CONN COURT APPROVES GAY MARRIAGE! "The Connecticut Supreme Court today ruled that denying marriage rights to same-sex couples is unconstitutional. Connecticut is now poised to become the nation’s third state to allow same-sex marriage, joining California and Massachusetts. 'Interpreting our state constitutional provisions in accordance with firmly established equal protection principles leads inevitably to the conclusion that gay persons are entitled to marry the otherwise qualified same sex partner of their choice,' the ruling says. 'To decide otherwise would require us to apply one set of constitutional principles to gay persons and another to all others.'"
• Say hello to Hugh Hefner's potential new girlfriends. [Yeeeah]
• Bad Idea No. 7219: Someone is bringing 10 Things I Hate About You to the small screen. [INO]
• Everyone can breathe a sigh of relief: Brody Jenner has found The One. For this month. [ICYDK]
• Beyonce shocks the world by admitted she married Jay-Z. And by "shocks" we mean "bores." [PS]
• Suri Cruise is learning how to run away from her creepy parents. Good for her. [DListed]
• Britney Spears wears a bra out in public. Progress! [HT]
'Tis a sad day for the hags: Mollygood crush Ryan Reynolds wed Scarlett Johansson in a small ceremony in Vancouver over the weekend. Take a few moments to let this news sink in. We'll continue when you're ready.
This is a tough blow because the couple had been engaged for only four months — not a proper amount of time to process and grieve. We give all of you Reynolds lovers permission to take the day off from work, and support group information will be distributed in the near future.
Stay strong.
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LOHAN'S HOLLYWOOD ENDING "First there were the matching tattoos, then the public declarations of love and now it seems Lindsay Lohan will marry her lesbian lover. Just days after DJ Samantha Ronson announced at a gig that Lindsay would be her wife by the end of year, the Mean Girls star is sporting this sparkler on her wedding finger."
Ellen DeGeneres is just so generous! The lesbian funny lady used her talk show yesterday to run some behind-the-scenes footage of her wedding to Portia de Rossi.
It's possibly the cutest thing we've ever seen and these girls are by far our favorite gay couple in history.
Watch Ms. D's monologue on the matter, after the jump…
With same-sex marriage in full effect out in California, the state's prison officials are busy trying to set things straight for gay inmates:
Rumor has it that MSNBC newsman Chris Matthews will run for senate once his contract runs out.
Seizing on those rumors, Philadelphia Gay News publisher Mark Segal asked Matthews about his stance on gay marriage. After eschewing the question - what would Matthews do about the defense of marriage act - Matthews went into a valid tirade about freedom, which could come across as support.
Segal, however, wanted specifics. What he received were expletives:
Sean Connery's new autobiography, Being a Scot, was released today in the UK. The book finds the first and most famous Bond musing on "many aspects of Scottish culture and life, including sport, architecture, and of course the gothic tendency in Scots literature," while also offering enlightening anecdotes from his 78 years as a Scotsman. No word yet on whether Connery has used any part of Being a Scot to discuss under what circumstances a man can smack his lippy wife. In case he hasn't, we've got a brief video lesson after the jump.
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• Old school Britney loved Cheetos even back in the day. [DListed]
• Lindsay Lohan's side boob would be more exciting had we not already seen the entire thing. [HT]
• Gwen Stefani is about to give birth. Oh good, because we haven't heard any celebrity baby news lately. [ICYDK]
• Upon realizing that everyone in America hates her, Paris Hilton is taking her BFF search overseas. [PS]
• Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds decided to hold off on their wedding until after the presidential election. There's still time! [INO]
• Megan Fox will film a lesbian scene. Of course. [Yeeeah]
WEDDED BLISS Ellen DeGeneres on new bride Portia de Rossi: "She's officially off the market. No one else gets her. And now she'll cook and clean for me."
Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt, America's junk food, told Extra in a new interview that, when they get married, it will be on live television. Presumably, this is so they can be continue to be just like their predecessors, Charles and Diana.
Asked if she would leave The Hills once a married woman, Montag replied oh so tellingly, "No, where would I go?"
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HERE COME THE BRIDES "Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi, 35, will wed this weekend in California. … The pair are planning a small, intimate ceremony with only a few close friends and family."
Someone needs to keep an eye on Jennifer Aniston, because rumor has it John Mayer dumped her and, if the media is to be believed, she is going to have a nervous breakdown due to the grief. Or something.
John took the decision to end things as he felt he just wasn't ready for the level of commitment that Jennifer deserved. Contrary to reports, Jen didn't want to have kids or marry this year, but she did want to set a timetable for their future together. She also wanted him to assure her he would cut down his tours in the future when they did eventually have children.
But don't feel too sorry for Jen: Reports are stating she has already moved on with a new boyfriend. Sounds like someone's been getting lessons from Kate Hudson.
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We love weddings! We're going to one this weekend and we are going to cry and cry (because we love to cry, too!). But y'know who hates marriage? TV. That heartless institution thinks married couples are boring prudes, a sentiment it expresses by making sex scenes between married couples as bland as hell, if even present at all.
Marital sex on TV is "nonexistent or burdensome."
Single and extramarital sex is "glamorous" and "exciting."
That's according to the Parents Television Council, which released a study Tuesday on how sex is portrayed in broadcast primetime.
It also says those portrayals are wrong, very wrong, if not downright inaccurate.
"Everybody is having sex on TV except for married couples," PTC president Tim Winter said.
According to the study titled "Happily Never After," scenes on the major networks depicting or implying sex between nonmarried partners outnumbered similar scenes between married couples by a ratio of nearly 4-to-1. References to adultery outnumbered references to marital sex 2-to-1.
Can you believe it? A stereotype on TV, broadcast as if it were true!
Lance Bass’ new boyfriend, Sebastian Leal, has a wife. Yep, you read that right. The personal trainer, who has been dating the former boy bander for a few weeks, married a woman nine years ago and failed to get a divorce.
Mariah Carey has fallen a bit out of the spotlight lately now that her marriage to Nick Cannon has become old news. So, naturally, she's just now sharing the details on how Nick proposed to her — twice — in hopes of milking this story for all it's worth. But, really, we could have imagined these shenanigans already (it is Mariah, after all) so it's nothing groundbreaking:
'He sort of kidnapped me and took me on a helicopter ride. Then he re-proposed.' Cannon's first proposal had taken place on Carey's roof in Manhattan a couple of evenings prior and involved the hiding of a 17-carat diamond ring inside a candy ring pop.
Only the best for "eternally 12-years-old" Mariah.
It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for: California officials have officially made same-sex marriage official!
At 5:01 PM, clerks began issuing the state’s first same-sex marriage licenses. And, as a proper institution, the ladies went first. Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin, who have been together 55 years, inaugurated the festivities in San Francisco, while Robin Tyler and Diane Olson did it up in Los Angeles county. The latter were the original plaintiffs in the case that led to California Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the ban on gay marriage.
Gay Star Trek star George Takei is very close to boldly going where few men have gone before: into a loving marriage with another man.
With the California Supreme Court's legalization of gay marriage taking effect yesterday, Takei and his partner, Brad Altman, talked with The Early Show about being in the final stages of wedding planning, a process Takei calls "delicious anguish." Click through for the adorable video of the lovebirds.
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