Miami’s most famous former Catholic priest, Fr. Alberto Cutié, is blasting the Church, saying there are gay priests at “all levels” and that the Church would never be able to function without them.

Cutié, who was forced out of the Diocese of Miami after photos surfaced showing the priest kissing his then girlfriend (they’re now married with a baby daughter), has now written a book, Dilemma: A Priest’s Struggle with Faith and Love, which was released today.

While his side may have won the day in preventing a vote on Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) appears to have lost the war with reporters after he loses his temper with two journalists from the gay press challenging him on the extent of investigations of gay servicemembers.

Sarah Palin is apparently unhappy with Michael Joseph Gross, the author of the much-talked-about Vanity Fair piece.

But when she appeared to refer to him as “impotent and limp and gutless” in an interview on Sean Hannity’s radio show, was she also doing a little gay-baiting?

When Marc Ambinder went live on Wednesday with his story for The Atlantic that former Republican National Committee chair Ken Mehlman was coming out as a gay man–in one of the worst kept secrets in Washington, D.C.–the story may have appeared to come out of nowhere. Although the story reads as if Ambinder had been [...]

Judy Garland is a “gay icon.” Her daughter Liza Minnelli also counts. Toss in Bette Midler and Madonna and Lady Gaga. You could probably even include Christiano Rinaldo and David Beckham as “gay icons,” of a sort. But it’s fair to say that a conservative member of Congress who is opposed to gay rights probably isn’t a “gay icon,” even if the gays find him attractive.

In celebration of Gay Pride Month and in honor of this important anniversary, Mediaite contributor Robert Newman arranged a series of magazine covers – each “featuring an artist, personality, historical event, or publication of significance in gay history” – and released one per day throughout the month of June on his Newmanology facebook page. Here are some of the highlights from the collection:

In reflecting on the news that the co-founder of the Family Rights Council had used Rentboy.com to find someone to “lift his luggage,” political satirist Lizz Winstead tweeted: “Gay prostitutes are the unsung heroes of investigative journalism.”

Following a weekend of speculation launched by TMZ, the Advocate has posted a profile–dated May 5–of Country Music singer Cheley Wright announcing she’s a lesbian. The gay magazine’s announcement appears to answer the speculation launched by super publicist Howard Bragman who said weeks ago that there would be a Cinco de Mayo gay announcement media blitz including a cover of People magazine and trips to the Today Show, The View and The Joy Behar Show.

Stop us if you’ve heard this one before – a candidate for political office fakes being bisexual to please voters, but their opponent in the race attempts to out them as being straight in order to sabotage their campaign. Oh, what’s that? You haven’t heard of anything like that? Well, clearly you haven’t been paying attention to the race for the 182nd district seat in Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives.

The Advocate announced today that it was beginning an “online and on air” daily news program through a deal with NBC News Channel, which will provide network and affiliate content. The deal with NBC means that Here Media’s namesake–premium television channel the here! Network– will start having a daily or weekly news show in 2010 or 2011, Stephen F. Macias, Here Network’s general manager and executive vice president told Mediaite.

With the Supreme Court blocking a federal court in San Francisco from broadcasting the Proposition 8 trial on YouTube, two California men have done the next best thing to give the public a peak into the trial: re-enact it for YouTube, based on transcripts, liveblogging and tweets. Knowing people were clamoring to see expert testimony by economic experts and anti-gay ministers, John Ireland and John Ainsworth are giving the trial the “let’s put on a show” treatment.

Is the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation too beholden to the networks it is supposed to be watchdogging? That’s the allegation made by gay activist and radio host Michelangelo Signorile who has accused GLAAD of having “a drug habit it just can’t shake” when it comes to criticizing the corporations that give it money.

Less than a month after the Washington Blade, known as “the gay paper of record,” celebrated its 40th Anniversary at a glitzy reception at the Harman Center for the Arts in Washington, D.C., comes news that the paper will no longer exist. The Blade—along with Atlanta’s Southern Voice and four other LGBT publications—shut down Nov. 16 because its parent company has gone belly-up after investors failed to prove to the Small Business Administration that it could raise capital.