D&G GOES LOCKER ROOM

Locker rooms are very trendy places, and we will not complain about Dolce & Gabanna using some of those hot Italians soccer players as models, including the very sexy Fabio Cannavaro ! Now you have to decide between Black or White ... or both ;-)

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Stop, theres more: Dolce and Gabbana do it again -this time a blow job ad. Gay news for the Queer Australian

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Final 2006 FIFA WORLD CUP HOTTIE REVIEW

Sebastian Kehl lies on his own ... while the party goes on for the Italians. VIVA ITALIA ! That's all we can say, those guys knows how to celebrate!

Alessandro Del Piero and Italian goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon on top of defender Fabio Grosso !

Per Mertesacker behind Luca Toni, and Francesco Totti and Michael Ballack fighting for the "ball"

KLOSE Miroslav and Zambrotta Gianluca trying to put his hand on the ball ! and the Hot Fabio Cannavaro jumping into the hot tattooed arms of Marco Materazzi !

We have saif goodby for another four years, especially to the very sexy German team and to the sexy Lukas Podolski!

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Shakira’s Hips Don’t Lie the Most Played Song in Pop History

According to Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems, the hit “Hips Don’t Lie” by Shakira featuring Wyclef Jean became the most played song in pop radio history last week. Shakira’s song’s total of 9,657 times played on the radio, broke Stefani’s “Hollaback Girl” previous record of 9,582. The pop celebrity Shakira also recently became the first artist in the history of the charts to earn the coveted No.1 Top 40 Mainstream song and No.1 Latin song in the same week and still holds the No.1 spot on the Latin chart. Meanwhile, the song continues to rule the European singles chart for the third week running.

In other celebrity news, Shakira will be performing the special version of her latest hit ‘Hips Don'’t Lie’ at the Berlin Olympiastadion on July 9, before the FIFA 2006 final, being a combination of the most played song in pop radio history last week and the World Cup official melody Bamboo. According to the Sun, pop celebrity recently flew to Germany to meet and to gave salsa tips to soccer stars Beckham, Ronaldo, Roberto Carlos and Iker Casillas. Gay news for the Queer Australian

Religion, tolerance and gay parade

by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen, Daily Jews

Fundamentalists across the religions have more in common with each other than they do with liberal members of their own religion. The gay parade's saga is the ultimate example

In an uncharacteristic show of unanimity, the Jewish, Muslim and Christian clerics of Jerusalem have united in calling for a ban to a projected Gay Parade in the Holy City. This confirms an opinion I have long held, that fundamentalists across the religions have more in common with each other than they do with liberal members of their own religion. There are many shared values amongst fundamentalists of different religions, even though they each loudly proclaim that they are the sole purveyors of absolute Truth and all the others are in error.

In a free society one simply has to learn to live and let live. This allows people to choose their own personal lifestyles as well as allowing for abuses. But letting the other ‘live’, cuts both ways. At the moment it seems to me that both sides are wrong in their different ways. Sadly, this is an example of gratuitous offence from people who ought to know better, if only because they too have suffered from intolerance. The fact that this is taking place in Israel underlines the general mood of destructive divisiveness and depersonalization that permeates Israeli society in the way it deals with its own. How can one, therefore, expect much understanding of Christians, Muslims and other religions (let alone politics), if we can’t show minimal sensitivity to our own? Gay news for the Queer Australian

Explosion of joy in Rome as Italy win World Cup

Fabio Cannavaro from Italy is warming up during a training session before the game !

Tens of thousands of Italians flocked onto the streets of Rome after their team's World Cup final win over France in a nail-biting penalty shoot-out this morning. Gay news for the Queer Australian

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WORLD CUP: LIVE FROM THE LOCKER ROOM

This is the new "thing" in Europe right now ! A live cam in the locker room to apreciate the mental preparation of those players !

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Goodbye Portugal ,Goodbye Ronaldo

Luis Figo and Zidane exchanging their sweaty shirts after the game, goodbye Portugal and goodbye to the sexy Cristiano Ronaldo :-(

But BRAVO la France ... Thierry Henry is looking good, Allez La France (Thanks ohlalaparis.com)

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Quarter-final - France v Portugal

Every single Jedi is now an enemy of the republic: Fags Too

Emilio Menendez and Carlos Baturin (NOT pictured) consider themselves a family. They have been together for 30 years and married as soon as they could last year. But the couple know they would not be welcome at the Catholic World Meeting of Families in Valencia this weekend because the Vatican has branded gay marriages like theirs "an eclipse of God".

Menendez and Baturin were the first gay couple to marry after Spain legalised same-sex unions, giving them the same rights as heterosexual couples. "We are a family, we feel like a family, the public accepts us as a family," said Baturin. "If (the Catholic Church) specifically wants to exclude us, well then I don't want to go their party," he added.

Pope Benedict, who will make a flying visit to Valencia for the occasion, has stongly opposed gay unions as an expression of "anarchic freedom" and maintained that heterosexual marriages are "a pillar of humanity". Much of the weekend family celebration is likely to reiterate those traditional views.

"I'm not surprised they don't see us as a family but it's just a question of time. The Church is very, very, very slow -- four, five, six centuries behind," said Menendez, who was baptised a Catholic but does not practise. "There are many different types of family. What defines a family is not my sex, my colour or anything but rather the desire to stay together, to love each other," he added.

According to the Spanish gay, lesbian and transsexual organisation FELGT, 4,500 gay couples have married in the last year while 50 gay couples have applied for adoption and three have filed for divorce. As the first men to marry in traditionally Catholic Spain, Menendez and Baturin are still recognised in the street and often congratulated by total strangers, in stark contrast to the Vatican's staunch resistance.

Asked what he would say to the Pope if he were granted an audience, Menendez said: "Christ said the most important commandment was to love each other. That's what I'd say." Gay news for the Queer Australian

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The sewing machines were out: EuroPride 06

Organisers of this weekend's EuroPride Day in London are hailing the EuroPride 06 festival as a huge success story. As temperatures rocketed above 30 degrees on Saturday, the streets of London saw thousands gather to witness the biggest and best Pride parade the capital has ever seen.

A carnival atmosphere greeted the colourful collection of floats and performers as it passed down Oxford Street and Regent Street for the first time in its history. An estimated crowd of 600,000 people joined the EuroPride celebrations on Saturday for the parade, the Trafalgar Square rally, and the all-day street party in Soho.

Hollywood actor Ian McKellen, Coronation Street's Anthony Cotton and politicians from all parties joined the Mayor of London Ken Livingstone at the front of the parade which also included the Royal Navy in uniform for the first time, the Metropolitan Police and the Royal Air Force.

The finale of the festival took place last night with a stunning variety show at the Royal Albert Hall compered by Stephen Fry which included performances from Sir Elton John, Boy George, Alan Carr, and Ian McKellen as Widow Twankey.

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'Gay wedding' MP attacks Church

Whilst Australian MPs (Prime Minister John Howard) concern themselves with such significant things as commenting on Big Brother, MP Ben Brdshaw address the issue of the Church of Englands position on Gay Marriages.

By Ben Bradshaw (BBC)

Mr Bradshaw (MP) said the Church of England risked being sidelined Ben Bradshaw, the first MP to have a civil partnership ceremony, has criticised the Church of England for not recognising same-sex partnerships.
The 45-year-old Labour MP for Exeter tied the knot with BBC Newsnight journalist Neal Dalgleish in June. He told BBC Radio 4 it was "the happiest day of my life".

However, Mr Bradshaw said the Church risked being sidelined by its refusal to recognise the unions which were legalised in December last year.

This is ludicrous and unworkable Mr Bradshaw said: "The priest who blessed us was breaking the rules.

"Those rules allow clergy to be prayerful with and about same-sex couples but they expressly forbid the blessing of civil partnerships.

"This is ludicrous and unworkable. And it's being routinely ignored by Anglican and Roman Catholic priests, many of whom themselves are gay and without whose ministry many parishes would collapse.

"They can't discipline or sack our priest who did our blessing because he is retired. But had he still been working he could have lost his job and his home."

More than 6,500 people took part in ceremonies in the four months after laws allowing civil partnerships were brought in. Mr Bradshaw, who has been with his partner for 11 years, said few pieces of legislation have "spread so much happiness".

But he added: "If my oldest Italian friend, a devout Christian, who came to our civil partnership with her husband and children, could say in tears after the ceremony that she found it beautiful and that nothing in it had offended her Italian Catholic consciousness, then I fear the church is in danger of being left on the wrong side of history." Gay news for the Queer Australian