As Tom Diemer at Politics Daily writes, Military recruiters have been directed to start signing up gay men and lesbians who apply for the armed forces — and also to regard the don’t ask, don’t tell law as suspended until the fate of the controversial policy is settled by the courts or Congress Politico reported . Meanwhile, a federal judge who [...]

Comes word of yet another dumb ass anti-gay bastard who has done research which shows children of gays will likely become gay themsleves as Paul Kix writes in an article at AOL News. Walter Schumm knows what he’s about to do is unpopular: publish a study arguing that gay parents are more likely to raise gay children than [...]

One thing I’ve learnd from my “across the great pond” cousins is they love their favorite pub and don’t mess with it. Such is the case as reported and written by James McCarthy of The Echo in which certain scoundrels want to make the 100 year-plus old Kings Cross pub anything but an old queen. Rugby superstar Gareth [...]

As with all things transgender nothing is simple, in fact it’s the most complicated part of the LGBT community both for the individual personally and in making or changing laws or policies. Such is the case of 57 year old golfer Lana Lawless who is a retired police officer and who underwent gender reassignment surgery in [...]

Andrew Sullivan, love him or hate him, he has a lot to say about politics, life, being gay and more. Now in his tenth year of dishing it out on his blog The Daily Dish , Andrew was interviewed Sunday on National Public Radio’s popular program All Things Considered (audio program at link).  One of the things Andrew said to NPR’s [...]

So thanks to NYC area LGBT bloggers and news media GLAAD stepped up to the plate to complain to the New York Yankees organization about the bleacher bullies who pick on (or “rank” as we called it when I was a kid) fans of opposing teams who dare show up at Yankee games. As GLAAD reports at [...]

Happy Sunday boys and girls. You know there was a time I spent Sunday morning reading the funny papers. Now on occasion I take a gander around the Internet for dumbassery stuff to read. Well I found a good one to share with you readers today. From a website called DelMarvaNow comes this comment from a reader by [...]

I don’t know how much this will help anyone but if it helps one young person who is in turmoil in regards to who they are and they are looking in the deep and dark abyss then perhaps this personal note will be worth it. I don’t own a web cam nor put up YouTube videos [...]

From the news service IPS comes an article written by Dalia Acosta about the education program in Cuba fighting against HIV/AIDS and it’s effect on Cuban gay men. You can read the full story at the link. The video is about The Cuba AIDS Project which was started in 1995. Raúl Regueiro remembers every detail about the creation, [...]

As written at Pam’s House Blend , Tonight at 8 PM (ET) James Hipps will be having an exclusive (and hopefully the only) interview of me. In all the years I was in broadcasting and as many people as I have interviewed I had one rule when it came to giving flat out interviews about myself … no! I never wanted [...]

In an article at the New York Times on Tuesday, A federal judge ordered the military Tuesday to immediately stop enforcing its ban on openly gay troops, bringing the 17-year “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy closer than it has ever been to being abolished. Justice Department attorneys have 60 days to appeal the injunction but did not say what their [...]

There have and are any number of dumbbuggeries which the Republicans have put up for election from George Dubya to Sarah Palin to “I am not a witch” Christine O’Donnell but if there was an award for “The Best Dumbbuggery Idiot Of All Time” the prize would have to go to Carl Paladino. Can it get any better than [...]

Today you will read on just about every LGBT blog and website and even a sprinkling here and there in the mainstream media that today is National Coming Out Day. You’ll be told it’s better to be out than in the closet, that life is so much better to be honest and true to yourself. That is [...]

To be very honest I wasn’t planning on doing a posting for today. These early morning hours after my week’s work was to get caught up on news I missed both in general and LGBT. But when I came across this story and not remembering seeing it elsewhere I had to share with readers what I [...]

I remember well when Frank Reynolds was the anchor of the evening news on ABC and the day John Hinkley, Jr attempted to shoot President Ronald Reagan. Because it was a fluid news story, reports, some incorrect, were coming into the ABC newsroom as well as others. At one point Frank Reynolds had had enough and lambasted all [...]

When folks think of travel and tourism in Connecticut most think of the southeastern part of the state from Essex/Deep River over to Mystic and up to the casino area of Uncasville and Mashantucket. But I’d like to tell you about my part of Connecticut the western side. Recently the Litchfield County Times ran an article by Kathryn Boughton [...]

Before there was GetEqual and other assorted Gay Elite, there was Gay Nation. One of those in your face ( go ahead and slap me I dare you ) fool groups who one night tried to get in the face of Arsenio Hall on his show for “why don’t you have on gay guests ?”. Well brother, Arsenio bitch-slapped [...]

I really need to stop reading my email. Today we learn from Mediaite that Ms. Perez Hilton in all her girlishness glory has withdrawn her support of President Obama. There’s been a lot of talk about the so-called enthusiasm gap between Democratic and Republican voters. Now it’s being reported that the easily enthused gossip blogger Perez Hilton has [...]

After all the news in recent days of LGBT youth taking their own young lives because of bullying CNN jumped head long into this issue Monday night starting with the Larry King Show in which King had on as guests Kathy Griffin, Wanda Sykes, Tim Gunn, Lance Bass, Chely Wright and Nate Berkus to discuss the [...]

The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Teaching Tolerance project is targeting anti-gay bullying in a new documentary film – Bullied: A Student, a School and a Case that Made History – that will premiere in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, Oct. 5. The film, which offers lessons for students and educators on the devastating effects of bullying, is available along with [...]