Kevin Jennings the founder of the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) has been tapped by the Obama administration to be the new Assistant Deputy Secretary of Education for the Department’s Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools. Mr. Jennings is will qualified having worked nearly all of his career as a teacher and then as a safety advocate to ensure a respectful and safe environment for all of America's students.The anti-gay right is seizing on the opportunity to defame Mr. Jennings because he is an openly gay man in a position of power. They are using fear tactics ...

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Our straight allies are our friends, support system and a source of inspiration as we struggle for true understanding and equality. Today's open forum is an opportunity to publicly thank our LGBTQIA allies who make a difference in our lives. If you are a straight ally, feel free to post about what drives you to be an agent of change for the queer community. If you are queer let us know how straight allies have made a difference in your life, and how important they are to you! ...

How a Gay Trend Becomes a Mainstream Fad by Stephen J. Lucin Ever since Calvin Klein's men's underwear ads were plastered all over Times Square, in numerous fashion magazines and on television in the 1990s, fashionable men's underwear has taken a shift from being associated predominantly with the gay community and has found its rightful place within the mainstream men’s market. Over the last decade, underwear brands such as /baskit/, Andrew Christian, 2(x)ist and Ginch Gonch have gone just as far as Calvin Klein by appealing to both the gay and straight male sensibilities. By creating mainstream advertisements with a gay ...

Hmmm, on the Friday before July 4th, 2008 Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin announces that she will not complete her first term as Governor of Alaska, because she will be resigning her office effective July 25th, 2009.Critics are not impressed. ...

Venus Williams USA (3) v. Serena Williams USA (2).The 2009 Wimbledon Women's Final is set, and for the fourth time this decade, it will feature Venus and Serena Williams playing each other. Venus will be appearing in the final for the eighth time, having won 5-times (losing twice to Serena in 2002 and 2003) including the last two years in 2007 and 2008.So far I have correctly predicted the last 6 matches of the Women's draw with only the final remaining. In my bracket selection at the beginning of the tournament I picked Serena ...

A "vanity smurf" is someone who is obsessed with their self image and is constantly checking themselves out. ...

good evening y'all! so i was browsing through some recent paparazzi pics and i came across aussie singer dannii minogue (younger sister of kylie minogue) hanging out with some super cute guy ... after a drop of research i found out the hottie is her boyfriend - former UK rugby player kris smith ... damn - he is adorable (she's not such a bad catch either!) dannii has been dating him since last year - gosh she's a lucky lady - just like victoria beckham! (oh and let's not forget dannii was once ...

Display mag is hot and feeling refreshed with their new summer issue. Inside, 'shooting star' Lope Navo shares images from his new book, STARK...while Bojan Stanic shows off Serbian hottie Vasa Nestorovic as this issue's 'Eye Candy.'  MORE PICS on the next page. Also inside, 40 years of europride, hot photos, gay city governers from around the world, Denver's Gay Rodeo, Brüno and Europe’s gays on the new film, Jazz Festival Montreux (organized by openly gay Claude Nobs), and Display readers travel-plans, travel tips and insider secrets on where to find the best Swiss hot-spots. Lastly, Gay TV presenter ...

Yes, I know...its almost too much to deal with. But it's true! Zac Efron was seen leaving La Peer Salon in Beverly Hills on Thursday with a new 'do' - very much like the one that Chace Crawford got earlier in the week. I, for one, am glad his unkempt mop is gone. How 'bout you? And who's rocks the look better...Zac or Chace? [ source | photos: ME/Rocstar ] ...

Last night Thom and I went to Nightlife, the California Academy of Science’s weekly Thursday night party, and it was a lot of fun. We sort of went on the spur of the moment and it was sold out online, but they were selling tickets at the door, and thanks to Thom’s membership, we didn’t have to wait long to get our tickets. It was my second time to the new Academy, but my first time in the planetarium. That show (narrated by Sigourney Weaver), which takes you on a short trip through the universe, is pretty amazing. Stuff ...

The whole purpose of Independence Day is to celebrate that long, long ago we decided that being Brits wasn’t our thing any more. Whether I agree with that decision or not is mostly irrelevant since we can’t change it now - but the point is that the country said, “to heck with rules and regulations made by someone across the pond, we want to do it our own way.” The problem with that is some people have gone too far. * Image and link from UWeekly Let’s talk about wearing sweat pants in public. I don’t mean going to the gym to ...

Sarah Palin has decided to resign as governor of Alaska.While this was mostly yawn inducing, it was just out-of-left-field enough to cause my left eyebrow to raise. Apparently since she wasn't planning on running for reelection, she decided that she didn't want to sit in office as a lame duck governor or something. Her statement:"Once I decided not to run for re-election, I also felt that to embrace the conventional Lame Duck status in this particular climate would just be another dose of politics as usual, something I campaigned against and will always oppose. It is my duty to ...