Something incredibly unusual happened in the UK on Monday night. The seldom watched BBC 3 channel broke the mold and drew a transfixed audience. And the reason for it was a truly remarkable one too!

No, it wasn’t some new lame reality show. There were no celebrities on a panel humiliating passing victims. It wasn’t some new game show with ridiculously fake people trying to “outsmart” each other for a prize.

It was actually a documentary.

Before you start snoring at the mere reading of the word documentary, this was an important moment for the UK. In recent years there has bee a fair bit of discussion about football (soccer) here, and how corrupt it might be, how racist it might be, how violent it often is, and so on. But something that rarely sees a word of discussion is how homophobic our national sport is.

There is no doubt that racism is not acceptable in football. Great steps have been made in recent years to stamp it out, with racist chants resulting in fines for the clubs responsible, players banned and publicly humiliated when found guilty of racist slurs on the pitch, and new rules being drawn up to weed out those kinds of poisonous attitudes from the fans and players.

But something that has not been confronted is homophobia.

In the last year we’ve seen Sepp Blatter – the head of FIFA – laughing openly about the issue of gay rights and the safety of gay football fans when visiting violently homophobic nations. It wasn’t just him either, the entire room joined in laughing, a room full of sports media from around the world. It seemed that they were incredulous that there could be any gay football fans. And even if there were, their Human rights and safety were not the concern of FIFA.

So, what happened on BBC 3 on Monday? They screened Britain’s Gay Footballers, a documentary created and presented by the (beautiful) Amal Fashanu – daughter of John Fashanu – asking why there were no openly gay footballers in the national game.

For those who might not be aware, Amal Fashanu is the niece of the tragic Justin Fashanu, the only openly gay footballer to ever come out in the UK, and who subsequently took his own life in 1998 after the decline of his career and repeated revelations and accusations about his private life.

His brother, John Fashanu – also a footballer but far less skilled – had abandoned him. His entire family had seemingly disowned the young man, and so when he found himself in a position that he couldn’t tolerate any longer, he found that the only way out was to end his life.

It was a remarkable documentary, and it increased the viewing figures for the seldom-watched channel by 50%. Twitter was abuzz with discussion about the show, with the vast majority of all comments seeming to be supportive and positive toward the issue, and highly critical of the sporting bodies responsible for maintaining the status quo, and critical of John Fashanu himself.

Although the marked absence of openly gay football players is in itself quite worrying, there were two things specifically about the documentary which unsettled me.

Firstly, young Amal Fashanu faced a wall of almost complete silence from clubs, managers and players across the UK. It seemed that no professional player was willing to come forward and discuss homophobia or gay players. Even when in a room full of professional footballers she was met with silence, childish giggles or complete arrogance. It really seemed as though a message had gone out from some sort of mafia Don that no one should speak to her. Or else they may find a horses head in their locker!

The second thing that struck me was the interview with her father, John Fashanu, about his dead gay brother. You know what he said? He called his brother selfish, for “embarrassing” and “shaming” his family. Even after his brothers suicide (with a note stating how totally alone he felt) John Fashanu has no shame in sticking to his tried and trusted line of labeling his brother an embarrassment.

After a gut-wrenching and tear inducing film, there were a couple of shining moments that offered some hope. Joey Barton – professional UK footballer – was confident enough to come forward for an interview and was a shining example of common sense and tolerance. He even went as far as suggesting that there would be an openly gay professional football player in the UK within the next ten years.

Gareth Thomas, openly gay Welsh Rugby player, also spoke on camera – with a number of his straight teammates alongside him. Making the contrast between the two sports quite remarkable. As Gareth says, the Rugby union released a statement after Gareth came out expressing complete support for him. His teammates made statements to the same effect at every opportunity too. People who know him and work with him were lining up to say how much they love the guy and that they support him in his brave decision.

Hold that up against giggling immaturity and ignorance of Sepp Blatter, a silent majority of homophobes in the management of the sport, the ignorance and astounding bigotry of the many players in football who couldn’t find the balls to speak on camera, and the fact that the only openly gay footballer in the British history is dead while his brother still thinks he was an embarrassment… it all becomes quite clear doesn’t it?

I wish I believed that we’d see another openly gay footballer in the UK in the next ten years. But I very much doubt it.

The iPhone 5 will be hands-down and maybe hands-up the hottest product release of 2012. We are also excited for an iPad 3 but if you already have an iPad 2 it better have a Jeanie inside it that comes out to serve us to upgrade. The phone though is something we normally lose, have to replace, or need repaired every year anyway and normally break the screen within a month. In addition, the mobile phone is something we carry with us everywhere. Apple is having some PR problems right now because of Foxconn and their Chinese factories and labor conditions but most people are just acting like they care. If Apple users would have given a care they would have banned the iPhone 4S. It has never been a secret that Apple has used Chinese laborers or hard labor conditions. Apple normally just gets away with their “green” marketed image somehow that most corporations would never get away with.

The iPhone 4S was such a disappointment that many have even put off who have an iPhone 4. All it really has is a talking Siri. Not much more to brag about and we could all use the most anticipated thinner design of the iPhone 5. It is also supposed to include a Sony Camera, smaller display size and changed display resolution, and wider home button that doubles as a track pad for gestures. We are mostly hoping it will be 7mm thick, a hair thinner than the original Droid Razr. It could also have Wireless data at 4G LTE.
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Looks like Miley Cyrus may or may not be on the wrong end of the penis cake for some people. Although she may well be in some heat from many conservatives and even some parents who do not want their kids seeing such an adult cake. Miley may just well be proving she is not a lesbian by such a big penis cake but it does not exactly mean she is not into white guys. Last we say a video that Miley cannot be tamed now we are seeing a licking of a big meat cake and before all of this her puffing up on a bong. Read more »

Uh oh look what the paparazzi caught now. A nice sized bulge from Zac Efron. I am too busy staring at his hot bare chest and abs to even get down to his bulge but I am working my way down.

ABC recently debuted a show called “Work It” about two straight guys that are trying to land a job in a recession. They have been on unemployment for a year now and are desperate for a job. They figure out that they could dress up in drag and get a job known normally just for females in the pharmaceutical sales industry. Having worked in sales and applied for several drug companies I do know that you need to be a gorgeous women for this task or a sales person that is highly charismatic.

GLAAD wasted a full page ad on going up against this show. It got canceled today but after watching it online it looked like it certainly would not harm a transgender person. I think there are things that GLAAD should be going after such as Santorum or Romney instead of a sitcom that the gays would enjoy.

One face-book comment on the issue said “It makes your organization look about as uptight as Elton John losing out to Madonna last night. Was your organization offended when George Washington wore a wig? I mean what kind of uptight organization are you?” We also saw some comments against GLAAD for taking this action against ABC and ‘Work It’ saying “Who will they go after next.. Tootsie?”. Seriously, they might go after Britney for lip synching at her shows or yes even Tootsie. Watch out GLAAD is like the new team of elites that will stop at anything and judge.

‘Betty White’s Off Their Rockers’ would be offensive to a senior citizens rights groups if GLAAD was in charge of it. It really was more offensive to elderly and used more stereotypes than ‘Work It’.

Work It proved to show it is not easy to dress up in drag. It showed the main characters going to get help putting on make-up after he tried once and looked like a clown. It then showed toilet paper coming out of his dress while dancing.

It is a shame that this show got canceled before it really had a chance to take off thanks to GLAAD and the HRC throwing a fit and placing ads against the show. It may have also been due to low ratings for the the new ABC Sitcom but it would have aired more than twice.

This brings me to think that the HRC and GLAAD have really disappointed in the last year. HRC going after Chick-fil-a and GLAAD spending all this money against a show that really was not all that offensive. There are bigger fishes to fry or goals these organizations that run off of our donations should be going after such as the presidential candidates or HIV stigma. They might could have worked with the ABC show to make sure it was more understanding of transgendered people.
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Details is the magazine all us gays used to subscribe to when in the closet to see all the hot guy pics or was that Universal Gear. Well OK we still have the subscription to Details because it brings out the metro sexual in everyone and we love it. Next month they are bringing us something else we love the hottie Darren Criss.

Actor Darren Criss is featured in the new February issue of DETAILS magazine. The 24-year old star of Glee is bringing his song-and-dance skills to Broadway. Moms, gays, and Michele Bachman, rejoice! This Details issue hits stands nationwide on January 17 known as the February issue. Here are some highlights from Darren Criss’ “Last Call” column Q&A.
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The Teen pop sensation Justin Bieber recently posted for V Magazine and looks cuter than ever. See “Lesbians that look like Justin Bieber” Fanpage. He spoke about turning 18 soon and wants everyone to know he wants to be like Michael Jackson on levels of fame and how MJ did not curse or use sex in his lyrics. He didn’t? Ok. We will go with that. Hmm Dirty Diana comes to mind. Here are some photos of The Biebs on the photo shoot. One hot lesbian indeed.
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The boy band lead singer Nick Carter is looking good and toned these days. We noticed a twitter pic of him circulating around showing off his tight body and abs. We always thought of Nick as our favorite BSB although not sure if hes hotter than Justin Timberlake who has always been the hottie of all boy bands. Let’s take a look at some other recent shirtless photos of Levi Crocker and Ashton Kutcher.