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The gay rags are occasionally good for something, and today we are reminded how nice a good swimsuit photospread can be in the depths of North American winter.

Watch the Superbowl?  Neither did we.  Now that all the commercials end up on the internet, what’s the point really.

For all we know, the intentions behind this little spoof were totally homophobic.  But we don’t think so. 

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Ted Haggard is utterly pathetic. The documentary about him made by Nancy Pelosi’s daughter aired for the first of probably a thousand times last night on HBO, and Haggard himself showed up on Oprah this week as part of a recent PR blitz that included another gay lover coming out of the woodwork.

The new indie Were the World Mine, called a “musical comedy of errors” that’s based on Tom Gustafson’s short film Fairies, tells the story of a teenager playing Puck in his high school’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

In the oldie but goodie below, in which David Letterman mocks Richard Simmons for trying to shill a steamer on his show. Then there’s a fire.

We might as well just make Wednesday Australia Day over here at the Sword, since it looks so warm and summery down there,

The Christopher Street Bookstore is closed now, but enjoy this piece of pre-internet brilliance from 1992. If you don’t like it when sex clubs use uncharacteristically hot men in their ads, bear in mind that commercials like this one are the other option.

Bisexual celebrity Alan Cumming spoke out in a recent interview to discuss his new movie, his favorite NYC gay bar, and what a “stupid boy” Perez Hilton is.

The good news: there’s a new behind-the-scenes bit done by HBO for the upcoming “Grey Gardens” film starring Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore. 

Brooklyn’s pop star artist Nathan Whipple dresses like an alien mummy and just might be one.

Here they are, kids, the much-awaited clips from yesterday’s Tyra gay-for-pay show, which The Sword now brings to you.

So for all the faggots who treat the Oscars as the Gay Super Bowl, we bring you a quick update on this year’s nominees, released early this morning.

Where do we start?  He calls himself Davey Wavey.  He dislikes shirts.  He has way too nice an apartment for a 25-year-old and way too much fucking energy.

During a press conference at Sundance, ‘I Love You Philip Morris’ stars Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor both copped to being cool with all the on-screen man-love they had to endure during filming; no word as to whether either popped any wood.

This one’s been going around the past week, but in case you missed it: a new ad for Durex condoms featuring some balloon animals fucking.

Finally we found the trailer to Humpday, a little gayish film that’s showing at an already gayish Sundance Festival.  It’s about two best friends from college, reunited years later, who in a case of heterosexual one-upsmanship decide to make a homosexual porn film, with each other.

The Real World: Brooklyn has a lot to offer the gay viewer besides just Mormon Chet’s incredible curiosity about his roomie’s enormous cock, and the inevitable revelation to the housemates that JD Ordonez dated Anderson Cooper.

This new homosexualist film starring Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor premieres during a rather gay Sundance Film Fest this weekend.

Welcome, lover. We’ve got so much to show you. Please, let us show you the many ways in which we are amazing and shall become indispensable and mostly SFW* reading.

Ever wanted to live out that dream of being a whore without actually losing any self respect or risking that future political career you still haven’t given up on? 

On TruTV’s new show Principal’s Office, these two high school dudes get called in about some “grinding” going on at a recent dance.

In his latest video, for the song “I’m Throwing My Arms Around Paris” off his new album Years of Refusal, Morrissey does the usual prancing, posing and arm-flapping that have long been part of his fey/abstinent shtick, but with the addition of several French bulldogs.

As we noted way back last winter, it took seven months in soap time to give As the World Turns gay supercouple, Luke & Noah (Nuke to fans) their first PG-rated kiss, and now a full year later they finally made it past first base.

A few weeks ago, the LA Times discovered the gay hip-hop community. Your immediate reaction, like ours, would logically be, “There’s a gay hip-hop community?” More recently, the March issue of SPIN (not yet online), finds rapping homosexuals between two worlds: the rap community won’t accept them, and the gay community wants them to rap about sex, shoes and Kylie.

So, he didn’t take his clothes off, but Sword crush object Neil Patrick Harris did a fine job on SNL this weekend.

The Real World: Brooklyn is pretty much the gayest thing on TV right now, and will be until Rupaul’s Drag Race premieres.  So let’s just bask in this for a second, shall we?

The 80s really were an innocent time, weren’t they? We doubt many of you remember 1980’s Pinball Summer starring Michael Zelnicker, but when we came across this clip we just knew we had to share.

A consortium of adult business will come together next week in a Las Vegas auction to bid on available URLs for dirty websites. The different values among the domains reveal some interesting trends. Is love the new sex? Is latin the new white? Find out below.

We’d normally rather watch a cat die than endure Logo’s flaccid programming, but judging by the teaser below, RuPaul’s Drag Race (premiering February 2nd) looks pretty, pretty good.

A certain writer over at Videogum has declared Brody Jenner’s MTV reality show Bromance to be “the most important examination of modern masculinity ever,” no bullshit.

Last year gave us new forms of art like novels written on cellphones,  text message embroidery and creative erotic emoticons; 2009 brings us the most lastest intersection of art and technology: Craigslist penis photography.

We can hardly express the joy upon waking that we experienced in finding this, our very own little Chilean wonder doing her best Britney Spears. 

In anticipation of Sacha Baron Cohen’s upcoming flick, Bruno, which revolves around Cohen’s Austrian fashionista alter-ego, here’s some religious wingnut goodness for you.

Damien Crosse and Francesco D’Macho, Madrid-residing porn stars and boyfriends forever, released this New Year’s greeting card from Rome just in time to remind you that no matter how much GHB you’ve managed to score for New Year’s, you will still not be nearly as hot, cool or inebriated as these boys.