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Hackes Post Fake 'Coming Out' Announcement on Zach Braff's Website

Hackers have broken into the website of American actor Zach Braff and posted a fake 'coming out' statement in the TV star's name."To all my loyal fans, I have been hiding this secret inside me for too long...I am excited and proud to announce that I am an open member of the homosexual community."This i...

22 July 2011
08:51 GMT

Apple Loved by the US Gay Population

The 2008 Prime Access/PlanetOut Gay and Lesbian Consumer Study has revealed that Apple is among the top six gay-friendly brands in the US, next to Bravo, Showtime, HBO, Absolut, Levi's and many others, the Macworld website reveals. The study, carried out on 2,259 adults aged between 18 and 64, revealed that Appl...

19 May 2008
16:36 GMT

Xbox Live Bans "Gay" Gamers!

We all know that, when it comes to child safety and even customer support, the Xbox Live is not exactly something you would call "perfect", but at least the company is doing its best in order to change things around. However, it seems that every now and then they exaggerate things a bit too much and the only people w...

15 May 2008
03:16 GMT

Castrations Gone Wrong In Thailand

Thailand is the realm of sexual tourism, this is a well known fact. Sex for any orientation. The country is famous for its beauty contest of drag queens. And in such a sexually libertine country, some things seem to have escaped control. Thailand's Health Ministry has temporarily banned the performing of castrat...

3 April 2008
14:06 GMT

Hot Chace Crawford Dumps Carrie Underwood, Gay Rumors Going Strong

Earlier this week, a uber-hot rumor was doing the rounds on the Internet, claiming that "Gossip Girl" front man and ultra-hot actor Chace Crawford was playing for the other team, so to say, and was enjoying a steaming romance with former N'Sync star JC Chasez. The rumors were sparked as the two had become insepa...

27 March 2008
06:26 GMT

Carrie Underwood May Lose Boyfriend Chace Crawford... to Another Man

There have been a lot of rumors flying round about the handsome "Gossip Girl" actor Chace Crawford and the fact that he may be harboring a secret passion for the same sex. In other words, it has long been claimed that the gorgeous actor with the seductive stare and the long eyelashes is in fact gay, despite the fact ...

25 March 2008
11:07 GMT

Gay Facebook Page Causes Promotion Denial

There's a lot of discrimination today even though the world has evolved a lot since the day people of other color or religious belief were killed on sight. Like any form of warfare, the methods used for discriminating have gone deeper underground into the human psyche. Olden days saw armies of hundreds of thousa...

28 February 2008
16:36 GMT

Is This Zac Efron Half Naked, Kissing Another Man?

Now, Zac, what's going on here? Are you trying to stir the pot and get yourself some fresh media controversy too? Oh, I see - little Vanessa is making you feel all neglected again. I mean yes, I can pretty much see your point - there's always scandal cooking up as far as she's concerned, and we all kno...

25 February 2008
03:47 GMT

Orthodox Gays Israeli Website Support

Being different in a strict religious society could be very difficult, especially if the difference consists of sexual orientation. The new web site is meant as a tool to address every individual in that position seeking support with advice and support. It is also the first ever such forum for gay members of the Orth...

15 February 2008
17:21 GMT

Male Only Reproduction: Eggs Achieved from Man's Skin

Everybody is now focusing on the British research forecasting male-free reproduction. The team at the University of Newcastle has achieved proto-sperms from human female bone marrow cells. Many already think of lesbian couples conceiving their own children, possessing DNA 100% coming from both women, not 50% from one...

5 February 2008
14:06 GMT

Porn on Friend's Profile WILL Get You Convicted!

"Now this is a story all about how/ My life got twisted upside down." These were the starting two lines from Will Smith's "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" theme song. The following is also a story about how Officer John Nohelj's life went awry, and all that because of one of his friends on MySpace.Like the maj...

28 January 2008
17:56 GMT

Gay and Lesbian Couples Are Happier than Heterosexual Ones

Many people consider homosexuality as being deviant, but as far as happiness is concerned, homosexual couples seem to be happier than heterosexual couples. A study made by researchers at the University of Washington, San Diego State University and the University of Vermont, and published in "Developmental Psychology"...

24 January 2008
04:47 GMT

Lesbian Couples Work Better Than Heterosexual Ones!

Homosexuality is regarded as a frivolous behavior. Still, surprisingly or not, a new research published in "Developmental Psychology" has found that the same-sex couples are similarly committed in their romantic relationships as heterosexual couples. This challenges the common concept that couples in homosexual relat...

23 January 2008
04:26 GMT

Just By Looking 0.1 Seconds at the Face, People Can Say if Somebody Is Gay or Not!

There are many public persons, hidden gays, like actors or singers, which consider that they have managed to fool us for a lifetime. Besides the fact that this is hard to do, in fact we are able to assess sexuality in just one fraction of second, just based on some photos. This is now a scientifically proven fact, st...

21 January 2008
14:06 GMT

New Deadly Bacterium Menaces the Gay Communities!

HIV epidemics started with a boom in the gay communities. Now, the same category seems to be a hotbed for a new, highly antibiotic-resistant strain of superbug or MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) bacteria, as found by an UCSF study published in the "Annals of Internal Medicine." Like HIV, the new ba...

15 January 2008
03:51 GMT

Chronic Alcohol Consumption Turns Males into Homosexuals!

Alcohol can have a deep impact on sexuality. Many people drink to "loosen up" a bit. Alcohol removes inhibitions, easing the inter-personal contact and giving people more (sometimes significantly more) guts to do what they desire, also being less aware of consequences. Harvard researchers showed that frequent bingers...

5 January 2008
05:03 GMT

Gay Men Navigate Like Women

Many researches have shown that a gay man's brain is not very...male... A recent Canadian research has shown that in homosexual men, the brain has a larger posterior corpus callosum, a trait linked to brain wiring which is specific to women. So, if gay men have a female brain wiring, no wonder their brain functi...

5 January 2008
04:27 GMT

Internet Dating: A Syphilis Boom in the Western World!

Syphilis is a gift bacterium from the American Natives: we gave them smallpox (which almost exterminated them), they gave us syphilis bacterium. Syphilis was the sexual scourge of the 19th century. Many famous people died of it, from poet Charles Baudelaire to composer Robert Schumann, or painter Paul Gauguin (in the...

21 December 2007
05:11 GMT

Shocker: Ricky Martin Is Actually Gay!

Update: Ricky Martin Comes Out! and Conspiracy Theory Behind Ricky Martin’s Coming Out.It's become a bit of a tradition in Hollywood - actually, in the showbiz world in general - for people (that is, stars, 'cause that's what we're talking about here) with big gay secrets to be out...

10 December 2007
10:50 GMT

Victoria Beckham Finally Speaks the Truth: "I'm such a gay man"

Victoria Beckham is one of those people who believe that when they speak, the world should be quiet and listen carefully. But now, after years and years of waiting and feeling frustrated with the fact the the world still pays attention to her, my time has come to cry "the joke's on you!" I mean, on Victoria, who...

5 December 2007
10:03 GMT

Sex Risks Faced by Bisexual Men

Homosexuality and heterosexuality seem to be artificial terms defined by human society obsessed by order. Human traits can be genetically determined in two ways: discrete, like eye color, or along a continuum, like height. Studies have shown that sexual orientation actually lies on a smooth continuum and the way peop...

30 November 2007
13:56 GMT

Jessica Simpson Turned John Mayer Gay

I must say, I never actually cared too much about John Mayer's post-Chestica Simpson life, except that of course, I was very relieved that he had got away before turning even fuglier than he already was. I mean, come on - we're talking Jessica Simpson, folks, the most amazingly talented dumb blonde in the u...

28 November 2007
05:17 GMT

Right Hand or Left Hand? This Explains Why You're Straight or Gay

The brain of a gay man is clearly different from a straight man's; no wonder that even their bodies function differently. A new Canadian research published in the journal Neuropsychology and made on gay men comes with new aspects on the link between sexual orientation and right or left-handedness. Homosexuals of...

27 November 2007
14:06 GMT

Tom Cruise Is As Straight As They Come

This would be really funny if it weren't tragic. Apparently, someone really spooked the people at In Touch magazine - my money is on the Scientology fans, but I may be wrong - so badly, that they decided to clear up once and for all one of the biggest dilemmas of the past and present century: Tom Cruise's s...

23 November 2007
03:02 GMT

Are We Going to See Justin Making Out with a Man Now?

Remember all that craze that hit us about a month ago, when the "Harry Potter" author J. K. Rowling let the whole world know one of her best loved characters, professor Dumbledore, was in fact gay? Well, I think Rowling must have had some vision, or at least a wicked sense of humor in allowing the headmaster of Hogwa...

16 November 2007
04:10 GMT

Scientists Have Found a Difference Beetween the Brain of a Straight Man and That of a Gay Man

There is a vivid debate if homosexuality is a well-defined genetic trait, like the skin, hair and eye color, or a matter of choice. But many human traits fall along a continuum, like the height, and the common concept that everyone is strictly either "gay" or "straight", could be misleading. Studies reached the same ...

10 November 2007
05:58 GMT

Gays' Discrimination at the Workplace Decreases Productivity

Being gay in a straight society is a difficult task, as rejection comes from all sides. A new research made on over 500 American gay, lesbian and bisexual employees discovered that "fears about disclosing a gay identity at work had an overwhelmingly negative relationship with their career and workplace experiences an...

5 November 2007
08:56 GMT

Are One Third of the American Football Players Gay?

You cannot even guess from where does the surprise come - in this case from the "straightest" and most "macho" game of all, the American Football. A new research made amongst former high-school American Football players revealed that over a third of them stated of having had homosexual sex. 19 out of 47 male subjects...

31 October 2007
00:26 GMT

For All You Potter Fans Out There: Dumbledore Is Gay

Joanne Rowling's love for shocking twists and surprise revelations sure managed to take us all by surprise again. And there was me thinking that the Harry Potter surprises were over. I must confess, the only big surprise I still had in mind (after waiting patiently for almost 10 years to find out the series'...

22 October 2007
05:00 GMT

Homosexuality: Inherited or "Immoral Choice"?

Is human homosexuality an immoral choice or a biological trait? A study, which is about to start soon, aims at solving this issue. It will be made on 1,000 pairs of gay brothers, being by far the largest research looking for "gay" genes. "If fresh evidence is found suggesting genes are involved, perhaps homosexuality...

19 October 2007
14:06 GMT

Over 90% of the People Are Bisexual!

Apparently, "homosexuality" and "heterosexuality" have increasingly become two artificial terms defined by human society who's obsessed by order. People say homosexuality is not natural, but this is nonsense: if we look anywhere in nature, we'll detect animal homosexuality all around... Hundreds of species ...

3 October 2007
15:31 GMT

Black Homosexuals - Mentally Healthier Than White Homosexuals

People that are both black and gay could be seen as having a tough life. Rejection from all sides. But a research made at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health among lesbian, gay, and bisexual populations, blacks and Latinos did not find them to have more mental issues than their white counterpar...

3 October 2007
06:11 GMT

Super Mario Can Tell If You're Gay

While checking out the latest gaming news, my eyes were instantly drawn to the word "gay" since it was next to the name of a pretty famous title, Super Mario Galaxy. According to a couple of community blogs if you check out the game title's artwork you'll see that it spells "UR MR GAY". In case you don...

17 September 2007
03:25 GMT

Why Is There a Much Higher Level of HIV Infection Among Gay People Than Among Heterosexuals?

Gay men are known to be more exposed to HIV infections than heterosexual people are. But a new research has discovered that the significant differences regarding the HIV infection in the US between gay men and straight men and women are determined by factors that go far beyond sexuality. In 2005, more than 50 % of th...

14 September 2007
14:06 GMT

Body Type and Motion Reveal If You're Gay or Straight

A gay/lesbian is not completely successful in hiding his/her sexuality, as a new research has found that body motion and body type give subtle clues on sexual orientation of a person, which can be detected relatively easy by casual observers. "We already know that men and women are built differently and walk differen...

13 September 2007
14:06 GMT

Ja Rule Hates Gay People

It's always funny how people always find someone to blame whenever things don't go they way they'd like them to go. Like, for instance, all those crazed-out Britaloonies who were spending hours trying to prove to the world it's not in fact her fault that her big "comeback" performance sucked so ba...

13 September 2007
10:48 GMT

YouTube Now in Trouble for Gay Kiss Censorship

It's been a while since YouTube was criticized for the content published on its official page but the 'good' old times are back again. The famous video sharing platform is now in trouble because it seems like the engineers removed a video showing two gay teenagers, Luke and Noah, kissing for five secon...

10 September 2007
16:46 GMT

Gay Marriages 400 Years Ago in Europe!

Homosexuality was a frequent reality for the ancient Greeks and Romans, who left many writings, paintings, mosaics representing homosexual men and lesbian women. The very term "homosexual" comes from Ancient Greek, meaning "same sex" and "lesbian" comes from the island of Lesbos (Greece) where Moon Goddess' prie...

30 August 2007
06:32 GMT

Angelina, Still Wild, Still a Lesbian

Over the weekend, a French publication ran a story on Angelina Jolie, spiced with quotes from the screen beauty herself, in which she spoke of her bisexuality and how she gave up girls altogether for the sake of her current partner, Brad Pitt. Although that the whole thing seems a bit questionable (after all, it was ...

13 August 2007
08:01 GMT

No More Lesbian and S&M Loving for Angelina

Plagued as she is with rumors of a split, a possible deadly disease or anorexia and a career that has taken a certain plunge in recent months, Angelina Jolie still has the time to talk to magazines about her sexual orientation. If it sounds a bit strange to you, that's because it is! Although the stunning actres...

11 August 2007
06:13 GMT

A BJ Is a Good Way to Promote a Movie

Do you know which is the best way to promote a movie? Well, if you have no idea, I should say that sex or some sort of scandal might give you a clue. And this is exactly what director Brett Ratner is doing as we speak: stirring some old s**t to get people talking for the sake of the sales for 'Rush Hour 3'....

8 August 2007
08:22 GMT

David Beckham and Robbie Williams Go Gay

Good news for those who still watch 'Desperate Housewives' and for all the girls out there who dreamed of Beckham making his way into the world of television: David will team with his British fellow Robbie Williams for a contract on a groundbreaking show. Last week, the creator of the show, Marc Cherry, rev...

8 August 2007
06:25 GMT

Googlers: We're Proud for Being Gay!

Google is that kind of company that supports any kind of community as long as it promotes social causes, requires help or even wants to help the Mountain View giant reach its goals. Well, don't be too amazed to hear that Google also supports gay communities, having even a special name for all these Google fans: ...

5 July 2007
01:58 GMT

40 % of the Gay Men Face Violence and Property Crime Due to Their Sexuality

Being different exposes you to discrimination and violence coming from the others. Even if scientists have shown that homosexuality is largely widespread, this does not change the human attitude towards the phenomenon. About 40 % of the gay men and 12 % of the lesbians and bisexuals in the US have been victims of vio...

4 July 2007
06:30 GMT

Homosexuals and Lesbians Smoke More Than The Overall Population Does

Devoted Christians say homosexuality is the work of the Devil. And that tobacco is the Devil's grass. A new study shows that smoking has a higher prevalence in the gay community than it has on the rest of the population, even if more investigations are still required. The general Californian population has a sma...

29 June 2007
14:11 GMT

Enrique Loves Gay Life

It seems that Enrique didn't use the "gay" bit just on one occasion. This whole story started just before Enrique Iglesias was about to perform in the notorious "Club G.A.Y." in London. The singer revealed to the world that he enjoys to seduce men as well as women. That stirred things up a bit but was soon forgo...

29 June 2007
12:01 GMT

Boy George Arrested for Kidnapping a Male Hooker!

Fresh out of his troubles with the law, Boy George (real name: George O'Dowd) is again in deep waters but, this time, things are a bit more complicated than the first time around, when he simply made himself guilty of falsely alerting the police about a burglary in his apartment. Oh, and of having drugs in said...

1 May 2007
09:05 GMT

YouTube Removed Homosexual Content

Google's YouTube, the online video sharing service that allows users to upload, share and comment clips with other members, removed a controversial clip that caused a lot of trouble for the parent company. The video displaying homosexual indoctrination of elementary school children was deleted from YouTube witho...

30 April 2007
16:31 GMT

The First Gay Activist Lived in the XVIIIth Century

Homosexuality is well known even from antiquity. The Greeks and the Romans left many writings, paintings, mosaics representing homosexual men and women. The very term "homosexual" comes from Ancient Greek, meaning "same sex" and "lesbian" comes from the island of Lesbos (Greece) where Moon Goddess' priestesses p...

26 April 2007
07:01 GMT

Lindsay Will Never Get to Make Out with Keira Now!

Keira Knightley is fuming over Lindsay Lohan's decision to pull out of the drama 'The Best Time of Our Lives' (not related in any way with the daytime soap-opera 'Times of Our Lives', by the way). The two girls were supposed to star together in the movie, detailing the life of the Welsh poet ...

24 April 2007
11:50 GMT


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