He doesn't seem to get photographing your food, while my main irritation is the stupid filters that people use. Seriously, why would you take an 8MP digital camera with serious brains behind it and strive to make the photo look like it was taken in 1963?

 

Finally, just for fun, animal expert Jeff Musial dropped by Late Night with jimmy Fallon. This is always fun, because Jimmy is so easily terrified of animals, be it the giant bird or the smelly aardvark that tongues his ear.

 

In part two, we have a porcupine that contributes to the generally unsanitary conditions, plus a visit from two adorable baby alligators that suddenly gets a lot more real.

 

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