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 [...]

Pat Tillman gave up his professional football career to join the Army Rangers in 2002—and became an instant symbol of patriotic fervor and unflinching duty. But the truth about Pat Tillman is far more complex, and ultimately more heroic, than the caricature created by the media. And when the government tried to turn his death into [...]

LGBT friends don’t LGBT friends blog on Blogger, Typepad, or Tumblr. So we’ve made it easy for you to invite your friends to check out OutLoudBlogs.com. Although it’s crucial, being a good friend requires more than keeping a friend’s hair out of the toilet while they’re vomiting. Being a good friend means you’re selfless, willing to [...]

Kim Brittingham has written a great piece at Salon about the changing “face” and attitude of what it means to be a lesbian. “Most of them are homely looking, and usually overweight,” my mother explained. “That’s because when men don’t find a woman attractive, she’ll sometimes pair up with another woman instead. One ugly woman will easily accept [...]

This blog often goes days and sometimes a good week or so without finding LGBT related sports news, but today we hit a small gold mine at the end of the Rainbow with three stories to share. First The Independent  has done an interview with rugby player Gareth Thomas in which he tells in part to reporter Emily Dugan, “I’m [...]

We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. It says all, not some, not the chosen few but all. So I ask the question starting with President Barack Obama right down [...]

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“I don’t think this was a story that falls under any form of ‘journalism’ whatsoever. This is gossip. Nasty gossip. Deadspin has been known to do that every once in a while. This is one of those times.” – AJ Daulerio That’s what Deadspin Editor AJ Daulerio and writer of the piece ‘Brett Favre Once Sent Me Cock Shots’: Not [...]

  Juliet Macur and Michael S. Schmidt are reporting in the New York Times , Federal prosecutors have intensified their criminal investigation of the cyclist Lance Armstrong since the end of the Tour de France last month. They questioned many of his former associates, including cyclists who have supported and detailed claims that Armstrong and his former United States Postal [...]

 The ruling is in, the celebrations are underway and both sides have been quoted whether win or lose. Here’s a recap of the “Day of Decision”. US District Chief Judge Vaughn Walker determined, after lengthy deliberation, that a California ballot initiative banning same sex marriage violates the U.S. Constitution because it denies equal rights to gays and [...]

The Hartford Gay & Lesbian Health Collective will be presenting their 8th One Big Event  (OBE) on Saturday, Nov. 13 at the Hilton Hartford Hotel.  One of Hartford’s most distinctive benefits, it brings in a tangy mix of the old guard, the hip crowd and drag queens out in full force. This isn’t your grandmother’s night out on the [...]

In a world visibly divided between gay and straight, the bisexual is easily overlooked. We undertake a rare examination of society’s view of bisexuality and its expression in contemporary art and culture. From Europe to North America, the film traces the history of bisexuals from ancient times through the liberation movements of the ‘70s and beyond. Archive footage and [...]

This is why when I go to a baseball game, usually on my visits out to Arizona, I eat before going to see the game. ESPN’s Outside The Lines  has done a feature on sports complexes and where you may think twice about what you buy to eat at games. Mold in ice machines at six stands at [...]

A young lad many of you most likely have never heard of has become the latest martyr in a long line of many as his slaying back in 2008 again puts a spotlight on homophobic attacks, a judicial system which will lower charges in order to get a conviction and yet one more of our community to [...]