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Jezebel: I admit that for awhile I was confused by this “dubstep” craze; after all, it sort of sounds like what happens when you throw a boombox in an above ground pool and then try to run the pool over with a lawn mower. I thought that maybe the subgenre of club music was the rap-metal for a new age; the Limp Bizkit or Mudvayne of 2010-2012, if you will. I now see the error of my ways— dubstep was a tragedy that needed to happen so that Dubstep Cat could exist.

It’s all downhill from here, guys.

A groundbreaking study out of Brock University in Ontario, Canada has identified a link between people who possess low IQs in addition to conservative beliefs and increased presence of racism.

Lead research psychologist Gordon Hodson used the data from previous studies which analyzed the increased level of racism in children who received less education to begin his study’s look at how intelligence played a role in such behavior.

Low-intelligence adults tend to gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies, the study found. Those ideologies, in turn, stress hierarchy and resistance to change, attitudes that can contribute to prejudice, Hodson wrote.

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HuffingtonPost: Newt Gingrich has three marriages and repeated infidelity under his belt, but that doesn’t stop him from sounding off about the sanctity of male-female marriage.

On a conference call for Religious Right supporters Wednesday, Newt compared gay marriage to paganism. Right Wing Watch has excerpts from the conversation:

It’s pretty simple: marriage is between a man and a woman. This is a historic doctrine driven deep into the Bible, both in the Old Testament and in the New Testament, and it’s a perfect example of what I mean by the rise of paganism. The effort to create alternatives to marriage between a man and a woman are perfectly natural pagan behaviors, but they are a fundamental violation of our civilization.

PrideSource: Glenn Close feels like a woman, but she sure doesn’t look like one in her new gender-bending movie. In “Albert Nobbs,” the actress – known especially to gay audiences for her role in the 1995 film “Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story,” about a real-life lesbian soldier – drops her voice a few notches, wears a top hat and wraps her torso in a girdle, all to keep her job while living in late-19th century Ireland.

Recently nominated for an Oscar, the role – originated by Close on stage nearly 30 years ago – also earned her a Golden Globe nomination. The same nod went to costar Janet McTeer for playing Hubert, a cross-dressing lesbian who’s living the life that Albert so desperately wants.

In a recent one-on-one, Close revealed her proudest part of the film, how she thinks Albert identifies sexually and looked back at her unexpected bisexual role on “Will & Grace.”

How was it getting in touch with your masculine side?

(Laughs) It’s funny, because I never think of Albert as a man. I always thought of her, even as Albert, as a woman, kind of wearing a mask. As far as getting in touch with her movement and her voice and all that, I would think back on the reality of what she must have gone through when she first had the idea to disappear as a waiter. The shoes would’ve been too heavy and too big, the pants would’ve been too long. Waiters in Victorian times who were very formal weren’t supposed to look anybody in the eye – they were seen, not heard – and so she couldn’t have chosen a better way to disappear.

People aren’t sure how to define Albert Nobbs. I’ve heard both transgender and lesbian used to describe her. What do you think?

I don’t think she is either, and that’s what fascinates me about this character. She disappeared when she was 14 and she emerges 30 years later. She’s never been in a home, she’s never had any intimate human contact, and she’s never been loved by someone. Everything, in a way, is new and unexplored. She does not have, when you first see her, a hugely active regretful longing in her life. She counts her money, she wants to be left alone, she wants to have the security of her job so that she won’t end up on the street – and that’s fine with her. She’s lower-class and working, and it’s only when Hubert comes into her life and she’s revealed that – first of all, she fears life as she knows it ending, but when she hears Hubert’s story, naturally, she thinks, “Can I do that?” But she doesn’t have the tools; she just doesn’t. Hubert’s one mistake is that she thinks Albert is much more capable of forging a life, but she just isn’t.

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Outsports: Openly gay and HIV-positive Olympic diving legend Greg Louganis wants to waltz on ABC’s ‘Dancing with the Stars’ next season. Louganis fans have created a Facebook campaign to push the alphabet network to extend an invitation to Louganis, and the campaign is getting some attention. DWTS has been in Louganis’ cross-hairs for a couple years, as he told People in 2010:

“I want to be on Dancing with the Stars,” he tells PEOPLE. “It would be such a blast.” …

“I don’t know about the outfits, but I’ve worn worse,” laughs Louganis, who as a child wore “sequins, headbands and poofy sleeves” for jazz routines. “I’ve never done ballroom but I want to try … Dance really captures something you just can’t put into words.”

The Facebook campaign currently has over 1,500 likes. It would be great to have such a successful gay athlete on the show, so please do head to their page and “like” it too. Past athletes on the show have included Michael Irvin, Emmitt Smith, Kristi Yamaguchi, Apolo Anton Ohno, Jerry Rice and Kurt Warner.

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