8th Annual AIDS Bike Rally

Until there’s a cure… There’s a ride

300 people. 600 kilometres. 6 days.

Toronto, Canada – Canada’s third largest fundraiser benefiting an HIV/AIDS organization is just weeks away. Over two hundred cyclists are training and counting the days until the Friends for Life Bike Rally sets off on a six-day adventure from Toronto to Montreal.

When the group arrives in downtown Montreal, they will have biked over 600 kilometres through the countryside of Ontario and Quebec, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for the Toronto People With AIDS Foundation in the process.

June 27, 2006 | Filed Under Just Being Gay | Leave a Comment

UK Sailors to March in Gay Pride

The Independent has published an article this morning revealing that military officials have given the go-ahead for gay and lesbian naval personnel to march in full uniform for the first time at Britain’s annual Gay Pride celebrations.

This coming Saturday, more than 40 sailors, from able seamen to Royal Navy Reserve commanders, will lead the EuroPride parade through London. The event comes six years after a landmark legal ruling to allow gay people to serve openly in the armed forces.

The Navy said it was the first time that any military organisation in the world had allowed gay and lesbian recruits to march in uniform at such an event. “They will not be marching in a parade formation but they will be walking smartly and in full uniform with medals,” said Commander Graham Beard, the Navy’s diversity spokesman. “We strive to support our lesbian and gay community, and this is a massive step forward for us.”

In 1999, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that gay people had a legal right to serve in the armed forces. Before then, they faced being thrown out if their sexuality was discovered.

June 25, 2006 | Filed Under Just Being Gay | Leave a Comment

Where The Boys Are: Fire Island

It’s time to start thinking about where you’ll spend your summer vacation. So want to know where the boys are? I’ll try to show you some places to check out that are gay friendly and should provide a great get-away experience whether you’re traveling alone, in pairs or want to round up a group of friends to share the fun with. First on my list is Fire Island.

June 12, 2006 | Filed Under Gay Travel, Just Being Gay | 1 Comment

Awards & Twins for Melissa

I watched as Melissa Etheridge received her Stephen F. Kolzak award on LOGO this past weekend at the GLAAD Awards, and I was just thrilled to see how well she’s doing after her battle with cancer.

The Stephen F. Kolzak Award is named after a highly successful Los Angeles casting director who devoted the last part of his life to fighting AIDS-phobia and homophobia in the entertainment industry. This award is given to an openly gay member of the entertainment or media community for his or her work toward eliminating homophobia.

To make this year even more special, Melissa and her partner Tammy have announced that Tammy’s carrying twins! They’re saying they used a sperm bank for the insemination procedure.

Melissa just released a new album, “The Road Less Traveled” and has agreed to a summer tour to promote its release. You can check out her tour schedule on her website. Quite a few are already sold out.

Here’s a huge congrats on all fronts, and I’m thrilled Melissa’s back in the GLBT battle for equal rights once again.

April 18, 2006 | Filed Under Just Being Gay | Leave a Comment

Vac Blowjob

So what happens when a bunch of college guys discover one of their dorm buddies has passed out drunk on a bunk? Why, they hook up his dick to a vacuum of course! You have to check out these pranksters in action!

Vac Blowjob

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March 20, 2006 | Filed Under Just Being Gay | Leave a Comment

Pay Me To Decide!

by Siranee

A few weeks ago, Hemant Mehta posted an unusual item for sale on eBay: a chance to save his soul. While unusual items have a habit of showing up on ebay, this one in particular caught my attention.

The DePaul University graduate student promised the winner of the auction that for each $10 of the final bid, he would attend an hour of church services. The 23-year-old Mr. Mehta is an atheist, but he says he suspects that he has been missing out on something.

“Perhaps being around a group of people who will show me ‘the way’ could do what no one else has done before,” Mr. Mehta wrote in his eBay sales pitch. “This is possibly the best chance anyone has of changing me.”

Evangelists bid, eager to save a sinner. Atheists bid, hoping to keep Mr. Mehta in their fold. When the auction ended on Feb. 3 after 41 bids, the buyer was Jim Henderson, a former evangelical minister from Seattle. Winning bid: $504.

The 58-year-old Mr. Henderson has written a book for a Random House imprint and is currently a house painter. He runs off-the-map.org, a Web site whose professed mission is “Helping Christians be normal.” Mr. Henderson is part of a small but growing branch of the evangelical world that disagrees with the majority’s conservative political agenda, and wants the religion to be more inclusive and help the disadvantaged.

The idea that such a method as an ebay auction could become the vehicle for such life altering decisions is both intriguing and frightening. Could this be the new version of flipping a coin to make up one’s mind about something? Should I or shouldn’t I bathe daily, go to work, kill my neighbor … the possibilities are limitless.

Imagine someone who is gay waking up one morning and deciding to post an auction stating the winner would decide what his sexual orientation should be. After all … being gay is a choice and not a condition of genetics right?

I’m sure similiar minded individuals like Mr. Henderson would step right up to the challenge of helping all of us homosexuals attain “normallacy”. Personally, I’d need more than $10 per hour to pull off acting straight 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

But then, if the auction was setup much like this one was, I’d only have to be “straight” for an hour. I could handle that. Hell, I “acted straight” nearly 8-9 hours a day when working out in the real world for almost thirty years. By my calculations, someone owes me $124,800.00.

I accept checks, credit cards or paypal.

March 12, 2006 | Filed Under It's A Crazy World, Just Being Gay | Leave a Comment

Lesbian crowned Homecoming KING

While it shows a progressive minded and permissive student body, the small town of Frederick, MD is still debating the good, the bad and the “not so sure about this” after learning that Hood College students had elected Jennifer Jones, a 21 year old senior, and an out and about lesbian, as their 2006 Homecoming KING.

Hood College is reviewing its homecoming rules after Jennifer Jones, a 21-year-old senior who beat out three men for the honor. She received 64 of the 169 votes last month.

“It is cool that Hood allows people to be themselves,” Jones told The Frederick News-Post. “If people didn’t want me to be king, they wouldn’t have nominated me and voted for me.”

“She is not a man,” said Singleton Newman, a 22-year-old senior who was nominated for queen. “It is a gender issue, and she is a woman.”

Santo Provenzano, 21, who competed for king, said Jones’ selection made the event seem like a joke. “It discourages guys from wanting to take part in the future,” he said.

Donald Miller, Hood’s student activities director, said all homecoming events will be reviewed and possibly changed. “We will look at what students want Hood’s homecoming to be,” he said.

So, is this controversial issue about a woman being crowned KING, something that traditionally says “male” for gender, or does it have more uproar associated with it because Jones’ is a lesbian?

And on an even deeper level, has the student body actually pigeon holed “gayness” into the women as being male/butch and the gay boys as girly? If that’s the case, I have to say I’m against her getting the crown.

Now if the issue dealt with allowing 2 of the same sex being allowed to attend Homecoming as each other’s date, I’d be behind it 110%.

March 9, 2006 | Filed Under Just Being Gay | Leave a Comment

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