Okay so I wasn’t going to post anything until the wee hours of Monday but I came across an article written by Julian Clary at The Guardian  and I just couldn’t resist sharing it with my fellow boomers (and older figgits). I’m a staggering 51 – too old for alcopops yet too young for Midsomer Murders. So I asked [...]

Commentator Tom Purcell takes a very tongue-in-cheek look at same-sex marriage. Here’s some highlights from his blog posting . I hope they know what they’re getting themselves into. The concept may conflict with your traditions and religious values — you may find it odd for a judge to say, “I now declare you wife and wife” — but if you follow [...]

Here we go again with another “tell all” book about a celebrity who has passed on to the great beyond and becomes titillating fodder for the sake of making a buck. Darwin Porter who brought you such eye opening (more like wallet opening) books like ” Hollywood Babylon “, ” Hollywood Babylon Strikes Again ” and ” Merv Griffin: A Life In [...]

Billy Van Raaphorst is no stranger to being disliked being a baseball umpire but when homophobic attacks are hurled that crosses the line in good sportsmanship. As the Edmonton Journal reported this past weekend Raaphorst was invited to speak about homophobia in sports at the invitation of the NHL Oilers where he was the key note speaker [...]

In 1980 William Friedkin’s movie Cruising starring Al Pacino created a firestorm in the gay community. Gays protested the film not only during it’s release but also during filming. Demonstrators did everything they could to sabotage the filming. There was an unsuccessful attempt to get Friedkin’s location permits in the Village revoked. When that didn’t work, people honked horns [...]

Connecticut one of the more progressive states in the Union in regards to the LGBT community now seems to be adding yet another notch in its conquest of the Rainbow. This time in politics as Gregory B. Hladky writes in The New Haven Advocate . Twenty years ago a Connecticut state lawmaker made national headlines by coming out of [...]

Earlier this week it was announced that Rachel Maddow will be receiving the Walter Cronkite Faith & Freedom Award from The Interface Alliance for her work in covering religion and politics. But Rachel’s work and I daresay importance goes beyond winning awards. She has become an advocate for LGBT issues while still keeping her journalistic integrity. While not keeping her sexuality [...]

Okay so Matthew Mitcham is an openly gay Aussie Olympic diver and not a rugby player but I bet he’d like to see the 2012 Gay Rugby Cup played in his homeland. Besides any excuse to show some beefcake in speedos like you all are complaining. According to the Aussie LGBT website SameSame, The Sydney Convicts rugby team [...]

Homeless. It can happen to anyone at anytime. From the Great Depression right through and into our current day in these still perilous economic times. many are but a paycheck away from being homeless. But what of those who are homeless through no fault of their own but for their sexuality? These are the youth of [...]

As unbelievable as this may sound GayRussia/UK Gay News reports that the former billionaire said gays and lesbians should die during a radio interview. During the radio show, the host of Cultural Shock, Ksenia Larina, asked Mr. Sterligov: “I want to understand, German, what what you want to do … what to do not only with atheists but [...]

As a child, I thought it was so fun to go to birthday parties. Living in a rural area where families had to work hard, there were not a whole lot of birthday parties. When they happened there were balloons, candy, pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey and homemade cake. Did I say homemade cake? God, those home-cooked cakes by the [...]

A couple of weeks ago thanks to a “lead” from a blogging friend of mine I applied for a news producer/anchor job at Sirius/XM’s OutQ channel produced for and marketed to the LGBT community. Without haste I filled out and sent the application via the Internet on a Sunday and the following Tuesday got not one but [...]

“In a way, I don’t blame them because in the changing room, where everything is wide open, for a lot of players, they just don’t want to (declare), if they’re not comfortable,” said Georges Laraque, retired NHL player and deputy leader of the Green party. “For me, I couldn’t care less. “But, a lot of times, if [...]

Yet another example of losing our best and proud serving members of the military to DADT. President Obama are you watching ? Visit msnbc.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy  And according to an article in Wednesday’s New York Times , Lt. Col. Victor Fehrenbach is suing to block his discharge under DADT. In early 2008, just eight [...]

Oh good grief !!!! Linda McMahon of Connecticut, the former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment, easily won the Republican US Senate primary Tuesday night, joining the nationwide roster of political outsiders who will carry the GOP banner into the fall campaign. McMahon, who has vowed to spend as much as $50 million in personal funds in her campaign, will [...]

When I was driving home from work Monday night into Tuesday morning I heard a story on WCBS-AM in NYC about a flight attendant who went off and my reaction was “must be a drama queen and gay”. Well I was right. JetBlue steward, uh make that former, Steven Slater tendered his resignation over the plane’s [...]