Normally we're all about the jokes here on the Roundup but even funnyman David Letterman is very, very serious today, following his jawdropping "little story" last night:

Meanwhile, two of our favourite writers have gone deep and dark -- Shawn Syms exhaustively covers the criminalization of HIV while Paul Gallant examines the poor state of gay activism in a recent piece for This magazine.  We're near, we're queer...whatever.

Down south again, the right-wing drive to overthrow the US government is picking up steam, according to this caller on Michaelangelo Signorile's radio show:

While creepy, this whole movement is still ridiculous considering that "socialist" Barack Obama is proving to be George W. Bush's biggest fan.

Good grief, more depressing news:  Lady Gaga and Kanye West were going to tour together but poor sales have cancelled it all (I smell a Taylor Swift plot!): 

This was surprising news:  Lady Gaga and Kanye West were going to tour together?

 And finally, worst of all, CALIFORNIA HAS FALLEN INTO THE SEA:

Yeah, it's just a big clip from the upcoming absolutely-fucking-ridiculous disaster movie 2012.  I couldn't maintain such seriousness forever, you understand.  Have a great weekend!

Since this blog so often focuses on the latest lunacy from the homophobic Christian right (and there's so much to choose from!), it's only fair that I salute our straight allies in the church once in a while -- especially while they're making popcorn:

"We believe in taking the Bible seriously, but not literally." It's a nice start to undoing centuries of oppression, no?  And there's more where that came from.

What's lovely is that we're getting Lutherans on board and have even managed to win over cranky Presbyterian David Letterman, who this week not only treated us to the most awkward Britney Spears appearance ever (loves it!!) but also talked gay marriage with Donald Trump (not a proposal, thankfully -- just a very old but still welcome joke):

Letterman would never have stood up for us back on 'Late Night!'  But if today's brief focus on straight, middle-aged Christian guys isn't working for you (can't see how!), Perez Hilton has handy tips on how to stalk the cast of 'Twilight' in Vancouver.  See?  Whether you love straight men or looooove straight men, today we've got you covered!

There's tension in the air: the Liberals are about to vote on a new leader, everyone's trying to figure out how best to spend tomorrow's 'Day Without A Gay' and the Iowa Supreme Court begins hearings on gay marriage but there's no shortage of silly videos to amuse me today. I've even got the VGL Boys getting me through the recession:

It's no "Dick in a Box" but Andy Samberg's latest digital short is Pet Shop Boys-inspired comedy for your inner 12-year-old (and watch for Justin Timberlake as the DJ/janitor):

Someone found the infamous Crispin Glover interview on David Letterman's old show! I saw this when I was a teen and never forgot it:

Lily Allen's back!  Drunk or sober, she's always a delight:

And, best of all, we are less than six weeks away from the end of the George W. Bush presidency!  I wasn't sure I'd live long enough to type those words and when he joked, "Welcome to my hanging," well....I jizzed in my pants:

A decade in the making, Gus Van Sant's biopic of legendary gay rights activist Harvey Milk opens today in Toronto and Vancouver. Here's the glorious trailer, followed by some words from the man himself:

Even the straight-and-certainly-narrow David Letterman liked the movie enough to kiss James Franco -- get your tickets here!

There's signs of hope everywhere:

-- a Florida judge has declared the state's 30-year-old ban on gay adoption unconstitutional, finding "no rational reason" to keep orphaned children out of caring homes. The judge wrote, "The most important factor in ensuring a well-adjusted child is the quality of parenting." That's what we've been saying!

-- California's Fair Political Practices Commission is going to investigate the Mormon church's $22 million in contributions to ban gay marriage. How can they say they're a humble little faith group when they're throwing around more money than Elton John in a Versace store?

-- 'The Advocate' magazine insists that the California marriage vote didn't fail because of rampant bigotry but in large part because of lazy, useless gay leadership. Umm, that's sort of good news, I guess...

-- a university in redneck Kentucky held "live homosexual acts" right on the campus lawn!

-- on a purely malicious note, rumour has it that rightwing harpy Ann Coulter has broken her jaw and had her mouth wired shut, making it hard for her to plug her upcoming anti-Obama book, "Guilty." Until I heard this news, I was an atheist!

Of course, Harvey Milk's crusade hasn't been won yet: a man in Iowa was arrested for owning gay sex comic books while the government of Indonesia wants to implant microchips in HIV-positive people!

Yes, the future could be scary if we let it: for instance, if you believe the year's coolest movie poster, the city of Los Angeles will look pretty ugly in ten years but, in other geek news, we'll soon have a gay couple joining in on the apocalyptic drama of 'Battlestar Galactica':