Weekly queer news update

From our weekly queer scouring of the blogosphere and internets:

• "According to a nationwide study of anonymous online credit card transactions, Americans living in traditionally religious, conservative states consume more online porn than their godless liberal blue state fellow citizens, with Utah leading the way." [Jezebel]
  
  
• Could there be a Harvey Milk Statue coming soon for Utah's State Capitol?
  
  
• Gay kissing all over the Oscar's? Not quite overload, but enough to make Sean Hannity freak out.
  
  
• CA's Senate and Assembly passed resolutions Monday naming Prop 8 as an "illegal and unprecedented revision" to the State's Constitution.
  
  
• Could same-sex marriage save Maine's B&B's and Motel 6's? The projection is that allowing same-sex marriage would bring in $60 million for the state in the first three years.
  
  
• Would it make a difference to you if your hottie, super-fit trainer got fat to understand you better?
  
  
• Gyllenhaal to start with Jim Carey in movie version of Damn Yankees. Oh, and there's shirtless Gyllenhaal pics to go with this announcement.
  
  
• Sean Penn is campaigning to have Harvey Milk Day become a State Holiday.
  
  
• Adding to the list of openly gay appointees, Obama selects Jeffrey S. Crowley to be the Director of the Office of National AIDS Policy.
  
  
• 300 million asian viewers got a gay-censored satellite broadcast of the Oscar's via the STAR satellite channel. That means the
  

  "...I think he’d want me to say to all of the gay and lesbian kids out there tonight who have been told that they are less than by their churches or by the government or by their families that you are beautiful, wonderful creatures of value and that no matter what anyone tells you, God does love you and that very soon, I promise you, you will have equal rights, federally, across this great nation of ours." part, among others.