– The Second Annual Broadway Beauty Pageant saw five musical theater hunks compete as the show raised $10,000 for the Ali Forney Center, NYC’s homeless shelter for LGBT youth. The winner: Xanadu’s Marty Thomas, who reportedly performed the showstopper of the evening, a take on Tina Turner titled Proud Marty. – Kiss Of The Spider Woman returns to Broadway in …

Deborah Jeane Palfrey, 52, the infamous “DC Madam” was found dead in a shed outside her mother’s trailer near Tampa today. Police are calling it suicide. The woman convicted of running a high-end Washington prostitution ring that snagged a senator killed herself Thursday, police said, weeks after she was convicted on charges she vowed not to go to prison for. …

Young NYC-based gay activist, writer, and filmmaker Eric Leven will appear on Michelangelo Signorile’s show on Sirius OutQ today at 3:30PM. Tune and hear about Eric talk about gay youth and HIV activism. UPDATE: Courtesy of my favorite Sirius insider, here’s a pic of Eric and Michelangelo in the studio today. I’ll have audio of Eric’s interview later.

UPDATE: A retraction of this post can be found here. You won’t believe the REAL story. In Tuesday’s post about gay parenting, many of you weighed in on this growing phenomenon and what it means in the larger picture of our rapidly changing gay culture. Overwhelmingly, you expressed support for gay parents, with small minority expressing strong distaste for gay …

Well, this show sounds as appetizing as Hell’s Kitchen. In G4’s new series, Hurl!, competitors will not only speed-eat, but they’ll also be made to participate in physical challenges between binges. For example, after stuffing their faces with more chicken pot pie (or blueberry pie, hot dogs, fish sticks, or whatever else is on the menu) than any human being …

Poor Christine McVie, she only gets a Night Of A Dozen. Meanwhile the Night Of A Thousand Stevies rolls on for years.

My hometown of Orlando has been rousting the homeless from downtown streets, causing them to go live in the woods outside of town. The homeless crackdown in downtown Orlando has forced many homeless to migrate near east Orange County suburbs. Within four miles of the busy intersection at Colonial Drive and the Econlockhatchee Trail, News 13 was told as 20 …

The Center For Military Readiness is seeking an “online army” to fight against the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” I’d suggest signing their petition with infantile names like Jack Mehoff or Pussy Fandango, but they’ll probably just send Congress the total count.

On Wednesday, students at the all-female Smith College invaded the auditorium where anti-gay author Ryan Sorba was giving a speech in support of his new book, The Born Gay Hoax. Chanting and banging pots, the students forced Sorba to abandon his lecture. And played right into the right’s evil hands. Wingnuts continuously accuse progressives of stifling dissent, of shouting down …

According to the New York Civil Liberties Union, arrests for the possession of small amounts of marijuana have increased tenfold in NYC over the last decade. Via Gothamist: That isn’t all, the reports are also showing that the NYPD are weeding out Blacks and Latinos, with more than half those arrested being black, and 31% being Hispanic. A NYPD spokesperson …

In advance of next week’s North Carolina primary, both Democratic candidates have conducted interviews with Q-Notes, a local gay newspaper. Clinton.Obama. Go read them if you want. I’m taking a sick-of-them-both day.

If you had your entire life on TiVo, what one scene would you watch over and over?

Strange week, eh? Everybody pretty much sucked with Neil Diamond’s material. Paula reviewed a performance that hadn’t yet occurred, prompting renewed gossip that the producers were rigging the show. Especially interesting in that regard was Syesha Mercado landing in the bottom two – when the usually reliable Dial Idol had placed her at a comfortable first place. My early favorite …