This year’s senior class award for Most Likely To Be Arrested From His Job At McDonalds On An Episode of Cops goes to Desoto County High’s Mason Holland. Way to go Mason!

Gay rights groups are demanding an apology from FIFA President Sepp Blatter regarding his comments that gay fans wanting to attend the Word Cup in Qatar should “refrain from any sexual activities.” Here’s the video: Demanding an apology from someone who says what they believe is dumbdiculous (new word). An apology from Blatter, who obviously could [...]

The House voted Wednesday to repeal the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy that for 17 years has forced gays desiring to serve in the military to conceal their sexual identity. The 250-175 vote propels the issue to the Senate for what could be the last chance for now to end the 1993 law that forbids recruiters from [...]

As regular readers of this blog either at its origin at Hearst Newspapers or now exclusively here at OutLoudBlogs know, I have written  several times I am no fan of outing someone now matter who they are, the good or the bad, and feel in no uncertain terms it is up to the individual when and if [...]

From Queerty, Dan Choi, the lieutenant and Iraq veteran, has checked himself into a veteran’s hospital facility for mental health treatment. In an open letter at Pam’s House Blend , Choi writes the following. “I did not initially want to publicize this but I now realize it is critical for our community to know several things: veterans gay or straight carry human [...]

GLAAD and GMHC, the nation’s oldest HIV/AIDS prevention, care and advocacy provider,  yesterday called on the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to pull a sensationalistic and stigmatizing television public service announcement aimed at gay and bisexual men. The PSA, which is intended to encourage condom usage among gay and bisexual men, claims that [...]

Hilarious audio from Steve “The Big Dog” Duemig show on WDAE-AM in Tampa last Thursday with Penn State Coach  Joe Paterno . In defense of coach Paterno the telephone wasn’t all that popular when he was a kid. Joe Paterno also told 4-star defensive tackle Darian Cooper that he will be around another five or six years . “Damn”, said [...]

At the end of 2009 season Philadelphia figured they wouldn’t be able to sign Cliff Lee when he became a free agent after the 2010 season so they traded the ace lefty to Seattle in exchange for prospects. So this morning’s announcement the Phillies signed Cliff Lee for five-years and a guaranteed $120 million may seem [...]

Homophobia continues to be a problem in rugby (as in the NFL) as Richard Williams writes about in his sports blog at The Guardian . For the record the beef in the photo are not of the Rainbow crowd but certainly make Rainbow groins go all a twitter and hearts go pitter patter ……. sigh. Somewhere in one of the bigger [...]

The idea of an inflatable roof, self-supported by air pressure in the upper Midwest seems kind of stupid in hindsight of this past week’s snowstorms. Here’s video of the Metrodome roof collapsing early Saturday morning under the weight of several inches of snow. However, even with the intervention of ma nature, Vikings quarterback Brett Favre, [...]

Tomorrow marks the return of the Locker Room radio show on Blog Talk Radio.  Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been retooling the show and I’m happy to announce the addition of co-host Tommy Henry of the Hero Complexed blog on Blogger. Join us tomorrow for our first show, and everyday Monday thru Friday, at 2PM [...]

Well boys and girls here’s a good example of the old saying “damned if you do, damned if you don’t”. Air New Zealand has edited it’s on board safety video to not include a “no kiss” gay style. Below after the excerpt from an article at gaynz.com is the unedited video. I have more of a problem [...]

In the Guardian UK , John Waters writes about things many of us boomers and those older can relate to. I have this simple advice to all you gay and bi guys who have perky pecs and all the other attributes as I once had. Enjoy them while you have them boys because one day those perky pecs [...]