The AggreGAYtor: July 23

Minnesotans get sick on fondant, Alan Turing gets a belated reprieve, and Big Freedia gets a misplexed and boonfraggled response from Postal Service fans, as your AggreGAYtor jiggles the tubes.

The Good

• The National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce honored Austin Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (AGLCC) with its Rising Star Award. Whoot whooot! Go Austin.

• Package Menswear (née Skivvies) is back and looking slick.

• Gaymers of the world unite at the first gay gaymers conference in San Francisco.

• Gay wedding business booms in Minnesota, as divorce attorneys bide their time.

• Alan Turing, the Enigma code breaker and father of modern computing, who was bullied into suicide by the UK government, is to be pardoned, very posthumously.

The Bad

• Guys, Russia has been severely retrograde on queer issues, and the Times is on it. Just ask these Dutch tourists.

• Queer kids are on all the Internets, getting all the bullied.

The Fugly

• The recently-opened Red Room on Fourth has suddenly become a hetero-only segregated space.

• The Vatican is embroiled in another gay sex scandal. Or is it the same old gay sex scandal?

It Came from the Tubes

• In honor of this, this: