The Chicago Tribune has a great article written by Rex W. Huppke about out and proud Laura Ricketts, co-owner of the Chicago Cubs and activist. Laura Ricketts walks through the empty stands at Wrigley Field hours before an evening game begins, stepping at a measured pace, calmly and confidently, and greeting every Cubs employee she passes with a [...]

Even my patience has limits ! – Lyndon Evans

My friend TheSportsFag just posted a story about Tampa Bay Rays’ third baseman Evan Longoria’s dong photo . Nudity is against the terms of service for OutLoudBlogs, but you can click the photo for the NSFW link to Longoria’s boomstick. Deep-voiced announcer guy: It’s time to play every gay man’s favorite game show Rate My Penis . After Perez : And for all of you [...]

From the website EDGE,  In the days since it was published, at least four gay Ugandans on the list have been attacked and many others are in hiding, according to rights activist Julian Onziema. One person named in the story had stones thrown at his house by neighbors. More than 20 homosexuals have been attacked over the last year [...]

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 [...]

In tonight’s installment Teddy and Ian clean the gutters (not what you’re thinking) and Ian almost takes a dive from the school’s roof before Teddy boy saves him. Next Ian breaks out his toolbox (again not what you think) to fix the broken gutter. And even though they share a special moment afterwards, Teddy boy [...]

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 [...]

Reality check time for hottie Josh Duhamel. Dude, you’re one of, if not the, hottest men living three rocks from the sun. Duhamel’s co-star Katherine Heigl says Duhamel is ‘pissed’ about the movie poster for Life As We Know It :

The actress says Duhamel is “pissed” about the embarrassing promo, because the underwear scene wasn’t in the original [...]

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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 [...]

I know I’ve take a bit of a break from my blogging, but since today is National Coming Out Day and since the news is flush with these devastating teen suicides, I made this video to tell you that it gets better. It Gets Better from Brett Bearce on Vimeo. For help: The Trevor Project It Gets Better Project Sexual Minority [...]