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Gay Star News has some details: The magazine, which carries the tagline ‘True Champions Stand Up,’ will feature the personal stories of athletes and focus on such things as character, fairness and inclusion. Among the articles in the debut issue are on the National Hockey League taking the lead in the fight against homophobia and whether the National Football League …

Former gay porn star Ryan Idol has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for attempting to kill his girlfriend. Idol, whose real name is Marc Donais, was convicted last September but his sentencing was delayed while he appealed in vain for a retrial. According to the victim’s testimony at trial, Donais entered the woman’s apartment the night of Sept. …

Christian Newswire today promotes a campaign to send 25,000 moving boxes to the White House. The boxes depict the First Lady eating a hamburger while the president smokes and warns the moving men not damage a bust of his “hero,” Karl Marx. “We don’t like his policies, lack of leadership, traveling the globe and trashing America and feeding tax dollars …

Yesterday the Second Circuit Court of Appeals began hearing Edith Windsor’s DOMA case in New York.  Chris Geidner reports that the legal team hired by House GOP immediately opened with references to polygamy. The lawyer for House Republican leaders had to reach all the way back to 1885 today when asked where the “traditional understanding” of marriage could be found …

Bangles lead singer Susannah Hoffs steps out solo with a new track and video that features a young lesbian couple.

New York City’s public transit authority has voted unanimously to place disclaimers on ads such as the ones recently posted by anti-Islam activist Pam Geller. Similar disclaimers are already posted adjacent to Geller’s ads on San Francisco’s MUNI. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority approved new guidelines for advertisements on Thursday, prohibiting those that it “reasonably foresees would imminently incite or provoke …

The Mars Curiosity rover has at last confirmed what astronomers have long believed. The landing site of the Mars rover Curiosity was once covered with fast-moving and possibly waist-high water that could have possibly supported life, NASA scientists announced Thursday. While planetary scientists have often speculated that the now-desiccated surface of Mars was once wet, Curiosity cameras provided the first …

Her clip description: A Gay Rights Activist in a yellow Tshirt, (his gay activist group all wore matching yellow Tshirts), approached me on the street at the DNC and said “in 29 states, you can still be fired if you’re gay or lesbian,” I replied that one can also be fired for being a Christian. A stranger approached and joined …

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the United Nations General Assembly today and used a magic marker to illustrate his demand for American intervention in Iran’s nuclear program. After ticking off the evidence that he says points to Iran’s support of terrorism around the world, Netanyahu said that “given this record of Iranian aggression without nuclear weapons, just imagine Iranian …

By putting them in drag and having them dance to Call Me Maybe. For added humiliation, the players were forced to wear their outfits back to the team hotel in Boston. They all seemed to have a great time.

Via press release from the NYC Health Department: The Health Department is currently investigating a cluster of invasive meningococcal disease, commonly known as meningitis, among gay men and men who have sex with men. Invasive meningococcal disease is a severe bacterial infection that has a high fatality rate. Within the past four weeks, there have been four cases; one died …

7-Eleven is once again running their “7-Election” in which coffee drinkers indicate their candidate by which cup they choose. As of Wednesday, Sept. 26, the president holds a commanding 16 percent lead in the popular vote, collecting 58 percent of cups compared to 42 percent for the former Massachusetts governor. And the news isn’t better for Romney when it comes …

Two employees at Tulsa’s Victory Christian megachurch have been arrested for child molestation and several other high-level staffers have been accused of shielding those crimes. More alleged sexual abuse victims at the 17,000-member Victory Christian Center in Tulsa, Okla., have come forward, adding to charges already made against the megachurch that its staff delayed reporting the alleged rape of a …

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She rowed her girlfriend out from under the bridge as friends secretly gathered overhead for “Operation Rainbow Umbrella.” The girlfriend said “Yes” as Central Park visitors applauded and took photos from from the shore. Many more photos here. (Tipped by JMG reader Acacius.)