Back in September, the season premiere of “Saturday Night Live” featured a sketch in which characters wore tiny hats, which was similar to a “Tim and Eric” sketch that also had men wearing tiny hats. But those skits only showed the glamorous side of wearing tiny hats. In the video clip below, BBC Three’s “Bizarre ER” shows a dangerous downside to the fashionable practice: tiny hats cannot be removed if you superglue them to your head.

Yes, a gay man superglued a tiny hat to his head for a Halloween party, and E.R. doctors were forced to cut off most of the hat. NOOOOOOOO!!!!! But the hat… it was so… tiny. So tragic. RIP gay man’s tiny hat.

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Not only did “Glee” debut its first two original songs on last night’s episode, it finally showed a kiss between Kurt (Chris Colfer) and Blaine (Darren Criss). It’s not the first gay kiss on the show, but it certainly was the most sensual, am I right fellas?

After months of hints and winks, fans of FOX’s hit musical finally got what they’ve been waiting for: The characters of Kurt and Blaine kissed for the first time. And it wasn’t a peck. It also wasn’t overtly sexual or desperate, it wasn’t rushed or clouded with turmoil, and it certainly wasn’t played for laughs, the way many kisses between men are on TV. It was perfect.

“It’s hard to overstate the significance of the kiss between Kurt and Blaine on ‘Glee’ last night,” [said] Michael Jensen, editor of Logo’s AfterElton.com. “Even better, it wasn’t the sort of kiss we saw back in the 1990s where the guys pecked each other on the lips — or worse, the camera cutaway — but this was a real kiss that hinted there is much more to come in this relationship. If we still needed proof how far gay characters have come on network TV, ‘Glee’ just gave it to us.” [PopEater]

They must mean gay male characters, because lesbian characters have always been awesome. Especially when the lesbian characters are really pretty femmes played by straight actresses, because they make such good role models for confused young women.

Come, join me for a trip back in time to 2005, when the second season of “The O.C.” featured Olivia Wilde as Alex, a minx who seduced Marissa (Mischa Barton) into a realm of sapphic pleasure. I show you these pictures solely in the interest of promoting tolerance and gay rights.

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NBC has ordered a pilot for a sitcom about a lesbian couple. Good call! Lesbians are known for their free-wheeling senses of humor.

NBC gave the thumbs-up to a half-hour romantic comedy pilot called I Hate That I Love You. It’s from Will and Grace alum Jhoni Marchenko, and the logline is certainly eye-catching: “A straight couple introduces two of its lesbian friends to one another and what results is both instant attraction and a pregnancy.” [Vulture]

Honestly, I think it’s past time that open lesbians got shown on network TV beyond what we get from Ellen Degeneres. And as much as I like the femme-leaning glamorization of “The L Word,” this could be an opportunity to approach and break down stereotypes in a thoughtful manner. For example, there really ARE very nice, funny lesbians out there. The scowling, cargo-short-wearing dyke is just as reductive a stereotype as the hot pants/mesh shirt-wearing gay man. Which is to say: the funniest kind of stereotype! “Hot thtuff, comin’ through!”

[image via the artsy but NSFW Pussy le Queer]

Ladies and gentlemen of the Internet, meet your new king. Antoine Dodson had a nice run, but there’s a new gay man on the local news to be auto-tuned, and he LOVES sequins.

This news report comes from King 5 in Seattle, and it starts out as the dullest news story ever made: it’s about people shopping at Goodwill’s annual designer event. But then our intrepid reporter goes for the man-on-the-street interview, plucks Eyebrows McSleeveless from the crowd, and asks him what he’s doing. “Tons of f*cking sequins!” is his natural response on live television, because — let’s face it — he’s doing tons of f*cking sequins. I know it’s wrong to swear on live TV, but I think he deserves a pass. Let he who has not been euphoric about an influx of sequins cast the first stone.

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MTV issued an apology for a segment of the “Jersey Shore” reunion in which an unattractive woman was referred to as a “tranny.” The network will cut the scene from future airings.

GLAAD decried as offensive a segment where Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino flirts with an unidentified nightclub patron who his friends mocked as a “tranny.”

GLAAD described it as “one of the most blatantly transphobic scenes aired anywhere on television in the last few years.” [THR]

I understand that “tranny” is seen as a slur in the transgender community, but I’m confused as to what the hell people CAN use as a put-down when a woman has masculine features. Really, if transgender people did a more believable job of changing their gender, we wouldn’t call them trannies, would we?

Anyway, it doesn’t have to be derogatory. If you said that Vinny looked like a tranny in his Snooki Halloween costume, that would actually be a compliment. (image via)