The queer week in review

Better Than a Plane Crash
Sergey Tuganov, a 28-year-old Russian mechanic, died after taking an ENTIRE BOTTLE of Viagra when two chicks bet him $4,300 that he wouldn’t be able to rise to the occasion for a half-day orgy. He (kinda) had the last laugh as he expired just moments after thrusting past the 12-hour mark.

Obama’s Gay Lover
The Globe, beacon of truth that it is, is claiming Barack Obama has a boy on the side. (The best part is the claim that this is “a new gay scandal.” Was there an old one?!) Now, it’s not like some of us don’t want this to be true, but would the newly elected leader of the free world really be toying with boys this soon into his presidency? It’s not like he’s the pope…

The Recession Claims Another Victim
Annie Leibovitz signed away the copyrights, negatives and contracts to all of her artwork to a pawn shop. (And this includes the rights to anything she shoots in the future!) Apparently, the lesbian art icon who shot beguiling, provocative photos of people like a Lolita-like Miley Cyrus and a pregnant Demi Moore was so broke she had to sign away her life for $15.5 million due to debts left behind after her partner, writer Susan Sontag passed away in 2004. If Annie Leibovitz can’t weather this recession, what hope does that leave for the rest us who are merely mortal?

-- HARKER JONES

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