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THE WEEK
ACCORDING TO
GARÇON STUPIDE

• Help make history with the first ever Brazilian gay series. caRIOcas needs your help. See a trailer - and a picture gallery - here.

• Buffalo Bills wide receiver Terrell Owens at New York Fashion Week. As Ultimate Kaos once sang, Anything you want... Rod 2.0 has a few different shots from this.

• Drag queens, art fags and gay-listers: a guide to gay men.

• Director Lee Daniels talks about being openly gay in Hollywood. "Daniels is raising two of his brother's children with his ex-partner. Daniels' brother, the biological father, abandoned the children and does not approve of Daniels' raising them. The director explains: 'My brother hates it that it is me who's raising his kids. He's mortified by the fact that I'm gay.'"

• South Africa wins the Mr. Gay World competition. Less said about that the better... ka-os|theory favourite Bryan Adu (pictured to the right of the winner, left) was the runner-up.

• There's a bit of a hoo-ha over a jerk-off video he made.

• John Amaechi: sporting world must help gay athletes to come out.

• College lacrosse captain comes out as gay.

• Scott Herman, of Real World: Brooklyn, is lensed for NoH8.

• There's a new gay TV series coming our way, based on Germany's Christian & Olli (left), and HBO is involved.

• A real-life Will & Grace reality show. Please Goddess, no...

• Patrick Strudwick exposed the tricks of ex-gay therapy. Now he's really going after them.

• Catholic Charities end city adoption contract with Washington D.C.; refuse to place children with gay couples.

• Transgender teen Alex Roberson talks about life in school.

• Ewan McGregor shuts down casual homophobia on Good Morning America during an interview about the McGregor-Jim Carrey kiss.

• Is there a place for gay people in conservatism and conservative politics?

• Oh dear - homophobic Jamaican reggae singer Cappleton won't be appearing at this weekend's Ragga Muffins Festival. Gay hate = lost $$$.

• Suspended conductor who pushed subway rider wins battle against NYC Transit to avoid firing.

• Americans the most attractive people in the world. Well, if cold, hard and artificial works for you...

• Tiger Woods says sorry to the world for sticking his thing in pootang that wasn't wifey's. Oh, and there's some poor people going through hell in Haiti. Huh? That was last week's news?

• Penis tree.

• Male figure skating + Australian media commentary. Gee - what do you think the outcome will be?

• And elsewhere in the wonderful land of Oz... The Fire Brigade's bizarre initiation rituals including sexual abuse and humiliation.

• Actors paid to act gay on Sydney Mardi Gras float. Says it all about what gay pride parades are really about now.

• Paris kiss-in.

• Gay Russian couple, Yuri and Sasha, attempt to register their marriage in Siberia.

• l’Université de Grenade cancels show by Spanish photographer Fernando Bayona following death threats over his re-imagining of the last supper.

• Latin America LGBT community demands equality and an end to homophobic violence on Valentine's Day. Blabbeando reports on events in Peru, Argentina, Chile and Mexico.

• Xiao Dai - the Chinese entrant in Mr Gay World 2010 - is worried what fate awaits him when he returns to China.

• Uganda: Pastor Martin Ssempa showed gay porn in church. Arrest him, lock him up, and throw away the key. Simples.

• African gay rights group Behind the Mask labelled the screening - mentioned here last week - twisted.

• Uganda: "I would kill a gay son," says MP.

• Uganda: Kill-Everyone law, a video tour.

• Uganda: Kill gay scouts!

• Uganda: Police block a demonstration supporting the anti-gay bill.

• Uganda: In a time of constant calamity and crisis fatigue, who will stand against Uganda's brutal anti-gay law?

• Uganda: More than 100 LGBT Ugandans gathered in Kampala on Valentine's Day to talk about the anti-gay legislation that threatens all of them. Left, activist Abdallah Wambere, right, an unnamed activist.

• Malawi: Prosecutors have concluded their case against gay couple Tiwonge Chimbalanga and Steven Monjeza

• Malawi: More arrests as police intensify gay witch-hunt.

• Stephen Gately: The Press Complaints Commission has decided that whilst aspects of Jan Moir's Daily Mail piece were "extremely distasteful", it was "an essential point of principle that papers could print views which might offend readers".

• And Peter Tatchell ain't happy about it: Toothless, unprincipled PCC should be disbanded, he says.

• Stonewall chip in too: It is hard to recommend anyone from a minority community to complain to the PCC.

• Convicted of consensual sex with another man 50 years ago: why it still matters.

• Why homophobia affects how teenage boys treat girls.

• "Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man." Elton John says something that provokes a reaction. Next week: Barack Obama is a communist lesbian with a bestialty fetish.

• Religious people more likely to be racist.

• Bad boy snowboarder Kazuhiro Kokubo in baggy pants controversy!

• Reader's Digest UK collapses into administration.

• The perils of inbreeding: remember this? PETA asks why people are breeding dogs when 3 to 4 million dogs and cats are put to death every year in the US.

• Aw bless! Video of Marvin from JLS as a young 'un, doing his best Michael Jackson.

• Shame... Homophobic jerk-off has-been Usherette gets in touch with his inner fag. Sling your hook love - we only cared when you were jailbait. Besides, Trey Songz took your tiara.

• MOC Blog spends 45 minutes with Bruce La Bruce.

• There's an amazing new Doctor Who trailer...

• "My exact words were: 'I'd like to overthrow the government.' I was a young firebrand and I wanted to answer honestly. I was very angry about the social injustice in Britain under Thatcher and I’m delighted that came into the show." Doctor Who's script editor during the latter part of the 1980s speaks out.

• The BBC's Newsnight has a video report on this.

• EastEnders: Live!

• This week's Gays of Our Lives: the latest clips, news and spoilers in the world of soaps and dramas featuring your favorite (and not so favorite) gay characters. Right, Greek.

• What sitcom of yesteryear would you bring back?

• The definitive collection of pictures featuring Bea Arthur, mountains and pizza.

• OMG! Francois Sagat in a film - WITH A WOMAN!

• OceanScope by Korean designers AnL Studio.

• MD.net Clinic Akasaka by Japanese designers Nendo.

• Vivienne Westwood's new underwear and accessories campaign, "Leonard Peltier is Innocent".

• Bobby Roache dives into Gucci swimwear. Wonder if he's got room for another in there...?

• Lastly, more of those new Calvin Klein underwear models...

Issue 49 of The Week According To Garçon Stupide

covers the period 13-19th February 2010.

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© 2010

POSTSCRIPT

"You know, we might just as well not have bothered to come.

The whole thing's been ridiculous."