I very much approve

Meet the Perry Ellis Very Perry campaign.

"Fierce advocate" Pres. Obama fiercely advocates against DOMA.

Anti-gay nut: Obama dating Reggie Love.

Can NJ legislature override Christie's anti-equality veto?

Oscar-ish: Anderson Cooper's Top 10 favorite films.

Even for $25K, I wouldn't tongue-kiss Maloof.

Gay Press, Gay Power = amazing LGBT non-fic book.

BTS of Purple Crush's "Little Bitch."

A guilt-free Barbra Streisand trip.

Amazing Madonna mash-up.

Madonna is music's #1 earner of 2012.

Gaga isn't in the Top 40! (But it didn't count merch, etc.; she's #4 there.)

Mo money

Joy lover

JOYFUL NOISE: Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton.

Manti Te'o hoaxer: "I'm a recovering homosexual."

That's a lotta bull!

Today = Hillary Clinton's last day as SOS.

Anti-gay NYS Sen. Shirley Huntley guilty of embezzlement.

Surprisingly, some football players are homophobic and dumb.

San Francisco's archbishop is more homophobic, dumber.

The vicious murder of transgender man YungLT.

Anti-gay ideologues who actually love peen.

National Review outraged Nazi atrocities are called "senseless." 

Kitty-cat hypnosis.

McCain fighting hard against former supporter Chuck Hagel.

You may have heard about the pastor who wrote a bitchy note on her bill, attempting to leave her hard-working Applebee's server (she was with a party of 20) no tip instead of the automatic 18%. If not, the whole sordid story is here. Well, now the pastor's actions—which went viral—also include getting a server fired for whistle-blowing on her low-class, mean-spirited behavior.

Pastor Alois Bell of Truth in the World Deliverance Ministries (baed in St. Louis), after sanctimoniously writing "I give God 10% why do you get 18" on her bill, was outraged to discover that her attempt to dodge the perfectly fair 18% tip had been posted to Reddit by an Applebee's employee. So she called the restaurant and demanded that everyone on duty be fired! While I can sympathize with Applebee's for deciding to make an example out of the employee who posted the note (it's not a good precedent for employees to be sharing our receipts, complete with our signatures and, potentially, other identifying info), I think in this case firing was an overreaction. When a customer is that horrendous, some concession must be made to the sanity of and the rights of your worker.

Haven't you ever heard you have to spend a little to make a little? Well, the U.S. economy is bearing that out, contracting for the first time in since its recovery began and suggesting it might lurch into a double-dip recession—caused entirely by austerity efforts.

Is the new flavor lip gloss?

Choose your favorite Super Bowl Doritos commercial.

My new favorite wide receiver.

Every second man in NYC must be an escort.

Carly Rae Jepsen wants to "grovel" and kiss Madonna's hand.

New York leads the way in gun control.

FOX News attempts to rebrand the "debt limit."

This priest was literally all tied up in church.

Rising Evangelical apologizes for gay-bashing.

Inside NOH8's fourth-anniversary party.

Lena Dunham won't marry until you can:

I swear I didn't set this up. I was walking my dogs when I spotted it. We live on 42nd Street off Times Square, so this wasn't the only carelessly discarded, non-biodegradable piece of nonsense, but it was the only one that as accidentally art.

This should be used for an AP story about the fiscal cliff. 

Oui are the world

Hottest Madonna collectibles of 2012.

Floral fashions, complete with PhotoShop loading bars.

Schatz chosen to succeed Inouye—against Inoye's dying wishes.

Boehner vacationing as fiscal-cliff plunge looms.

FOX labels Westboro "left-wing cult."

Dan Stevens leaving Downton Abbey.

Valerie Harper releasing I, Rhoda memoir.

Anti-privacy Facebook exec changes her tune.

Katy Perry to youth: "Ask for help."

AfterElton's most popular posts.

Blind items to uselessly try to guess.

Top gay-porn stories of 2012.

Off their Crockers

Now 'n' then

Ola Ray, Michael Jackson's leading lady from his "Thriller" music video, is now 52 and tells Globe (December 24, 2012) she has a contract stating she is due 6% of all profits from the video. She was paid no more than $25,000 over the years, not counting "stupid residual checks" for amounts like $23.

Also of note is her story of their star-crossed non-affair:

"I did see him naked. I thought he was very cute and sexy—and he wanted 'it.' But I wasn't that kind of girl. I believe in relationships—and wanted to be in one with him."

Unfortunately, Mama Jackson allegedly disapproved. Gee, you'd think she'd disapprove of his hanging out with nubile teenage boys and sleeping over with them more than she would of his pursuing a relationship with a rather conservative-sounding young adult woman!

As seen in TV Guide (December 10—23, 2012)

What's this we hear about a Goonies reunion?

Out artist Frank Ocean nabs 6 Grammy noms.

Gays have more $$$, better prepped to retire.

Calvin Klein's ex-squeeze is a chick- & dick- magnet.

Sen. Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) resigning.

Ashley "way too damn liberal" Judd prepping Senate run?

Reasons to be gay and proud this year.

Huzzah to Dan Savage & Terry Miller!

MILK IT: "Who You Calling a Cow?" remix contest.

Scott Evans busted trying to buy...something.

Hot and wet Made in Brazil video.

An easy way to stink of pizza always.

Open season on black men?

Dr. Who's first-EVER TV Guide cover:

Getting Evan

Evan Peters sizzles in Flaunt.

Harvard approves BDSM group.

Taxes plunge over the past 30 years.

Eighth-grader wants gender-neutral Easy-Bake Oven.

Courtney Stodden is a(n almost) living doll.

New Superman poster is hawt.

Hillary Clinton: Mayor of New York?

New Facebook page for Boy Culture.

Frank Ocean with his boyfriend?

JET Magazine highlights gay union.

Fratboy rapist gets his.

Vogue Hommes Japan previews its...summer 2013???...ish.

Have to ask how gay marriages are consummated? Don't get one!

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Netflix adds rarely rerun '50s sitcoms, like Private Secretary.

A little Ann Sothern comfort