Court in Malta Rules That Calling Someone Gay Isn’t An Insult
Speaking of unsolved gay murders… A gay man on the small Mediterranean island of Malta was murdered and the local paper, when reporting on the crime, noted that the victim was gay. The victim’s brother proceeded to sue the paper for defaming the memory of his brother. Well, shit. It turns out the dead fella was gay, and a court magistrate ruled today that the paper was only reporting the facts, and such facts are no longer considered defamatory in today’s society. Though homosexuality was a criminal offense in Malta up until 1973, the judge suggested that the victim’s brother suck it up and deal with the fact that it’s 2008 and that he’s probably a macho prick who made his fag brother’s life miserable while he was alive. Okay, he didn’t say that. But we just did.


Gus Van Sant’s Harvey Milk biopic-starring Sean Penn as Milk with James Franco as his lover Scott Smith, Emile Hirsch as fellow activist Cleve Jones, and Josh Brolin as City Supervisor and Milk murderer Dan White-has been shooting in San Francisco the past few weeks, heavily using the Castro for location shoots. We have to admit to a certain amount of excitement over seeing the recreation of the era (sexual and otherwise) nearest and dearest to the collective gay heart. Also, after the jump: Sean Penn and James Franco shirtless and hugging!