Long before he officially came out of the closet on The Joan Rivers Show in 1990, Jim J. Bullock was gay on television. With an encyclopedia of exaggerated gestures and contorted faces, he charmed his way from a one-time guest spot as naïve, overgrown, sexless man-child Monroe Ficus into a co-starring role on ABC’s fluff family sitcom Too Close For Comfort for six years in the 80s.

Though sparring internally with the Anita Bryants and Billy Grahams of his Southern Baptist childhood, Jim's audiences never knew it. If you caught his stand-up act at the Comedy Store in the late seventies, you’d probably ask who that gay guy was — the one with the perm, lip-syncing in foam go-go boots to Nancy Sinatra. “I had energy shooting out of every hole in my body," Bullock recalls to Queerty. "There were no limits to what I would do on stage."

Except, of course, talk about his sexuality.

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MORNING GOODS — If we had to pick our favorite thing about 27-year-old Swedish model Calle Eriksson, we would refuse to play that stupid guessing game, because it isn't fair and would make the universe collapse on itself.

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Could the federal Small Business Association shut down Window Media as early as July 31? That's what we're hearing is the plan — if the gay media company can't unload its assets, which include The Washington Blade, The Southern Voice, Express Gay News, David, Houston Voice, The South Florida Blade and 411 Magazine (Window's The New York Blade closed last month; it has/had a stake in HX, which is being sold to Next.)

The SBA, which lent some $38 million to Window publisher David Unger's Avalon Equity Fund to invest in gay media, is also looking into what happened to the major cash it lent in his direction, which according to a source was "diverted" into Genre — which then folded. SBA wants to know where the money is.

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For too long we've surrendered hip-hop to straight male rappers whose videos are filled with big breasted gals and lyrics about pleasing them by the dozens. Then along comes homo rapper Johnny Dangerous with the very, very sexual single "Hotline." Featuring QBoy and Soce, the track's video is explicit, raunchy, and everything we look for in gay hip hop. (Yes, it's NSFW.)

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When those living outside the world of Claynation take notice of what a certain America Idol runner-up writes on his blog, it's usually the beginnings of a singer-on-singer controversy (which ends with apologies). But Clay Aiken doesn't only blog about fellow reality show contestants. He also takes on legislative bigots!

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We've never purchased Tupperware before. But from Aunt Barbara? Give us the whole set.

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After threatening to sue gay blogs including Bilerico.com and Change.org, Rockstar Energy Drink is performing an about-face — and donating money to gay groups!

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Remember that disappointing take on Bruno from that gay magazine? Well here's a much more entertaining, nuanced, and informative approach to the Bruno debate from Current TV's Bryan Safi (who, when not hosting That's Gay segments, occupies a disproportionate segment of our fantasies). Also, Safi's take is funny, while the "Q&A with Cohen in character" approach is, uh, exhausted.

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Sirdeaner Walker found her 11-year-old son Carl Joseph in his room, dead, hanging from an electrical cord. Driven to suicide, it's believed, because he was being "bullied relentless" in school. He was being pushed around, told he acted "gay," and branded a "faggot." And when she told the school, administrators told her "it would work itself out," she says. Ms. Walker has relived this nightmare a number of times publicly, for which we thank her, since she has to relive it everyday for the rest of her life. Here, she tells Congress about the reality of bullying: It doesn't have to be this way for our kids.

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Is Here Media only concerned this month with putting folks the gay community might hate on the covers of its magazines? First The Advocate dumped that "faggot" blogger on the front, and now Out has gone with Bruno. Unlike GQ, however, Bruno is fully dressed.

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OH SNAP — Actress Halle Berry with daughter Nahla Ariel and the ridiculously handsome Gabriel Aubry at the beach in Miami.

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Have you heard about this nationwide tour to generate support for repealing Don't Ask Don't Tell that's being spearheaded by the Human Rights Campaign and Servicemembers United? "Voices of Honor: A Generation Under Don't Ask, Don't Tell" is like traveling carnival, except less cotton candy and more discharged soldiers. Also, the goal isn't to trick you into giving up cash for a chance to land a ring on a milk bottle. So how come this tour is generating suspicion?

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Is it any surprise Oklahoma's U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn knew about colleague Sen. John Ensign's extramarital affair … and reportedly encouraged him to pay off his mistress to go away? Is it also any surprise that Sens. Coburn and Ensign both believe in protecting the institution of marriage?

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The repugnant homosexual blogger who bravely opts to call someone the f-word instead of the n-word (and then call him a "thug") believes that just by being alive, he is doing good for gay teens.

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When Ted Olson and David Boies decided to take their clients' same-sex marriage argument to federal court in San Francisco, they got the stink eye from many a civil liberties rights group, who feared the lawsuit could do more damage than good if it wound up in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. But now at least three of those organizations want in on the case. Except when the asked nicely to join hands, despite once vocally criticizing the lawsuit, they were told to get the hell out.

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Does anyone else have a giant bromance crush with Pennsylvania's U.S. Rep Patrick Murphy? And not just because he users terms like "quarterbacking" to describe what's going on with the effort to repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell?

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