The AggreGAYtor: August 24

Grant Storm picks his pocket, Bow Wow gets defensive, and Honey Boo Boo bids Glitzy the pig adieu. Today’s AggreGAYtor has track lighting.

• Congressman Jeff Landry continues to make a stink about the LGBT minor at UL Lafayette. He’s probably still reeling from losing out on the role of Clairee Belcher in Steel Magnolias.

• Truth Wins Out head Wayne Besen pwns the religious right after attempt to ban him from Fox News.

• Vermont couple settles case against homophobic bed and breakfast.

• Bad teacher: Abstinence-based sex-ed guru recommends getting lots of rest, socializing in groups, and criminalizing homosexuality.

• Uhmmm …

• Southern impudence: Anti-gay crusader Grant Storm caught indelicato.

• Meanwhile in Maryland, a marriage equality opponent gets sloshed at sea.

• Kansas citizens petition to remove LGBTQ protections from Salinas law.

• Pro-lesbian super PAC reveals its 2012 endorsements. Coincidentally, “Lesbian Super PAC” is also the title of the AggreGAYtor’s little-read graphic novel reimagining Jane Lynch as the Green Lantern.

• Phallically hatted Cardinal Timothy Dolan set to deliver closing prayer at GOP hate-a-thon.

• Oklahoman man’s house vandalized with gay slurs.

• Indiegogo campaign supports transgender man jailed for checking “M” on marriage certificate.

• US Ambassador to Ghana seeks dialogue on gay rights. Website chooses to illustrate this story with picture of white men embracing.

• Bow Wow denies tweeted gay pictures in flurry of homophobia, adding that his hit “Pole in my Basement” was not an attempt to come out.

• Everyone’s favorite rape denialist Todd Akin also thinks that same-sex marriage destroys civilization.

• It’s so hard to say goodbye to yesterday: Honey Boo Boo tearfully says goodbye to Glitzy the pig.

• Introducing the out athletes at the Paralympics.

• Stacey Campfield, of “Don’t Say Gay Bill” fame, thinks gay suicide is a “lark.”

• Sarah Wong’s photographs of transgender children are breathtaking.

• Evan Rachel Wood is criticized for joking about Miley Cyrus’ “lesbian’ haircut, something GP’s Jordan Gass-Pooré can surely identify with.

• It's official: 4th Street from Congress Avenue to Rio Grande Street will now be Bettie Naylor Street.

• Austin's Dykes on Bikes are still looking for a few more riders to lead the Austin Pride parade.