Stating that the ManCrunch.com ad “is not with the Network’s broadcast standards for Super Bowl Sunday, CBS late Friday rejected the gay dating site commercial, according to reports, and reinforced the public perception that the network operates a double standard. The Toronto based company contends that the decision by CBS is “straight-up discrimination,” and the network still intends to air a thirty second anti-abortion spot for Focus on the Family featuring Tim Tebow and his mother.
ManCrunch.com, meanwhile, is asking gay advocacy groups to join a women’s coalition and protest CBS’s decision to air the Tim Tebow anti-abortion ad, arguing that it is not suitable to air during the Super Bowl.
Bryan Dickenson, a communication technician with AT&T for twelve years asked for time off to care for his partner of thirty years, Bill Sugg under the American Family Medical Leave Act to care for Sugg who suffered a debilitating stroke in September. AT&T denied the request, and Dickenson, instead of using the twelve weeks afforded all heterosexual couples under the Act, has been using his vacation time, but he worries that once that time expires, he will be fired. AT&T, constantly ranked as one of the most gay-friendly employers in the United States, contends it is following both state and federal law, which does not recognize the two men as domestic partners.
Welsh rugby star Gareth Thomas held a coming out party of sorts Thursday night, in London, at Movida, the gay club of the moment, and the celebrations were attended by a number of celebrities equal to or gayer than Thomas, including Ian McKellen, Graham Norton, and Will Young.
John Barrowman is set to guest star on Desperate Housewives, the Hall of Fame DILF to begin filming a six episode arc in March.
Ah, Brazil, a buffet of boys, including the beyond beautiful blue-eyed and blond Diego Bausen.
Kerry Degman gets dirty and dusty.
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