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Why You Suck at Online Dating
Kelle Sparta offers 14 tips to help show the world the best parts of yourself - instead of the worst.
Amazon's New HQ? A Greenhouse
It has always been my secret dream to live in a greenhouse, so I'm a fan of this design for Amazon's new headquarters. Giant glass domes, looking like some sort of NASA experiment, will be filled with plants and full-size trees. Each dome will be up to 95 feet high. Show More Summary
Tony Perkins on #BoyScouts vote (hint: he isn't happy)
The Boy Scouts just delivered a whopping defeat to the anti-equality crowd. But for some reason, FRC president Tony Perkins, someone who has been denigrating the current leadership all through this process, still thinks he has the capital to call...
Nevada Senate Approves Resolution To Legalize Same-Sex Marriage
We knew it wouldn’t take long for the marriage bug to start biting more states after Minnesota became the 13th to legalize same-sex marriage earlier this month. Though we still have a long battle in front of us, KOLO TV is reporting that Nevada may next in line. On Thursday, the Nevada Assembly Committee on [...]
Boy Scouts Vote To Lift Ban On Gay Scouts
Today the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America voted 61% to 38% to allow openly gay scouts, but for now the ban on gay leaders remains. According to GLAAD “approximately 1,400 members of the Boy Scouts National Council convened in Grapevine, Texas today and the resolution passed 61.4%. The new membership standards, which [...]
IRS Places Lois Lerner on Administrative Leave Over Targeting Scandal
Weeks after the IRS scandal erupted over its targeting of pro-life and conservative groups, the Internal Revenue Service has finally taken action. As National Review first reported today, Lois Lerner, the Internal Revenue Service’s director of exempt organizations, has been placed on administrative leave. As NR reported: Lerner on Thursday afternoon sent an e-mail to [...]
Football jocks slog through spring season
The gridiron jocks of the National Flag Football League of Atlanta continued their romp through a rain-soaked season Saturday, wrapping up a slate of games at Boulevard Crossing Park. And beer!
Boy Scouts Votes to Lift Ban on Gay Members, Retain Ban on Gay Leaders
The Boy Scouts have voted 61% to 38% to approve a resolution lifting a ban on gay scouts. The ban would remain on gay leaders.
Exclusive: “The Hangover Part III” Star Ken “Chow” Jeong Talks Using Fake Accent, “I’ve Done Movies Without An Accent That Were More Offensive… Because They Sucked”
“The Hangover Part III” opens in theaters today and fans of Ken Jeong’s character Chow should be very happy to find he has returned for the final film in the franchise and he’s got a major role in all the
On Being Neighborly
Between college and graduate school I took a gap year where I worked in a restaurant, snow skied every chance I got, and tried to figure out the rest of my life. During that year I lived in a big old suburban house near the lake along with five to eight other guys and sometimes [...]Show More Summary
Debbie Reynolds: 'We All Knew He Was Homosexual'
The star plays Frances Liberace in Steven Soderbergh's 'Behind the Candelabra'
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Task Force urges for passage of End Racial Profiling Act
The Task Force applauds today’s introduction of the “End Racial Profiling Act” by U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.). The measure seeks to prohibit the use of racial profiling by law enforcement. Co-sponsors include Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.),...Show More Summary
Women Struggle with Monogamy More Than Men
Since its beginnings, when it was called "sociobiology," evolutionary psychology has been wed to the theory that women are monogamous and men are promiscuous—that men have a compunction to spread their seed while women instinctually want to lock some guy down to raise her children. Show More Summary
Who Looked More Bangin? Janet Jackson And Rosario Dawson Hit Up The Cannes Film Festival In France
Janet Jackson And Rosario Dawson Attend Cannes Film Festival Event
A few familiar famous faces were on hand this week for a number of events surrounding the annual Cannes Film Festival held in France.
Among the Hollyweirders were music industry
Author William Broyles on His Return Trip to Vietnam (VIDEO)
William Broyles has written a "gripping memoir" about his return to Vietnam and his attempts to make sense of the war.
Gee, Thanks
Pope Francis says atheists aren't monsters. "Even the atheists" have the capacity for good. EVEN THE ATHEISTS. Well, I certainly feel relieved to have the Pope's validation that I can be a decent person.The Lord created us in His image...Show More Summary
Towleroad Guide to the Tube #1374
INN EXILE: Alex Gildzen visits the Palm Springs resort now under new ownership. CRIME AGAINST NATURE: Idiot harasses, jumps on two manatees in Florida. LOREEN: 2012 Eurovision winner's latest - "We Got the Power". PINK DOT: Singapore's LGBT festival returns....
Thumb Thuggin’: Chief Keef Sends Twitter Threats About “Smacking The Isht” Out Of Katy Perry For Dissing His Music, “She Can Sk My D!#k!”
Keef just couldn’t let it slide…
Yesterday, Katy Perry used her 140 characters on Twitter to pop a shot at Chief Keef after hearing his song “Hate To Be Sober” on the radio.
Took a while for the Chi-Town
Ugandan LGBT Activists Arrested While Protesting Media Censorship
A collection of LGBT activists demonstrating solidarity with those calling for freedom of the press in Uganda were arrested when police broke up the peaceful protest. read more
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