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Openly gay American Idol contestant Adam Lambert killed tonight with his strangely affecting gothy take on Johnny Cash’s classic, Ring Of Fire. The judges didn’t really know what to make of it, but tonight finally got me liking him. The bottom clip is where I suspect Lambert got his arrangement.

How many millions in marriage equality ads is this interview worth?

The world has gone upside-down. I’m really liking John McCain’s daughter.

Ugh. The Sci-Fi Channel is changing its name to SyFy, because you cannot trademark “sci fi”. “We couldn’t own Sci Fi; it’s a genre,” said Bonnie Hammer, the former president of Sci Fi who became the president of NBC Universal Cable Entertainment and Universal Cable Productions. “But we can own Syfy.” Another benefit of the new name is that it …

Actor and conservative activist Ron Silver has died of cancer at age 62. “Ron Silver died peacefully in his sleep with his family around him early Sunday morning,” said Robin Bronk, executive director of the Creative Coalition, which Silver helped found. Bronk said Silver was with his family in New York City and he had been fighting esophageal cancer for …

JMG reader Guy points us to the comments section of an Entertainment Weekly piece that ponders why American Idol hasn’t profiled the personal life of openly gay contestant Adam Lambert. After all, we know know that one contestant used to sing his homework, one has a sister who is also blind, and one was just widowed. It’s an interesting comment …

Predictably, fundies are filing an FCC complaint over Sunday’s “Peter Goes Gay” episode of Family Guy and are calling on the show’s sponsors to suspend advertising. (Feel free to stretch and yawn.) From the fundie-run Parents Television Council: Our organization is taking its concerns directly to every parent, every Fox affiliate and every advertiser — as well as to those …

Mattel has released a Bob Mackie-designed Carol Burnett Barbie. A comic legend, a noted fashion and costume designer, an unforgettable television show. These elements join forces in The Carol Burnett Show Went with the Wind! Barbie® doll. One of the shows most memorable sketches “Went with the Wind” is based on the classic film “Gone with the Wind.” In an …

I didn’t do a recap of RuPaul’s Drag Race last week after Ongina’s very untimely departure. And while last night’s hour-long Absolut infomercial was certainly tedious in portions, there were a few highlights – most notably Charo’s terrible “Spooning leads to forking” joke. No spoilers in this clip. Y’all know who went home.

Here’s the full episode of last night’s Family Guy in which Peter got injected with the gay gene. Some of you were worried that the episode would reinforce swishy gay stereotypes, and yeah, it does. But at the core of episode is the lesson that gays are fine just as we are and any attempt to change us is doomed …

Yesterday’s NYT had an interesting story about the few taverns in NYC that have resisted installing televisions. While the New York State Liquor Authority permits the flow of alcohol in 10,320 bars, taverns and food-service establishments in the city, it does not track how many have rebuffed the Screen. But sales representatives of the Brooklyn Brewery report that televisionless bars …

From Sunday’s upcoming episode in which Peter gets injected with “the gay gene” and leaves Lois for a man. (Tipped by JMG reader Alex)

MTV’s movie about Real World star Pedro Zamora airs on April 1st. Zamora was a pioneering youth and Latino HIV activist whose personal battle with AIDS riveted the nation after he was selected for the cast of Real World: San Francisco in 1993. He died the next year of an AIDS-related brain illness. Pedro was made by the same people …

If the man you “love” proposes to another woman on national TV, just wait for the next episode, he’ll be back to propose to you. After spending much of Monday night’s two-hour finale debating whether he would propose to Molly or Melissa, Jason popped the question to an elated Melissa, who quickly accepted. But the couple’s seemingly happy ending was …

Bobby Jindal’s much lampooned response to Barack Obama’s speech has been compared to Jack McBrayer’s Kenneth The Page character on NBC’s 30 Rock. Last night on Jimmy Fallon’s new show, McBrayer responded to the response as Kenneth. (You’ll have to sit through a commercial first. Annoying.)

Judging by buzz around the blogosphere, LOGO seems to have its first bona fide hit in RuPaul’s Drag Race. This clip, which is also an elimination spoiler, shows Ongina’s tearful revelation of her two years living with HIV, something her family did not previously know about.

Yesterday Tyra Banks hosted a handful of homo sad sacks on her show where the subjects derided their fellow gays for being effeminate, disgusting, weak, terrifying, shameful, preying pedophiles. The first dumbo plans to be straight by the time he’s 30. So he says in his upspeaking valley girl voice. He’s also grossed out by dicks that don’t look exactly …

Wheel Of Fortune host Pat Sajak is well-known for his ultra-conservative beliefs. But watch at the 2:33 mark of this clip when Sajak tearfully mentions the passing of his longtime wardrobe assistant Alan Mills and offers condolences to “the love of his life, Ivan.” (Via – Andrew Sullivan)

The lovely Reese and Bianca had their perverted fabric-of-society-destroying gay “marriage” on All My Children yesterday. Millions of housewives watched, dabbed their eyes, and contemplated Sapphic love. And thought about equal rights for a full hour. What else has the LGBT movement done with that kind of power? Remember, we killed communism with McDonald’s and Coca-Cola.

To mark what was supposed to have been the launch of digital television nationwide, last night’s 20th season debut episode of The Simpsons broadcast in HD for the first time. And it’s the first time the show has made major changes to the opening sequence since the show began. You’ll note that the family now has a flat-screen TV and …