Uganda staged its first play exploring homosexuality, this past Friday at theater in Kampala. The play titled, "The River and the Mountain," premiered amidst fears the police would raid the venue and stop production.

Homosexuality is illegal in Uganda and government officials  blocked its staging at Uganda's national theater.

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Right on schedule!

An audio recording of the star-studded reading of Dustin Lance Black's play "8" from this past March will be broadcast on the radio in over 100 markets nationwide!

"8" captures the drama of the California Proposition 8 trial, drawing primarily from actual court transcripts.

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Everyone knows that reading a comment flame war over homosexuality on YouTube is like reading Shakespeare, so it makes total sense that a classically trained acting troupe has decided to give the most audacious anti-gay comments from the site a theatrical reading. Watch "Troll Theatre: Homosexuality" bring YouTube's homophobes to life, after the jump!

We got our hands on this little snippet from the song "It's Possible" off of Roxette's upcoming album Travelling and we can't get enough.

We want moooooooooorrrrree.

Thankfully, Roxette's heading to Los Angeles as part of their global tour in September and we've already snagged our tickets!

Tour and album info, plus the "It's Possible" clip after the jump!

Wait, you mean this gang didn’t have a star until now? With Miss Piggy being the diva we know her to be, we’re surprised she didn’t put a call in to her agent long ago to leave her mark on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Better late than never as The Muppets finally grabbed their Hollywood rite of passage today. Check out the vid and see why these guys take their fame with just as much class as any other actors who don't have a hand up their…

The last time we threw around the word “deathtrap” was when editor, Mike Wood, tried to attach a sling to the water cooler using duct tape! Luckily no one got hurt that time, but we can’t promise the same if you’re in Hollywood to see the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center’s production of Ira Levin’s Deathtrap. Want to know when, where, and why it’s sexier than ever? 

Couldn't rub shoulders with Maggie Gallagher during Dustin Lance Black's 8 staging in New York and unable to see the George Clooney-lead production in L.A.? You might be in luck: the American Foundation for Equal Rights and Broadway Impact are planning to target marriage equality battle ground states throughout 2012 with national stagings of the openly-gay filmmaker's exploration of the Prop 8 trial. 

Concrete (and damn sexy) proof of the heterosexual appropriation of gay culture might be best embodied in Hugh Jackman, who will follow-up his record-breaking Back On Broadway with a starring role in Aaron Sorkin's Great White Way debut, Houdini. 

The greatest writer in history was a flaming homosexual, says Sir Ian McKellen. Well, considering McKellen and Shakespeare likely attended the same finishing school, we're inclined to trust the news. (Details follow.)

Move over Glambert—Cee Lo Green actually does come to our Mary Minds when we think of modern day rock star glam (have you seen Cee Lo's amazing flamboyant outfits?), so its only fitting that the "Forget You" singer will headline Macy's Glamorama event hitting Los Angele on Friday. Details follow.

L.A.'s newest 99-seat Equity Waiver house is the Third Street Theater at Crescent Heights. According to its press release and new website Ginger Rogers, Michael Jackson and the sublebs from Dancing With The Stars have all hoofed on its stage. Now, they are reopening their doors as a new space and opening with the Tony Award-Winning musical Falsettos—and what a treat this production turns out to be! More deets after the jump.

Avenue Q's resident gay couple Rod and Ricky have announced plans to tie the knot on the first day of marriage equality. Read the couple's Save the Date statement, after the jump!