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From the official FIFA World Cup 2014 album.

Actor Daniel Franzese, who played the “too gay to function” Damian in Mean Girls, has come out with a letter to that character posted today on Bent. An excerpt: I had the perfect opportunity in 2004 to let people know the REAL Daniel Franzese. Now in 2014 – ten years later – looking back, it took YOU to teach me …

The above letter from the President and First Lady was included in the program at yesterday’s memorial service for the late gay DJ Frankie Knuckles in Chicago. Speakers at the service included Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn, who praised Knuckles for “inventing a new musical form” in house music. Windy City Times has more about the event on their Twitter feed.

Boy George joined Black Lips for a free concert today in Philadelphia. From WXPN: Having just collaborated with co-headliners Black Lips on a cover of T. Rex’s “Bang A Gong (Get It On)” (watch it here), George headed downstairs to treat the audience with a set pulled mostly from his 2013 LP This Is What I Do; though the classic …

In September, Finland’s postal service will release several stamps that feature the work of famed gay artist Tom Of Finland. Via FinnBay: Itella is owned by the state of Finland, providing postal, logistics and e-commerce services in Finland. Tom of Finland or Touko Laaksonen (8 May 1920 – 7 November 1991) is one of the most popular Finnish artists in …

Featuring gay jazz star Dave Koz.

Last month I reported that gender-fuck artist Conchita Wurst had won Austria’s Eurovision contest and will represent her country at the final showdown in Copenhagen. Last night Wurst and winning acts from other nations performed in Amsterdam at Eurovision In Concert. The production video of Wurst’s Eurovision entry, Rise Like A Phoenix,  is here, but this is the first time …

One of the petition’s creators is Rob Di Stefano, the founder of the popular 90s house music labels Tribal America and Twisted Records.

“Frankie Knuckles kept the disco in house before ‘disco house’ or any of the mass sub-genre-ization of house was a thing. The racist and homophobic Disco Demolition Night, held July 12, 1979, largely killed disco’s mainstream cool, but Knuckles stuck with it, riding it through the ’70s and well into the ’90s and beyond. A maligned people had their maligned …

Rosanne cast member and talk show host Sara Gilbert married rocker Linda Perry on Sunday. News of the ceremony was revealed yesterday by co-hosts on Gilbert’s show, The Talk. “Let’s get started with a big congratulations for our own Sara Gilbert, who got married last night,” Julie Chen said. “It was magical. It was the most beautiful ceremony.” Aisha Tyler …

Dance music fans poured onto social media late Monday night, hoping that reports of the death of house music legend Frankie Knuckles, 59, were an impossibly cruel April Fool’s hoax. Sadly, his passing has been confirmed by the Chicago Tribune, which thus far reports only that Knuckles “died unexpectedly at home.” Knuckles was known to all as the Godfather Of …

Gothamist sets the scene: While appearing on the latest episode of “Inside the Actors Studio,” “How I Met Your Mother” stars Neil Patrick Harris and Jason Segel were asked to sing a song from “Les Miserables”—thankfully, they obliged. Since “Les Miserables” is back on Broadway—and because the duo memorably sang “The Confrontation” back in 2006 on “The Megan Mullaly Show”—an …

On Monday night I attended the ninth annual Broadway Backwards at the Hirschfeld Theatre, where Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS raised $424,000 with their show in which men sing Broadway standards written for women and women sing songs written for men. As always, there were a galaxy of gay musical theater stars both on the stage and in the audience, again …

Via press release: The video delivers a powerful message to create awareness about the many countries around the world where LGBT people are facing harassment, arrest, violence, and in some cases, death. The new music video, produced and directed by creative agency Wondros, is a montage of peaceful Russian LGBT rallies and protests, and true affection of couples in love. …

(Via Towleroad)

Gay crooner Matt Alber performed at Lincoln Center last night and the full concert has been posted on their website.

Gay rapper Le1f made his national TV debut last week on Letterman. Sample verse from today’s release: “Welcome to Banjee Burger / I cannot take your order / new world order / LGBT cuties all over the world / are diamonds and pearls / black sheep, black sheep / sexy ass fur.” Lyrics here. RELATED: As for this week’s other …