For the first time since the Facebook incident, Sarah Palin discusses her 16-year old daughter Willow's anti-gay rant with Fox News' Sean Hannity (fast forward to the six minute mark for the excerpt). Like Bristol, Sarah glosses over the harmful use of the "bad word," "faggot," and instead calls out the media for putting the spotlight on the teen drama and exploits (erroneously and untruthfully, actually) her handicapable son Trig as the excuse for the homophobic bullying escapade. Pretty sick and twisted, if you ask me...

Were you one of the gays who saw this over the weekend?

Then, thanks to you and the other gayborhood theatres packed with queens like us, Cher and Christina Aguilera's ode to the over-the-top (hmmm, who am I kidding?) over-the-bottom movie musical actually didn't fare horribly at the box office this weekend, pulling in $17.2 million to put it in fourth place under Megamind, Tangled and Harry Potter. (Yet guess which of the top four films featured more CGI effects? Cher won't let me tell you...

Alicia Keys has enlisted some pretty big Tweeters (and some of our favorite famous people) to cut the digital cord beginning this Wednesday in recognition of World AIDS Day. Alicia, Gaga, J. Hud, Usher, Ryan Seacrest and other big names will all turn off their Twitter, Facebook and other social media programs until $1 million is raised for the Keep A Child Alive foundation.

Keys came up with the "Digital Life Sacrifice" campaign, which includes "last tweet and testament" videos filmed by various entertainers showing them lying in coffins to represent what the campaign calls their digital deaths.

"It's so important to shock you to the point of waking up," Keys said. "It's not that people don't care or it's not that people don't want...

Dolly Parton chatted up Larry King last week and aside from promoting Dollywood, the country queen also spoke candidly about her very loyal gay fan base, society's downward spiral into homophobia and the need to love and accept difference.

Check out a bit of the interview below!

Though we're up to our heads in turkey and booze stuffing and just days away from unveiling our December issue (with a HUGE susperstar cover), we're always thinking ahead and already planning our issues for the new year. And since we make this magazine each month to please you, our brilliant, sexy readers, we want YOU to be a part of Instinct more than ever before!

We'll be launching Team Instinct next week and can't wait to tell you how you can help us ride to end HIV/AIDS at the 2011 LifeCycle, but in the meantime, here are all the details on how you can take part in any of the three most popular features in Instinct: Blind Date, Couple's Quiz and Parent of the Month!

Updated Wednesday, November 24, 2:15 p.m. EST

Seems the straights face discrimination, too. Another heterosexual couple hoping to receive a civil union (currently only available to same-sex couples in the U.K.), became the first in a group of eight protesters to be denied the request. They plan to challenge the decision to highlight the inequity rampant in U.K. marriage laws. 

"The registrar did offered us a marriage but that's not what we want," Ian Goggin said. "They formally rejected us and helpfully gave us a letter of rejection which we can take to our legal adviser and mount a campaign against the law."

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A straight couple in the United Kingdom is helping out the GLBT community...

Another thing to be thankful of in America, perhaps, is the well-greased machine that is Sesame Street's marketing team. Their talent for making something go viral is on par with that of the cast of Jersey Shore! Sesame Street's latest masterpiece happens to be Cookie Monster's "audition tape" for Saturday Night Live, featuring lots of drag and a rendition of Lady Gaga's "Poker Face." Ahhh, America. 

The Washington Blade is reporting that the Senate Armed Services Committee hearings on DADT are now set for next week, specifically Thursday and Friday, December 1 and 2. 

From the Blade:

The hearings on both days are set to take place in Room SD-G50 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building and are scheduled to begin at 9 am. For the Dec. 2 hearing, the witnesses are set to include Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen as well as the co-chairs of the Pentagon working group: Jeh Johnson, the Pentagon’s general counsel, and Gen. Carter Ham, commander of U.S. Army Europe.

In honor of America's oldest story of tolerance, we want to know what you, ravishing readers, are thankful for in 2010. To clue you in to what might top our list of things to be thankful for this year are two new videos (from John Berry, the highest-ranking openly gay Obama appointee, and the DC Gay Mens Chorus) just uploaded to the "It Gets Better" project today. Now it's your turn, so go ahead Instincters:

What are you thankful for in 2010?

Sure, Jared Leto's zero-perecent body fat might make us likely to refuse any solid foods and strictly stick to a liquid Thanksgiving dinner (it wouldn't be a first), but we'll never turn down an excuse to enjoy his gratuitous hatred for shirts. Check out this preview for "Hurricane," 30 Seconds To Mars' upcoming 20-minute music video featuring, yup, Jared Leto shirtless. 

(Follow the jump for the video)

Despite the fact that the 14th Amendment clearly states its rights apply to ALL people born/naturalized in the United States of America, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia (whose freaking job is based around a keen understanding of the Constitution!), has decided it only applies to heterosexual Americans. 

Speaking before the University of Richmand, Scalia said:

“The due process clause has been distorted so it’s no longer a guarantee of process but a guarantee of liberty. But some of the liberties the Supreme Court has found to be protected by that word - liberty - nobody thought constituted a liberty when the 14th Amendment was adopted. Homosexual sodomy? It was criminal in all the states. Abortion? It was criminal in all the...