Gioia Bruno (former lead singer of Exposé), during an interview on Brunch, told Honey Labrador and Scott Withers: “I never wanted to put a label on myself, but, yes, I have dated women… It’s about the person and what’s in their soul. Right now I am dating a man, but hey, I can still look at the girls. I think everybody’s got a little queer in them.”

James McGreevey is blogging with gay rights activist David Mixner.

(It’s not the first time their names have been heard together.)

Read more: Former NJ governor writes blog with gay rights activist

Some quotes for those of you who missed last week’s American Idol episodes:

“Shave off your beard and wear a dress.” - Simon Cowell to Charles Berry

“Are you a girl?” - Randy Jackson to Zachary Travis

[GLAAD Raises Concerns Over ‘American Idol’ Comments]

More news on benefits from New Jersey: Ocean County, which does not grant health or other benefits to the same-sex partners of their employees, has decided to make an exception for Laurel Hester (after first rejecting her plea), a former lieutenant with the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office who has inoperable brain cancer. It is unknown whether Ocean County will extend benefits to all same-sex partners of county workers.

I’ve learned the following about myself from Quizilla quizzes today:

1. I am a high femme.
2. I should be with men and only men.

Joining New Jersey counties Passaic, Bergen, Union, Hudson, Monmouth and Mercer, Camden County now offers domestic partnership benefits to gay and lesbian county employees.

God quote brought to you by Camden County resident Mike Down: “I don’t think it’s right. God meant for men to be with women, women to be with men.”

The Southern Voice announced yesterday that the Atlanta chapter of PFLAG has opened the application process for their annual scholarship awards.

Applications:

Online applications will be available at www.pflagatl.org by the end January. Regular applications are available from high school guidance counselors, but must be requested no later than March 1. The applications, due by March 31, will be evaluated based upon a variety of criteria, including “demonstrated history of LGBT community service and activism,” academic and extracurricular achievement, financial need, and identification of and potential to achieve career goals, according to PFLAG.

This Sunday’s The L Word is gonna be good.

“Selfish has gotten a bad wrap,” writes Paula G. at her Coaching4Lesbians Blog (which I just found while browsing over at Technorati) and I couldn’t agree more.

Paula lists five benefits of learning to be selfish:

1. More energy.
2. It upgrades your personality.
3. Improves your health and well-being.
4. You become more effective and productive.
5. You get more of what you want and less of what you don’t.

Read her entire post.

A Virginia bill that would have prevented health professionals from performing any procedure to impregnate unmarried women, which was believed by many to be designed to keep lesbians from having children, has been dropped.

Delegate Bob Marshall, who vowed to re-introduce this bill as an amendment to another bill in the future, was quoted comparing unmarried women who turn to medical procedures to become pregnant because they desperately want to have a child to Al Capone being desperate for money. But Bob, if they get really desperate, they might start stealing babies from married women. You know how crazy unmarried women can be - especially those lesbians.

And while we’re on the topic, if they shouldn’t be allowed to be mothers, shouldn’t Virginia offer free abortions to all unmarried pregnant women? And free birth control to all unmarried women? What about men who get unmarried women pregnant? Maybe they should be fined or arrested.