Under pressure from the international community, Malawi's president Bingu wa Mutharika ordered a gay couple, jailed for 14 years for "unnatural acts and gross indecency" to be pardoned and released. But kind of grudgingly.

Professional Newsweek example Sean Hayes, currently unconvincingly playing hetero in Broadway's Promises, Promises, will emcee for-profit theater's biggest night on June 13th. He's expected to do gay things, in a fairly to extremely gay fashion. Gay. Sean Hayes is gay.

Ramin Setoodeh wrote a controversial Newsweek article arguing gay actors shouldn't play straight characters. Now he is going to visit the set of Glee, a show dedicated to "inclusiveness and acceptance for all." He'll be cured by pop covers. [EW]

When we speculated that Shelby Lynne was the person who would be coming out in the pages of People on May 5th, everyone was all: Who? Shelby Lynne is a pop-country singer with a long career of successes and false-starts.

DADT won't be repealed until 2011, at the earliest. Robert Gates said yesterday he was "strongly opposed" to DADT changes before the military completes its review of the policy in December. He probably saw that Lady Gaga video. [Daily Intel]

We called country singer Shelby Lynne's publicist to ask whether her client will announce her gayness the cover of People on May 5. "I don't have any information on that." How can a publicist not know the answer to that?

Yesterday, in a vote of 31-20, state lawmakers passed the bill that now must be signed by the governor, who has been noncommittal on the issue. Republican Rep. Barbara Marumoto, who voted in favor of the bill (!) told the Honolulu Star Bulletin: "I don't believe our society will come crashing down if we pass this bill." [HSB]

This is a story about gay porn star Brent Corrigan and how Yale canceled his speaking engagement. If you don't want to read about gay porn stars or precious campus activists or Yale, stop reading now. Ha, thought you did!

Actress Michelle Rodriguez is hosting a party for GO Magazine. It's a lesbian magazine. (via)

The Defense Department is worried that gay soldiers may not want to participate in a survey that will ask for their thoughts on repealing DADT. Perhaps that's because the law, which bars gays from openly serving, is still in place?

The first steps toward repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell will be announced today by Defense Secretary Robert Gates. A Pentagon spokesman said the initial changes would "provide for a more humane enforcement and application of the law." [WaPo]

A fondness of handcuffs and openly gay "socialization" in lazy European armies led directly to the killing of thousands in Bosnia, a retired US general told a Senate committee. The Dutch aren't happy about it.

Some stupid boy getting you down? There's a gay for that! So if you're thinking of drowning your sorrows in a lake, all you need is a sassy gay to set your ass straight—straighter than he'll ever be!

If only it were as simple to count everyone in America as "One, two... three hundred million." Nope. It's still about four months away, but the 2010 Census is already under attack by people wracked with existential angst.

The Nevada State Board of Health has made a change in brothel regulations that will allow men to be prostitutes—even for other dudes! Seems like some sort of twisted consolation for New York's failed gay marriage bill, right?

As usual, Barbara Walters' "Most Fascinating People of the Year" special wrongly assumed public fascination with a person somehow confers on them the quality of being fascinating. What was most fascinating were Walters' funny faces when she talked about sexuality.

Whoo boy: Things got steamy on the Rachel Maddow Show tonight, as Maddow faced off with Richard Cohen, the "ex-gay" "psychotherapist" who claims gays can choose to be straight. It's the heavy-weight homo showdown you've been waiting for!

Hollywood gays: Stay in the closet! That's what Rupert Everett ("Another Country," "My Best Friend's Wedding") told the UK's Guardian. Even though you may be happier in the end, your career will suck, which is the most important thing.

In the interest of being your complete source of Benjamin Maisani photos on the internet, we've updated our original gallery with some new shots from gay website Homo-Neurotic. And, no, there isn't a shirt in any of them.

Gambino family hit man Robert Mormando had something to share in court yesterday. He's gay and he wanted everyone who was at his sentencing for involvement in a 2003 shooting to know it.