Storytellers

The Globe and Mail reports on the hit Marseilles soap opera that recently featured the first gay kiss on French TV. The first? Even the Americans did it over a decade ago and the French invented kissing!

Commentators on YouTube are arguing over whether this anti-condom rant from “Jesusophile” is real or a joke. I just say it’s unfunny either way:

Conservative newshound Matt Drudge made Out magazine’s “Gay Power 50” list! Only problem is, he doesn’t want to be on it — claiming he does not love sex with men, Chaka Khan or “The Young and The Restless.” Forget about gay — someone check to see if he’s human.

Iowa Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstalwas asked to help block the decision to allow gay marriage in that state. Here’s what he said:

Now there’s a heartland guy! He and Nathan Manske are my quiet heroes this week — Manske created the terrific website I’m From Driftwood because, he says:

“There are gay stories from every corner of the Earth and I think they should be told.”

Amen, brother. Just don’t tell Matt Drudge’s!

A former editor of the late, lamented fab magazine, Scott has been writing for Xtra since 2007 on a variety of topics in news pieces, interviews, blogs, reviews and humour pieces. He lives on the Danforth with his boyfriend of 12 years, a manic Jack Russell Terrier, a well-stocked mini-bar and a shelf of toy Daleks.

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