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This ran during Glee last night.

According to a new study due out from Ohio State University, most people can correctly guess a man’s sexual orientation by listening to recordings of the way he pronounces his vowels. They asked seven gay and seven heterosexual males to record single-syllable words (including “mass,” “food” and “sell”) and then played the recordings for listeners. The study participants were then …

On the left, what they say. In the center, what they really mean. On the right, what Europeans hear. (Via – Andrew Sullivan)

“Transgender” is the “hot word of the day” over at Dictionary.com. An excerpt: The word transgender is a recent addition to English. In conversational use as early as the 1960s, “transgender” entered the dictionary in the early 1990s. Trans- is a Latin prefix meaning “across or beyond.” Gender shares the same Latin root as genus. As a classifier for male …

The Atlanta Braves have suspended their pitching coach after he heckled fans at a San Francisco game by shouting, “Are you a homo couple or a threesome?” and then simulating anal sex with a baseball bat. The Braves have placed pitching coach Roger McDowell on administrative leave while they continue to investigate allegations that he directed anti-gay slurs toward fans …

Openly gay former NBA player John Amaechi feels Kobe Bryant’s “fucking faggot” apology was insincere and that the NBA’s fine was appropriate. Amaechi came out in 2007 after his retirement. He remains the only openly gay current or former NBA player.

The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal has ordered a comedian to pay $15,000 in compensation for anti-gay insults he directed towards a lesbian couple during a 2007 show at a Vancouver comedy club. Stand-up comedian Guy Earl was ordered to pay the money to Lorna Pardy, 32, while the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal also ordered the Vancouver restaurant owner, …

As penance for last week’s “fucking faggot” incident, the below PSA featuring Kobe Bryant and members of the Los Angeles Lakers will be played at the stadium during home games.

In an article being distributed today by Christian Newswire, SPLC-certified hate activist Porno Pete LaBarbera attacks GLAAD for my recent award. According to LaBarbera, GLAAD is hypocritical for going after Kobe Bryant while not minding my criticisms of the Christianist anti-gay hate industry. “Apparently GLAAD’s leaders despise critics of homosexuality so much that they fail to see the irony of …

“If the NBA had any true gay convictions, the NBA should host a Homosexual Night. During halftime, the homosexuals could come down on the court, hold hands and prance around the court to music by the Village People. The NBA could then give each homosexual a pink basketball as a symbol of solidarity. Like other professional athletes, numerous NBA players …

GLAAD and the NBA today announced a joint effort to quell homophobia in professional basketball. This new partnership arises out of an incident in which Los Angeles Laker star Kobe Bryant was captured by network television as he called a referee a “fucking faggot.” Bryant is appealing the $100K fine imposed by the NBA for his outburst. Via press release: …

Los Angeles Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant announced today that he intends to appeal the $100K fine imposed by the NBA yesterday for his calling a referee a “fucking faggot” during Tuesday night’s game. Bryant, talking from Sacramento on the Mason & Ireland show on ESPN 710 Radio in Los Angeles, said the appeal is “standard protocol,” but also took responsibility …

In a move the Human Rights Campaign calls “unprecedented,” the NBA has fined superstar Kobe Bryant $100,000 for calling a referee a “fucking faggot” during last night’s game. Via press release: While Bryant acknowledged the outburst earlier today and said in a statement it did “not reflect my feelings toward the gay and lesbian communities,” he failed to apologize or …

Last night NBA superstar Kobe Bryant called a referee a “fucking faggot” after receiving a technical foul. The Human Rights Campaign reacts: “What a disgrace for Kobe Bryant to use such horribly offensive and distasteful language, especially when millions of people are watching. Hopefully Mr. Bryant will recognize that as a person with such fame and influence, the use of …

“Words are worse than sticks and stones,” says this bullied 8th grader. Her touching clip already has over 225,000 views.

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Via Andrew Sullivan, a chart listing the most popular curse words used by British and “east coast” American teens. Brits on the left.

“I’m through whining about a liberal press that holds particularly conservative women to a different standard, because it doesn’t do any good to whine about it. Nobody ever promised life was going to be fair. And politics really isn’t fair, the scrutiny, the double standards, and all that. I’m dealing with it I guess in a different way than others …

“Homo-fascism sort of depicts this intolerance from the homosexual side. You have a movement that was once widely regarded as a taboo, a sin, and a perversion now dictating to the rest of the culture what should and should not be allowed. And so we’re openly using the term homo-fascism because we think it’s appropriate.” – Porno Pete LaBarbara, explaining …

Newly added to the Oxford English Dictionary: For the March 2011 release of OED Online, we have selected for publication a number of noteworthy initialisms—abbreviations consisting of the initial letters of a name or expression. Some of these—such as OMG [OMG int. (and n.) and adj.]: ‘Oh my God’ (or sometimes ‘gosh’, ‘goodness’, etc.) and LOL [LOL int. and n./2]: …