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Brian J. White gets grimy for Bleu.

Bethenny Frankel won't return to Real Housewives NYC?

 Will the internet kill gay print media publications? 

Washington Redskins hotness Devin Thomas: "She needed a young, sexy man in her video and my name came up." 

 100K children helped by FMLA expansion.

Venezuela to seize 11 U.S.-owned oil rigs.

Deep-sea exploration to continue in North Sea oil fields despite Gulf disaster. 

 JLS: We can't move to  U.S. We'll miss our mums!

 After mistakenly voting to strip LGBT employment protections, Dallas Area Rapid Transit  "voted unanimously Tuesday night to add transgender protections to the agency’s employment nondiscrimination policy."

California welfare recipients cut off from casino ATMs.

20 South African boys die following botched circumcisions.

Drake's Thank Me Later debuts at Number 1.

Cape Town: Man claims bar denied entrance because he is gay.

HIV rates decline in South Africa? New data suggest a 35% drop in the rate of new infections. "Research discovered that 1.3% of 15 to 49-year-olds contracted the diseases between 2005 and 2008, compared to 2% among the same group between 2002 and 2005."

European Court of Human Rights: Marriage equality is not mandatory.

Pioneering black film director Oscar Micheaux honored on a new postage stamp. Micheaux was born in 1884 and ecame the first black  to produce a movie and later introduced the actor Paul Robeson in 1924.

Wisconsin court rules gay parents do not have full parental rights. "A woman who raised two adopted children for years in a same-sex relationship is not considered their parent under Wisconsin law, an appeals court ruled Thursday. The court ruled that only the woman's former partner is their parent since the adoptions were done under the partner's name. 'It's another slap in the face to gays and lesbians that we're not equal. We're not parents,' said the woman's attorney, Michele Perrault. "

Kelly Rowland: Elle, Singapore, FIFA, "Everywhere You Go" Video

Outtakes from the July 2010 Kelly Rowland editorial in ELLE. The "Commander' diva is photographed at New York's W Hotel by Kelly Stuart in Fendi, Hervé Léger, and Jean Paul Gaultier. "I like to see what I have first, see what everyone else is doing, and then I put my own shake on stuff so it’s my own,” she explains.

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Rowland and Diana Ross are in Singapore today and  headline the grand opening of the Marina Bay Sands.

The "Commander" video dropped yesterday to rave reviews. The David Guettta-produced anthem officially debuts next week and is expected to hit the #1 position on the U.S club charts. Popwrap at the NY Post: "In addition to 'Commander,' two other songs will be simultaneously assaulting radio next week -- the urban radio track 'Grown Woman' and the pop/mainstream hopeful hit 'Rose Colored Glasses.' A trifecta of tracks that are bound to resonate in the radio ozone for a long time."

Cover art for the new singles HERE. 

How did Kelly Rowland meet French super-producer Guetta? "'He was DJing in the place I was performing,'" Rowland explains in an extensive new interview with The Scotsman. "'He played the instrumental of When Love Takes Over and I heard it and lost my mind so much I cried. I had to sing on that track.' ... After working on the track with writers [and] rehearsing in a studio, she caught the attention of Sylvia Rhone, president of Universal Motown Records, who was next door working with Nelly. 'God puts us in the right place at the right time. That's definitely what he did that day.' When Rhone discovered she didn't have a label she signed her on the spot. 'And we've made a fantastic record.'"

The official music video for Kelly Rowland's FIFA World Cup theme song "Everywhere You Go" debuts. The track features artists from across the continent—such as Samini, Chameleone and Krotal and—who sing with Rowland and also appear in the Andrew Wessels-directed video. Unfortunately: The track is not included in the Listen Up! The Official 2010 FIFA World Cup Album compilation available on iTunes.

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Janelle Monáe: KCRW, Tour, "Smile" and "Billboard Mashup Monday"

Catching up with all things Janelle Monáe ...

The "Tightrope" sensation performed KCRW Live Session with her band Saturday night in Santa Monica. The session will be broadcast July 2, reports the LA Times. "Monáe showed the lucky crowd of 150 people why she's got the pop cognoscenti all worked up. The rising star let loose her signature pompadour ("it's called a Monáe," she informed the crowd) during a high-energy outing that featured her intricate, powerful vocalizing along with expressive dancers in freaky costumes."

Photos of the KCRW Live Session are HERE.

Monáe is currently on tour with Erykah Badu. Tomorrow night they head to San Diego. The "Tightrope" singer is also on the Lilith Fair schedule.

Monáe and The ArchAndroid continue to receive phenomenal reviews. An excellent write-up today at The Scotsman describes her as a "pint-sized, extravagantly bequiffed dynamo from Atlanta who is destined to be the next big soul star to emerge from the U.S."

Janelle Monáe performs a brilliant cover of Charlie Chaplin's "Smile" for Billboard's Mashup Mondays. Michael Jackson covered the classic on his 1995 album HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I. The song later became so identified with the King of Pop—who died one year ago this week—that his brother Jermaine sung it at at his memorial. "Emotionally, I've been connected to this song for quite sometime," says Monáe. "It's one of those classic standards, it's been sung by a lot of the greats, Stevie Wonder to Nat King Cole to Judy Garland to Frank Sinatra."

Watch the performance WHEN YOU JUMP ...

Report: Male African Sex Slaves Trafficked Into Scotland

Scottish authorities discover at least two recent cases where African men in the their 20s were abducted and forced into sex slavery and/or pornography in Glasgow, reports The Scotland Daily Record.

"In the first known cases of male sex trafficking to hit Scotland, two men were smuggled in from Africa and imprisoned in flats. The men were victims of separate incidents. One was forced to take part in pornography, while the other was sold for sex. Experts fear that more victims could follow.  Both the men were in their twenties and were held captive in properties in Glasgow. Both thought they were here to work but were forced into sex acts. In the first case a year ago, the young man who had been brought in for pornography managed to escape. He was desperate to go home and was flown back. The second case was within the last three months."

Julian Heng, a local service manager with the National Health Service, tells the newspaper: "They weren't asylum seekers or refugees, they had actually been trafficked into Scotland from Africa."

Trafficking in male African sex slaves is relatively new in Scotland. On the other hand, there have been numerous recent cases in Africa. In October, Cape Town police raided a gay brothel that advertised "African sex with men in chains." The brothel was shuttered and many of the men were discovered to be Nigerian sex slaves.

Black men and women still being abducted and forced into servitude and sexual slavery? A tragic reality but unfortunately not very surprising.

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