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Last night saw David Beckham's final home game with Paris Saint-Germain. You may recall that he announced his retirement just a few days ago. The AP reports on his reaction to the big night. ‘‘I want to say thank you to everybody in Paris. To my teammates, to the staff, to the fans,’’ Beckham told the fans after the game. ‘‘It’s been very special to finish my career here.’’ Watch a clip from the night, which includes a tearful Beckham followed by a celebratory toss of the soccer star by his t...

Late last night, hundreds attended a candlelight vigil in Greenwich Village to remember Mark Carson, who was shot and killed in a hate crime just 12 hours earlier. The crowd shouted: "Say his name: "Mark Carson, Mark Carson, Mark Carson!" Another rally will take place in NYC tomorrow. It will begin at the LGBT Community Center (208 W 13th St) at 5:30PM and continue with another march to the murder scene. The NY Times describes Carson: Mr. Carson, who was 32, had recently moved to Brooklyn fro...

What can stir Rev the dog from this tranquil nap? None other than a song from Adele. Watch the black lab get nostalgic, all thanks to the singer's rendiiton of "Make You Feel My Love," AFTER THE JUMP...

Think of this as ASAP Science's version of 'Schoolhouse Rock'. Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...

Crowds at a live TV taping featuring actor Christopher Waltz scattered after a man fired a handgun, the Guardian reports: "The bodyguards jumped over the barriers into the crowd and pulled him [the suspect] to the ground. The police arrived and told everyone to run because there was a grenade in his hand," one eyewitness told Reuters.French authorities, who arrested the man at the scene, confirmed he was carrying a dummy grenade and a knife. A police source said: "It really appears to be a cr...

BY OCCUPY THE DISCO / RU BHATT The OXD Mirror is a weekly music column brought to you by the boys of OCCUPY THE DISCO (OXD), a New York City based collective created by three music lovers, Ru Bhatt, Josh Appelbaum, and Tadeu Magalhães, who want to share their love for disco, house and dance music with the world. Avec feat. Jake Shears: 'Disappearer' Just because Scissor Sisters announced its indefinite hiatus last year doesn't mean its members have stopped making music. We've already showcase...

GET LUCKY: Dancing to a Daft Punk cover. ALLEN ROSENTHAL: A survivor of the 'ex-gay' group NARTH speaks out. OWL: Loves being petted. BELGIUM: Liberal humanists celebrate 10 years of marriage equality. For recent Guides to the Tube, click HERE.

This morning I posted some horrific clips of thousands of people attacking Gay Pride marchers in Tblisi, Georgia who had been protected by police before being shipped from the area in buses that were surrounded and assaulted with fists and objects. At least 17 people have been injured in the violence, Radio Free Europe reports. One of the antigay activists, Zaza Davitaia, explained why he was against the rally taking place."I give my support to those who are gathered here. We are against a ra...

We've previously featured NYC-based rapper Le1f's clips "Wut" and "Soda".He's back with a steamy new clip and he's ready for a "Spa Day". Check it out, AFTER THE JUMP...

Finland's entry in the Eurovision Song Contest, "Marry Me" by Krista Siegfrids, has become a gay marriage anthem and advanced to the finals last night with a performance that featured a big wet woman-on-woman kiss. Check it out as well as a Euronews report on the finalists, AFTER THE JUMP... Radio Free Europe reports: Greece's "Alcohol Is Free" by Koza Mostra also made it through, filled with metaphors about the plight of the crisis-stricken country.The 26 countries competing in the final are...

Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice has posted a video marking today's International Day Against Homophobia. Says Rice in the clip: Today, as we commemorate International Day Against Homophobia, we rededicate ourselves to a basic but essential truth – that human rights are universal and must be protected for all. Homophobia, sadly, is present in every corner of our world. And, it is a problem we continue to face here in the United States. At the United Nations, the United States is standing up fo...

Including dental exams. Watch, AFTER THE JUMP... Shot on a GoPro camera bin Alaska by a videographer shooting for the BBC. Turn on the HD.

A massive survey of 93,000 Europeans taken by The European Union's Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) and released to coincide with the International Day Against Homophobia, which is today, shows that most LGBT Europeans are living in fear. Check out the results of the survey in an interactive map. The FRA writes: According to the data collected, LGBT people start facing difficulties early at school, where they regularly experience bullying and harassment. For this reason, anti-bullying poli...

Alarming and terrifying scenes out of Tblisi, Georgia today where a Gay Pride rally was abandoned after thousands of people in an angry mob descended upon the marchers. Watch two videos of the mob I discovered this morning, AFTER THE JUMP... Police guarded the several dozen activists before they could board buses to be evacuated from the area. Even then, as the buses departed, the violent mobs surrounded them, chanting and beating on the windows. The AP reports: "Protesters, who included Orth...

Eye candy, basically. Watch (possibly work-unfriendly), AFTER THE JUMP...

Missing Husband, a heartbreaking new video from The DOMA Project tells the story of David and Jason, a married binational couple separated by 6,000 miles because of the Defense of Marriage Act and an unjust immigration system. Watch, AFTER THE JUMP... And read more about them here. David writes: DOMA means that legal gay marriages are not recognized federally and are not enough to bring foreign spouses of gay Americans to the US. Jason isn’t welcome to the US as a Husband and has only ever be...

Uma Thurman has been cast as anti-gay activist Anita Bryant in Anita, according to The Hollywood Reporter: The film follows Bryant, a former celebrity singer and orange juice spokeswoman, who, when she allows a gay screenwriter into her home, is forced to confront her past as an anti-gay Christian crusader who successfully campaigned to overturn a gay rights law in Florida and destroyed her show biz career in the process. The film will be directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman from a sc...

LIGHTNING: In slow motion. "Incredible footage of a lightning strike slowed down. One strike of lightning (1 second) turns into 3 minutes of footage. See what few people ever see!" DOWNTON ABBEY: Enhanced by flatulence. GIORGIO MORODER: A new track from the disco legend, "Racer", created on commission for a new Google Chrome game. Check out the demo of the game here. GLENN BECK: Reenacts The Untouchables in attack on Obama. For recent Guides to the Tube, click HERE.

Caleb Lawrence McGillvary, a 34-year-old man who became internet famous after a video of his life-saving efforts against a man who thought he was Jesus Christ went viral on YouTube, is now wanted in the beating death of a NJ lawyer. ABC News reports: He was last seen at a light rail station in the Haddonfield, New Jersey area, said Union County Prosecutor Theodore J. Romankow. McGillvary is considered to be armed and dangerous. The Camden County Prosecutor's Office said that McGillvary is lik...

Ellen welcomed Chris Pine to her show today and tried to reveal what a sensitive guy he is, but ended up talking about his nuts. Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...

"This is not what we mean by live streaming."A video guide to misusing the forthcoming technology, AFTER THE JUMP...

The gay-owned Chelsea-based clothing company Nasty Pig drops its latest lookbook/music video, which features a runaway pitbull, some playground calisthenics, and a happy ending. Watch, AFTER THE JUMP... Featuring Matthew Camp, Frankie Sharp, Roze Black, Xander, Juliana Huxtable, Abel Ljoka, Mike Espinosa, Justin Holmes, Eve Anthony, Gabriel Joseph Anthony, Jared Conner, Adam Capuano, Stefon Tadlock, Kayrizz, Roc'well, Blake Lloyd. Directed by @lilinternet, who directed Diplo's "Express Yourse...

Twin brothers Jason and Jarron Collins sat down with Jimmy Kimmel last night to reflect on Jason's big 'coming out' week. Jarron told Kimmel that he was in shock when Jason came out to him, and asked some really dumb questions. Jarron also says that he has been confused by people for Jason since the Sports Illustrated coming out story, and had an awkward encounter with a fan at an airport urinal. Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...

The U.S. Navy is cheering a milestone in drone warfare, Reuters reports: The bat-winged X-47B stealth drone roared off the USS George H.W. Bush near the coast of Virginia and flew a series of pre-programmed maneuvers around the ship before veering away toward a Naval air station in Maryland where it was scheduled to land. "This is really a red-letter day. May 14 we all saw history happen" said Rear Admiral Ted Branch, the Atlantic naval air commander. "It's a marker ... between naval aviation...

Isabella Rosselini is continuing with her series of "Green Porno" shorts for the Sundance channel in which she has demonstrated how cuttlefish mate, and how earthworms copulate. She has moved on to mammals in the latest of the adorably nutty clips, and demonstrates here how "mamma" hamster deals with too many babies. Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...

In an Australian radio interview, UK boyband The Wanted was asked about recent remarks by Lance Bass that "in every boyband there is at least one gay one." Jay McGuinness (far right) answered both the interviewer's and Bass's question, responding, "I think most of us would probably have a dabble." Followed quickly by his bandmate Tom Parker (far left): "Speak for yourself." Listen below. The Wanted performed on last night's Dancing with the Stars. Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...

As the Justice Department opens a criminal investigation into the IRS scandal, House Speaker John Boehner demands to know "who's going to jail." Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...

The World Trade Center gets its spire, from the spire's perspective. Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...

The Eurovision Song Contest has been running since 1956. Each country in the European Broadcasting Union submits a song and casts scores for the songs of the other countries, until a winner is named. Here's an update on which acts have made it through the first semi-finals. Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...

There's no background on this video and it's so dramatic it almost seems like it's from a movie, but that's precisely what makes it so fantastic. Watch, AFTER THE JUMP... (via good as you)

An historic and joyous day in Minnesota as Governor Mark Dayton signed the marriage equality bill into law. Watch it go down, AFTER THE JUMP... An unabridged version:

Check out these incredible videos out of Lake Mille Lacs, Minnesota, where ice sheets created by a sudden change in temperature are coming ashore and destroying homes. Watch, AFTER THE JUMP... Sam Champion explains what's happening: Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. US News | Syria News | More ABC News Videos

A striking new campaign video from the United Nations human rights office speaks directly about the oppression of LGBT people and features messages from Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay. Says Pillay: "Every nation is obligated by international human rights law to protect all lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people from discrimination and violence." Adds Ban and a chorus of voices: "The United Nations has one simple message to the millions ...

Sara Bareilles released the video for her new single "Brave", an anthem to courage and self-expression which was directed by Parks and Recreation star Rashida Jones and co-written by fun. guitarist Jack Antonoff. Although the clip does not directly address it, Bareilles wrote the song for a friend who was struggling with coming out of the closet, the HuffPost reported earlier this month: "Watching that process made me consider how much of ourselves we feel the need to hide from each other on ...

To go along with yesterday's clip of Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) delivering a hysterical sermon about how 9/11 and Benghazi were God's wrath, here's a new one unearthed by Right Wing Watch in which she calls on Christians to engage in "spiritual warfare" to fight gay marriage. She gave this speech in mid-April at the Liberty Counsel's 'Awakening' conference. Says Bachmann in the clip: You see if we retreat from our values and fail to make the case on issues like marriage – because it is one ...

THE OFFICE: This is farewell. HARDER, BETTER, FASTER, STRONGER: Daft Punk on piano. COOL MOONS: Our solar system's standouts. LOVE: Why is everyone so afraid of it? For recent Guides to the Tube, click HERE.

Canadian ISS Commander Chris "Space Oddity" Hadfield is safely back on Earth with two other crew members from the International Space Station, American Thomas Marshburn and Russian Roman Romanenko. The Guardian reports: [The spacemen] landed as planned south-east of the town of Dzhezkazgan at 8.31am local time on Tuesday. The Soyuz TMA-07M capsule slowly descended by parachute on to the steppes under clear, sunny skies. Russian search and rescue helicopters hovered over the landing site for a...

The Tea Party Report's Susie Sampson attempts to find out. Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...

Last week at an event at the U.S. Capitol organized by birther Joseph Farah, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) re-upped her wingnut cred with this display of insanity: It’s no secret that our nation may very well be experiencing the hand of judgment. It’s no secret that we all are concerned that our nation may be in a time of decline. If that is in fact so, what is the answer? The answer is what we are doing here today: humbling ourselves before an almighty God, crying out to an almighty God, sayi...

Minnesota has approved marriage equality after several hours of debate in the state Senate and a vote of 37-30. It will become the 12th state in the nation (with the District of Columbia) to offer its citiizens the freedom to marry. The House passed the bill last week in a 75-59 vote. Minnesota is also the first state in the midwest to pass marriage equality by an act of the legislature. Iowa's marriage equality law was ushered in by the state Supreme Court. The Star Tribune reports: "It's hi...

At a press conference today, President Obama today denounced the "side show" being put on by Republicans over the attacks in Benghazi. Said Obama: Who executes some sort of cover-up or effort to tamp things down, for three days? So the whole thing defies logic and the fact that this keeps on getting churned out, frankly has a lot to do with political motivations. We’ve had folks who have challenged Hillary Clinton’s integrity, Susan Rice’s integrity, Mike Mullen and Tom Pickering’s integrity....

Minnesota Majority Leader Tom Bakk wrapped up today's Senate testimony on marriage equality with a story about a longtime family friend who is gay. Bakk grew up at a boy's Bible camp where his dad was the camp director. In 1962 his dad recruited a college student to be a camp counselor who later went on to the seminary to become a Lutheran pastor. Bakk recounted a conversation about the pastor, named Ray, that he had with his mother over this past weekend. She told him, "Ray was the best frie...

A crappy cell phone camera may not be great at capturing images, but it is perfectly capable of transmitting joy. Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...

CHANGES AHEAD: AFER's Matt Baume looks at what happens after Minnesota. Constitutional amendments could delay any further success for years to come. BALD EAGLE: Steals a fish off a line. MOTORCYCLE DIARIES: A modern day version. SF BAY: 1,200 tons of trash are removed from it every year. For recent Guides to the Tube, click HERE.

As a follow-up to my post of last week, here's a recent rare Orca encounter near Denmark, kindly translated by someone on Reddit: There, there, look at that!NO, they're coming over here, dammit! Sail dammit, sail dammit! They're right under us, they're huge. I am afraid of them!Don't be.Emil, for f**ks sake, it's Orcas! get me out of here.Take a picture!I am filming.Look at that, now take some pictures!I am filming it!Look at the fin on that one... Now hold fast when they (BEEPING) or you'll ...

Senator Scott Dibble, the author of the marriage bill and the Senate's only out gay member, offered an emotional speech before the vote as his husband Richard Leyva looked on from the gallery. Dibble married Leyva in California in August of 2008. Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...

The Bluth family is back for the the foruth season of Arrested Development, which will be presented House of Cards-style by Netflix, with all 15 30-minute episodes available simultaneously. Excited? Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...

A new comedy skit takes Facebook's relentless redesigns into the real world. Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...

Passengers aboard an AirAsia flight from Perth to Kuala Lumpur were treated to the sight of Virgin mogul Richard Branson in drag. Branson lost a Formula One racing bet with AirAsia chief Tony Fernandes in 2010 and paid it off by serving as a flight attendant. Branson dumped a tray of orange juice deliberately on Fernandes' lap during the flight, the AP reports: "I wanted to kill him actually" for spilling the juice, the Malaysian told reporters. "He looked at me, I said, `don't you dare,' and...