San Diego American Flag Football League is hosting Gay Bowl XV October 9 – 11. Gay Bowl XV, the annual flag football championship tournament of the National Gay Flag Football League, will be the largest Gay Bowl ever held, with over 50 teams participating in three divisions: Open ‘A’, Open ‘B’ and a Women’s division. Help…
For the first time ever an active player affiliated with a Major League organization has come out publicly as gay. David Denson, a first baseman for the Milwaukee Brewers’ rookie affiliate in Helena, Montana, made baseball history this weekend by revealing that he is gay, reported CNN. Denson, 20, publicly disclosed the news in a…
Nearly half a million Catholics have signed a petition urging Pope Francis to condemn same-sex unions as unnatural and rule out allowing divorced believers who remarry to receive communion, organizers claim, reports The Manila Times. The petition, The Filial Appeal on the Future of the Family, was launched by a group describing itself as an…
Many have jumped on the bandwagon criticizing the virtues of the upcoming movie ‘Stonewall’. Fueled by release of the trailer that depicts young white characters as the heroes of the piece critics have slammed the movie as ignoring the real movers and shakers of the time. Right on cue comes a new trailer for the…
With the June 26 U.S. Supreme Court decision in favor of same-sex marriage, the number of gay married men will increase and decrease. I was a gay married man in the sense that I was gay and married to a straight woman. The same applied to lesbians who were married to men. They were lesbian married women….
SAN DIEGO – Patients choosing a Scripps Clinic or Scripps Coastal Medical Center physician now have more information to help them decide. The medical groups are the first in San Diego County to provide online ratings of physicians based on the results of Press Ganey patient satisfaction surveys. “We decided to post these ratings on…
LOS ANGELES — Timed to coincide with today’s release of the widely anticipated new film, ‘Straight Outta Compton,’ AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) is launching ‘StraightOuttaCondoms,’ a new safer sex media campaign that includes billboard and bus bench ads in Los Angeles as well as a related public service announcement promoting condom use that will play…
When did TV first permit joking while gay? Matt Baume’s been combing through sitcoms to figure out when queers stopped being a scary threat, and were allowed to be real people with love lives and funny punch lines. Here are just a few of his favorite early gay characters on sitcoms.
Michael Sam, the first out gay player to be drafted into the NFL, announced Friday he is leaving football. In a series of Tweets Sam said he was ‘Stepping away’ from the game, reported Buzzfeed. He cited ‘concerns for his mental health’ over the last 12 months. In May, Sam joined the Montreal Alouettes of…
From the HRC Blog comes the sad news that once again we are mourning for the lives of two young transgender people of color. Thursday, Equality Michigan shared the news that Ashton O’Hara, a 25-year-old Michigan native, was found brutally murdered in the same Detroit park where Amber Monroe, a transgender woman of color, was…
