New AAG Model: Anthony M.

Anthony M. comes to AllAmericanGuys from the state of Rhode Island. The 21-year-old college student majoring in kinesiology is a mixed martial arts enthusiast and part time model. Anthony enjoys working out and anything involving fitness. He's also big on wake boarding, snow boarding and surfing. He's a bit shy but given the right circumstances can really "come out of his shell", so to speak. His July 2010 debut photos are his first ever professional photos taken.

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Filip For Tarzan

His progress is amazing. Filip J. was photographed for CzechYoungMuscle four years ago. Now there are new shots, and the man looks better than ever: Long, wild hair, and a pretty buff body. The man should be the next Tarzan.

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Tory George Poses For NCB

Top fitness model Tory George is showing off for NorCalBodz Photography. Enjoy this slide show with his best shots:

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David Rich: Get Six-Pack Abs

"Squeeze those abs, and feel the burn!" Fitness trainer and model David Rich invites to an intensive workout for all muscles that make great abs.

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why I am fat?

I am fat because I love food…
I am fat so demand for lots…
I am fat and I am HOT….
I am fat and that’s ok…
In the winter storm there’ll be A may-day…
You’ll need me to keeps you warm…
The FAT in me will be your HERO in the winter storm….

this picture was sent with the request by TWO folks, one asked for a poem and other asked to keep the offensive factors in mind; so to please both here is what I came up with.

Please!!!! Remember that I don't mean to offense anyone, and that all my writing will be base on Facts, Childhood memories, and what inspired me to write......
Thank you for your time, and your understanding, Sandra

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Book: They ask, they answer

Book: They ask, they answer
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Several times I heard them say that being gay is a promiscuous, and only thinks about sex almost always betrays. Worst of all, who said such statements were themselves gay, calling their reality as "bubble." Not that I think differently, but it would be unfair just to name homosexuals as promiscuous, but I also could not say that heterosexuals exhibiting the same behavior. Therefore, I began to observe the behavior of boys regardless of their sexuality. I noticed that they had not so many differences, and often in the form of thinking was similar or even equal, differing only by the interest in the case of gay boys and girls in the case of heterosexuals.

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Special Evandro Soldati

Supermodel finalist Brazil in 2001, Evander is one of the most successful models in the world today. Lives in New York and is a model since 16 years.

The list of runway is big, including names such as Roberto Cavalli, Versace, Alessandro Dell'Acqua, Dolce & Gabbana, Zoomp, Narciso Rodriguez, Michael Kors, Rag & Bone, Dsquared, among others. He also has starred in campaigns weight to Giorgio Armani, Louis Vuitton, Dolce & Gabbana, Valentino, Calvin Klein and Lacoste. Among other works, has also made the cover of L'Uomo Vogue and posed without clothes for the editing history of Visionaire and has worked with the most powerful photo. Also dates the model Yasmin Brunet

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Gay porn star Mason Wyler takes who is HIV positive

The porn actor Mason Wyler, 26, said in an interview with "The Advocate" who is HIV positive.

Wyler posted on his official website that carry the disease discovered in May. In 2008, actor graced the headlines of newspapers and websites in the U.S. after that date had been raped - which has never been clear, raising the suspicion that it was all a lie to promote himself.

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Matt Damon’s stepsister auditioned to play his lover – mistakenly!

London, Oct 22 : American actor Matt Damon’s stepsister has revealed that she was left stunned when she landed an audition for a role in his new movie and was told that she would be playing his lover.

Model-turned-actress Sarah Bradford, 22, who had grown up with Damon, 39, after her mother and his father married, was shocked when casting bosses told her she would have to jump into bed with her sibling.

“Five months ago I went in for a reading for this movie Matt’s in, The Adjustment Bureau. It’s in production right now in New York,” the Daily Express quoted her as telling New York magazine.

“It was for a character called Elise - she is basically queen bee at this ballet academy - and all of a sudden they say, ‘Are you aware that if you get this role, you’ll be playing Matt’s love, having a love affair with your brother.’

“My jaw dropped,” she exclaimed.

Fortunately for her she was given another role to play, and was very excited about it.

“I just read for a more appropriate role in the movie, Elise’s friend, and I got the part. It’s very exciting. What parents wouldn’t want their children to work together,” she added. (ANI)

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Ray: Flexing & Relaxing

Nice muscles, nice smile, nice guy: In several new clips in the VistaVideo Member Zone Ray pumps up with concentrated biceps curls, swims and flexes by the pool, and
relaxes in the sun. Some screen captures

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Anthony C: New Photos

AllAmericanGuys have published new outstanding shots of their very popular model Anthony C. You find all of his high quality potos

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New AAG Model: Tim

AllAmericanGuys have not yet revealed details on their new model Tim, but have now published the junior bodybuilder's first shots which show his excellent look and shape

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Atlanta police investigating slaying of Black Gay Pride organizer

Atlanta police are investigating whether the murder of the organizer of the city’s Black Gay Pride celebration was shot because he was gay.
“The Atlanta Police Department is exploring all possibilities with regards to the homicide of Durand Robinson,” Atlanta Police Department spokesman Carlos Campos told the Atlanta
Journal-Constitution.

Robinson, 50, owned a popular gay club and was found dead in the middle of a street in southwest Atlanta early Wednesday. He was shot in the chest.

In The Life Atlanta is organizing a candlelight vigil for Sept. 1.

Atlanta’s Black Gay Pride celebration is scheduled for Sept. 1- Sept. 6

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Pentagon to meet with military gay spouses

Members of the Pentagon’s Comprehensive Review Working Group on Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell will meet with lesbian and gay military partners on Sept. 16, said Servicemember’s United.
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The meeting will be the first time Pentagon staff are meeting with gay military partners about Don’t Ask.
“We are honored to be able to facilitate this meeting between the partners of active duty lesbian and gay troops and the leadership and staff of the Comprehensive Review Working Group,” said Alexander Nicholson, executive director of Servicemembers United. “The plight of military partners is something that Servicemembers United has led the way on with our Campaign for Military Partners, and we have been pushing for partner input into the review process for quite some time. We are glad that the Pentagon recognizes the value of input from these silent heroes.”

The meeting is part of Servicemembers United’s Military Partners Forum in Washington, DC in conjunction with its fall “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Lobby Day.

The Pentagon is currently surveying 150,000 military spouses as part of a study looking at the consequences of repealing Don’t Ask. The survey, of course, isn’t going to gay partners of servicemembers – but it’s been leaked and is now online.

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Corvino: Ken Mehlman’s new beginning?

In some circles, Ken Mehlman’s coming out as gay this week was about as shocking as Rosie O’Donnell’s coming out in 2002, or Ricky Martin’s coming out earlier this year. Others were quite surprised. Still others asked, “Who’s Ken Mehlman?”
Answer: Ken Mehlman is, according to the Atlantic piece that broke the story, “the most powerful Republican in history to identify as gay.” He’s the former chair of the Republican National Committee, and he was George W. Bush’s campaign manager in 2004.

Which means that Mehlman, 43, has spent a good chunk of his adult life contributing to a party and to campaigns that engaged in explicit gay-baiting. Recall that during the November 2004 presidential election, anti-gay marriage amendments passed in 11 states—part of Karl Rove’s strategy to draw out conservative evangelical voters.

Does Mehlman regret his role in all that?

Sort of, it seems. The Atlantic piece claims that Mehlman tried to scale back the marriage-equality attacks in “private discussions” with senior Republicans, and that he acknowledges that his coming out sooner might have mitigated some of his party’s homophobia.

But the quotations from Mehlman suggest that he doesn’t fully grasp his complicity. From the Atlantic piece:

”What I do regret, and think a lot about, is that one of the things I talked a lot about in politics was how I tried to expand the party into neighborhoods where the message wasn’t always heard. I didn’t do this in the gay community at all.”

He said that he “really wished” he had come to terms with his sexual orientation earlier, “so I could have worked against [the Federal Marriage Amendment]” and “reached out to the gay community in the way I reached out to African Americans.”

Here, Mehlman sounds at least as concerned (or more) about his failure to educate gays about Republican values as he does about his failure to educate Republicans (including himself) about gays.

In the interview, Mehlman also claims that former President Bush is “no homophobe,” which is true if by homophobe you mean someone viscerally uncomfortable with gay people. I lived in Austin when Bush was Texas Governor, and I knew people who knew him well. Gays were part of the Bushes’ social circle for years.

But homophobia doesn’t always come with open disgust, any more than racism always comes with hoods and pitchforks. Publicly, Bush, Rove, and Mehlman treated homosexuality as at best unspeakable, and at worst a threat to family and civilization. In doing so, they perpetuated the notion that gayness is a dirty little secret, something shameful and unholy.

Such homophobia is far more insidious—its damage far more pervasive—than any “God Hates Fags” rally. As someone who has experienced the closet firsthand, Mehlman ought now to understand that.

The reason that LGBT people are angry at Mehlman is that he was a key player in an organization that fostered and exploited such homophobia. The Republican party’s gay-baiting in 2004 didn’t just lead to a wave of discriminatory amendments: it also drove countless LGBT youth into the shaming closet that Mehlman is now gratefully escaping.

That’s what I want to see front and center on his regret list.

Which doesn’t mean I’m going to join the pile-on of those who say that there’s absolutely nothing that Mehlman could ever do to redeem himself. Quite the contrary.

Mehlman can’t change his past; no one can.

But if we want people to make better choices in the future, we hardly encourage their reform by telling them that they’re beyond redemption—as various bloggers have suggested regarding Mehlman.

Mehlman could easily have spent his life, as do many closeted Republicans (and Democrats, and Independents), covertly seeking romance with people who either don’t know or don’t care about his past. He has plenty of money; he could have afforded a nice closet.

By coming out in The Atlantic he has rejected that path. Good for him.

Instead, he wants to devote his energy to the fight for marriage rights. He has become actively involved in the American Foundation for Equal Rights, which is working to overturn California’s Prop. 8. His professional history puts him in a unique position to reach out to Republicans and others traditionally opposed to marriage equality.

If he continues these efforts—if he uses his strategic know-how to win political battles for equality, if he goes behind “enemy lines” to fight the homophobia that his party so deftly exploited, if he works to dismantle the crippling shame of the closet—then he should be congratulated, not shunned.

It won’t erase his past. But it’s a start at a much better future. I wish him well.

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More than a bodybuilder nude star test, see

Today the profession and bodybuilder posing nude for a website or producer is almost the same word.
The bodybuilder Frank DeFeo just take your clothes off again for the production company COLT studios.
The photos are for the painting "Big Load - Minute Man - Scene 4" of the producer, the only one given in the muscles.

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Former Power Ranger Blue out of the closet and assume he is gay

The actor who played the Blue Ranger in Power Ranger series, David Yost, decided to exit the closet and took his homosexuality during an interview with Anime Festival Orlando 2010, an event for fans of Japanese animation, reported the Mail 24 hours.
Yost, who had participated in many campanahs to defend gay rights, first spoke openly about it.
He said he has suffered sexual harassment and various types of bullying during the four years he attended the show's young, including a stay in a 'therapy antihomossexualidade' offered by an American church.
The actor left the series in 1996, after its earnings declined for two consecutive times in Power Rangers Zeo season.

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Terry Prone: My dead, gay friend who proves the Pope is wrong

Pope Benedict XVI says that saving humanity from homosexual or transsexual behaviour is just as important as saving the rainforest from destruction. His controversial comments were all over the international media last week. They shouldn’t have been, according to the Iona Institute, a faith-based organisation. Because he didn’t say that at all.

So what he actually said was: “We need something like human ecology, meant in the right way. The Church speaks of human nature as ‘man’ or ‘woman’ and asks that this order is respected. This is not out-of-date metaphysics. It comes from the faith in the Creator and from listening to the language of creation, despising which would mean self-destruction for humans and therefore a destruction of the work itself of God.”

Clear on that, now? Me neither.

Thanks to the Iona Institute’s well-intended presentation of what the Pope meant to say, we now know Benedict comes from the same school of crystal-clear communication that gave us our beloved taoiseach. Given that media outlets, including the BBC, understood that the Pope was saying homosexuality is as dangerous to humanity as the destruction of the rainforest, Benedict clearly needs help with his communication.

My friend Kieran Lyons would have been offended by reports of the Pope’s statement. Although, no, Kieran didn’t do offended. He did outraged.

Not that he had much time for outrage the year his mother was diagnosed with secondary cancer and told she’d be dead in six months. He gave up his job and went back to the family home in Bagenalstown, Co Carlow, to nurse her.

His mother was a strong country widow who had come through a tough marriage relying on silence and prayer. Kieran could talk for Ireland but he also had insight, so each morning he’d leave the breakfast tray and go away to give her peace.

One morning after he set the tray on her lap, she caught his wrist. “I hardly know you,” she told him. He stepped back, the two of them silenced by the truth of what she had said. Kieran was in his mid-thirties and his mother hardly knew him.

“Would you write to me?”

“Write to you?”

“Write what you can’t talk to me about. A letter now and then.”

So he did. Every day for the seven-and-a-half months she survived, she got a handwritten letter from him in an envelope on the breakfast tray. Sometimes several pages long, sometimes one paragraph. Sometimes serious, often riotously funny. Towards the end, when neither breakfast nor reading were possible for her, he would read the letter aloud.
The letters told her the secrets of his life. Of the early months in the seminary, filled with happiness and certainty about the future. About the gently firm older priest in charge of the clerical students who knew him for what he was and helped him to see that the priesthood would not meet his needs. He told her of his desolate departure from the college, and of opting to study law, rather than his first love, medicine.

“You would have been a good doctor, though,” she said. It was an acknowledgment of his elegant and lightly dismissive management of the awkward intimacies dictated by her physical decline.

He was first a lawyer, then a magazine publisher, before becoming a full-time carer, letter-writer and laughter-inducer. She laughed most at his ruthlessly accurate self-portrayal: severely coeliac, committed hypochondriac and gay as Christmas.

It was only when her voice had shrivelled away to a whisper that she told him she loved him. He kissed her on the forehead. Then realised she had something to add: “Now I know why I love you.”

She never said anything else. Her silence gave way, the following day, to the agonised breathing before death.

After the funeral, he went through her papers. He found the first few months of his letters to her in an enamelled box tied together with a ribbon. That was unexpected; his mother had never been fond of ribbons. Rather, she was the kind of woman who kept a ball of rubber bands in a drawer because you’d never know when you’d need one. The ribbon was like receiving a posthumous sacramental blessing from her.

In the papers he found an aspect of her life of which he had known nothing: a leper colony in India she had supported for decades through the organisation of bring-and-buy sales. He sent the priest in India a letter and the rest of her money. The priest wrote back and told him the difference his mother had made.

He got himself a new job, setting up a publishing division within the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland. He renewed an old friendship with me and together we wrote a book — This Business of Writing. Turn that beautifully produced hardback over and you’ll see a picture of the two of us. I’m trying not to laugh because, at the moment the shutter snapped, he was crouching to look smaller than his great height and predicting that the photograph would make him look like a tall stick of broccoli.

He also pursued a crazy idea developed after a visit to the leper colony his mother had helped. He worked out that in five years, when he was 50, he would have enough money to study medicine and then move to India to work with lepers. He wrote to medical colleges and found a place.

Then he became ill, and earlier this year he died suddenly. His funeral brought together dozens of people who had never known each other, each of them having been rescued, encouraged, lovingly bullied and dragged out of sadness by a man who — we now learnt — had spent his life doing pastoral work.

None of which, in fairness, the Pope would condemn. The Pope would say there’s nothing wrong in being homosexual; it’s just the act that’s wrong. Which line of thinking, logically extended, suggests the dead man was a danger to the human ecology the Pope wants to promote.

In fact, Kieran Lyons improved human ecology, making lives sustainable by noticing misery and promoting potential.

He was as gay as Christmas. And, for his friends, his passing leached some of the gaiety out of this one.

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It's The Gays' Fault

I figured we had gotten past this canard but since Bill Donohue is on every television and radio show loudly proclaiming that the church's abuses can be attributed to "homosexuals", and therefore it is homosexuality and not the church that stands in the dock, it requires some unpacking.

Here's Donohue's valid point. In some of the reports on the sex abuse crisis, the impression is sometimes given that all the offenses are against children in the classic pedophile sense - pre-pubescent. The John Jay Report found that 22 percent of the cases of abuse in America were with children under the age of ten, 51% were between the ages of 11 and 14, and 15 percent were aged 16 or older. Eighty percent were same-sex abuse. So you can see how you can say that the majority of the cases were same-sex acts between men and male teens who were sexually past puberty. Hence, in Donohue's blinkered eyes, the gays did it. And if we get rid of all the gays, we may be unfair to many of them, but at least we can get rid of the abuse.

But here's why Donohue's attempt to blame the crisis on homosexuals as such is so wrong. First, the

BENEDICTChristopheSimon:AFP:Getty critical issue is abuse, not orientation. The abuse of a young or teenage boy is no different in its nature than the abuse of a young or teenage girl. The sin is the abuse of power, and the use of religious authority to subject the defenseless to an adult's sexual gratification. It's about the power differential, and the still fragile nature of a developing psyche and sexuality. The sexual orientation of the perpetrator is, strictly speaking, irrelevant to the matter at hand: an institution that sought to cover up, and protect rapists and molesters of minors. If we were talking about adult sexual relationships here, we could have a discussion about sexual orientation. But we're not. We're talking about abuse.

Secondly, and obviously, homosexuality is not abuse. It is an orientation that for the overwhelming majority involves consensual sex with adults. Some obvious attraction for teenage boys is as prevalent among gays as the obvious attraction for teenage girls for straight men. But there is no reason to correlate homosexuality with abuse, pederasty or pedophilia.

The real question is: what kind of gay man molests children and young teens? Just as: what kind of straight man molests children and young teens? What leads to this kind of behavior which is far from the norm among homosexuals and heterosexuals? And why does the Catholic Church priesthood seem such a magnet for child rapists and molesters? Why has it seemed to attract so many gay men who are psychologically disturbed or sick when it comes to their sexual orientation?

I find the answer pretty straightforward.

The church teaches first of all that all gay men are "objectively disordered:" deeply sick in their deepest soul and longing for love and intimacy. A young Catholic who finds out he's gay therefore simultaneously finds out that his church regards him as sick and inherently evil, for something he doesn't experience as a choice. That's a distorting and deeply, deeply damaging psychic wound. Young Catholic gay boys, tormented by this seemingly ineradicable sinfulness, often seek religious authority as a way to cope with the despair and loneliness their sexual orientation can create. (Trust me on this; it was my life). So this self-loathing kid both abstracts himself from sexual relationships with peers, idolizes those "normal" peers he sees as he reaches post-pubescence, and is simultaneously terrified by these desires and so seeks both solace and cover for not getting married by entering the priesthood.

None of this is conceivable without the shame and distortion of the closet, or the church's hideously misinformed and distorted view of homosexual orientation. And look at the age at which you are most likely to enter total sexual panic and arrest: exactly the age of the young teens these priests remain attracted to and abuse.

That's the age when the shame deepens into despair; that's when sexuality is arrested; that's where the psyche gets stunted. In some ways, I suspect, these molesters feel as if they are playing with equals - because emotionally they remain in the early teens. I'm not excusing this in any way; just trying to understand how such evil can be committed.

Ask yourself: how many openly gay and adjusted priests have been found to have abused minors? Or ask yourself another question: if straight men were forbidden to marry women, had their sexual and emotional development truncated at the age of 13, and were forced into institutions where they were treated by teenage girls as gods, an given untrammeled private access to them, how much sexual abuse do you think would occur there? Please. This is not that hard to understand.

I think it's compounded by the shame gay bishops feel about their own sexual orientation. They, like Bill Donohue, secretly associate their homosexuality with dysfunction, disorder, chaos, evil. So when they come across a fellow priest found to have molested teenage boys or children, they associate it with homosexuality - not pederasty - associate themselves with it, and try to cover it up - partly because they want to protect the church (which is their sole refuge) and partly because they want to protect those they wrongly associate with themselves. My own view is that Ratzinger fits almost perfectly into this paradigm, just as Weakland did. Which means there will be no change until this generation dies off. If Ratzinger were to face the truth on this, his world would collapse. He is not giving up on denial yet. He is a prime example of the walking wounded. Crippled, in fact, in the sole area he cannot be crippled: moral authority.

I don't believe, in other words, that you can tackle this problem without seeing it as a symptom of a much deeper failure of the church to come to terms with sexuality, sexual orientation and the warping, psychologically distorting impact of compulsory celibacy in the priesthood. If women and married men were allowed to be priests, if homosexuality were regarded in Catholic theology as a healthy and rare difference rather than as a shameful disorder, this atmosphere would end, and these crimes would for the most part disappear and the cloying, closeted power-structure which enabled them to go unpunished for so long would finally crumble. And the church could grow again.

Through the truth, not around it. But it's exactly that truth that this pontiff and his enablers refuse to acknowledge. It would kill them.

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Calif bill protects clergy opposed to gay marriage

(08-25) 15:56 PDT Sacramento, Calif. (AP) --

Clergy who refuse to sanction same-sex marriages would be protected under a bill sent to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's desk by the state Senate.

Sen. Mark Leno's bill, approved 22-11 Wednesday, could become necessary if a federal appeals court upholds a judge's ruling this month striking down Proposition 8, the state's voter-approved gay marriage ban.


The bill says religious institutions from faiths that object to same-sex unions could not be stripped of their tax-exempt status if their clergy refuse to perform weddings for gay couples.

Leno, a gay Democrat from San Francisco, defended the measure when it was opposed by Sen. Roy Ashburn, an openly gay Republican from Bakersfield.

Ashburn objected that the bill defines same-sex marriages as civil relationships, which he says puts them in a lesser class than heterosexual marriages.

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Same-sex marriage gains GOP support

A growing number of Republicans are breaking with the party's traditional stance to publicly state their support for same-sex marriage, a shift strategists say stems as much from demographics as from the renewed focus on economics and the "tea party" movement.

A solid majority of adults younger than 30 - about six in 10 - support the right of gay and lesbian couples to legally wed, according to a Washington Post poll in February.

But even many older Americans and self-identified social conservatives have changed their view on an issue that just six years ago galvanized voters in support of President George W. Bush's reelection.

Gay Republican activists credit the shift to the heightened attention within the GOP base to jobs and the economy, and by a desire among strategists to expand the party's appeal.

"Our nation is at a crossroads, and conservatives are trying to rally together to turn back the Obama-Pelosi-Reid agenda," said Chris Barron, chairman of GOProud, a gay Republican group. "That's why we've seen people like Glenn Beck saying, 'Look, same-sex marriage isn't hurting anybody.' Because he sees a need to create a broad-based conservative movement."

Beck, a tea party favorite, recently told fellow Fox talk show host Bill O'Reilly that gay marriage was not "a threat to the country" and that marriage is a religious, not a governmental, issue.

A number of prominent Republicans have been more outspoken, stating that they support same-sex marriage rights. They include Meghan McCain, daughter of Sen. John McCain (Ariz.); "The View" commentator Elizabeth Hasselbeck; former first lady Laura Bush and former vice president Dick Cheney.

Ted Olson, solicitor general under Bush, was part of the legal team that successfully challenged Proposition 8, California's voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage. And this week, former Republican operative Ken Mehlman disclosed that he is gay and that he will be raising money to support Olson's effort.
Also at play is the rise of the libertarian-leaning tea party movement. Many of the movement's leaders have said they oppose government intervention on marriage issues, while others say their concerns about taxation and the size of government supercede concerns over social issues.

"I come from a pretty strict upbringing in that I was raised Catholic," said Dawn Wildman, a coordinator for the California Tea Party Patriots, who said she personally opposes gay marriage. "But I have this strong belief in individualism. Not to mention that we don't have the luxury to think of the social issues right now."

One striking example of the tea party's ambivalence about social issues played out this summer in a House primary race in South Florida, where many tea party activists rallied around Donna Milo, a transgender Republican candidate who was seeking to challenge Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D). Milo came in third in the Aug. 24 primary.

Opposition to same-sex marriage has by no means disappeared in either party. President Obama has said he opposes the right of gay couples to marry, although he backs civil unions. Religiously inclined conservative groups such as the Family Research Council and Focus on the Family, whose political agenda has long overlapped with the GOP's, have continued to push back on the gains made by pro-gay marriage groups in recent years.
The issue of gay rights continues to divide the party. Conservative pundit Ann Coulter was excoriated this month by some on the religious right for agreeing to speak at Homocon, GOProud's convention, where she was billed as "the right-wing Judy Garland."

In a letter to supporters this week, Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, said Republicans who support same-sex marriage do it at their peril. The position "stands in direct opposition to the Party's platform, which is clear on the importance of marriage and family," he wrote. "The Party's unequivocal stand on life, marriage, and family is why many social conservatives have made the GOP their political home."

But some Republican activists say the party would be remiss if it did not consider the changing social trends, particularly among young people, who have leaned Democratic.

Some surveys show that support for same-sex marriage is growing even among young evangelical Christians. According to a 2008 study by the liberal-leaning group Faith in Public Life, young white evangelicals are more than twice as likely as older evangelicals to say that gay couples should be allowed to marry.

Mehlman's announcement this week was a dramatic example of the quiet but decisive shift that has taken place within the party. He helped orchestrate Bush's reelection strategy in 2004, which included an effort to motivate conservatives to the polls by putting same-sex marriage bans on state ballots. At the time, about two-thirds of Americans opposed the right of same-sex couples to legally marry, polls showed.

Mehlman told reporters Wednesday that he regretted not speaking out sooner.

Clarke Cooper, executive director of the Log Cabin Republicans, a gay GOP group founded in the 1970s, said it is striking how far the attitude toward gays has shifted within the party in a short time. During the 1996 presidential election, Republican contender Bob Dole returned a $500 check from the group. Today, Cooper said, the political action committee has contributed to a half-dozen campaigns for the November midterm elections.
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"I can't even fathom what it must have been like when you're trying to give money to a candidate, to have it shoved back in your face," Cooper said. "Now candidates say, 'Hey, we need your endorsement.' That's a far cry from where we were in the '90s."

Staff writer Nia-Malika Henderson contributed to this report.

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USA: Actors gays are going to be parents of twins soon

Actor Neil Patrick Harris, from "How I Met Your Mother, and her boyfriend, actor David Burtka and chef, will soon be parents of twins. According to the website E! News, the couple will receive the children in October this year. The woman who serves as a surrogate name was not revealed.

Harris, who this year is up for three Emmys (Oscar American TV) this year, will have one more reason to celebrate the good period in his life and career staff.

Source: Terra

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Gay boyfriend died just hours after marrying in Argentina

A gay marriage in Mar del Plata, a coastal city in Argentina, ended in tragedy this Thursday, August 12. The hairdresser Berchot Argentine Nestor, 45, fell ill shortly after celebrating her union with her partner Adrian Garcia, 42. Immediately taken to hospital, Berchot died hours later due to a hypertensive crisis, as disclosure of local newspapers.

The marriage of Argentina was the first conducted between same-sex in the city, located 400 km away from Buenos Aires, and is one of the most popular holiday spots for gays in the summer. Berchot's death was confirmed on Friday, August 13, Marplatense by the Association for Human Rights.

"It was just happiness. I went away as soon as they danced the waltz. A few minutes ago called me giving this sad news. It's incredible, "said Karina Freire, director of the association who was a guest of the event.
Argentina became the first Latin American country to legalize marriage between same-sex on July 14. According to Argentine non-governmental organizations in support of LGBT rights, provided the permission of the union, more than 500 couples from all over the world have sought information regarding the possibility of contracting marriage in the country.

Source: Perfil.com

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Married cabinet minister reported to be considering legal action over gay rumours

The Daily Telegraph has today reported that a married cabinet minister is considering taking action to prevent allegations that he has had gay affairs with a Whitehall official and a journalist. The claims follow the announcement yesterday that the prisons minister Crispin Blunt is to divorce his wife to allow him to "come to terms with his homosexuality."

The newspaper claims that the minister in question has become the victim of innuendo laced and proactive blogs, which have not in themselves outed him. The Daily Telegraph claims that they have received details of two alleged lovers of the minister; a journalist and a Whitehall official.

PinkNews.co.uk editorial staff have been told by one highly influential blogger to "get up early on Sunday", suggesting that a Sunday newspaper will be publishing revelations relating to a cabinet minister. Further emails from the blogger link to photographs of a particular Conservative cabinet minister who has been the subject of rumours relating to his sexuality in the past.

Friends of the minister told the Daily Telegraph that the minister will take legal action if the rumours should be published in the mainstream media."He is happily married and is not gay, it is as simple as that," one source told the newspaper.
"He will not hesitate before taking the necessary action should someone overstep the mark and suggest something which is not true."

A source close to a journalist rumoured to have been in a relationship with the minister told the Daily Telegraph: "He has never met the minister. As someone who works in the media, he has never even been in the same room as him."

The source added: "If he was asked about an affair and it was true, he’d say publicly that he didn’t want to comment on a personal relationship. But in this case he doesn’t want to give the claims any credibility by publicly refuting them."

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South London newspaper News Shopper rewards anti-gay letter with a prize

News Shopper, a south London newspaper, has awarded one of their readers with a prize for an anti-gay missive, which was published as their "Star Letter".

The letter, which was sent by a resident of Lewisham, south-east London, was written in response to a headline carried by the News Shopper on 11 August, which read: "Hospital on Sex Website".

The correspondent, signing herself Mrs S. [Susan] Fitzsimons, wrote: "This is meant to be a family newspaper and not some sleazy sex advertiser for the perverted."

Above the letter is a pledge stating that the News Shopper awards prizes to all star letter writers. The prize is a pen from Webster's Pen Shop, which has local branches.

Mrs Fitzsimons also said in her letter that "marriage is the the thing that makes society work", and that if it were not promoted, she believed "we shall answer on judgement day for it."

She continued: "Please stop advertising lesbian, gay and bisexual clubs. You are giving our young teenagers the wrong message and promoting perversity. Just before you mention equality, there is no equality today due to everything being biased towards homosexuality."

She wrote:" Marriage is the thing which makes society work. This is why we have the holy family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph – to show us man, woman and child what God asks us to follow.

"God gave homosexuals up in the lust of the hearts to impurity, to the dishonouring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the creator.

"For this reason God gave them up to dishonourable passions. Their women exchanged their natural relations for unnatural and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another.

"If we promote anything other than marriage then we shall answer on Judgement Day for it."

Websters, the shop that provided the prize for the letter in a statement said: "It has come to our attention that the star letter featured in this weeks [sic] News Shopper (Greenwich & Lewisham edition) has caused offence to readers.

"Webster's Pen Shop would like to reiterate that the views expressed in this week's News shopper does not reflect the opinions of Webster's Pen Shop or its staff.

"Webster's has no influence on the content that is published, and is simply a corporate sponsor."

News Shopper, on their official Twitter feed, seemed to revel in the attention the letter has drawn: "Well, the letter in the Greenwich edition this week seems to have hit the spot for getting lots of attention and sparking a strong reaction."

But a later feed added: "By the way, just because a letter wins the pen, it's in no way an endorsement from us of the author's views." News Shopper then posted: "In fact, it's surprising so many people are having a go about it instead of responding to the author and what she thinks."

Mrs Fitzsimons's letter included her full street address in Lambeth. She could not be reached by PinkNews.co.uk for comment.

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Breaking news: Tory minister Crispin Blunt reveals he is gay

Tory MP and prisons minister Crispin Blunt has come out as gay and has separated from his wife. Mr Blunt has a mixed voting record on gay rights, including voting against equalising the age of consent.

A statement released by his office said: "Crispin Blunt wishes to make it known that he has separated from his wife, Victoria. He decided to come to terms with his homosexuality and explained the position to his family. The consequence is this separation.

"There is no third-party involvement but this is difficult for his immediate and wider family and he hopes for understanding and support for them. The family do not wish to make any further public comment and hope that their privacy will be respected as they deal with these difficult private issues."

In 2001, Mr Blunt voted against not only the equal age of consent, but also against gay couples adopting. He also voted in favour of the bill designed to make it harder for lesbian couples to have equal access to IVF treatment.

He did not vote on the repeal of Section 28 as he was absent at the time. However, Mr Blunt did vote in favour of civil partnerships and the Equality Act (Sexual Orientation Regulation) which prevents discrimination against LGB people in the provision of goods and services.

Mr Blunt, 50 is the Conservative MP for Reigate constituency. He and his wife have been married for 20 years and have a son and daughter.

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Police investigate possibility that murdered British spy may have died at hands of gay lover

The private life of Gareth Williams, the British MI6 operative found dead in his Pimlico apartment in London this week, is currently being investigated by detectives who are attempting to discover whether he was murdered by a male lover.

Mr Williams' body was found on Monday inside a bag which had been placed in his bathtub at his home. Police believe he may have lain undiscovered for a fortnight.

Mr Williams was on a year-long posting to MI6 and was set to return to his regular job at the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) listening station in Cheltenham at the beginning of September.

According to the Sun, the 31-year-old was a regular face around the capital's popular gay neighbourhoods of Vauxhall Cross, where the MI6 headquarters are also based, and Soho in the West End.

Now detectives have reportedly said they believe he might have had a violent row with a lover over his decision to return to GCHQ. They also said they hadn't ruled out the possibility that the Mr Williams' murder could be linked to his secret intelligence work.

Security services fear that his murderer could have taken classified material, possibly stored on a laptop.

There was no sign of a break-in at Mr Williams' apartment and nothing had been stolen. His mobile phone was however found, accompanied by several SIM cards.

Detectives are now studying whether Mr Williams' death was the result of strangulation, asphyxiation or drugs.

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Trans woman's employment tribunal to begin next month

Rachel Millington was fired from her job last year after she revealed to bosses that she was starting the process of gender re-assignment. The case, which is coming before a Nottingham employment tribunal in September, may not necessarily create any startling legal precedents – but its reporting demonstrates just how far trans rights have come in the media over the last few years.

Until 11 September 2009, Rachel worked on contract for private company Housing And Support Solutions Limited, which specialises in caring for people with learning difficulties and challenging behaviour. In an appraisal interview one week before she was fired, Rachel was informed her work was satisfactory, and that her contract would be renewed at least until the end of November.

So why the abrupt turnaround? Rachel is sure – and will seek to demonstrate as much to an employment tribunal next month – that the company's attitude towards her changed dramatically after she told them, in July, that she intended to transition and would henceforth be living as female, and coming to work dressed as such.

The initial reaction, according to Rachel, was hostile. She told us: "They did not take me seriously and suggested it was possibly a phase I was going through which we should talk about later.

"One of the support managers even told me it was best kept private and outside of work."

Rachel was unimpressed. A day later, she sent her employers an e-mail stating that she had a right to come to work as female, and for the next month, she did so.

On August 14, her employers organised a team meeting from which she was excluded. Again, Rachel says they were hostile towards her and comments were made by her co-workers to the effect that it was wrong for "such people" to be working with individuals with learning difficulties and it would "ruin the reputation of the company".

Rachel says there has never been an issue with her clients. One she fondly remembers telling her: "You're a girly now".

In the following weeks, Rachel endured what she considers to have been a fairly abusive atmosphere: several staff members effectively sent her to Coventry, and this was not discouraged by senior managers.

At her appraisal, the management response was to suggest that Rachel apologise to her co-workers for the distress she had caused them. This she absolutely refused to do, suggesting instead that they should apologise to her.

Rachel commenced proceedings in November 2009.

This is not a legally significant story. The Sex Discrimination Act (SDA) was amended in May 1999 to protect trans people against discrimination in employment and vocational training. There have been a number of cases involving discrimination in employment since, and, on the whole, they have had positive outcomes for the individuals involved.

On the basis of facts provided by Ms Millington, this does appear to be an open and shut case: her lawyers are seeking compensation for unfair dismissal, sexual discrimination and loss of earnings.

When we asked her former employers for a comment, an individual there said: "We are not in a position to make any comment right now. We can’t comment."

Today, they also attempted to silence further reporting of this case by threatening to sue Ms Millington for slander.

If the legal changes are not significant, then the reporting of the case has been. A fairly full report was provided by the Daily Mail earlier this week and unlike previous cases, the tone was mostly respectful, with no hint of misgendering (i.e. still writing about the subject as a man). This is in sharp contrast to a Mail piece two years ago reporting on discrimination against Vikki-Marie Gaynor by her employer Blue Arrow, in which she was persistently referred to as "he" and "Mr".

Rachel is pleased with the support she has received from friends, but less than happy at the attitude of the NHS, to who she has turned for support in respect of her gender re-assignment. At a recent meeting with the Nottingham Gender Clinic, she was informed that her real-life experience of living as a woman did not count unless it was supervised by the Gender Identity Clinic, and so for purposes of treatment, the clock begins now.

She is thus in the odd position of living sufficiently in role to create significant issues in the workplace, but not enough to count for the NHS.

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A year on from Tel Aviv shootings, young survivors visit Berlin memorial

A year after the shootings at a Tel Aviv LGBT youth centre in which two young people died, over a dozen teenagers who were present at the attack have undertaken an organised trip to Germany.

The trip, which took place this week, was organised by the German organisation Maneo, as part of a campaign to support Tel Aviv's gay community after last year's fatal attack.

During the trip, the young delegates met with Berlin police officials and members of the local LGBT community.

On Wednesday, Maneo held a memorial service for the two young people killed in the attack – Nir Katz and Liz Trubishi – near Berlin's monument commemorating the gay and lesbian victims of the Nazi regime.

Nir Katz's mother, Ayala, who was part of the delegation, said her son visited Berlin a number of times and was extremely touched by the monument in memory of those murdered by the Third Reich.

She added: "I wait for the day when everyone understands that all people are human beings. Only idiots murder people for who they are."

Of the young delegates who was present at the time of the shootings said: "The mere fact we are here, together, united once again, more than a year after [the attack], sends a message of triumph. We see this visit as a symbolic event, the complete opposite from the attack."

However, a Berlin official noted that his city had its own problems related to violence against LGBT people. He added that just because the city's mayor was openly gay, it didn't mean problems with homophobia were a thing of the past.

These issues are also being addressed by Maneo. Director Bastian Finke said: "We run anti-racism programs in schools, which include workshops where students create signs and posters against homophobia."

He also added that Maneo seeks to encourage police to take seriously attacks on members of the gay community. He said: "For the past 18 years, Berlin's police have been employing special officers that deal with complaints related to homophobia-related attacks."

Police in Berlin must report homophobic cases to the central authority, which preserves the German constitution. "This way," added Mr Finke, "we send a message to the public that homophobia threatens the democratic foundations of Germany."

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