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Today In Gay: Madonna Has A "Secret" (Project), Prancing Elite, Ex-Gay Group Exodus International Shuts Down, More

Debuting a doc about her MDNA concert tour wasn't enough for Madonna: Now the pop queen has announced a "special project" she's cooking up with go-to photographer Steven Klein. The trailer (above) officially dropped this week.

Madge has been teasing the project (#secretproject) for weeks on Instagram, and parsing out messages about equality, love and freedom. What exactly it is we can't tell from this moody 58-second teaser, but it's got the Material girl waving a gun and gyrating dancers in their underwear. What do you think—is this gonna be another softcore revelation like Sex or a stilted bit of philanthropic self-promotion like I am Because You Are?


Exodus International, the oldest and largest Christian ministry encouraging gays and lesbians to be "cured" of homosexuality, has gone out of business. In an open letter reported on by Buzzfeed, EI director Alan Chambers—who  will be  discussing “God & gays” with Lisa Ling tonight in a special on OWN—said he was "sorry for the pain and hurt many of you have experienced.”

I hope the changes in my own life, as well as the ones we announce tonight regarding Exodus International, will bring resolution, and show that I am serious in both my regret and my offer of friendship. I pledge that future endeavors will be focused on peace and common good.

Later that evening, a statement explained how the group was getting out of the hate business:

Exodus is an institution in the conservative Christian world, but we’ve ceased to be a living, breathing organism,... For quite some time we’ve been imprisoned in a worldview that’s neither honoring toward our fellow human beings, nor biblical.

For these reasons, the Board of Directors unanimously voted to close Exodus International and begin a separate ministry. “This is a new season of ministry, to a new generation,” said Chambers. “Our goals are to reduce fear (reducefear.org), and come alongside churches to become safe, welcoming, and mutually transforming communities.”

Raise your hand if you think this new ministry's gonna be as skeevy as the old one.


Forget glee clubs. Twerking? Puh-leez. The latest Interwebs sensation is the Prancing Elite cheerleading team out of Mobile, Alabama. These girls boys don't exactly live in the crossroads of tolerance, but they give school-spirit realness with everything they have. Get Prancing Elites on Ellen. Hell, get them on So You Think You Can Dance! (Okay maybe there's a little to much sitting for that.)


What gay clique are you in?


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A man is suing Bally's Total Fitness in New York  after slipping on a "foreign white substance" in the sauna last August. A report in the New York Daily News reveals the gym gets high marks on the site   Cruising Gays City Hookup Guide: "There are 2 LIGHTS in the Steam Sauna. The rear light is out 1/2 the time. When it is OFF the party is ON."


A gay teen just cured cancer. Okay, not quite, but  16-year-old Jack Andraka discovered an almost foolproof test for pancreatic cancer that can spot the disease early enough to ensure an almost 100 percent chance of survival.   It's a bittersweet tale: Andraka was inspired by his uncle's death from the brutal and often-fatal disease that only sees a y 5.5% survival rate after five years. Andraka's test—which detects an increase of a protein that signals the presence of pancreatic, ovarian, and lung cancer cells—isn't just 400 times more sensitive, its 168 times faster and 26,000 times cheaper than what's currently used. (It can also track HIV, heart disease and Alzheimer's).

The best part? When asked by a reporter if girls or alcohol get in the way of his scientific genius, he replied, “I’m gay, so no. And I wouldn’t know where to find alcohol.”

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