Idaho Same-Sex Couples Can Begin Marrying On October 15
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has dissolved the stay blocking same-sex marriage in Idaho, The Spokesman Review and BuzzFeed report.

Couples can begin marrying 9 a.m. MT on Wednesday.

On Oct. 7, the 9th Circuit Court struck down both Idaho and Nevada’s gay marriage bans, but the U.S. Supreme Court issued a stay after a last-minute appeal by Idaho officials, temporarily putting gay marriages on hold in the state. On Oct. 10, the nation’s highest court said Idaho could proceed with same-sex marriages.

Read the 9th Circuit’s order below:

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This story has been updated.

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Breaking News: Seismic Shift in Rome

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As Expected, Man’s DIY Penis Enlargement Surgery Goes Horribly, Horribly Wrong

The 13cm steel rod removed from Niu’s penis.

A Chinese man has learned the hard way why DIY penis enlargement surgery is not a good idea.

52-year-old Kang Niu was unhappy with his lovemaking abilities. His penis didn’t get as long, thick, or hard as he wanted. Rather than taking something like, say, Viagra, he came up with what we thought was a far better solution: Inserting a sharp steel rod down the center of his urethra to “reinforce” his manhood.

What could possibly go wrong, right?

How the man managed to insert the entire 13cm rod into his dong without passing out, we don’t know. (Nor do we want to.) But the results were truly horrifying.

Niu quickly found that when he tried having sex, the rod shot backwards into his body, stabbing him in the bladder.

Embarrassed by what he had done, Niu didn’t tell anyone for several months, hoping the rod would naturally pass from his body in his urine. When it didn’t, and when the pain because so severe he could hardly walk, he checked into a local hospital.

The x-ray showing the 13cm steel rod trapped in Niu’s urinary tract.

Doctors took an X-ray and were shocked by what they discovered. The 13cm-long steel rod had become deeply lodged in Niu’s urinary tract. When they asked him about it, Niu said he came up with the “genius” idea all by himself.

A hospital spokesman told the media: “He believed that using this would give him a prolonged sexual experience.”

Of course, Niu isn’t the only man unhappy with the length and girth of his dong. A recent survey by the U.K.’s Observer found that 21 percent of men are discontent with their penis sizes. As a result, “Penoplasty” has become a growing trend in England.

Earlier this year, Billy-Tom O’Connor went on a morning news program to talk about his penis enlargement surgery. He  told an interviewer he wanted “an absolute monster,” so he paid to have his penis pumped up to the size of a 10-inch hairspray bottle. (See the NSFW pictures here.)

So what’s going to happen to Niu? The hospital would not say whether he will suffer permanent damage as a result of the DIY surgery. But here’s hoping he never tries it again. (Though, honestly, we wouldn’t put it past him.)

Related stories:

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Man Mortgages His House To Pay For $100,000 Penis Enlargement Surgery

Graham Gremore

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News: Iggy Azalea, American Horror Story, Creepy Clowns, Daredevil

Kyler Geoffroy

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Soyez des nôtres, soyez vous-mêmes (LGBT et alliés)
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WATCH: What Happened to Marriage Last Week?

We’ve won so many victories in the last week it’s hard to keep track. Here’s what’s happened so far, and what to expect in the next few days and months.

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Matt Baume

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Scientists Name New Hermaphroditic Snail In Honor Of Same Sex Marriage
Marriage equality proponents may sometimes feel the movement is progressing at a snail’s pace. For better or worse, Aegista diversifamilia may confirm their suspicions.

The newly-identified hermaphroditic land snail, a native to Taiwan, was named in honor of same-sex marriage rights, say researchers who published their findings on Monday in the journal ZooKeys.

“When we were preparing the manuscript, it was a period when Taiwan and many other countries and states were struggling for the recognition of same-sex marriage rights,” explained Dr. Yen-Chang Lee, a professor at Taipei’s Academia Sinica research academy and one of the authors of the report.

“It reminded us that Pulmonata land snails are hermaphrodite animals, which means they have both male and female reproductive organs in single individual. They represent the diversity of sex orientation in the animal kingdom. We decided that maybe this is a good occasion to name the snail to remember the struggle for the recognition of same-sex marriage rights.”

Taiwan’s land snail Aegista subchinensis was first identified in 1884, but researchers didn’t realize it might actually be two separate species until 2003, when Dr. Lee documented slight physical differences in the Eastern and Western populations of the snail.

Using Dr. Lee’s findings as a base, Chih-Wei Huang, a Ph.D. candidate at National Taiwan Normal University, studied the snails’ molecular markers, ultimately concluding they had two separate species on their hands — and thus Aegista diversifamilia earned its own biological classification.

According to the BBC, the newly recognized species is unique because of its larger, flatter shell, and is related to a third species of land snail found on Japan’s Ishigaki Island.

www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/13/gay-marriage-snail-aegista-diversifamilia_n_5977556.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices&ir=Gay+Voices

Working to Elect a Pro-Equality Rep in the Newest Marriage Equality State

HRC staff is working to help elect pro-equality candidates, including HRC endorsed Erin Bilbray, to Congress.
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UPDATE: Luke Evans Comes Out Of The Closet. Again. Sort Of.

The evolution of out gay closeted straight ambiguously gay action star Luke Evans has been nothing if not interesting, and this weekend Luke switched up his story yet again.

In an interview with Women’s Wear Daily for his new big-budget epic Dracula Untold, the Welsh actor was asked if he was setting a new precedent as an openly gay action star. That’s after Luke’s publicist specifically told the interviewer not to bring up Luke’s sexuality.

His response?

It’s good for people to look at me and think this guy is doing his thing and enjoying what he’s doing and successful at it and living his life. And that’s what I’m doing and I’m very happy.

Well, that doesn’t exactly scream gay pride, but it might mark a shift away from explicitly evading his sexuality.

Time magazine seems to think this is some sort of courageous tip-toe out of the closet — a closet they themselves note that Luke has slunk back into since becoming a box office commodity.

They write:

He may not be the gay action hero we want, but he’s the one we have, and one we can only hope grows still more comfortable. In Evans, gay people who’ve spent years trying to grow comfortable in the world can see themselves. He’s undergoing a process that’s often circuitous and halting. In struggling with how to define himself and ending up, for now, in a place of acceptance and the beginnings of openness, the musclebound vampire has never seemed more like an everyman.

Which seems like a pretty weird thing for a major publication to print in the same article in which they quote Luke in a previous interview with The Advocate saying:

“[E]verybody knew me as a gay man, and in my life in London I never tried to hide it.”

It begs the question — once you come out of the closet, can you really go back in? And if you can go back in, do you still deserve praise for tip-toeing your way back out?

We get that Hollywood can be an unwelcoming place for gay people looking to ride to the top of the fame coaster, but if Luke has already come out, what good does it do to crawl back to vague un-acknowledgments?

It’s not as if the Advocate was the only time he spoke about being gay, either.

There’s that time in 2004 when Evans chatted with GaydarNation about his role as a gay porn star in the play Hardcore. And also all these other instances. Here’s a telling snippet:

So, have you spent a long time researching gay porn?
Years and years. I bought my first film when I was 15 and now I have a good collection and I add to it regularly. I research it almost every night!!
What makes a good porn star?
An enormous big fat cock!

Really, queen?

Dan Tracer

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