Anti-Gay Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum Loses GOP Primary, Marine General James Conway Says Most Marines Would Not Like To Be Billeted With Openly Gay Service Member, Pentagon Sends DADT Survey To Military Spouses, Necessary Covert West Point Gay Community, Notre Dame Quarterback Dayne Crist Gay Ally, Anti-Gay Jason Akermanis Allegedly Names Gay Australian Football League Players, Yoann Gourcuff Shirtless And Sweaty, Taylor Lautner Diva

Business executive and political neophyte Rick Scott has defeated Attorney General Bill McCollum in the Republican primary for Florida Tuesday, Scott accepting the GOP nomination after earning the victory by a narrow margin. McCollum, who opposes the adoption of children by gay couples, famously hired now thoroughly disgraced Doctor George Rekers, a former board member of the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality as an expert witness to testify at a case defending Florida’s ban on adoption for same sex couples.

United States Marine Commandant General James Conway said Tuesday that “very religious” Marines with “moral concerns” about homosexuality might object to sharing living quarters with gay and lesbian service members. Conway, thankfully retiring, is on the record as opposed any and all efforts to repeal the American military ban on gay men and women serving openly, and took Tuesday’s Pentagon briefing to reiterate his oppositions, saying that “an overwhelming majority would not like to be roomed with a person who is openly homosexual. Some do not object. And perhaps, you know, perhaps a voluntary basis might be the best way to start without violating anybody’s sense of moral concern or a perception on the part of their mates.” Conway added that in certain “instances we will have people that say that homosexuality is wrong and they simply do not want to room with a person of that persuasion because it would go against their religious beliefs.” Asked why the General thought that the Marines, more than any other branch of the armed services outright opposed eliminating the policy known as “don’t ask, don’t tell” Conway said “we recruit a certain type of young American, a pretty macho guy or gal, that is willing to go fight and perhaps die for their country.”

Meanwhile the Pentagon last Friday sent out a new survey on repealing the military ban on openly gay men and women serving, 150,000 military spouses asked 44 questions, including “How important a factor would a repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell be to you in making decisions about your spouse’s future in the military” and “Assume Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell is repealed and you live in on-base housing. If a gay or lesbian Service member living in your neighbourhood with their partner, would stay on-base or would you try to move out?”

How has the policy of “don’t ask, don’t tell” affected the gay community of the cadets at West Point?

Dayne Crist, the 20 year old expected start this season at quarterback for Notre Dame, having successfully rehabbed a torn ACL suffered in 2009, is a welcoming addition to the growing group of gay allies, according to a profile, this July, “arrived early for an appointment in July at the Guglielmino Athletics Complex in California, wearing red workout shorts and a black T-shirt. On the shirt’s front, in large white lettering, was a slogan: ‘StaND Against Hate,” the shirt a reminder of a week-long period of activism in April when over 100 students and faculty marched, calling on Notre Dame administrators to add sexual orientation to the school’s anti-discrimination policy and acknowledge the Catholic university’s LBGT Alliance.

In Australia, anti-gay rugby player Jason Akermanis, fired from the Western Bulldogs in part for authoring a column that strongly suggested gay players should stay closeted, is again causing controversy. Akermanis appeared at two separate public events in Mildura in August and at one he named three current Australian Football League players he said had used illicit narcotics and another named AFL players he insisted were gay.

Yoann Gourcuff post-soccer match, shirtless naturally (and thankfully). (Site NSFW)

Is Taylor Lautner something of diva? There are reports that the Twilight hotness ordered a $300,000 personalized trailer for work on the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania location of his new film Abduction co-starring Sigourney Weaver. Apparently, the trailer did not arrive on time or arrived without meeting Lautner’s specifications, so the actor is suing, claiming “emotional distress” and “annoyance.”