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How many of you are Jew-fans like me?

Conservative Judaism — a major force in the U.S. but a marginal force in Israel — has faced calls for greater openness toward gays, despite biblical prohibitions on homosexual fun-n-games.

“In the Conservative world, there are rabbis who accept ordination of gay and lesbian students as well as those who do not,” the statement said. “The decision is the result of a long process that included broad consultation and a search to find a consensus among differing opinions that will allow continued cooperation.”

The Conservative movement interprets Jewish law WAY more strictly than the liberal Reform movement, but its ordination of female rabbis and other nontraditional practices are not accepted by more stringent Orthodox Jews.

The Reform movement — the largest Jewish denomination in the U.S. — began ordaining LGBTQ clergy decades ago. No Orthodox rabbinical institution currently admits gay and lesbian students.

Israeli law gives exclusive jurisdiction over the ordination of clergy, marriage and divorce to Orthodox rabbis, who generally consider homosexuality an abomination. The Orthodox rabbinate has resisted inroads by the liberals, refusing to recognize their rulings, conversions or ceremonies as  valid.

“In my opinion, it’s a grave mistake,” said ultra-Orthodox  Shaar Yeshuv Cohen, the chief rabbi of the city of Haifa. “It’s a violation of the Bible.”

I’ve got a new crush!

Handsome, hunky (The New York Post dubbed him as “The Best Biceps on Broadway”) , talented, actor, singer, dancer and super-homosexual Nick Adams has made it on Broadway!  You could say he is practically a Broadway babe!  And if you don’t say he is – I will! Yummmy, yum yum!

Nick, like myself, started out as a small town boy!  “The Great White Way” is a long way from his native town of Erie, Pennsylvania. He began his rise to the top, like most male actors, as a chorus boy. Eventually, he broke it big by landing one of the lead roles in the wildly successful “Priscilla: Queen of the Desert.”  Adams ADORES being part  of the high energy, disco-infused musical that audiences were so fond.  Cue: STARDOM!

But it ain’t all rainbows and sprinkles for this sexy showtune king.  The former Catholic high schooler has a seriously devoted side to him – one you see in his ongoing fight against HIV/AIDS.  The editors of A & U (October 2011) made him the cover boy to let him tell his story, like participated in fundraising events like Broadway Bares, a fundraiser for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

His most striking individual fundraising effort (an idea he got from his older brother) was to offer backstage tours of “Priscilla” for $500 donations or more. He used only Twitter and his own web site with immediate and astounding results. Putting his heart into everything he does, Adams gets a little emotional in the retelling,

“Every day it would jump over a thousand dollars and before I knew it, it was over twenty grand. The tours were more like the backstage ins and outs of  Priscilla, and my dressing room!”

Many of you know, several of us old dirty pervs here at Gay Live Network are totally head-over-heels (or, perhaps heels-over-our-heads) for Mr. Zac Efron.

So yesterday, when our Google alerts exploded with naughty pics of Zac, our pants exploded shortly after….

Seems some scallywags photographers caught the buff movie idol relaxing around his Sydney hotel room.  Zac’s low-key unwinding includes walking around in his under-wear, scratching his balls, talking on the phone, scratching his balls some more, and scratching his balls.  Zac!  We are happy to help with the ball scratching! 

THEN….Before our jacking-off fantasies could even catch-up, we got hit with some red-hot NUDES! In one picture, The Lucky One star is allegedly seen fully naked on his balcony while holding a pair of swim shorts.  A second photo allegedly shows a naked Efron from the back as he stands in the balcony entryway.

But are they real?

SIGH.

No.  The pics have actually been manipulated to make it appear as if Efron is in his birthday suit.  I know, I know….I was disappointed too.  But, I ‘m not shallow enough to worship a fake idol. I want REAL Zac meat or I want nothing at all.

The original photos, taken Saturday, show the shirtless actor wearing pants while hanging out on the balcony of his Sydney hotel.

In some shots, Efron’s outfit even shows in the reflection of the window – but that aspect was conveniently obscured by a towel in the Photoshopped version.

Check out the REAL shirtless photos of Zac here!

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Maverick Couch, the gay  student who sued his Ohio school district for not allowing him to wear a T-shirt that read  ”Jesus Is Not a Homophobe”  - will be allowed to wear the shirt!  But there is a catch…He can wear it for ONLY one day.

Times are tough for our friends at the Holy Roman Church!  They are constantly under attack!  Pedophiles here, pedophiles there….  And now, when they are just barely keeping the kids from being gang raped at Sunday school – GAY PORN ATTACKS!

The Church has launched an investigation after an Irish priest ACCIDENTALLY played a slide show of gay porn to a group of parents who had come for a meeting about their children’s First Communion!

Father Martin McVeigh was setting up a PowerPoint presentation last week when the sexual images popped up on the computer.

“There were plenty of shocked faces,” one person at the meeting told the newspaper. “There’s a lot of parents very angry about it.”

Witnesses said that McVeigh quickly removed the hot’n juicy memory card from the computer and bolted from the room!  LIKE A FLASH!

“He was visibly shaken and flustered,” the statement said, according to the Associated Press. “He gave no explanation or apology to the group and bolted out of the room. The coordinator and the teachers then continued with the presentation.”

McVeigh returned to the meeting 20 minutes later and told parents that children get lots of money for their Holy Communion and should consider giving some of it to the church.  (I picture the parents were probably standing there in stunned silence with their jaws on the floor.  Probably seriously thinking about heading down the street to the Presbytery…)  According to the the snoops at the Associated Press,  all the Mommies and Daddies present at the meeting were SLIGHTLY PEEVED – and many of them pulled their children from the First Communion program.  Another coup for the Catholic Church!

On Monday, the head of the Church in Ireland, Cardinal Sean Brady, said McVeigh had no idea how the images got on the memory stick and was assisting with the investigation.

“The priest has stated that he had no knowledge of the offending imagery,” Brady said in a statement. “The archdiocese immediately sought the advice of the [Police Service of Northern Ireland\], who indicated that, on the basis of the evidence available, no crime had been committed.”

McVeigh reportedly said other church officials had access to the memory stick as well.

“I don’t know how it happened but I know what happened,” he said.

Dave Franco is just the most adorable little schmuck I have ever seen!

I feel in love with him when he did THIS piece of amazing homo-erotic fun!  Watch it, it will give you an instant boner!

Then, as if that wasn’t enough – he did THIS incredible bit of boy-fun!  What about that? You kept watching the last 6 seconds, didn’t you?  He spit!  He was using SPIT as lube!

Franco, 26, is the younger brother of superstar James Franco. This hot bit of sex-on-the-stick is making his big screen debut with yummy-yummy Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill in the tongue-in-cheek remake of “21 Jump Street.”  (I can’t say, write or think that name without hearing Holly Robinson’s theme song in my head…)

Dave told Entertainment Weekly (March 16, 2012):

“. . . because of my last name, people paid more attention to me. They expected more from me, they assured me I would succeed in this crazy business.” “21 Jump street” co-directors Christopher Miller and Phil Lord saw it somewhat differently”

Like his older brother, the younger Franco has plenty of gigs lined up! He’s the NEW “IT” boy! He’ll be costarring “Warm Bodies“  a zombie love story; and “Now You See Me,” an action-heavy heist movie with big-boys Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo and Woody Harrelson.

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One of the first super-queer comic book characters will finally get hitched to his boyfriend in an upcoming issue of “Astonishing X-Men.”

Northstar, created by John Byrne, first appeared in 1979 as a member of his native Canada’s premier super-team Alpha Flight.  Jean-Paul Beaubier (French Canadian!) was an Olympic-level skier by day, and mutant super-speedster by night! While always hinted as a homo, he offically came-out in 1992. (Also the year of my birth!   Big gay world!)

Now, he will marry his boyfriend Kyle in a comic book that hits stores in June. The event will mark the first gay marriage involving a Marvel superhero, Coombook.com reported.

Rumors started to fly when last week, Marvel strongly hinted that a X-Men wedding would soon take place by sending out “Save the Date” notices via email.

As our faithful readers here at Loud & Queer and Gay Live Network know, we are big comic book fans!  And, I think we’ve established that we love to have sex with men too.  So, we are totally happy!  Hooray for Northstar! But not everyone was pleased with gay-friendly issue. One Million Moms, buddies with the ultra-right Christian organization American Family Association, has protested gay comic book characters before…Expect these old hateful fuddie-duddies will be screaming at the top of their lungs.