GAY PRIDE JERUSALEM: Police officials recently approved the request for a gay pride parade in Jerusalem on June 21st despite public outcry from religious officials. The event has faced staunch opposition and violence over the years. In 2005, an ultra-Orthodox Jew stabbed and wounded three participants during the Gay Pride parade. He received 12 years in jail.

QUEER CONJUGALS: Move over marriage equality - queers can now enjoy conjugal visits! Well, at least in California. "The new policy states such visits will only be permitted to those registered as domestic partners, and affirms that no prisoners will be allowed overnight visits with other prisoners, regardless of status." California is the first state to allow LGBT people conjugal visits from their same-sex partners.

BRAD PITT & GEORGE CLOONEY TO HELP LAGUNA BEACH GAYS?: The Boom Boom Room is hoping that Pitt & Clooney will make saving the 60 year old gay bar one of their celebrity causes. The bar was sold in 2005 for over $12 million with plans to turn it into a boutique hotel. Those plans are now scrapped and the bar is on the market again and is tentatively slated to stay open until Labor Day. Pitt & Clooney were listed in the first sale by error and now Laguna Beach gays hope these two will hear their call and save the bar. A grassroots campaign has launched an ad in The Daily Variety asking the hunks for help. See sample ad below....