News: Dog Tease, Adele, Salmon, India, Matt Bomer, Pandas
Adele will record new album, won't take five year break.
If Obama signs an executive order banning LGBT discrimination, it looks as though it will be in good hands: "Patricia Shiu heads the Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP), which enforces contractual promises of equal employment opportunity for companies doing business with the federal government."
Lambert and Koskinen: In the NY Fashion Week hair wars, nobody else stands a chance.
Fashion icon collapses, dies at NYC show.
Indian Supreme Court hears appeals on decriminalization of gay sex: "Homosexuality should be seen in the context of changing society as many things which were earlier unacceptable have become acceptable with passage of time, the Supreme Court observed on Thursday."
Ultimate Dog Tease to be a movie.
J Lo tweets photo of herself nuzzling boytoy Casper Smart's bicep, deletes it.
First GSA meets on military base: "A group of about 75 people made history Feb. 13 at the Great Lakes Naval Station, north of Chicago. It was the first public meeting of Gay, Lesbian and Supporting Sailors ( GLASS ) , believed to be the first non-academy, general base-sanctioned gay support group on any U.S. base in the world. The Coast Guard can boast of having the first gay-straight alliance at a service academy, and such academies are located on a base."
Robyn Crawford, Whitney Houston's rumored lover, speaks to Esquire.
Matt Bomer's sophomore high school yearbook photo.
Kotaku salutes transgender video gaming pioneer Dani Bunten.
FDA on the brink of approving genetically engineered salmon for human consumption: "This would be the first genetically engineered animal on supermarket shelves in the United States. The salmon is engineered to produce growth hormones year-round that cause the fish to grow at twice the normal rate."
High school football player in rural America talks about being gay.
Chinese survey shows acceptance of homosexuality among youth: "More than 80 percent of Chinese people born after the 1980s hold no discriminatory beliefs regarding homosexuality, according to a survey on marriage perspectives conducted by jiayuan.com, a major Chinese dating website. The survey results, which were published in the Monday edition of the Beijing News, indicate that 83 percent of respondents born between 1980 and 1989, as well as 82 percent of those born after 1990, do not disapprove of homosexuality."
NPH and David Burtka have a Valentine's Day dinner, tweet entire 9-course meal.
Panda LiveCam.
Music director's marriage gets him fired: "On Jan. 19, just back from a honeymoon trip to Mexico, followed by an emergency stay at Carolinas Medical Center for a ruptured appendix, he checked out of the hospital and dropped by St. Gabriel. There, he was handed a note by the Rev. Frank O'Rourke, the pastor with whom he had closely worked for more than four years. It read: 'Employees of St. Gabriel ... are expected to live within the moral tradition of the Church...Your civil marriage stands in direct opposition to the teaching of the Catholic Church, therefore ending your employment with us, effective today.."
Victoria Jackson talks gay marriage, Communism, Obama...
FOX News commentator Dr. Keith Ablow: Media Matters founder David Brock is dangerous because he was adopted: "This is an adopted boy who needs to plumb the depths of his psyche. He was adopted. Many adopted children are tremendously well-adjusted, but for some reason, this man feels he’s unloved and unloveable, shunted to the side, and that’s the antidote he feels: unlimited power."




Lie down with dogs, you get fleas. Being gay and having anything to do with the Catholic church, expect to be treated the pariah the Pope thinks you are. Good luck finding another job.
Posted by: Mike | Feb 16, 2012 4:20:49 PM
Dr. Keith Ablow needs to be stripped of any Psychological or American Psychiatric Association credentials he has (if any!). We need to file complaints with them.
Posted by: Strepsi | Feb 16, 2012 4:33:21 PM
It figures that the perfect human adult specimen that is Matt Bomer would have been hot in high school but usually I find it's the opposite based on my old friends. Glad he turned into the Bomer of today, the world could use a few more of him.
Posted by: DBClark | Feb 16, 2012 6:00:28 PM
Man, if Victoria Jackson gets any dumber, they'll have to revise the IQ test to include negative numbers.
Posted by: bobbyjoe | Feb 16, 2012 6:20:30 PM
Bomer looks like a brunette Matt Damon in that shot. My parents have my senior year photo (when I was 16, likely the same age as Bomer) on their living room wall, and I hate seeing it. Thrift store blazer. Ugh.
That said, I could totally win the hair contest. I have the best barber ever. He even lets me bring my huge dog with me, then plays the Pet Shop Boys and charges me next to nothing as we chat for about an hour. Got a cut yesterday as an homage to the Beatles, though was then told that I looked like Justin Bieber or a 13-year-old lesbian. Don't care. It looks awesome.
OK, this is probably the gayest thing that I've ever posted here. Which is saying something.
Posted by: Paul R | Feb 16, 2012 6:59:31 PM
Zelda Kaplan was much more than a fashion icon. She went from a suburban housewife to become a NY nightlife icon, the subject of an HBO documentary, wrote a column for Out magazine, traveled throughout Africa, championed women’s rights, raised awareness about female genital mutilation, and lived one hell of a life:
http://goo.gl/8ZFeh
Posted by: Eric | Feb 16, 2012 7:16:23 PM
I'm surprised at how much of a jock Bomer looks like in that picture. I'm guessing all the girls were after him... poor girls. ROFL.
I jest, of course. Well, kind of.
I do love Matt Bomer. Talented, totally gorgeous and a nice family -- and he even seems like a pretty damn good human being.
Here's hoping his Soderberg movie is a huge hit and the GLBT community can have it's first A-List movie star (now that we have a few A-List tv stars...).
Posted by: Ryan | Feb 17, 2012 1:13:03 AM
He did play some football in school and continues to play in celeb football events. He is refreshing.
Posted by: Rem | Feb 17, 2012 6:54:54 AM