Snowpiercer scruffs up Chris Evans, This Is the End does Real World, One Million Moms mad at Kraft

Fresh off their string of Tony wins, Kinky Boots has announced a national tour of the show, set to kick off in Las Vegas in September 2014. While that seems like a long time to wait, for some of us, it may be the best chance to see the show.

Stranger by the Lake, the gay themed Cannes favorite, has had its posters removed in Paris suburbs after people complained about the sexuality of the posters, which you can see here.  If that's all it takes to upset a Frenchman, they're much more prudish than we've been led to believe.

Just in case it was your dream, you can now smell like Stan Lee.

Sandra Bullock is reportedly reconsidering her decision not to play Miss Hannigan in Annie. Why they need Bullock when Jane Lynch is currently knocking it out the park on Broadway, I have no idea.

Arizona Republican Senator Jeff Flake is apologizing for homophobic, racist, and anti-Semetic language his teenage son used on Twitter, YouTube, and in video games. Tanner threatened the "faggot" who stole his bike, gamed under the moniker "n1ggerkiller" and made jokes about Jews stealing jokes over numerous social media platforms. The Senator says “I’m very disappointed in my teenage son’s words, and I sincerely apologize for the insensitivity. This language is unacceptable, anywhere. Needless to say, I’ve already spoken with him about this, he has apologized, and I apologize as well."

The Southern Baptists, the largest Protestant congregation in the U.S. passed a resolution expressing opposition to open scouting for youth. It doesn’t' go so far as to tell their congregations to drop sponsorship of scout troops, but provides cover for those that do. I first became aware of the Southern Baptists during their unsuccessful boycott of Disney over Gay Days.

Greg Louganis, Ben Cohen, Billie Jean King, Martina Navratilova and Jason Collins will be the first inductees into the Gay & Lesbian Sports Hall of Fame in Chicago. As much as I love Ben Cohen, I struggle to understand why we're inducting an ally into the inaugural class.

One Million Moms is upset with Kraft for their hot Zesty Guy ad in People magazine last week, which has the frequently shirtless stud naked except for a tiny piece of tablecloth covering most of his crotch. "The consumers they are attempting to attract - women and mothers - are the very ones they are driving away. Who will want Kraft products in their fridge or pantry if this vulgarity is what they represent? One Million Moms cannot get over the gall of this company. It is unnecessary for Kraft to use s*x to sell salad dressing!" Yes, they actually use the asterisk in their email rather than spell out "sex."

Interesting fact:  Since Philadelphia, there have been 257 Academy Award nominated portrayals of heterosexual characters, and 23 of GLBT characters. Of the straight characters, 16.5% died in the films, while 56.5% of the GLBT characters die.

Disney is eyeing a theatrical production for a Muppet show, and has even done a test production to see the feasibility of doing a live show while managing to keep the puppeteers out of sight.  That might be more likely to get me to New York City for a show than Newsies. Unless Newsies do a naked show, then I may have to see both.

Senator Patrick Leahy has introduced an amendment to the comprehensive immigration bill that would allow same-sex spouses to sponsor a path to citizenship based on a marriage that was valid in the state or nation it was performed. Filing the bill doesn't mean it will ever come up for debate, just that it can. I have no doubt that Congress is hoping the Supreme Court makes that fight unnecessary by striking down DOMA later this month.

When I thought my gaydar was going haywire, I assumed it was because the younger generation was so much more comfortable with their sexuality that everyone pinged. But could it be because as I get older, nobody is actually looking at me to give me the nonverbal cues? Am I becoming invisible?

Yes, we all use our smartphones on the toilet. We don't need another survey to tell us that. At least we're not talking on the phone on the toilet, which became a thing in the 90s.

Scott Thorson says that Liberace wasn't his only benefactor, that he also had a six year affair with Michael Jackson. "Liberace introduced me and Michael in the late 1970s. It was right around the time Thriller was coming out and Michael and I became lovers. Our relationship went on for six or seven years. Michael was very generous too. He treated me well. Liberace and I had both undergone plastic surgery around the same time Michael underwent a nose job because he didn’t think he was handsome. We all healed together at the Liberace compound in Palm Springs.”

Film District has shelled out a whopping $10 million for the rights to Rocketman, the biopic of Sir Elton John. That's a huge amount of money for a film of this type, and the $10 million comes with a guaranteed wide theatrical release and a big budget for promotion.

With my unplanned hiatus yesterday, I didn't get to post this video of Pat Robertson talking about the gays, and what a tiny minority we are, wanting to rip apart marriage and destroy the Boy Scouts, just because of how we "want to do sex." It's sad in a way, because Robertson is obviously old and beaten in this video, as he laments the world having changed around him, and completely unable to see reality  isn't some malicious group trying to destroy society by having orgies on Main Street, but a bunch of people who just want to be able to be who they are without fear and penalty.

resource is a ridiculous new bottle water being marketed at the upscale female consumer. The commercial plays like a Cirque de Soleil show, and I'm not entirely sure what the point of the live audience is. It's a confusing commercial for an equally confusing product, because there's far too many brands of bottle water on the market already.

Awkward ended the midseason this week, but that doesn't mean it's all over for the gang. Jenna seems determined to torpedo her relationship with Matty, which frankly was boring, but she was never good to him. Sending her down a dark path for the second part of the season this fall may be the only way to redeem the character, who has quickly become the biggest drag on a fun cast on a smart show.

Snowpiercer is a strange concept I'm fascinated by. In the future, an Ice Age has taken over the world, and all that's left of humanity lives on a giant train that traverses the entire world, with the upper class living in the front, with the poor in the back, at least until feelings of revolution come up, and Chris Evans finds himself stuck in the middle of a war in very close confines.

Meanwhile, looking at the first trailer for 300: Rise of a Empire, I can't help but notice that Zack Snyder looks to have borrowed heavily from Spartacus for this sequel. Except the gay stuff. I seriously doubt he copied the gay stuff.

We've already seen men get hooked up to electrostim so they can feel childbirth, but Huggies has invented a machine that connects expectant mother to expectant father, and lets dad feel the baby moving and kicking in real time. It's kind of a silly idea, but I can see how useful it might be in the case of gay dads and a surrogate.

In this incredibly NSFW video, we have the cast of This Is the End enacting a Real World situation. There are a ton of shocking moments, but how James Franco handles balls out shows just how far he's willing to go for a laugh. And reminds me why I don't watch Real World anymore.