Gay Sightings

'Ugly Betty' Rules: TV Squad blog reviews this week's episode: "Honestly, it was just plain artful how the writers thematically connected Justin's story of playground bullying and his father's concern about his sexuality to Alexis' story of her own father's disapproval and eventual sex change. In the Suarez home, being accepted for who you are and seeing beauty in the people around you wins the day. In the Meade home, your father would rather see you dead than happy."

And USA Today catches up with Mark Indelicato, the actor who plays Justin, aka the greatest sissy character of all time.

Healing Homophobia: T.R. Knight's gal pal Katherine Heigl reports that Isaiah Washington is "trying very hard" to make up for calling Knight a faggot.

Gay In Hollywood: The public is fine with gay actors, it's the TV industry that isn't ready to embrace teh gay.

Dems Anger Gays: Former DNC official Donald Hitchcock (the gay man who was unceremoniously canned last year) says Howard Dean's not ready to make nice with gays, a sentiment echoed by now a second gay DNC staffer, Ramon Gardenhire, who writes about Dean's decision to eliminate the office of GLBT outreach.

Tags: Ugly Betty, Isaiah Washington, Hollywood, Television, Gay, Politics