well, i finally got myself a one of these new-fangled game playing machines. I have been wanting a nintendo ds red for aaaaagggggggeeeeeessssss now, but always had something a bit more sensible to spend my money on. luckily for me, pokerbrother won a few thousand dollars at the weekend, and he bought me one! i have a very generous brother.   anyway, i am delighted with my wee red machine.  I went and bought a couple of games (as you do) - scrabble, and this thing called mysims.  the mysims description made it sound like the game was a cross between sim city and ...

Was this man ejected for leaving his seat during the singing of God Bless America or was he being drunk and disorderly? (Thanks for the link go to God is for Suckers)Is it really a rule at the stadium that you cannot leave your seat during such a song? Would leaving it at that precise point be any less safe than at any other time? No. So it's actually forcing paying customers to adhere to your silly beliefs? Yes.Disgusting. ...

"Coming out publicly, that was a first," said his mother. "The highest score awarded to an Olympic dive ever, another first. How many more firsts can this child get? Can you find something else to be first in? He's just done so well. He deserves it."Matthew Mitcham, 20, who was representing Australia at the recent Beijing Olympic Games was one of the only 10 openly gay athletes of the competition. There were 10,500 athletes competing in Beijing.To read more about the openly gay and lesbian athletes who took part in the 2008 Games, click here.To find out about ...

A few weeks before she left Euroffice, Gretchen told me about this crazy American TV show called "Dog, the Bounty Hunter". As far as I was concerned bounty hunters were things seen only in Star Wars and I didn't think any more of it.A few weeks later, whilst doing my usual, annoying flicking through the channels on Sky I found Dog the Bounty Hunter was on and decided to watch it. Basically it's a fly on the wall documentary about a bail bond office in Hawaii. It features Duane (Dog) Chapman, a reformed criminal, and his ...

A couple phoned the police to report a possible house burglary, which so concerned the couple that they promptly fell asleep. They were awoken by a text message. They were:"...totally gobsmacked and disgusted that this text was sent out an hour later to us. "To text the person who calls and ask them to investigate what had been stolen, broken into and who did it is just incredible. "It just gives burglars the idea that they can get away with it because the police aren't going to send anyone out." Mr Bishop, 33, added: "I would've thought they should ...

Sometimes I wonder if people actually think about what they write in emails? I've had my brushes with stupidity (once sending out an extremely personal and inappropriate email to all of the TVW Folkestone staff) but at least I wasn't in a position needing public scrutiny. Tower Hamlets council employee John Williams ("Head of Democratic Services"), however, should really have thought through the wording of his email before sending it out and playing right into the hands of the racist scum that bedevil this country.Check out this news story. Read it all, and you'll see what he was trying ...

Wayne Besen provides some data on the upcoming vote on gay marriage in California. It shows that whilst the potential electorate is pretty equally split, the pro gay marriage "likely to vote" electorate is slightly in the lead.For those not in the know, Proposition 8 is a proposed measure to amend the Californian Constitution to ban gay marriage, something which has now been legal for a few months. Personally I think it is quite right for this to be on the ballot, I think that it gives the gay community in California the chance to get democratic approval ...

Pioneering lesbian rights activist Del Martin, who married her longtime partner in June on the first day same-sex couples in California gained that right, died Wednesday. She was 87.Martin died at a hospital two weeks after a broken arm exacerbated health problems, said Kate Kendell, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights. Her wife, Phyllis Lyon, was with her.Along with six other women, they founded a San Francisco social club for lesbians in 1955. The group evolved into the nation's first lesbian advocacy organization.Martin in 1970 wrote an influential article in the Advocate magazine that criticized what she ...

A couple of weeks ago, a reader sent me the following email:Dear GB,I'm trying to get over a relationship I had with a guy that started in March this year. It will soon have been four months since we broke off, and while I've willed my flesh to move on, my spirit is still broken.I've dated, watched movies and had meals with perfectly respectable men whom I find savagely attractive... only to find that beneath the physique there isn't anything that comes even close to the level of affinity I felt for him. I've went to 4 saunas in Hong ...

This is a photograph of the orchid we were given by ET's Mum. They really are beautiful and I had to take a photograph before the flowers begin to die.I have the day off today, and tomorrow...and the weekend. It feels good to have a break! ...

Australian gay magazine DNA just released their Sexiest Men Alive Issue. And, in honor of the annual beefcake celebration, the editors chose Bryan Thomas for their cover. Bryan Thomas (26) is a personal trainer and a aspiring fitness/fashion model. Check out his Official Blog.Photography by Troy Phillips & Akimitsu Sadoi. ...

This August London is hosting the International Gay and Lesbian Football Association's World Championship. The final is to take place this Saturday at Leyton Orient FC in east London and the British team, Stonewall FC, which won the European Gay Football Championship last month, is strongly tipped to win. The world title event has the official backing of the Football Association.Forty teams from all over the world are competing (32 male and eight female); representing the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Uganda, Ireland, Iceland, Denmark, South Africa, the Czech Republic, Sweden, Japan and Australia.The qualifying matches ...

I’ve spoken to a few people recently who upon learning of my bisexuality, fessed up to having had their own bisexual experiences. All of a sudden bisexuality seems rather common. Everyone’s doing it! Excellent! However, whilst one girl was happy to admit she’d messed around with some of her girlfriends she was reluctant to describe herself [...] ...

Leo Abse died last week. He was a Cardiff lawyer who was a humanitarian and was ahead of his time. In the 1960s men were not “gay”; they were “homosexual”, and homosexual men were perceived to be mentally disordered, subnormal and perverse. The partial decriminilisation of homosexuality among men that he played a major part in achieving in 1967 satisfied no one. Compromises never do. It criminalised men under 21 who carried out acts of same-sex affection; it outlawed any homosexual act not held behind closed doors and any homosexual act between more than two consenting adults. Where a homosexual ...

this morning the doorbell went at half seven.  i was quite excited, seeing as how i’m expecting a parcel to arrive.  so i all but ran to the door, wrapped only in a towel with a leg covered in not-rubbed-in moisturiser (i was just out of the shower), and there was the postwoman. woohoo!  or not quite woohoo actually, because she didn;t hand me my parcel.  no.  what she handed me was one of those funny little cards that say “we tried to deliver you something, but since you weren’t in, and since it’s too big to fit through your letterbox, we’ve taken ...

Some guy on the X Factor says he doesn't know his real family, and wants to prove to them he isn't a waste of space (note to him... the X Factor cannot help you with this...). Then the Mirror runs a story saying he lied, and his father is quoted to prove it.Now what the father says is basically he and his son have regular phone contact and he last saw him four years ago. Personally I've seen complete strangers more often than that and I thus very much doubt it contradicts what his son said. He wants to ...