I'm excited for this week's season finale of Ugly Betty, which, as far as I'm concerned, is the gayest show on television (now that Project Runway is off!)

And I don't mean that lightly. I honestly wonder what it would have been like to be in high school as a closeted gay boy but with really popular shows like Betty and Runway with out gay characters. Would it make it easier for a queer teen? Or worse? Or just fierce?

Here's a clip with Lindsay Lohan, taking it back to the days of high school gym class:

With Senators Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain dominating political news lately, reports of Senetor Edward "Ted" Kennedy's seizure on Saturday came out of the blue. Sadly, today his doctors have confirmed the diagnosis that the senior Massachusetts Congressman has a malignant brain tumor.

The Associated Press notes that the usual course of treatment includes combinations of radiation and chemotherapy, although Kennedy's treatment will be decided after more tests. Malignant gliomas, which Kennedy has been diagnosed with, are a type of brain cancer diagnosed in about 9,000 Americans a year, usually among adults. How well patients fare depends on what specific tumor type is determined by further testing.

Democrat Ted Kennedy is currently the second-longest serving member of the Senate, having taken office in 1962 while his older brother John was President of the United States. Both his brothers John and Robert were assassinated during the 1960s.

Kennedy has publicly supported gay marriage and expanding hate crimes legislature to include sexual orientation, and his home state was the first to legalize same-sex marriage. The Boston Herald notes that President Bush called the Senator's wife, Victoria, after Kennedy's initial collapse, asking her to "take care of my friend."

Read a list of Edward Kenendy's Senate votes here.

As predicted, wedding planners in California are going into overdrive to try to accommodate the oncoming rush of same-sex nuptials they're anticipating for the summer. But woe, much of the fab wedding hotspots have been booked solid by all those darned heteros for months! What's a homo to do? Some advice from a wedding planner:

[Heather Holliday]'s got a strategy. She's pushing Sundays, for one. "Even some of the nicest wineries" are available then, she said. Heat aside, top outdoor spots are still available in July, a less popular wedding month.

[via San Jose Mercury News]

Sundays, huh? Not too original. Here are a few more tips we thought of for fab last-minute gay weddings:

5. Forget the priest. Hire a drag queen.
4. Lose the low-carb, gluten-free, Splenda-sweetened cake. Those things take time.
3. No guest list; just flyer the clubs.
2. It's OK—Mom can sit next to your porn star friend. It'll expand her horizons.
1. Dress code: "Clothing optional."

If you've not checked the news or gossip blogs lately (and good for you!), you might've missed that Ellen and Portia de Rossi are planning to wed. But, Hoo-ray! Our fave out celeb daddy, George Takei, is getting married, too, to longtime BF Brad Altman.

George took to his blog to announce the news, stating, "Brad and I have shared our lives together for over 21 years. We've worked in partnership; he manages the business side of my career and I do the performing. We've traveled the world together from Europe to Asia to Australia. We've shared the good times as well as struggled through the bad." You can read the rest of his statement on his official site.

That's exciting, but, Hmmm...wonder what George's hardass, tough-as-nails character Kaito Nakamura on Heroes would make of this?

Regardless, another reason to get excited is that a little birdie tells us Heroes season two DVD will be out by summer's end! Break out the champers!

The fine folks at Gawker picked up on an item regarding the forthcoming book Hollywood Babylon: It's Back, which apparently devotes a girthy portion of its pages to talk of celebrity endowments, complete with pictures. A tasty tease:

The biggest dicks belong to Johnny Depp, allegedly known as "donkey dick," and Sean Connery, who supposedly posed nude for art students (uh, really?), one of whom said of Connery's instrument, "it made me drop my charcoal pencil."

[via Gawker]

Blimey! I can kinda see Depp... but Connery? Really?