News of the death came as a shock to many, as just a few weeks ago Borges, who went by Eric James among friends, recorded the "It Gets Better" video above. He had also been serving as an intern for suicide prevention group The Trevor Project.

Borges' suicide was first reported by Queer Landia blogger Jim Reeves.

Says Reeves:

Not accepted by his birth family, EricJames was striking out on his own, trying to deal with his personal situation, but also wanting to help others. Sadly, even involvement with the Trevor Project was not enough to help him navigate the turbulent waters of young adulthood.

May he rest in peace.

Wake Up Early

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Oh hell no.

The Commandant and Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps released this video to the Corps describing the way ahead.

Video from a gay club in the late 50s or early 60s.

Those fucking gays!!!!

According to this irony-free video, it is unfair for peaceful protesters to block one family's view of a hate parade, but it is totally fair to support an organization that thinks certain people should not be allowed to marry the people they love. Via Queerty .

Bill O'Reilly wonders when McDonalds will have an Al Qaeda advertisement to compliment their current “Gay Commercial” that is making the rounds in France. Stay classy, Fox News.

As the storm brews in the fight against gay marriage, the good folks at Restoring Integrity to Marriage (or RIM) expect to throw in their two cents.

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After Comedy Central slashed the budget of The Sarah Silverman Program , the show's future looked bleak until MTV Networks' gay channel, Logo, agreed to co-finance the show.

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4. “Why Not a Thirty-something Woman Who Dresses Like a Twelve-year-old Boy?”
5. Jewish Damsel in Distress Rescued By Swashbuckling Gays
6. Sarah Comes Back

The R.E.M. frontman has been allegedly been dubbed “Twat Waffle” by Sara Barron, a former waitress at a trendy New York restaurant who claims - in her upcoming memoir People Are Unappealing - that he and his posse rang up a bill of $2000 and left no tip after dining for over five hours.

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5. “Though Twat Waffle is Barron’s Idol and She’s Happy to Serve Him When All the Other Servers Shirk, She Ends Up Despising Him When He Rolls Into the Restaurant With ‘An Entourage of Gaunt Homosexuals All in Matching Fedoras and Ray-Bans’”

The rom-com about unlucky ladies and gentlemen in love (imagine that!) is looming on the horizon, and apparently the marginal characters - or “three gays and a Black guy” - prove to be almost as insulting as the fact that He's Just Not That Into You was made into a movie.

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Homosexual geneticists at the Pink Tiger Research Institute believe they have isolated the gene that causes Christianity.

The state’s Supreme Court, in a sharply divided ruling, struck down a civil union law, making the state the third in the nation to legalize same-sex marriage.

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A “youth-oriented” offshoot of Protect Marriage aims to persuade voters to choose Proposition 8 in California, which would amend the state constitution’s allowance of gay marriage.

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HBO is hoping to do with British import Little Britain what it did with New Zealand’s Flight of the Conchords : make the weird, niche-y smash in its native homeland a stateside success.

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5. Do Americans Have A Good Sense Of “Humour”? VOTE NOW!
6. Little Britain USA On HBO
7. Little Britain is - You Should Know - Totally Gay
8. Rosie O’Donnell Loves Little Britain (But Doesn’t Know How To Spell “Britain”)

Radar calls them Hollywood’s newest accessory.

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3. Urban Dictionary: Gaybie
4. The New Accessory for Hollywood’s Single Fathers? Gaybies, of Course!