MACABRE NEW MYSTERY IN WRESTLER CHRIS BENOIT MURDER/SUICIDE CASE

Apparently someone changed Chris Benoit's Wikipedia entry to reflect his wife's death AT LEAST 13 HOURS before the bodies were found. People Magazine reports:

The Web bio was changed early Monday to say the pro wrestler missed a match over the weekend because his wife had died. Hours later, authorities found the bodies of the World Wrestling Entertainment star, his wife and their 7-year-old son.

Cary Bass of Wikipedia traced the alteration to somebody using an Internet protocol address registered in Stamford, Conn., the home base of World Wrestling Entertainment, according to the Associated Press.

An IP address, however, doesn't have to be broadcast from its registration location. Bass said it was unknown where the posting was sent from, the AP reports.

RUFUS WAINWRIGHT CHANNELS JUDY GARLAND-LIZA MINELLI NOT HAPPY

Rufus Wainright recently performed a homage to Judy Garland's famous 1961 Carnegie Hall concert. Duplicating it verbatum.

Critics were pleased, Garland's daughter Liza Minelli was not.

Wainwright told Instinct Magazine:

She didn’t approve of it from the beginning and I think that the main thing is...I would assume that she’s not angry, but disagrees because she’s spent so much of her life from separating herself from her mother and has done so quite successfully, which his tough when your mother is a legend. I think she also found me a little bit too panting for her approval. My father used to know her when he was a kid, they grew up together, and when I met her, I kind of sprang that on her...and she kind of jumped back. So I think that kind of set the scene of me trying to kind of devour her Garlandness. But you know she did make a mistake, because it was a great show and she’ll come around.

DISTURBING UPDATE IN WRESTLER MURDER/SUICIDE CASE

Just when you thought the story couldn't get any sadder or unsettling, it's now been reported by Yahoo News that the son of WWE Pro-Wrestler Chris Benoit had a mental disability and that the killings may have been steroid-related:

The child suffered from a rare medical condition called Fragile X Syndrome, an inherited form of mental retardation often accompanied by autism, McDevitt said.

Over the past weekend, authorities said, Benoit strangled his wife, suffocated his son and placed a Bible next to their bodies before hanging himself with a weight-machine cable in the couple's suburban home. No motive was offered for the killings, which were discovered Monday.

Anabolic steroids were found in Benoit's home, leading officials to wonder whether the drugs played a role in the slayings. Some experts believe steroids cause paranoia, depression and violent outbursts known as "roid rage

The New York Daily News further reports that the wrestler was injecting his son with Human Growth Hormone:

Pro wrestler Chris Benoit apparently was pumping human-growth hormone into his 7-year-old son in the weeks before he killed his wife, the boy and himself at their suburban Atlanta home while consumed by "roid rage," a prosecutor said yesterday.

Fayette County, Ga., District Attorney Scott Ballard said Daniel Benoit had needle marks on his arm. Ballard said he believed the boy had been given growth hormone because his parents considered the boy undersized.

"The boy was very small, even dwarfed," Ballard said.

SINGER TYRESE BANS MEN FROM CONCERT-ACCUSED OF HOMOPHOBIA

Contrydiction is reporting that singer Tyrese, accused of homophobic behavior in the past, has now banned all men from his upcoming "Shirts Off" concert tour. The R&B singer states:

We're putting a ban on all dudes from coming to the show.

SINGER GEORGE MICHAEL REFUSES HIV TEST-FEARS RESULTS

Troubled pop star George Michael revealed to a new TV documentary he hasn't had a recent HIV test because he's frightened of what it may reveal...


GEORGE Michael says he hasn’t had an HIV test for at least three years — as he’s terrified of the result.

The gay singer, who likes cruising for men and was nicked for lewd behaviour in an LA loo, reveals all to pal Stephen Fry in a BBC2 documentary.

Ross Wilson, producer of Stephen Fry — HIV and Me, said: “George says he does not believe in tests.

“He says he finds the wait for results too harrowing and that he hasn’t had a test since at least 2004 due to his fears it might be positive.”

George, 44, spoke at his Dallas home.

POLICE SUSPECT KILLING OF WWE PRO-WRESTLER CHRIS BENOIT AND ENTIRE FAMILY A MURDER/SUICIDE

Authorities are saying the deaths of WWE pro-wrestler Chris Benoit and his wife and son may have been a case of murder/suicide.

ABC News reports:

WWE wrestler Chris Benoit, his wife and 7-year-old son were found dead Monday, and police said they were investigating the deaths as a murder-suicide.

Authorites tell ABC News the case was being treated as a murder-suicide, but said that couldn't be confirmed until evidence was examined by a crime lab. Autopsies are scheduled for Tuesday at the state crime lab in Dekalb County.

WAGA-TV reported investigators believe the 40-year-old Benoit killed his wife, Nancy, and 7-year-old son, Daniel, over the weekend, then himself on Monday. The bodies were found in three rooms.

World Wrestling Entertainment said on its Web site that it asked authorities to check on Benoit and his family after being alerted by friends who received "several curious text messages sent by Benoit early Sunday morning."

Benoit was a former world heavyweight and Intercontinental champion. He also held several tag-team titles during his career.

Benoit was scheduled to perform at the "Vengeance" pay-per-view event Sunday night in Houston, but was replaced at the last minute because of what announcer Jim Ross called "personal reasons."

JOHN TRAVOLTA BLAMES PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS FOR SCHOOL SHOOTINGS

John Travolta backed up fellow Scientologist Tom Cruise and told W Magazine that psychiatric medications are the cause of so many school shootings:

“I don’t disagree with anything Tom says,” Travolta says “How would I have presented it? Maybe differently than how he did, but it doesn’t matter. I still think that if you analyze most of the school shootings, it is not gun control. It is (psychotropic) drugs at the bottom of it.”

ELIZABETH EDWARDS GIVES FULL SUPPORT TO GAY MARRIAGE

During an appearance at the San Francisco Gay Pride celebration, First-Lady hopeful Elizabeth Edwards spoke out in full support of gay marriage. The San Francisco Chronicle reports:

Elizabeth Edwards, starring at the kickoff event of San Francisco's signature Gay Pride Parade, came out in support of legalized gay marriage today -- taking a position which she acknowledged is at odds with her husband, presidential candidate John Edwards.

"I don't know why somebody else's marriage has anything to do with me,'' she said. "I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage.''

But Edwards went one step further in a speaking to reporters after the event, and became the first major Democratic candidate or spouse to openly support gay marriage.

But that position differs markedly from her husband, the former North Carolina Senator. Edwards said her husband, though having a '"deeply held belief against any form of discrimination,'' supports gay civil unions, but does not support gay marriage.

"John has been pretty clear about it, that he is very conflicted,'' she said. "That's up against his being raised in the 1950's in a rural southern town. I think honestly he's on a road with a lot of people in this country are on....They're struggling with this. Most of the gay and lesbian people I know... have seen their friends and family walking down that same road.

"It's frustrating, I know,'' she added, "but it's a long distance from where we are now to the pews of a Southern Baptist church. So, John's been as honest as he can about that.''
She said that she has come to the conclusion that the marriage of another couple "makes no difference to me,'' just as it would make no difference in her views of a neighbor if he painted his house a different color.

"If he's pleasant to me on the street, if his children don't throw things in my yard, then I'm happy,'' she said. "It seems to me we're making issues of things that honestly... don't matter.''

ISAIAH WASHINGTON SAYS HE WAS A VICTIM OF A CONSPIRACY

Isaiah Washington recently told Keith Boykin that he believes he was the victim of a conspiracy to get him fired. He told Boykin:

"I'm not firing back at anybody else in the cast but T.R. Knight and Katie Heigl because they both know as well as Chandra Wilson knows that T.R. Knight was very tactical in trying to remove me from the show because he knows that I know, and I was gagged, that he has been working on a conspiracy to get Patrick Dempsey and myself off the show for the last year and a half.

"The only reason I used his name, T.R., in the argument was because he had led me to believe that Patrick Dempsey was so abusive and so horrible to people in a two and a half hour conversation on the plane. For two and a half hours, this boy talked my ear off, Keith, about how horrible Patrick Dempsey is and how he needs to be removed from the show. And in my argument, the irony of it is that Patrick happened to show some behavior that was very in line with what T.R. was telling me on the plane and I challenged T.R. to deny it or say this isn't true."

"All the dirty macking that he gave me about Patrick Dempsey led me to believe that Patrick was trying to treat me in a disrespectful manner, in the same kind of manner apparently accorded to T.R. that Patrick had treated him. And even to this day, when I went back to the set Patrick Dempsey and T.R. still have a rift and are still not on speaking terms. They do not talk to each other...I know Patrick Dempsey has supported me by stating that if there is anyone that needs to be fired it is T.R. Knight because he has created such a negative environment on that set because he felt like he has not been treated and given the same leading man kinds of story lines that have been given to Patrick and Isaiah. He felt like his character was being treated very caricatureish and dopey and he wanted a change. That's why you see his character changing so significantly into being all of a sudden this really dopey guy into being this uber he-man that's sleeping with everyone."

"This is something that T.R. Knight has been trying to do and using the incident of the so-called F-word that was targeted at him, which is a flat out lie, to blackmail the writers into doing his bidding, and it's not working. The producers are not happy about it, and quite frankly, they all think that something has gone awfully awry with the stability of T.R. Knight. And I can freely say this now because I am no longer a Disney employee and I am no longer gagged. But everyone there, including the producers, all the way up to Touchstone, are very disappointed in the behavior of T.R. Knight."

"And let me be clear Keith. All of this I'm saying to you has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that he's gay. He came out October 19 as purely a tactical move to do exactly what it did, get public opinion in an outrage to lead them to believe that he is being picked on because he is gay. He could care less about the gay community."

WAL-MART WITHDRAWS GLBT FUNDNG

Wal-Mart has decided to withdraw it's funding for GLBT causes following the threat of a boycott from Conservative Christian groups.

CNN reports:

The move comes a year after Wal-Mart had put on a gay-friendly smile. The company joined the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce. It sponsored the annual convention of Out & Equal, a group that promotes gay rights in the workplace, and sold gay-themed jewelry in st

"We are not currently planning corporate-level contributions to GLBT groups," said Mona Williams, the company's senior vice president of corporate communications. Individual stores can still donate to gay groups.

By way of explanation, Ms. Williams cited a policy adopted last fall saying that Wal-Mart would not make corporate contributions "to support or oppose highly controversial issues" unless they directly relate to the company's ability to serve its customers.

How significant is the pullback? Williams says it does not signal any less support for its GLBT employees or for Wal-Mart Pride, a network of gay employees at the company. She's an executive sponsor of the group, which was sanctioned in 2005. "We certainly don't feel that it's a retrenchment," she said.


The Human Rights Campaign, America's largest gay-rights group, also says it will continue to work closely with Wal-Mart. "With a company as large as Wal-Mart, it's not going to happen as fast as many of us would like," says Daryl Herrschaft, who oversees the HRC's workplace project.

ELIZABETH EDWARDS BUSTS A BARRIER: ATTENDS GAY PRIDE

In what is a historic-first for anyone affiliated with a presidential nominee, first-lady hopeful Elizabeth Edwards attended an event at the San Francisco Gay Pride celebration.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports:

Elizabeth Edwards' scheduled appearance Sunday at a major San Francisco Gay Pride event represents a first for a major presidential candidate or spouse -- one that activists said reflects the growing clout of gay and lesbians as voters and their continued move into the political mainstream.

Elizabeth Edwards, the wife of Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards, is scheduled to speak Sunday morning at the Alice B. Toklas Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Democratic Club breakfast at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel. Organizers say it marks the highest level of presidential campaigning at the annual Gay Pride Parade.

"It certainly is another barrier falling,'' said author and gay activist David Mixner, a Clinton administration adviser who backs Edwards in the 2008 race.

"There's been a taboo on any (candidate)-related Gay Pride events,'' he said, with major presidential hopefuls steering away because the event has been viewed largely in the mainstream media as a no-holds-barred celebration of the gay lifestyle.

"The myth of what Pride is will be exploded ... and that taboo will now be removed,'' he said. "And I can't think of a better person to do it than Elizabeth Edwards. She won't let people tell her where she can go and who she can talk to.''

NAKED MAN WRAPPED IN RAINBOW FLAG TEETERS ON LEDGE OF DT MINNEAPOLIS BUILDING

Oh yeah...

The photo above of yours truly was recently taken atop a building in lovely downtown Minneapolis.

My equally lovely and talented photog, Chistopher Raymond, suggested I go out on the ledge to get the proper perspective for the photo (he may have subconsciously been hoping I'd blow over the side as well, he's known me for years, and that's a pretty common sentiment for most who have endured 'The Dave" for any amount of time).

Anyhoo (remind me never to use that word again) it was me on the ledge, high winds, a flag , a bit of nudity (a series of shots taken with me wearing only the flag, which will NEVER see the light of day) and the aforementioned talented photographer (and Mac computer whiz: http://www.macworks.biz).

After about an hour of so of me doing the same pose (it looks so much easier on Top Model!) a police car pulled up and a very handsome and concerned patrolman approached me saying they had reports of a jumper! I''m thinking "naked and wrapped in a rainbow flag?".

It took more convincing than I would have thought, considering I was no longer on the ledge, naked, and had my photographer to back me up that I was on a 'photo shoot' (that's as much fun to say as you might think).

Long story short (yeah, I know, too late) the copper left (alas, without my phone number!) and we fled with our tales between our legs hoping the officer wouldn't change his mind and ticket us.

I will say that Christopher, the only one of us having his wits about, suggested we offer to pay the officer's parking fee. That made me warm and fuzzy. Yeah, Christopher is a good potato.

But it was all worth it. Christoper took some great photos, and gave me a hell of a story to boot!

Anyhow, this entry was supposed to tell you to be sure to check out TCPride.org for this weekend's schedule of events. I will let them keep you abreast of all of the major events, and I will, as usual, try and ferret out the more unusual and quirky offerings.

So, be sure to watch this blog the next few days, have fun, be safe, and say 'hey' if you see me at pride (especially if your single!).

ISAIAH WASHINGTON SAYS T.R KNIGHT SHOULD HAVE BEEN FIRED, COMPARES HIMSELF TO MALCOLM X

Not leaving well enough alone (re: his gay-slur scandal and subsequent firing from Grey's Anatomy) , Isaiah Washington recently told the Houston Chronicle that T.R Knight was the one who should have been fired:

"They fired the wrong guy," Isaiah Washington said today.

The former Dr. Preston Burke on ABC's hit series Grey's Anatomy told the Houston Chronicle that T.R. Knight should have been fired from the show.

"I have to clear my name," a determined Washington told the Houston Chronicle in a telephone interview from the set of his new movie, The Least of These. "I'll start from the beginning. I'm telling everything. So here's the truth."

Washington said Knight, who plays Dr. George O'Malley, stirred up the notion that the slur was targeted at him and created a negative work environment. Washington also alleged that Knight likely wanted a salary increase and a more substantive role for his character.

Knight, who acknowledged that he was gay after the incident, told Ellen DeGeneres in January that Washington used the slur against him and that "everyone (on the set) heard it."

"That's a lie," Washington said. "I used the word during a disagreement with Patrick. I apologized for that. We shook hands and went back to work."

He said he is considering a lawsuit. "My livelihood, my honor and dignity and my name have been so challenged."

He subsequently told the San Francisco Chronicle his situation parcelled Malcolm X's and Paul Robeson's struggles saying:

"This happened to Malcolm X, this happened to Paul Robeson -- this misconception can happen to any man of power that loves himself and wants to spread that love and that humanity throughout the world."

QUEER FILM FESTIVAL COMES TO THE WALKER!

Grab your popcorn and Goobers (do they still make those? Mmmm...Goobers) and find a good seat for the Walker's Queer Takes: Standing Out GLBT Film Festival coming this June.

According to or friends at the Walker Art Institute:

While some members of the GLBT community relish the acceptance they receive from society through assimilation (marriage, children, and white picket fences), others embrace the freedom their difference gives them. With few social constructs, the queer community can also redefine traditions, relationships, and notions of what makes a family. These daring films feature stories of those who oppose homogeneity.

There are 9 films running June 27th to 30th at various times with tickets running $6 for members, and 8$ for non-members.

Be sure to check out the Walker's website for all of the snazzy details!

"CURIOUS GEORGE" WRITER BRUTALLY MURDERED IN GAY MENAGE A TROIS

The Sun Sentinel reports that new evidence has come to light in the 2006 murder of Curious George creator Allan Shalleck.

The night he met his violent end, Alan Shalleck, the creator of Curious George children's books, had planned an evening of sex with two men he met through a gay magazine ad, according to a taped confession from Vincent Puglisi, who with co-defendant Rex Ditto is charged with Shalleck's February 2006 slaying.

Puglisi, an Oakland Park restaurant worker, told investigators that he responded to the ad about a year before he and Ditto arrived at the 76-year-old Shalleck's Boynton Beach mobile home for the purported three-way tryst. In reality, Puglisi said, Ditto planned to rob and murder Shalleck, who Ditto thought might have money.

Puglisi said he didn't want to participate in the crimes but went along with the plot because he loved Ditto.

Hours earlier, Puglisi, 55, and his 31-year-old lover Ditto hatched the murderous plot, according to Puglisi's confession. Ditto planned to strangle Shalleck, and if that didn't work, he had alternate methods.

When the men arrived at Shalleck's home, Puglisi said, the three watched television before Ditto and Shalleck went into the bedroom. Puglisi went into the bedroom later.

Ditto then "freaked out" and began choking Shalleck before grabbing a paddle and beating Shalleck, according to Puglisi, who grabbed a pillow to cover Shalleck's face and hold him down. Ditto retrieved a knife from the kitchen, he said, "and stabbed him close to 100 times, until the knife broke."

Ditto got another piece of cutlery, this time a steak knife, and stabbed Shalleck some more until that one broke as well. The next time Ditto went for a butcher knife, according to Puglisi.

The men used plastic garbage bags to cover the body, which Ditto wanted to feed to alligators, but it was too heavy so they left it outside the mobile home, according to Puglisi, who sat emotionless throughout the day.

He said they left with a gold ring, coins and a Fossil watch. The drove to Las Olas Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale, where they dumped the knives, he said.

At the end of his confession, Puglisi apologized for what he'd done.

"It's no excuse, but I was with Rex and went along with his plan because I cared about him," he said. "I'm sorry I met Rex. I didn't know he was a sick puppy, but now I do."

BROOKLYN NY TEEN CHARGED WITH HATE-CRIME

A 17 year-old Brooklyn NY resident has been charged in the hate-motivated stabbing death of a 20 year old man, according to the New York Times.

Omar Willock, 17, was charged with murder in the second degree as a hate crime, said Charles J. Hynes, the Brooklyn district attorney. Mr. Hynes said Mr. Willock is charged with stabbing Roberto Duncanson, 20, after shouting antigay remarks. Mr. Hynes said Mr. Duncanson tried to walk away, but Mr. Willock stabbed him four times.

PRIDE EVENT TONIGHT: LOW-FI ACOUSTIC TUESDAY

Hey Gang-

Be sure to get down to the Loring Pasta Bar Red Room June 19th for the aforementioned Low-Fi Acoustic Tuesday.

According to TC Pride:

Hosted by DEMO, the Diverse Emerging Music Organization, you are invited to attend this official Pride event located at the Loring Pasta Bar's Red Room for an evening that will surely get you in the Pride spirit.

Event details as follows:

June 19

Diverse Emerging Music Organization
Loring Pasta Bar's Red Room

327 SE 14th Avenue, Minneapolis

6pm - 10pm

Featuring a full restaurant with bar
Tickets $5/2 people

30% discount with student ID

FRIDAY: THE TWIN CITIES PRIDE UPTOWN BLOCK PARTY!

Hey Gang-

Yup, it's that time of year again, Pride is upon us. I'll bust my broccoli to keep you updated on all of the doings.

First up, we have the Twin Cities Pride Uptown Block Party (yikes, that's a mouthful!).

It will be right here in my back yard on June 22nd at the Bryant Lake Bowl, 810 West lake Street, from 6-10:30pm.

This Festive Fandango will feature such musical acts as Bob Mould, Tina Schlieske, Venus, The Mendicants and B Girl Be Harsh Reality.

You can find all of the details at TCPride.org

Be sure to say 'hey' if you see me there!

LAWYER ACCUSED OF IN-FLIGHT GAY-GOOSING

A drunken South Florida lawyer (pictured) is accused of groping and fondling and male flight attendant during a flight to Fort Lauderdale.

Jacksonville.com news has all of the details...

John Michael Moody II, co-owner of a Broward County title company, was charged by federal air marshals with interfering with a flight crew on a Southwest Airlines flight from Indianapolis to Fort Lauderdale. The charge carries a maximum 20-year sentence and $250,000 fine.

Moody, 43, was arrested when the plane made a scheduled landing in Jacksonville about 12:30 a.m. U.S. Magistrate Howard T. Snyder set bail at $10,000 late Tuesday afternoon and required a $2,000 deposit before Moody could be released.

According to an arrest affidavit filed in court, the incident began in Indianapolis when Moody boarded the flight and asked, "Where is the gay section?" He and three friends then proceeded to the back of the plane and began drinking heavily from a liquor supply in Moody's carry-on luggage, witnesses told air marshals.

Flight attendant Cory Cash said Moody made repeated sexual advances toward him during the flight and groped his buttocks, back and abdomen. He asked Cash when they could make out and invited him into the lavatory to have sex, the affidavit says.

Cash said when he rebuffed Moody's advances and told him to return to his seat, Moody began cursing and verbally abusing the flight attendant.

When Cash told him there were children on the aircraft, Moody grabbed a child waiting for the lavatory and said, "This child?" He then lifted the child over his head and proceeded up the aisle, Cash told investigators.

Snyder said in court he was particularly troubled by that part of the affidavit.

"That strikes me as a particularly volatile situation," the judge said. "Think if you're the parent of that child."

Cash and a passenger interviewed by air marshals said Moody's loud behavior continued until the plane landed in Jacksonville, where Capt. Michael J. Loproto, asked police to remove Moody from his aircraft.

"Loproto was adamant that Moody should be incarcerated," the arrest affidavit says.

Moody was not asked during his first court appearance Tuesday to discuss the charges. He told Snyder he wanted to hire his own lawyer. A pretrial services report revealed he was in grief counseling following the recent death of his sister and that he declared bankruptcy in 1992. He owns a $685,000 home in Broward County.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Arnold Corsmeier told Snyder he wouldn't object to releasing Moody on his own recognizance. He told the judge Moody's behavior was alcohol-induced and that Moody is a member in good standing of The Florida Bar.

"I don't care what he's a member of," Snyder replied. "If he did what he's charged with, it doesn't matter if he's Saint Anybody."

BOSTON BASHER UPDATE!

A wee bit of an update on yesterday's story of the Boston Basher, the woman who assaulted a gay rights demonstrator.

A eagle-eyes reader (thank you !) sent me a link to the above photo of the aforementioned conservative christian group member Diane Steele, and one of the signs she was toting prior to the smacking incident.

WOMAN ASSAULTS GAY-RIGHTS SUPPORTER AT RALLY

A Boston woman (pictured) who was part of a conservative Christian group protesting against gay-marriage at the Massachusetts's Statehouse, is accused of assaulting a member of a gay-rights group who was rallying right across the street.

According to 365.com:

Diane Steele, 52, was arraigned Friday on charges of assault and battery.

Steele, from Richmond in western Massachusetts, was one of about a hundred protestors calling on state lawmakers to approve the amendment and send it to voters in 2008.

Steele allegedly crossed the street and slapped the unidentified person. The victim was startled but not hurt.

Boston Police spokesperson James Kenneally said Steele apparently decided to "escalate" the debate into a physical confrontation.

Crowds on both sides of the gay marriage issue were holding simultaneous rallies across from the Statehouse as lawmakers in a joint session of the legislature were considering the amendment.

In a session that lasted less than a half-hour the legislature voted against referring the question to voters.

It is not the first time that a member of a conservative Christian group has been accused of accosting a gay marriage supporter.

In April the former leader of a Catholic group advocating for a constitutional ban on gay marriage was been arraigned on assault and civil rights violations stemming from a demonstration last December.

Larry Cirignano, 50, who at the time was the head of Catholic Citizenship, was alleged to have attacked a woman taking part in a counter demonstration at an anti-gay rally in front of Worcester City Hall last December 16.

Sarah Loy, 27, was part of a group who stood near the front of the rally where Cirignano was speaking.

Loy was carrying a sign reading “No discrimination in the Constitution”.

Cirignano reportedly had just finished leading the Pledge of Allegiance when he spotted Loy and her sign.

Police allege that he left the podium and tackled Loy to the ground. “You need to get out. You need to get out of here right now,” he reportedly told her as her head was pushed into the concrete sidewalk.

As Loy lay bruised and bloodied on the sidewalk Cirignano reportedly returned to lectern, joining other leaders of the protest in condemning same-sex marriage and demanding the proposed amendment be put on the ballot.

MAN BEATEN AND MUGGED WHILE PERFORMING GAY SEX-ACT

Here's a cautionary tale if I ever heard one: a Philadelphia man was struck with a hammer and robbed WHILE he was performing oral sex on the perpetrator (suspect pictured above), a man he had just met off of a gay-sex phone line.

I'll let Philly.com give you the lurid details (I have to go wash...)

An "active user" of a homosexual phone-hookup line made a bad connection when he invited a caller to his Wallingford condominium and was beaten while performing oral sex on a new acquaintance, according to Nether Providence Township Police.

After the beating, the suspect forced the victim to drive to several ATMs until he was able to withdraw $200.

The victim, who is described by police as a 50-year-old white male, left 15 messages over a two-week period on various mailboxes at a Philadelphia-based phone-dating service.

In the messages, he detailed his desire for a homosexual encounter, police said.

Because of the sheer number of calls made by the victim, Detective Sgt. Michael Irey said, it was difficult to tell which person returned the victim's call on June 2, identifying himself as "Mike" from West Philadelphia.

"Mike," described as a medium-complected African-American male in his 20s, about 5 feet 11 and 175 to 185 pounds, met the victim at the Swarthmore train station later that evening.

From there, the two went to the victim's condo in Wallingford.

"The suspect sits down and the victim provides him with oral sex, but it wasn't completed before everything stopped when the suspect hit him," Irey said. "The victim goes down to the ground and looks up and this guy has a hammer."

Afterward, the victim was forced to drive to two ATMs and the assailant was able to remove $200 from the victim's account at a PNC Bank branch in Swarthmore, Irey said.

The assailant fled on foot, toward the same train station where the victim had picked him up earlier that night.

As a result of his injuries, the victim's jaw was wired shut and will be fitted with a titanium plate today, Irey said.

Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call Nether Providence Township Police at 610-892-2875. *

PICTURES OF THE DAY: RUDY GIULIANI IN DRAG

Presidential Hopeful Rudy Giuliani in drag.

ANOTHER GAY-BASHING SWEPT UNDER THE CARPET

One of the main reasons I started writing this blog was to bring light to the many cases of gay-bashing that the mainstream media time-and-again failed to report.

Here is yet another perfect example:

Two men in Indiana beat 5'4", 100lb Aaron Hall for hours after, they say, he propositioned the