Wednesday's episode of South Park could be one of the show's best—or worst—as the irreverent animated series delves into

A press release for the episode, "The Cissy," summarizes the plot: 

The state of one’s gender is in question on an all-new episode of “South Park” titled “The Cissy,” premiering Wednesday, October 8 at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT on Comedy Central.

Stan is searching for answers about how a person who he’s always known to be one thing could suddenly identify with another. In the meantime, the pressure of holding on to a giant secret is starting to get to Randy.

That doesn't give us a lot to go on—its entirely possible the episode will encourage supporting and embracing  the transgender community, but we're pretty sure the issue won't be handled with sensitivity.

In his new memoir, Gerard Depardieu revealed he was a rent boy starting at the age of 10. "I've known since I was very young that I please homosexuals," he wrote in It Happened Like That (Ca C'est Fait Comme Ca), explaining that he would "would ask them for money" when they approached him for sex.

Later in life, he started mugging the johns. "At 20, the thug in me was alive and kicking—I would rip some of them off. I would beat up some bloke and leave with all his money."

Think that's terrible? The Gallic icon was also a graverobber.

Pop icon Cyndi Lauper is helping to open another LGBT youth center in New York: True Colors Bronx will provide  studio apartments to 30 LGBT young people with a history of homelessness.

The cast of The McCarthys, CBS' new sitcom about a gay man and his working-class Boston family, is joining in of Spirit Day on October 16, when millions of people will wear purple to show support for LGBT youth.

'Check out the PSA they recorded with GLAAD, above.