The AggreGAYtor: August 3

Your daily dose of LGBTQ news

Brad Pitt: Gay for Pay
Brad Pitt: Gay for Pay (by entertainmentwise.com)

Anderson Cooper makes a switch, Carl Hester rides ahead of Ann Romney, and Megyn Kelly short circuits. Today’s AggreGAYtor is horsing around.

• Celestial being and Gay Place crush Anderson Cooper is making some changes.

• Deaf Comedy Jam: Wingnut comedian Louis Sheldon discovers that Glee is really gay, while Bishop Harry Jackson does a bit about snatching back the rainbow. ROFLMAO!

• Legal briefs: Minnesota judge delivers another blow to DOMA by ruling same-sex partners can inherit assets. The right lose challenge to Hate Crime Act. Out lesbian is nominated to federal bench.

• In Maryland, marriage equality is winning in the court of public opinion.

Fox and Friends automaton Megyn Kelly’s gears go off track, allowing her to make a surprisingly rational statement.

• Busy bees report that Brad Pitt is jockeying for gay role in defiance of his mother’s recent anti-gay statements.

• Gay rights pioneer Frank Kameny’s ashes languish in storage due to estate dispute.

• The power of community: $20,000 raised in 48 hours to help lesbian filmmaker JD Disalvatore fight breast cancer.

•The first medal is awarded in the Queerlympics. Judith Arndt wins silver in cycling.

• Meanwhile in dressage, Gay Olympian Carl Hester takes the lead while Ann Romney’s fancy horse falters.

• You can’t win ’em all: beach volleyball veteran Natalie Cook is eliminated from competition.

Megan Rapinoe shines as the US women's soccer team heads to the semi-finals. Gay Placer Liz has promised to say hello for me as makes her way around London. I swear I am not Single White Female-ing.

• London tailor debuts line of bespoke suits for butch women.

• Texas Gay couple get arrested again after requesting marriage license.

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