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Will gets PR help on Nashville, Hank Baskett explains transgender encounter, Jim Carrey has vaccination freakout

The CDC says that 1.2 million Americans are living with HIV, and over 156,300 of them have no idea that they have it. Go get tested. More than once a year. Don't wait to get sick. Trust me, that's an awful way to find out.

It sounds like Will's story is moving up on Nashville, with a hot PR expert being brought in to manage his abrupt coming out. While she (and Luke) are cool with his being gay, she warns him "Country-music fans may not support Will Willnow that they know he’s gay."

Obergefell is now the law of the land according to the Fifth Circuit which has released the rulings it has on hold, and it warns states that while it has no formal position on the intersection of religious freedom and marriage equality intersect, Obergefell is not to be taken lightly.

For all of you that have been wanting to see Justin Bieber impaled on a giant penis, the video for his collaboration with Skrillex and Diplo has got you covered. Let's face it, some of you believed it was only a matter of time.Justin Bieber

Mike Huckabee says that gays haven't experienced true discrimination, like blacks have. “First of all, what an insult to African-Americans, who were hosed in the street, who were beaten, who were truly discriminated against with separate restrooms, separate drinking fountains, separate entrances. That was true discrimination and it was horrible. It’s hard to say that the redefinition of marriage is on the same basis as was racial discrimination throughout our history.”

Dr Christian JessenEmbarrassing Bodies host Dr Christian Jessen, who is gay, says that same-sex couples on Strictly Come Dancing would look ridiculous. “I think it’ll look faintly ridiculous personally. But I don’t think that’s any sort of statement of, ‘We don’t approve of this, that or the other’ at all. I just think it’ll look silly quite frankly, and I think a man and a woman look better dancing together." He says that he would never appear on the show himself. “As a gay man I’m an appalling dancer, which I know just doesn’t fit with the stereotype. But I’m really, really … I’m clunky and gangly and awful.”

Amidst the controversy surrounding the Confederate battle flag, TVLand has pulled episodes of the Dukes of Hazzard from programming. I'm somewhat torn about this one. It was a show that existed in it's time. Rather than pulling them from public view, I'd prefer that if we're to make this a teachable moment, they take a tactic similar to what Warner Bros did when they released Looney Tunes on DVD, and Whoopi Goldberg provided some context.

While Obergefell didn't give us the heightened scrutiny we had hoped for, the reliance on the Equal Protection Clause may be useful in future cases of LGBT rights. “I think the most important aspect of this decision for other cases is that Justice Kennedy held that excluding same-sex couples from marriage violated equal protection as well as the right to marry. The right to marry, now that it is secured, is not going to be relevant in most future Hank Baskettlitigation, but the fact that there was an equal protection violation as well has potentially much broader applicability.”

Hank Baskett is finally speaking out about his encounter with a transgender woman a couple of years ago that made tabloid news. He says he saw a couple smoking weed outside a grocery store, and approached them on how to score some pot, and was given a phone number, then an address. After arriving, he was let in by a woman, and used the restroom. "Baskett says the person who answered the door, a transgender woman, was nude and making out with another transgender woman. "I froze," says Baskett, visibly shaking as he recalls the memory. Then, the woman who answered the door approached Baskett and fondled him through his basketball shorts. " He says he didn't engage in anything.

Midnighter has, in the second volume, dealt with his relationship with Apollo so you know how it fits into the timeline of Midnighter Apollothe character. Anything else I might say would be a spoiler.

As I was afraid of, and hence didn't talk about, the Utah man who claimed he was assaulted, forced to drink bleach, and had a gay slur carved into his arm, made the whole thing up as a call for help. Authorities are considering pressing charges against the man.

While I don't even begin to understand the mechanics of the Australian government, there seems to be hope that a Private Members Bill being introduced across party lines for marriage equality may come up for a vote in August, and a free vote may be allowed. Every report I've read on this is different, some talking like it was a done deal, and some talking about it as a long shot at best.

Despite a landslide victory in a pubic referendum in Ireland, the first marriages may be delayed until 2016 due to a court challenge in which opponents are arguing that the people who did not vote must be counted as a "no" on the referendum. Until the courts resolve this, the actual bill allowing marriage equality is on hold.Daniel Radcliffe

Daniel Radcliffe has topped Jamie Dornan and Andy Murray for Rear of the Year.

Jim Carrey is just as crazy about vaccinations as his ex wife, throwing a tantrum about the new law that removes parental and religious objections for not vaccinating children that attend schools. “California Gov says yes to poisoning more children with mercury and aluminum in manditory[sic] vaccines. This corporate fascist must be stopped." When are people going to learn that calling people "fascist" doesn't win arguments, but make them look like characters from well, a Jim Carrey movie.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is admitting there isn't much Congress can do about marriage equality. Heck, based on evidence, there isn't Mitch McConnellmuch Congress can do about anything. McConnell doesn't see a point in trying to pass a Constitutional amendment banning marriage equality. “Well it isn’t going to pass. It’s one thing to talk about a constitutional amendment, but we’ve only done that 27 times in the history of our country. It’s not going to pass."

John Dunleavy has been booted as the head of the NYC St. Patrick's Day Parade after he said that gay groups would “have a problem” getting into next year's parade. But don't celebrate yet, because he's likely to be replaced by John Lahey, who supports having a second LGBT group march in the parade, but he's not really opening the floodgates.

As Channing Tatum kicks the marketing into overdrive for Magic Mike XXL, Vanity Fair had him perform 7 dance moves in 30 seconds. To be honest, most of them are pretty lame, but I have to give an A for effort on the vogueing. It's not ballroom class, but it's leaps and bounds above his other moves here.

If you're not watching Rick And Morty, I'm not sure that we can be friends. It's one of the most insane things that has ever been on television. It's touched on gay rights in the past, but has no sacred cows. The mad inventor uncles takes his nephew Morty on pan-dimensional adventures, and nothing they encounter makes any sense at all, in the best possible way. Season two starts this month on Cartoon Network.

Remember that ridiculous Catholic Vote video that came out? Well this is the response to it, just substituting other prejudices into it, and it wouldn't be welcome in modern public discourse, so why should anti-gay hate?

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Gay men who post pics like this are really naive or terribly bold

The boys are back

I feel you my man. I feel ya.

Lil Fizz (who apparently isn't so little) is on Love & Hip Hop: Los Angelos

So did they pull off the Tom of Finland aesthetic?

What happens when a #HausOfFeathers member tears an ACL #SquadGoals #Provincetown pic.twitter.com/FfEbOFk654

— Scott Bixby (@scottbix) July 1, 2015

Or are they better off as sailors?

"All aboard the poop deck!" Pause. "That's a real thing, right?" pic.twitter.com/F9Y2G571tt — Scott Bixby (@scottbix) July 1, 2015

Gotta get a tan before the wedding

Struttin' the stuff on Waikiki! Aloha! #BlakeAndSaul #fitspo http://t.co/oL0RVBQxxV pic.twitter.com/OJ5VrISar4

— Blake Skjellerup (@BlakeSkjellerup) July 1, 2015

Sour Wolf on an airplane

Hoech's mad he doesn't get to fly the plane. pic.twitter.com/URRCifANDy — Ian Bohen (@IanBohen) July 1, 2015

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