Celebrity gossip mongers like Perez and Michael K at Dlisted would leave their readers distraught, panting for jokey updates on Wonky McValtrex and Fishsticks Paltrow.

But given that gays always need their blogs to read, whether they’re wasting time at home or wasting time in their cubicles, we and every other gay in the great blog firmament are still tap-tapping away for you today.  Maybe it’s just because all gays are pussies! (JK!)

Japhy Grant over at Queerty got fully behind the plan, encouraging readers not to make any cynical Disco Monday jokes and to go along with this “great idea,” however the man himself appears to be hard at work for his gay publisher on his gay site giving us all the (sometimes tedious) gay news that’s fit to print.

JoeMyGod maintains it’s a dumb idea, and he’s hard at work re-posting news stories today with his bear-liberal bent. But he did post this retarded Logo video yesterday anyway.

While Andy Towle did not call in gay himself–we understand, there’s much too much news about hate crimes to cover–he is quite indignant about these stereotypical (and kinda funny) jokes being made on FOX’s Red Eye. For example, “It’s kind of like Gandhi, but instead of a hunger strike, you brunch.”

Gawker is taking a poll as to how many gays jumped on this idea, while the gays among them (hey, Richard!) are understandably still typing from home and hoping not to lose this gig.  So far, in the poll, 60% are at work hoping not to get fired, while a mere 7% called in gay.  Not surprisingly, given the site’s NYC media-whore readership, 18% don’t have jobs.

Queers United, that ever-earnest non-daily blog, stuck to their gay guns! But given the whole non-daily thing, and the fact the writer(s) is probably still showing up to bag groceries at the vegan co-op where they make their living, we call bullshit.

Anyhow, here at Sword HQ, we’re having a pizza social. And we feel like the whole ‘calling in gay’ thing is not exactly the most direct form of protest against Prop 8–why not just boycott straight weddings, for instance?  This has us in mind of our favorite show, Summer Heights High, and this week’s episode where Ja’mie and her friends decide to stage a hunger strike in protest of not being allowed to have a Year 11 formal.

(Hunger strike begins at 2:21.)

RELATED:

Prop 8: The Musical
Bat Boy Says No to H8
Thousands of Gays, Tila Tequila Protest Prop 8

Polls: So, Who Called Out Gay (Gawker)
Day Without a Gay: Great Idea, Terrible Name (Queerty)
Fox’s Red Eye Holds Discussion on Day Without a Gay (Towleroad)