Weekly queer news update

Here's your weekly dish of noteworthy (or fun) queer related news. Dive in:

• The Day of Silence was met with a counter-movement in some areas across the U.S., promoted via internet; and here's a brilliant response to that propaganda.
  
  
• New York's Governor Patterson introduces a bill for marriage equality in that state (via the legislature). Support looks good, but not guaranteed.
  
  
• Washington State has passed a bill that gives same-sex couples "everything but marriage": all the rights, privileges, joys and pains--just not the word "marriage".
  
  
• Can Motorla regain some wow factor for its phones using a greased-up, shirtless David Beckham?
  
  
• GLAAD is recruiting allies for us.
  
  
• Recently released data for Don't Ask Don't Tell reaction is skewed according to Military Times magazine; Obama might not push for repeal for years.
  
  
• Are you a lesbian? Where are you on the matrix? Tabloid Prodigy simplifies something that isn't quite that simple, but looks great on a graph.
  
  
• Is homophobia in hip-hop (or anywhere) a cover-up for being gay? What about Bow Wow and Omarion?
  
  
• Still-not-out Anderson Cooper claims it's "hard to talk when you're tea-bagging".
  
  
• The ACLU takes on Tennessee Schools for blocking access to LGBT related websites (I wonder if The Fruit is blocked?).
  
  
• Curious about why those links broke to the NOM "audition" clips? Rachel Maddow explains.