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Facebook Banned Naked Rugby Players; I Stand With Andy Cohen; Dustin Lance Black Baby Photo Controversy

Facebook Banned Naked Rugby Players

Every year The Naked Rugby Players pose for a calendar and all the proceeds go to charity. Apparently, Facebook, in all its infinite wisdom, decided to censor them. And as usual, there's a twist.


More groan-inducing news from Facebook: new reports suggest the social media megacorp banned a charity calendar for violating its prohibitions against sexual activity. The catch? The calendar actually didn’t violate said standards.


Here's the rest of th...

Penn Badgley On "Privileged Ass White" Actors Playing Gay Roles; Andy Cohen Becomes A Dad At 50 Years Old; Queer Eye Stars Help Students

Penn Badgley On "Privileged Ass White" Actors Playing Gay Roles

Here's more on the topic of straight actors playing gayface. This one is so blunt it actually surprised me, which isn't easy to do.

Penn Badgley, best known for playing Dan Humphrey on the hit show Gossip Girl, is weighing in on the debate over whether straight actors should play gay roles and sharing why he’s so over “privileged ass white people.”

Of course I agree with him. I've been posting links about this for yea...

Story Behind the Village People YMCA Song; Airport Gives Nyle Dimarco A Wheelchair For Being Deaf; The Colton Haynes and Jeff Leatham Divorce; Young Children and Homophobic Hate Crimes

The Story Behind the Village People YMCA Song

A friend sent me this link and I thought it was a nice piece of gay history. It's been 40 years since The Village People dropped "YMCA" and I think it still resonates with gay men.
The song has also immortalized the Young Men's Christian Association in pop culture. Yet former residents of the McBurney Y in Chelsea — the building that inspired the song, and which was featured in the video released in late 1978 — say the reality of stays at the YMCA i...

Darren Criss Won't Play Gay Roles Anymore For a Great Reason; The First "Christian" Airline; The Vatican's Credibility Issue

Darren Criss Won't Play Gay Roles Anymore For a Great Reason

I have always loved Darren Criss, but I now love him a whole lot more. He "gets" it. And I think he's the first actor to actually come out, on his own, and say this. He may have made gay history.

But now he won’t be playing those roles any more.


‘There are certain [queer] roles that I’ll see that are just wonderful,’ Criss told Bustle.‘But I want to make sure I won’t be another straight boy taking a gay man’s role.’

I've been saying we'...

Darrin Criss Won't Play Gay Roles Anymore For a Great Reason; The First "Christian" Airline; The Vatican's Credibility Issue

Darrin Criss Won't Play Gay Roles Anymore For a Great Reason

I have always loved Darrin Criss, but I now love him a whole lot more. He "gets" it. And I think he's the first actor to actually come out, on his own, and say this. He may have made gay history.

But now he won’t be playing those roles any more.

‘There are certain [queer] roles that I’ll see that are just wonderful,’ Criss told Bustle.‘But I want to make sure I won’t be another straight boy taking a gay man’s role.’I've been saying we'...

Gus Kenworthy and Paris Is Burning Tweet; Catholic Schools In Ireland and LGBT Sex Ed Topics; Trans Student Is Allegedly Bullied and Traumatized

Gus Kenworthy and Paris Is Burning Tweet

Kenworthy tweeted something funny this week and I actually saw it in my Twitter feed. I left my own reply, and I wound up getting a lot more hearts than I would have guessed I'd get. Frankly, I didn't even think the story would warrant a headline. But it doesn't take much to get Twitter excited, and it seems to have resonated with people.

Out Olympian Gus Kenworthy joked about it on his feed, writing, “Accidentally mentioning Paris Is Burning i...

Cory Booker Is Heterosexual; Fire Island's Meat Rack Sex Raids; Tumblr's Mixed Message On Sexuality;

Cory Booker Is Heterosexual
I believe him. Why would he lie at this point? It wouldn't make sense to lie, especially nowadays.
There have been gay rumors circulating for years.  
In a recent interview with the Philadelphia Inquirer, he addressed these rumors.‘I’m heterosexual,’ he said simply.Here's the link. It looks as though he's going to run for President. 


Fire Island's 'Meat Rack' Sex Raids
I didn't know this happened in Fire Island, too. 
NPR recently published...

They Make Penises Shrink; Brandon Stansell 'Hometown'; Stripping to Make Money For Charity

They Make Penises Shrink

According to this article, the chemicals found in non-stick frying pans cause penises to shrink.

And in the latest – and definitely most tangible – investigation into the chemicals’ impact, a team from the University of Padua, Italy, has found that young men who grew up in an area with PFC-contaminated drinking water have significantly smaller penises and less mobile sperm than those who grew up with clean water.

Here's a link. They explain it in more detail. And it has...

Karamo Brown Thinks 'Call Me By Your Name' Is 'Problematic'; LGBT Midterm Candidates and Winners; Harmful Gender Stereotypes To Be Banned In UK

Karamo Brown Thinks Call Me By Your Name Is 'Problematic'

It's not a secret that I've NEVER been a fan of the book or movie, Call Me By Your Name.
Karamo Brown is not so 
“I’ve worked with many survivors of sexual assault, especially in the LGBTQ community, whi...

Licking Milo Ventimiglia's Toes; Trump Signs Law Giving Billions To HIV Research and Treatment; Next UK Census and Sexual Orientation;

Licking Milo Ventimiglia's Toes

Milo Ventimiglia is one of the stars of the TV show, This Is Us. To say he's attractive is an understatement.

Here's something kind of ridiculous about licking Milo Ventimiglia's toes, but in a funny, endearing way. I like Milo Ventimiglia and I will watch his new movie. He's an excellent actor. I'm glad to see him breaking away from This Is Us. I hope this new film is a huge hit, knock wood.

Ventimiglia was there to promote his new film, Second Act, starring...