Top Marine Does Not Want Gays In The Barracks, Rachel Maddow Admonishes Scott Brown, Derrick Martin Is Atlanta Gay Men’s Chorus Guest Of Honour, And Andy Speer Has Some Big Balls

American Marine Commandant General James Conway told the website Military.com on Friday that straight soldiers will not be made to share rooms on bases with openly gay soldiers should the policy banning gay men and women from serving openly is repealed, as is planned by the Obama administration. “We want to continue (two-person rooms), but I would not ask our Marines to live with someone who is homosexual if we can possibly avoid it,” said Conway, adding “and to me that means we have to build to BEQ’s (bachelor enlisted quarters) and have single rooms.” Conway, who is on record as being opposed to the lifting of “don’t ask, don’t tell,” also said that “the overwhelming number of Marines have significant concerns” about the proposed repeal.

An update on previous post: Rachel Maddow is not – NOT – running against Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown, and she has taken out a full page advertisement in the Boston Globe to underline that she is not seeking office and had no intention of ever doing so. Maddow, astutely, suggests that Brown, taking a page from the Republican playbook, fabricated the story in order to scare supporters to donate funds to his campaign.

Derrick Martin is Atlanta, Georgia, the Bleckley High School student who is taking his boyfriend to the prom, invited as a guest of honour at tonight’s concert by the Atlanta Gay Men’s Chorus. Martin, who was asked by his parents to leave their home after his story broke in locally, came out a year and half ago. He told best friends, then his parents (his father is a math teacher at Martin’s high school) discovered text messages he’d exchanged with his then boyfriend. “They knew something was up. I told them. Then they took my car, my iPod, my phone, my laptop – every way they could think of to try to keep me from communicating with him,” Martin said, adding “it was really hard back then ... but everything I’ve gone through has made me stronger.”

Andy Speer – so sexy he sizzles – graces the cover of DNA magazine, with an obvious display of, um, how to point this ... shocking testicular strength. The inside editorial too offers amble evidence of Andy’s assets. (NSFW)