Eager to shake the "country singer" label the media has branded him with, crooner/model Steve Grand has released this clip of him covering Lil Wayne's "How to Love."

ProtectMarriage, the cabal that tried to foist Proposition 8 on California, won't take no for an answer: The group has petitioned  the California Supreme Court to order county clerks to stop issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. The rationale, such as it is, is based on a California provision that state officials can't refuse to enforce a law until an appellate court deems it unconstitutional. But since the federal courts (and, um, those folks in the highest court in the land) already ruled Prop 8 unconstitutional, it's kind a non-starter. Reached for a comment, a spokesman for ProtectMarriage said, "No, no, no, no, no! You're a poopy head"

Taking swift action on the child-molestation controversy in its midst, Vatican City has raised the age of consent from 12 to 18.  "In the real world, this changes virtually nothing," said a spokesman for the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests. "It’s is precisely the kind of ‘feel good’ gesture that Vatican officials have long specialized in: tweaking often-ignored and ineffective internal church abuse guidelines to generate positive headlines but nothing more." What he said.

If you're a gay sports fan traveling to Russia for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games, you better bring bail money: A new law signed by President Vladimir Putin will allow authorities to jail gay (or pro-gay) foreigners—and even potentially athletes—for two weeks before expelling them. The statute is vague enough that even holding hands, waving a rainbow flag or saying something nice about LGBT people could land you in the clink.  Yeeeeah, we're just gonna skip the whole thing, 'kay?

What comes after being a twink?

Maggie Gallagher has fast food on the brain: Blasting the proposed boycott of Ender's Game, the NOM wench said, "I suspect this boycott will be a failure, like the boycott of Card’s video game and like the Chick-fil-A boycott, because most of the public is more concerned with questions such as whether those waffle fries are banging or not." Not all of the public, Maggie—we're more interested in how long McDonald's is going to keep the Chocolate Chip Frappé around.