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Get your TiVos good and ready for this Sunday. Former Renee Zellweger consort Kenny Chesney sits down on "60 Minutes" and talks about all those nasty rumors that he might, you know, like sticking his junk in dudes.

"It's not true. Period. Maybe I should have come out and said no, I'm not (gay), but I didn't want to draw any more attention to it ... I didn't have to prove to anybody that I wasn't (gay) ... I didn't feel like I really did," says Chesney.

Kenny Chesney: I'm Not Gay [CBS News]

Gawker shutterperson Nikola Tamindzic followed the yellow brick road to Heatherette's Wizard of Oz themed show, which starred Lydia Hearst as Dorothy and Amanda Lepore as Glinda the Good Witch. You read that right: Wizard of Oz themed. "We just need to figure out a way to gay it up a bit. But HOW?" we imagine Richie Rich brainstorming. Anyway, Neel Shah was there, which pretty much says it all. If this is somehow still not enough for you, Nikola's got your gay gay gay ass covered with more here.

Fashion Week: Heatherette [photos]

BuzzFeed notes the latest trend sweeping the nation: drunken acts of homosexual-type behavior.

Heterosexual people getting so wasted, they slip into seemingly gay acts. The loose definition: "It is when you are soooo drunk (wasted) and dudes start dancing with you and you just sort of go along with it and then they start putting their arms around you and you just kind of keep rolling with it because you're drunk and you sort of think the dude is being your dancefloor bro, but then when you sober up you realize that the situash is sort of weird. when this happens, you tell your friends, 'dude, i got so gaysted last night.'"

Gaysted [BuzzFeed]

We, uh, don't have much to say about this except that it's the best "please don't let me give in to my gay urges" song we've heard since that last Toby Keith record.

[Via Slog.]

Today's Observer follows up on that gay-discrimination lawsuit at Sullivan & Cromwell, and gives you all the information you need to know (the firm denies everything, complainant Charney is representing himself because Lambda Legal Defense wouldn't take the case, Sullivan has a "gay-friendly" rep in the industry, etc.). More to the point, we've taken these photos from Sullivan's website: Charney is at right, while Eric Krautheimer (of "I just took a shit while reading this, and some might still be on there for you" fame) is at left. We're not well-versed in this aspect of the law, but, come on. We are so backing the hot gay guy.

Sullivan Associate Charges His Firm With Gay-Baiting [NYO]
Eric M. Krautheimer [S&C;]
Aaron Brett Charney [S&C;]

Earlier: White Shoe Lawyers Probably Didn't Like 'Philadelphia' Either

We got an e-mail this morning from one Aaron Charney, who informed us that

Today I filed suit against my employer, the "white shoe" law firm Sullivan & Cromwell LLP (legal counsel to Goldman Sachs and Microsoft), alleging discrimination and retaliation by S&C; based on my sexual orientation. The systematic campaign of discrimination and retaliation conducted by S&C; partners and employees is proved by tapes and additional evidence.

Complaint [Aaron Charney]

Apparently, the biker from the Village People couldn't make the audition.

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Today's Daily News has an article reassuring the "straight" men who get a semi whenever they hear our newly sworn-in governor railing against corruption that they're not homos -- they just have what's now called a "man-crush." A man-crush differs from a crush-crush in a few important ways, according to one rampantly heterosexual interviewee:

"He seems tough, has a sense of humor but he isn't actually handsome in a way that makes you feel weird or like you have an actual crush on him," says one young Brooklyn man who works in politics, and requested anonymity. "If a man-crush is too attractive, it raises the gay flags that send us straight men bounding for the hills."

New York's Guv Affair [NYDN]

Earlier: Hopefully, On Day One, Everything Changes Into Something Less Revealing

Also, MySpace is gay. Friendster? SO gay. We've said it for years, and now we have science on our side:

A recent national survey found that more online gay, lesbian and bisexual (GLB) individuals use social networks Friendster and MySpace per week compared to online heterosexuals. Other well-known websites such as YouTube, Craigslist and personal web logs also were found to be more popular among GLB individuals.

Even more significant is that gays and lesbians are online much more than their heterosexual counterparts. Excluding email, nearly twice as many gays and lesbians (32%) say they are online between 24 and 168 hours per week, compared to 18 percent of heterosexuals.

Gays, Lesbians and Bisexuals Lead in Usage of Online Social Networks [PR Newswire]

Ahh, the wisdom of crowds: so far, the vast majority of you have responded to the question we posed in our Blind Item Guessing Game by asserting that American Idol winner loser (and child-hater) Clay Gay Gay Gay Gay Gay Times A Million Gayken wouldn't even know which NBA team he'd prefer to be butt-serviced by, as he is a gay and thus doesn't know the names of the teams that play the sporty-ball games. And according to a helpful tipster, you're probably 100% right:

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Ben Widdicombe tosses us an extraordinarily puzzling blind item today:

Which Middle-American pop star, who really should have learned to stay off the Internet, has been chatting online again? Apparently his ultimate romantic ambition is a simultaneous date with an entire NBA team (except he didn't use quite those words).

Don't Shoot The Messenger [Gatecrasher, last item]
Earlier: Gawker's Coverage of Clay Aiken

Specifically, the band The Faggots, pictured here. The band, described as sounding "like Elmo fronting Bikini Kill," are headlining a Hanukah spectactualar at Galapagos on Sunday night, and the listings rag so cool it doesn't even have a web presence had prepared a feature on Faggots frontman Dan Fishback to promote the show. But then, according to Fishback, 24/7 "scrapped it at the last second because of the name of the band. (To reiterate, they sent a reporter to cover The Faggots, and then wouldn't run his piece because the band is called The Faggots.)"

We knew 24/7 was crappy, but we didn't know they were bigoted and crappy! Next time you're desperate for a free publication, Brooklynites, pick up the L or the Brooklyn Rail or one of the other twelve -- you'll be doing your part on behalf of faggots everywhere.

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We don't spend a lot of time wondering what boggles Sun columnist/Staten Island superpatriot Alicia Colon's mind (offhand we're guessing logic, adding numbers without using her fingers, and the ability of a Thermos to keep liquids hot or cold), but yesterday an opportunity came up to watch one of the five boroughs' brightest minds in action. In the course of a column where she speculated that Wal-Mart's recent financial difficulties stemmed from customer disapproval of that corporation's membership in the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, Colon muses:

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On Larry King last night, ex- NJ governor Jim McGreevey's onetime aide and (according to McGreevey) partner in ecstatic man-love Golan Cipel again refuted claims that he'd been anything but a sexual harassee to McG. But he also leveled a shocking accusation: that "Gay American" McGreevey isn't even a homo (though he covered his bases by copping to notion that McGreevey might be "bi.")

In the interview, Cipel dissuaded the gay community from accepting McGreevey as one of their own, citing the fact that

"the former governor also frequently spoke about heterosexual encounters, including sex with prostitutes on trips to Germany and the Dominican Republic." According to Cipel, McGreevey's coming out was just "part of the spin."

Cipel calls McGreevey "Bisexual" [AP]
Earlier: Gawker's Coverage of Jim McGreevey

Breaking!!! Important!!! Remember this photo of A.C. with the Equinox trainer who our crack (headed) research skills had led us to think was named Marco/Marko? Perhaps those were not such hot tips after all. Manhattan Offender leads us to a clue to this begelled specimen's true identity in 'Andersen's' fake Dlisted profile -- a comment from the 'D' in Dlist himself, Daniel Nardicio. "really folks- he's not gay- ask his boyfriend Cesar."

Well, not so fast, Daniel. All we really know now is that he hangs out with a super gay-named guy who dresses like the gayest gay on earth. But even that may not mean anything. Maybe Cesar is just . . . auditioning for American Idol? A stunt double for Ryan Cabrera? Until we get a little bit more confirmation, we're just going to continue to keep trying to nip this whole "Anderson Cooper is gay" rumor in the bud, before it gets totally out of hand.

Psych. Anyone know anything about Cesar? Do tell.

Update: Crikey, wrong again! Apparently Cesar is actually this man. What does this mean? Could Anderson Cooper not only be gay, but so gay that he has dated more than one man? Slut.

Anderson Cooper on the Dlist, Not To Be Confused With the DL [Manhattan Offender]
Earlier: Anderson Cooper's Friend: More Questions Than Answers

The Daily Politcs' Ben Smith takes note of a UCLA study on the residential locations of gays and lesbians in the United States: shockingly, New York City doesn't even make the top ten. (Ben theorizes that this is because of immigrants; maybe that Brooklyn judge was on to something after all.) And while certain pockets of Manhattan may still do okay on the gayometer, we can't help but be a little concerned: What with North Carolina billionaires offering economic plans based on draining us of all that glitters, we may be reaching a critical moment in this city's history: Deprive us of our gays and all we'll have left is Chipotles, Starbucks, and straight Jews. And nobody wants that. Any ideas how we can make sure they don't take our sunshines away?

Gay City? [NYDN]
Percy's Big Gay Economic Development Plan [Percy Walker]