Posted: September 30th, 2011 | Author: Dinah | No Comments »
The Friendfactor blog may have been quiet this week, but the world of gay news certainly was not! (We promise, the radio silence will be worth it… keep an ear out in early October… ) Here’s your weekly cheat-sheet to catch you up for the weekend. In this edition: mostly stuff about TV. But lots of different kinds of TV!
Sports fans with gay friends can do a mighty big wave for this story: The NFL has added language to their anti-discrimination policy to protect folks from harassment based on sexual orientation! The league has made the move quietly, slipping the new protection in with the slew of other changes that came at the end of a collective bargaining marathon in the past few weeks. Homophobia in sports is, unfortunately, a pretty widespread problem. So we’re glad to see such an influential group taking steps to say it won’t be tolerated. Did you know there are currently no out, gay professional athletes in football, basketball, hockey or baseball in the US? Maybe this move will change things.
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Posted: September 23rd, 2011 | Author: Crystal | No Comments »
Want to know the freshest news your gay friends will be talking about this weekend? Look no further! You’re a few short blurbs away from seeming super tapped-in with the world in which your friends live. This week: the world doesn’t end when gay folks serve openly in the military, the freedom to marry receives bipartisan and overseas support, and SQUID. Yeah, that’s right, the octopus’s punchier cousin, right here with the other gay news for straight friends on the Friendfactor blog.
The country's now with the ACLU: No!
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Posted: September 16th, 2011 | Author: Dinah | No Comments »
Want to know the freshest news your gay friends will be talking about this weekend? Look no further! You’re five stories away from seeming super tapped-in with the world in which your friends live. This week: Don’t Ask, Don’t tell ends with a whisper (not a bang), hospital visitation rights, and Australian passports that let you choose the badass gender “X” instead of boring old M and F.
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Posted: September 9th, 2011 | Author: Dinah | No Comments »
Want to know the freshest news your gay friends will be talking about this weekend? Look no further! You’re five stories away from seeming super tapped-in with the world in which your friends live. Without further ado, awesome students, celebrity wedding photos, and some much-needed glitter.
Because we can’t celebrate the victory for New York marriage enough: this week’s wedding to get excited about! Cheyenne Jackson, of “Glee,” “30 Rock,” and “Every Broadway Show Ever” fame, married his longtime boyfriend Mante Lapka on Saturday. The couple has been together 11 years, and were positively ecstatic to tie the knot in the Hamptons, where they continued their long-standing tradition of providing the public with photos of an exceptionally good-looking couple.
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Posted: September 2nd, 2011 | Author: Dinah | 1 Comment »
Want to know the freshest news your gay friends will be talking about this weekend? Look no further! You’re five stories away from seeming super tapped-in with the world in which your friends live. Plus bonus tweets from Cher, worth their character-count in gold! Here’s the gay news all straight friends need to make proper Labor Day chit-chat.
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Posted: August 26th, 2011 | Author: Friendfactor | No Comments »
What do frozen yogurt, hurricanes, Kirsten Dunst, Maryland and inspiring activists have in common? Why, we’re glad you asked. They’re all part of this week’s Ffriday Link Roundup, bringing you cocktail party sized bites of news stories that impact your gay friends. So, sit back, contemplate your topping of choice, and settle down for this week’s highlights, after the jump.
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Posted: August 19th, 2011 | Author: Dinah | No Comments »
Hey friends hey! Welcome to the first weekly installment of the Friendfactor Ffriday Link Roundup (for Ffriends, obviously). This is the place to come for the very most important stories affecting your gay friends’ lives this week, and a solid dose of just plain awesome info for folks who support gay folks. So without further ado…
Marriages, Mentors, and Muppets after the jump!
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