David Cameron exercises yet another example of risk management, announcing Wednesday he will be sending the Conservative Party shadow Environment Secretary, Nick Herbert, the most senior openly gay cabinet member to Poland in July, Herbert to attend a gay rights march in Warsaw. Cameron stated that the trip is meant to convince the highly conservative, anti-gay Law and Justice party to take a “journey” to moderate its highly homophobic expressions. In 2009, the Cameron led Conservative Party formed a coalition with the Law and Justice Party, founded by the late Polish president Lech Kaczynski, who infamously banned gay pride marches while mayor of Warsaw. Cameron said that “we would not join with parties that had unacceptable views. But we do recognise that, particularly in central and eastern Europe, there are parties that have still got some way to go on the journey of recognising full rights for gay people. We are helping them make that journey.”
According to this report, Democrats in both the House and Senate are unwilling to adhere to the Obama Administration timeline to repeal the military policy of prohibiting gay men and women from serving openly – which includes completion of a ten-month Pentagon study scheduled to be completed in December – and are instead pushing to include an immediate repeal of the policy of “don’t ask, don’t tell” in the defense reauthorization bill, scheduled to be voted on in May.
The Maine Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Civil Rights March, a response to the rejection in November by voters of the gay marriage, scheduled to start on May 28th, finishing two days later with a rally at Augusta’s Capital Park, has been postponed indefinitely. According to a notice on an affiliated website, there was not “enough participation from grassroots organizers on the ground within Maine itself to give it a life of its own.” A gay marriage measure passed in the spring of 2009, signed into law by Governor Baldacci on May 6th, 2009, but opposition, led largely by the National Organization for Marriage, placed a referendum on the November ballot.
Nick Jonas – the smoking sexy brother Jonas – surprised shoppers at a Forever 21 store in Pasadena, California, Nick dressed in the store’s new line – 21Men – pretending to be a sales associate.
Winq is a gay magazine from the Netherlands, and in its latest issue an editorial titled Inside Out staring the seriously sexy Australian male model Ben Waddell wearing underwear and nothing more.
Meet male model Brett Kallio, an 18 year old Canadian from Edmonton, Alberta.
Chad White – so cute – for photographer Justin Wu, White not the best at lip-synching, but Chad is so charming all is forgiven.
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