Stay out of the comments if you haven’t seen Monday’s episode. Otherwise, let’s dish this week’s hilarious challenge and the heartbreaking (to me) elimination.

Pam Spaulding reports from Saturday’s HRC gala in Raleigh. HRCs’ President Joe Solmonese delivered some news at the HRC Carolinas Gala on Saturday night. I was there reporting for the Blend as he made these emphatic statements to the members of the LGBT community and allies from North and South Carolina in attendance at the Raleigh Convention Center about what …

Karl Rove’s book signing in Beverly Hills was cut short yesterday when activists from Code Pink attempted to conduct a citizen’s arrest. About 100 fans came out to hear Karl Rove at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills Monday night to discuss his book “Courage and Consequences: My Life As a Conservative In The Fight,” — but the fight wasn’t …

The percentage of people saying homosexuality is “never justifiable” is diving in all the countries surveyed. Including here, until starting around 2000, thanks to Karl Rove and the Bush II years. Still, I suppose we should at least by heartened by the overall change since the survey began. (Via – Andrew Sullivan)

Enabled by the advent of text messaging and social media, for about ten minutes, a few years ago, flash mobbing was a little funny. Like when 300 people randomly showed up in downtown San Francisco to hoot like owls and spin in circles in the middle of Market Street, then silently disburse. That was…kinda cool. And even once the fad …

“I will do as I am called to do by the Lord Jesus, as expressed in the words I ventriloquize for Him in my head. As with all American Christians, His every encouragement, quite coincidentally, is completely consistent with my own selfish needs, even when the pesky suggestions He mumbled in the Gospels might seem to indicate otherwise. Frankly, the …

Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO) tells Karen Ocamb that he believes ENDA will pass in the U.S. House in the next few weeks. We have the votes to pass ENDA in the House and we hope to bring it before the committee I serve on – the Education Labor Committee – within the month – by the end of April. And …

LouZoom enlarges your contact list. Meh. I’d rather have an app from his girlfriend, Laurie. One that told us when the sun was coming up like a big bald head. (Via – Gothamist)

R&B star Erykah Badu is facing criticism for making a music video at the Dallas site of the assassination of JFK. In the video, Badu slowly strips off most of her clothes and strolls the street of the shooting in her bra and panties. At the end of the clip, Badu lies down nude at the location of the murder. …

Wannabe wingnut attack dog Jason Mattera ambushed Sen. Al Franken with a crazy-ass claim that the health care reform bill provides $7B for “playground jungle gyms.” Watch how Franken handles him (even after being called “Sen. Smalley”) and keep in mind that this Mattera’s own edited video. What the bill really says: In the “Creating Healthier Communities” portion of the …

Towleroad reports that the Catholic League’s Bill Donohue has published an ad in today’s New York Times blasting them for coverage of the global child molestation scandal and claiming that gay men are the true cause of the problem. The Times continues to editorialize about the ‘pedophilia crisis,’ when all along it’s been a homosexual crisis. Eighty percent of the …

The Catholic Archdiocese of Miami is being sued. And you know why. The Archdiocese of Miami, along with top Vatican authorities, knew as far back as 1968 that the Rev. Ernesto Garcia-Rubio, a priest later defrocked amid child sex-abuse allegations, had a troubled past in Cuba before transferring to South Florida, lawyers representing victims claimed Monday. The lawyers say the …

The GOP has found their scapegoat. The Republican National Committee is cutting ties with a staffer who treated a group of donors to an after party at a bondage-themed club in West Hollywood. The event was expensed for nearly $2,000 and also cost the unnamed employee a job. Some members of the GOP had already called for the resignation of …

Earlier this month Florida nurse Ray Fletcho was fired from his nursing job after his employers discovered a 34 year old arrest for hosting a wet jockey shorts contest as his drag alter-ego Tiny Tina. Fletcho had not advised his bosses about the “lewd behavior” charge because he had only paid a small fine in 1976. This week the Florida …

Arguably the world’s most famed gay activist, the UK’s Peter Tatchell has come out against the recent hate speech fine imposed on an American preacher in Scotland, saying that only speech that incites to violence should be illegal. New York resident Shawn Holes was arrested in Glascow two weeks ago after telling customers at a shopping mall that gay people …

Media Matters shows us how we got to the results of the recent poll that showed many Americans believe the president is a Muslim/socialist/Nazi etc.

A lesbian couple has been denied a divorce by a Pennsylvania judge who told them they had no “fundamental right” to a marriage in the first place. Via Christian news site OneNewsNow: “This is a plea for social change,” the judge wrote. “If homosexuals had a fundamental right to be married to each other, this plea would be unnecessary.” Diane …

Alaskan blogs are claiming that Sarah Palin’s 15 year-old daughter Willow has been identified as part of a gang of teenagers that broke into and vandalized a home in Wasilla. Calculations are that the home suffered between twenty to thirty thousand dollars in damage. Sources say it appeared the teens stayed in the house for several hours, perhaps even overnight. …

One of the stranger entries and definitely one of the least Eurovision-y seen this year. Who does this sound like? Sigur Ros, maybe?