Kansas City Chiefs Release Homophobe Running Back, Openly Gay George Smitherman Candidate Toronto Mayor, New Jersey Gay Marriage Ground Zero, Wal-Mart

The Kansas City Chiefs announced Monday morning that they are deactivating running back Larry Johnson, releasing him from the remainder of this contract for conduct detriment rail to the team. Johnson was to return to the team today after being suspended for anti-gay comments he made, in addition to a number of negative comments made about Coach Todd Haley. The move by the NFL team insures that the man who used the word faggot with reckless abandonment will never break Priest Holmes all time rushing record, the subject of an online petition that beseeched the team’s management to drop Johnson before he was able to become the Chiefs’ franchise running back.

Openly gay Member of the Ontario Provincial Parliament George Smitherman, as I previously posted, intends to run for mayor of Toronto in 2010, making the formal announcement Monday morning. Smitherman, the first MPP to come out, who married his partner Christopher Peloso, is not required to announce his candidacy until January 1st, but took the opportunity to get ahead of the field; a field rumoured to have another gay man, former Winnipeg, Manitoba mayor Glen Murray, running as well.

The battle over gay marriage in New Jersey has officially begun, and the gay advocacy group Garden State Equality intends to win.

Two Chicago area gay men, a couple, who adopted twin 11 year old special needs boy from Romania, endured a shopping experience at an area Wal-Mart in mid-August that was less that enjoyable, and that now, months later, has resulted in Joe Paolucci and Thomas Hitchcock being banned for life from not only that store, in Niles, Illinois, but from all and any Wal-Mart stores worldwide.