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A 100 Percent Chance of Fabulousness!: Ricky Martin's yawn-inducing coming out party bolsters research that shows people who remain in what's known as "the glass closet" are fooling only a small slice of the populace, and that human beings have a staggeringly good ability to judge sexual orientation. In a 2008 study, gay and straight people who viewed videos of people describing the weather in Chicago correctly identified straight people 87 percent of the time and correctly identified homosexual people 75 percent of the time. The research, involving about 50 subjects and 50 raters, also found that gay and lesbian people don't have much of an advantage over straight people when it comes to guessing whether a person is gay or straight. (WaPo)

Boom Boom Room: Hotelier Andre Balazs is said to be considering turning the Standard Hotel's 18th floor club -- considered the Studio 54 of the new millennium -- into a members-only club. (Page Six)

Otterly Adorable: Two elderly otters who were best friends and lived side-by-side for 15 years have both died of a heart attack within an hour of each other. It's thought the second heartbroken animal passed away from the stress of watching his mate die. (Daily Mail)

Depends on Your Definition of Fair -- and Balanced: More gay-baiting from Fox News. (Media Matters)

Make Heche While the Sun Shines: The Web site wegiveadamn.org crashed on Friday after Anna Paquin declared her bisexuality in a video posted on it. No word on whether or not her soon-to-be-husband was one of the people logging on. (AP)

Omaha Stakes: Supporters of gay marriage have called for Nebraska to join the few states that have legalized the unions. A rally was held Saturday at the midpoint of a pedestrian bridge over the Missouri River linking Iowa and Nebraska. Participants celebrated last April's Iowa Supreme Court decision that legalized same-sex marriage in that state and called for Nebraska to follow suit. (KETV)

Unlikely Ally: Bill O'Reilly has offered to pay the court fees of a man who lost a court case against an anti-gay church that protested his war veteran son's funeral. What's the catch? (OnTop)

Sins of the Father: One of the researchers responsible for a landmark statistical study of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church says that Catholic League president William Donohue "drew an unwarranted conclusion" from her work when he claimed that "most" of the clergy who committed the abuse have been "gay." (Media Matters)

Easy Does It: Ellen DeGeneres flexing her "nice" muscle on "American Idol," and it works. (NYT)

Repealing Stupidity: California assembly member Bonnie Lowenthal is the author of a bill that seeks to overturn a 60-year-old state law requiring health experts to cure homosexuality. (Advocate)

Boricua Drag: Did anyone make it to the long-awaited return of Warhol Superstar Mario Montez, who was a staple in the New York underground scene of the 1960s and ’70s? (NYDN)

Hate and Hypocrisy: The Tories were embroiled in a furious row over lesbian and gay rights on Saturday after the shadow home secretary, Chris Grayling, was secretly taped suggesting that people who ran bed and breakfasts in their homes should "have the right" to turn away homosexual couples. The comments, made by Grayling last week to a leading centre-right thinktank, drew an angry response from gay groups and other parties, which said they were evidence that senior figures in David Cameron's party still tolerate prejudice. (Guardian)

Legends' Ledgers: Famed eatery Gino -- where Frank Sinatra, Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman, Mike Wallace and Barbra Streisand have all been regulars -- is still writing book on the stars. (NY Post)

RIP: Openly gay former wrestler Chris Kanyon has died at 40, from an apparent suicide. (Deadspin)