My future ex-boyfriend, Vin Diesel, is celebrating his 41st birthday on July 18. You may recognize him from some of his films including The Chronicles of Riddick (a personal favorite), xXx,The Fast and the Furious, and The Pacifier.

* Poor, poor Maggie Gyllenhaal! Promoting her upcoming film, The Dark Knight, she graces the cover of Tatler but something terribly wrong happened in the dressing room. Fug that!

* The Los Angeles Times focuses on the LA Gay & Lesbian Center's - along with the West Hollywood Health department - HIV prevention online soap targeting young gay and bisexual men.

* Pretty boy Wentworth Miller joy riding on hydrogen.

* Sarah Silverman is no longer f*cking Jimmy Kimmel. It's over.

* Sen. John McCain says he doesn't support gay adoption. "I think that we’ve proven that both parents are important in the success of a family so, no I don’t believe in gay adoption."

* The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts has created an HIV prevention toolkit that aims to educate young women worldwide about the disease. At their international launch in Boksburg, South Africa CEO Mary McPhail stated, "We wanted to develop teaching methods which would get the message to young women that they are at risk. We wanted to get across that they can also be responsible for empowering their own lives and making their own decisions."

Now, if only the Boy Scouts could get over their gay bashing to do something as equally impressive. Rock on Girl Scouts! Rock on...

* The Gay Pimp - Jonny McGovern - has a new hit out. This time however he's dedicating the song to the ladies. Check out his new single, Don't Fall In Love With A Homo.

Does Barack Obama have a secret life of being a male model? We know he was a community organizer on Chicago's southside but I'm not so sure that he wasn't also a model.

It's hard to tell, isn't it?

Today's Quote of the Day comes from HuffingtonPost.

In a story about Barack Obama's latest television ad in response to the Republican National Committee's McCain "Oil" ad, I found my favorite gem of a quote.

Many of the posts were voicing a hope that Obama would go into more detail about his "green power" solutions. Some folks liked the new commercial, while others thought Obama needed to go a bit farther.

The quote was made by Egalitare.
"The point was to hit back with easy to digest stuff for Joe and Jane Undecided. Even now, too many of those folks think "green power" is one of the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers."

Here's the Barack Obama ad they were commenting on.

Throughout the country - and around the world - the last weekend in June marks some of the largest gay pride celebrations. Several of the largest cities in the US - such as New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, Boston - all hold their parades and festivities on that weekend.

Pride festivities tend to be a time to relax, have fun, and be your brilliant, colorful self. This is also the same reason some folks - gay and straight - have come to criticize Pride events.

As you can tell from the pictures that follow, each Pride event is uniquely different. The following pictures come from San Francisco, Mexico City, Seattle, and Toronto.

This hunk was snapped in Mexico City. (source: Towleroad)

These sexy mamas were soaking in the sun in Seattle.

In Toronto these soldiers can serve openly without worrying about their sexual orientation or gender identity being an issue.

The 30th Anniversary of Mexico City Pride - one of the biggest events in the world.

Dykes On Bikes led the 38th Annual Pride Parade in San Francisco.

Do you have your own pictures from Pride? Send them to us!

The much acclaimed new Batman movie, The Dark Knight, is now in theaters and already there is much buzz about Heath Ledger's performance as Joker. Many folks - including one of my favorite writers, Dan Savage - have claimed that Heath will be nominated and win an Oscar this year.

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Two great teams - Spain & Germany - will face off this Sunday to determine the victor for the 2008 Euro Championship. The game begins at 1:45 CST. I'll be watching the game with a handful of folks at The Nomad.

Will Michael Ballack lead the Germans to a victory? Can Fernando Torres fill in for injured David Villa and score big for Spain? Check it out for yourself this Sunday!

And, for those of you in the Milwaukee area that are soccer fans the Milwaukee Gay Soccer Association is looking for players and teams for their Summer Coed LGBT League which starts on July 9th! That league will play on Wednesday nights at Estabrook Park. Some spots still available.

Senator Barack Obama has decided to forgo public financing of his Presidential campaign. Already John McCain is trying to use this decision to his advantage by calling Obama a 'flip-flopper'. The truth is John McCain refused to participate by conditions to be negotiated by both sides. McCain - like many other Republicans before him - will allow "independent" 527's to raise millions of dollars to run smear campaigns against Obama.

Obama has already asked 527's and PAC's to instead send donors to his campaign and has been successful at putting the brakes on many independent efforts - McCain doesn't wield that same power.

That is one of the reasons that Obama has decided to side with another type of public financing - that of millions of Americans giving what they can. He doesn't accept money from lobbyists or special interest PAC's.

You can hear him in his own words below talking about his decision.