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Chaz Bono is one of this year’s OUT 100.

OUT Editor Aaron Hicklin sent over this photo and told us the magazine’s starting to roll out this year’s honorees.

Says Hicklin of the shoot with Chaz: “He’s the first of 100 people we shot, our annual roll call of honor, which this year was photographed entirely by Jason Bell, and themed around school given that adolescence is the time when most of us start coming to terms with our sexuality and who we are. Given that Chaz is transitioning, we felt shooting him in a boys bathroom was a powerful representation of his real identity, albeit with a touch of humor. Chaz was obviously up for the concept, too.”

Chaz will be appearing on Entertainment Tonight this evening. He tells ET: “I shave about once a week now. It kind of started to come in just like peach fuzz. I always wanted to shave. It is a very natural process. For my birthday I got a lot of shaving stuff….Still not anywhere near what I will look like, but really for the first time I am feeling much more comfortable with how I look physically….The most important thing about this for me is that my outsides are finally starting to match my insides…I feel like I’m living in my body for the first time, and it feels really good.”

Earlier this week I blogged about the “controversial” lesbian kiss in Australian soap Home & Away. Watching actress Esther Anderson (Charlie Buckton in Home & Away) I could help but wonder where I had seen her face before…

Then suddenly, last night, I found the answer: The Tragedy (for men). Heh.

Two men said to be gay were killed on Thursday in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City in Iraq on Thursday, Reuters reports:

“‘They were sexual deviants. Their tribes killed them to restore their family honor,’ a Sadr City official who declined to be named said. The police source who declined to be named said the bodies of four gay men were unearthed in Sadr City on March 25, each bearing a sign reading ‘pervert’ in Arabic on their chests. Sermons condemning homosexuality were read at the last two Friday prayer gatherings in Sadr City, a sprawling Baghdad slum of some 2 million people. The slum is a bastion of support for fiery Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and his Mehdi Army militia…Many young men who might have cut their hair short and grown beards when religious gangs controlled much of Iraq now dress in a more Western style as government forces take back control. Some are now accused of being gay, and residents of Sadr City say at least one coffee shop has become a gay hangout. A member of the slum’s Sadrist office said the Mehdi Army was not involved in the killings, but said homosexuality was now more widespread since the Mehdi Army lost control of the slum.”

Well… WTF?!

My friend Alice is one of the creative forces behind an online comic called “Footloose Comic“. They’ve entered a webcomic contest and just crawled into the top 100. Vote for them if you like what you see!

Serena Ryder played a sold out Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Toronto, ON, on April 4th. Check out a short clip here.

Finally (and this made me laugh out really loud) the innernet is currently buzzing… with news of Dixie Chick singer Natalie Maines’s new buzz cut:

I like it.

I was talking about hair to an American friend the other day, how I have the impression that in the US sexual preference and femininity is linked to hair length. To me that is just ridiculous; I can only imagine how time consuming it is to be a mom of a couple of little kids. They don’t want to spend an hour getting their ‘do right every morning. (There’s simply no time for that.) Besides, some women have great bone structure and carry a pixie cut - or whatever it’s called - very well. Adds some spunk, too, I think

Dorothy Snarker managed to crack me up again:

Kate Winslet & Cate Blanchett

God, they totally look like a couple at gay prom.

And Serena Ryder did, too. Here she is entertaining us on Valentine’s Day - or should I say Valentine’s night, cos technically… Nevermind. In the second clip she does a pretty good impression of Duffy. Heh.