What would you do if you walked up to your car tomorrow morning and found ‘fag’ scrawled across the windshield in red paint? If you’re 29-year-old grad student Erin Davies, you turn the experience into activism. Davies spent two months in her vandalized VW Beetle (dubbed ‘fagbug’), criss-crossing the country to educate people on hate crimes and, ultimately, collecting enough on camera to make a documentary.

Featuring a veritable manscape of Berlin’s most beautiful boys in the most colorful and whimsical of settings, Karim Konrad’s Berlin Gay Mates features page after page of boys with piercings, boys in wigs, boys naked in bathtubs, boys with Prince Alberts and so on and forth that will not only leave you with a highly revved up libido, but it might just find you booking a ticket to Berlin in a trancelike state.

Lesbian rock icon, 2007 Oscar winner, two-time Grammy winner and breast cancer survivor, Melissa Etheridge, is partnering with Hard Rock International for the launch of Rocktober, a month-long commitment to raise awareness and funds for breast cancer research through sales of a collectable Rocktober pin, a series of worldwide live music events and special Pink Cocktails at Hard Rock establishments around the world.

Lucinda Williams takes to Hollywood’s El Rey Theatre in a stirring trip down memory lane; and the VMA’s are chalk full of lackluster performances… unless you count the show stopper by Alicia Keys.

There are innumerable ways to see major metropolitan cities like New York, Chicago and Washington, D.C. but if you’re the jogging type there is a new tour company toward which you might just want to make a mad dash. City Running Tours offers runners a unique view of some country’s top tourist destinations by allowing joggers to explore hidden parts of cities on foot with a trained guide and runner.

Harry Potter himself Daniel Radcliffe is poised to drop trow on the Broadway stage in Equus… and rest assured folks he’s legal; Lucinda Williams takes to Hollywood’s El Rey Theatre in a stirring trip down memory lane; and the VMA’s are chalk full of lackluster performances… unless you count the show stopper by Alicia Keys.

If you can’t make it to Cannes this year for their celebrated film festival, the second best stop would be Toronto Canada which is the largest film festival open to the public in the world. Through hundreds of submissions that often create Oscar buzz, the prestigious festival has chosen among its entries the gay sports film Breakfast with Scot as one of its many highlights.

Donating a million dollars may seem like an extraordinary feat for most people, but for former NFL running back David Kopay, it is just another generous act to add to his long line of great accomplishments. As the first professional sportsperson to publicly come out of the closet, Kopay has broken down barriers and paved the way for other gay athletes to follow.

It’s been 16 years since China hosted the first ever women’s World Cup, and this week they are once again playing home to the premier soccer event. The defending Champions of Germany will be looking to retain their title, but a new talented team from the United States could turn out to be the one to beat.

Once again, Britney Spears is a wreck and flashing the beav Ellen states the obvious, Avril Lavigne gets her dumb-ass and Amanda Bynes signs on for public nudity? And, it’s one of the star-f***ing high holy days of the year with the Emmy’s this Sunday, so let’s cut through the foreplay and get down and dirty.