Proponents Of Effort To Repeal Unconstitutional Kansas Sodomy Law Request Hearing In Front Of Senate Judiciary Committee Who Classifies The Issue As “Sensitive,” Human Rights Campaign Alleges National Organization For Marriage Is Violating Minnesota Campaign Disclosure Rules, Proponents Of Constitutional Amendment Banning Same Sex Marriage In Minnesota Raised $830,000 In 2011, Toronto-Based Grazie Media Donation Allows GLSEN “Think Before You Speak” PSA To Air During Super Bowl, James Clementi Remembers Late Brother Tyler, John Barrow, Daniel Radcliffe Grows, David Beckham

It is a law that gay rights supporters call offensive and unconstitutional: the law makes sex between the same genders a crime in Kansas. “It's an unconstitutional law and it makes no sense to have it on the books,” said Kerry Wilks, Chairperson of the Kansas Equality Coalition. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2003 that state laws cannot criminalize gay sex between consenting adults. In Kansas it's still a law, it’s just not enforceable. “It has mattered to some people, and just the fact that it's on the books should be enough,” said Wilks. According to KSN-2, supporters of a repeal will testify at a hearing Wednesday in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. It’s the same committee where a bill to repeal it last year stalled. "I think people will actually have trouble voting on this again,” said State Senator Jean Schodorf. “It is very sensitive.” Senator Schodorf is a member of the committee. She says the bill might have trouble coming to a vote because many legislators were uneasy about the topic the last legislative session. Schodorf is in support of repealing the law on a constitutional basis. “The state could be sued because it has been unconstitutional on various grounds,” Schodorf said. Anger is growing in the gay community. There was hope that this law would be on the state's repealer list of suggested laws to do away with. here were 51 recommendations on the list, but the list did not include the sodomy law. Gay rights advocates say that is sending the wrong message. "It's telling someone that who they are is wrong and that's not right,” Wilks added.”There's still hope that the legislature could act to once and for all take the language off the books. "Let's get rid of it and we won't have to talk about it anymore,” Schodorf said. The governor's office says there are still hundreds of recommendations of laws to repeal including the sodomy law. The office of the repealer says there will be more announcements in the future about additional laws. There is no indication on if sodomy is next on the list.

According to The Associated Press, a national gay rights group is calling for an investigation of disclosure reports filed by groups promoting an amendment to the Minnesota constitution to ban same sex marriage. The Human Rights Campaign accuses the National Organization for Marriage of illegally trying to avoid disclosing the names of donors to the November ballot campaign. The disclosure filed by the National Organization for Marriage’s fund for Minnesota names no individual contributors. Similarly, the Minnesota Family Council’s Marriage Protection Fund names no individual donors. But Jeff Sigurdson, assistant executive director for the Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board, says he saw nothing at first glance on the forms indicating any violations of the board’s rules. Leaders of the National Organization for Marriage and Minnesota Family Council say they fully complied with the disclosure requirements.

The principle proponents of a ban on same sex marriage in Minnesota raised $830,000 in 2011 in the latest signal that a fierce, high-dollar contest is taking shape over the proposed constitutional amendment. The Star Tribune is reporting that Minnesota for Marriage, a coalition of groups formed in an effort to get the marriage amendment approved this November, said that in addition to its fundraising, it also recruited more than 10,000 volunteers in 2011 to help. "Not only have we generated a great deal of financial support for the campaign, we have generated incredible, broad-based citizens support," said Minnesota for Marriage Chairman John Helmberger. The group has not publicly released its full report. As previously posted, the lead group in the effort to defeat the proposal, Minnesotans United for All Families, reported over the weekend that it raised $1.2 million in 2011 from more than 5,100 donors. Other groups that support the amendment also released fundraising figures Tuesday, the deadline for filing 2011 year-end campaign finance reports, state and federal. None of the pro-amendment groups released their reports publicly, but all 2011 state reports should be posted Wednesday morning on the website for the state Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board (www.cfboard.state.mn.us). The Minnesota Catholic Conference said it reported raising $750,000 in 2011. The bulk of that came in a $650,000 contribution from the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, which tapped its investments to help fund the marriage amendment campaign. About $350,000 of the Catholic Conference funds went to Minnesota for Marriage. The Minnesota Family Council reported giving $226,000 to Minnesota For Marriage. The council reported that its marriage protection fund spent an additional $120,000 on its own in the amendment campaign.

The Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network and The Ad Council today announced the award-winning "Think Before You Speak" public service announcements will appear at Super Bowl XLVI on Sunday, February 5. GLSEN will become the first LGBT organization in the country to share its PSA campaign targeting anti-lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender language among teens with Super Bowl attendees at the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana. "GLSEN is thrilled to share the Think Before You Speak campaign's message of respect with tens of thousands of football fans attending the Super Bowl this year," said GLSEN Executive Director Dr. Eliza Byard. "The PSA campaign featuring Hilary Duff, Wanda Sykes and the NBA's Grant Hill has already reached millions of Americans across the country and we are truly grateful for this opportunity to increase awareness among a new kind of audience about the negative impact of anti-gay slurs." According to GLSEN's 2009 National School Climate survey, three-quarters of LGBT students hear slurs such as "faggot" or "dyke" frequently or often at school and 9 in 10 report hearing anti-LGBT language frequently or often. Homophobic remarks such as "that's so gay" are the most commonly heard type of biased remarks at school. Research shows that these slurs are often unintentional and simply a part of the teens' vernacular. Most do not recognize the consequences, but the casual use of this language often carries over into more overt forms of harassment. The advertising opportunity was made possible as an in-kind donation to GLSEN by Toronto-based Grazie Media. The media company donated airtime for GLSEN's ongoing PSA campaign that will be displayed on a video billboard positioned directly in front of the Lucas Oil Stadium where Super Bowl attendees enter the stadium. "At one of the biggest sport stages around the world, the Super Bowl is a massive outlet to send a message," said Grazie Media Director of Programming, Events Vanessa Wojtala. "Our organization feels that GLSEN's presence at the Super Bowl is a wonderful way to raise awareness about the Think Before You Speak campaign." Grazie Media has also provided GLSEN's "Think Before You Speak" campaign with additional airtime at a major national sporting event to be announced soon by GLSEN.

Via Out magazine, Tyler Clementi’s gay older brother James pays tribute in the form of letters written to honour a complicated life cut too short.

British beauty John Barrow – former professional rugby player turned actor – graces the pages of GQ, and says he is not yet prepared to talk about Amy Whitehouse, whom he dated.

Daniel Radcliffe, who embraces pubic hair, by the way, featured in Esquire, grown up, smoking sexy.

The divine Mr. David Beckham dressed to the nines leaving the Connaught Hotel in London.