News: Tom Hardy, North Korea, Bono, Chick-fil-A, Sarah Palin

News: Tom Hardy, North Korea, Bono, Chick-fil-A, Sarah Palin

Road The AP looks at California’s new law requiring large utility companies to report how much they spend with LGBT contractors. 

EmpireRoad Tom Hardy covers EMPIRE magazine as Mad Max. 

Road The U.S. has tightened sanctions on North Korea in retaliation for the Sony cyberattack. 

Road Neurosurgeon and longtime homophobe Dr. Ben Carson says he’ll make a decision on a 2016 White House bid “in a few months”.

Road Zoe Saldana rang in the new year with the arrival of twin baby boys. 

Road The Atlanta Police Department has appointed a new LGBT liaison officer – C. J. Murphy. With any luck Officer Murphy will help ensure the police department is using every available resource to properly investigate the recent anti-gay hate crime that has gone unsolved. 

Road The 5 biggest political questions of 2015.

Turn signalRoad This week, an Illinois man who wrecked his Ford Thunderbird back in 1963 removed a seven-inch turn signal that had been unknowingly embedded in his arm for over five decades. 

Road Bono says he may never play guitar again after his biking accident in November. 

Road Joseph Gordon-Levitt got secretly hitched to longtime girlfriend Tasha McCauley just before Christmas. 

PalinRoad After a one year trial run without God, former Seventh-Day Adventist pastor Ryan Bell has decided to stay an atheist, saying: “I think before, I wanted a closer relationship to God, and today I just want a closer relationship with reality”.

Road A 23-year-old mentally ill Florida man has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder after he decapitated his mother with an ax following a disagreement about chores. 

Road The cutest celebrity families to follow in 2015. 

Road Sarah Palin under fire for posting photo of son Trig using their “lazy dog” as a “stepping stone”. 

Road Chick-fil-A is investigating a possible credit card data breach, so if you’ve eaten any of the hate chicken in recent months you might want to keep an eye on your bank account statement. 


Kyler Geoffroy

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Muscle Man Explains Why “Fat Sex” Is The Best Sex And Chubby Chasing Is “As Good As It Gets”

Muscle Man Explains Why “Fat Sex” Is The Best Sex And Chubby Chasing Is “As Good As It Gets”

Dan and his real-life partner Trevor

Dan and his real-life partner Trevor

“‘Chubby chasing’ is as good as it gets,” muscle man Dan Oliverio explains in a new interview with the Huffington Post. “That contrast of body types in bed can be totally hot.”

At 6 feet and 225 pounds and with the ability to bench press 350, Oliverio is a fitness nut who could have his pick of men.

His preference? Chubby guys. In fact, the chubbier the better.

“I grew up living next door to a gay couple and lived in an arts dorm in college,” Oliverio says. “I’ve always been around gay people. … But I never wanted to hop in bed with one or put my dick up his ass, so I figured I wasn’t gay. I took years to figure out that fat made such a big difference in my sexuality.”

Oliverio believes that many gay men are closet chubby chasers, but they deny their desires for meatier men because of the stigma surrounding fat.

“Many other guys fight against it or think of fucking a fat guy as a guilty pleasure or, worse, a dirty secret,” he says. “Again, the stigma of fat.”

He knows this because he was once one of those men. For Oliverio, accepting that he was attracted to chubby guys took time.

“It took several long-term relationships that didn’t work out to show me just how important that physical aspect was,” he says. “I didn’t dump my ex because he wasn’t fat enough. Actually, he started the break-up process because he said that he didn’t feel like I was attracted to him.”

Surprisingly, because of his devilish good looks and near perfect physique, Oliverio says he can have trouble meeting chubby guys to date.

“Ever try to cruise a guy and have him ignore you and face the wall?” he says. “Lots of hot fat guys won’t even make eye contact with me, which makes it very hard to assess interest.”

But when he does meet a chubby guy and the two of them go out on dates together, it always brings him great satisfaction.

“When I’m out with a huge guy and we’re holding hands, people don’t care that much. If anything, they smile,” he explains. “Sometimes they even say, ‘You guys are such cute couple.’ I think it’s because deep down people want to believe that there really is someone for everyone. Maybe seeing a muscle hunk with a huge fat guy gives people hope.”

h/t: Leon Acord, Huffington Post

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Marriage Equality Begins in Luxembourg

Marriage Equality Begins in Luxembourg

Luxembourg
(photo credit: Claude Piscitelli)

Same-sex couples in Luxembourg were able to finally tie the knot yesterday after the country’s marriage equality law went into effect January 1. The country’s Chamber of Deputies overwhelmingly approved of the law back in June  – which also opened the door for gay couples to adopt children. 

Luxembourg Wort reports Jean Paul Olinger and Henri Lorenzo Huber (pictured above) were the first same-sex couple to marry in the wealthy, landlocked Western European country. Wedding dates are also set in cities across the country such as Walferdange and Luxembourg City.

The country’s Prime Minister, Xavier Bettel, is openly gay and announced in August his plans to marry his partner Gauthier Destenay. 

More photos here


Kyler Geoffroy

www.towleroad.com/2015/01/marriage-equality-begins-in-luxembourg.html

Alleged Anti-Gay Hate Crime Caught On Tape In Midtown Atlanta

Alleged Anti-Gay Hate Crime Caught On Tape In Midtown Atlanta
Disturbing video of a violent hate crime in the heart of Midtown Atlanta shows an unknown suspect reportedly yelling homophobic slurs at a gay couple holding hands before the suspect assaults one of the men, sending him into oncoming traffic.

The Midtown Blue security camera footage, obtained by the GA Voice from the Atlanta Police Department, shows the suspect attacking the victim right in front of LGBT-favorite restaurant Joe’s on Juniper on the evening of March 7.

www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/02/hate-crime-midtown-atlant_n_6406930.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices&ir=Gay+Voices

Harry Reid Spent New Years In the Hospital After Breaking Ribs and Facial Bones in Exercising Accident

Harry Reid Spent New Years In the Hospital After Breaking Ribs and Facial Bones in Exercising Accident

Outgoing Senate Majority leader Harry Reid was kept overnight in a Nevada hospital after breaking “a number of ribs and bones in his face” while exercising, CNN reports:

ReidThe Nevada Democrat was using a piece of equipment to exercise on Thursday when it broke, causing him to fall.

His doctors expect a full recovery, and he’s set to return to Washington over the weekend before the Senate reconvenes next week.

According to the statement, the Senate Democratic Leader was treated and admitted overnight as a precaution at University Medical Center in Las Vegas after first being transported to St. Rose Dominican Hospital in Henderson by his security detail.


Kyler Geoffroy

www.towleroad.com/2015/01/harry-reid-spend-new-years-in-the-hospital-after-breaking-ribs-and-facial-bones-in-exercising-accide.html

Dominican Republic Won't Recognize Gay Marriage Performed At UK Embassy

Dominican Republic Won't Recognize Gay Marriage Performed At UK Embassy
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — The Dominican Republic says it will not recognize a same-sex marriage performed for the first time in the conservative Caribbean country.

In a Thursday statement, Foreign Ministry spokesman Miguel Medina said “our legislation does not recognize this type of marriage.” The statement comes two days after the British embassy tweeted that a Dominican man and his British partner had exchanged vows in its Santo Domingo offices.

The U.K. announced in June that same-sex couples could marry at British consulates in 25 countries. The Dominican Republic is the only Caribbean nation on that list. Embassy officials say more same-sex ceremonies will be performed in the future.

The chairman of the Dominican Council of Evangelical Churches said the embassy ceremony “brings a curse to the nation.”

www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/02/dominican-republic-gay-marriage-_n_6406484.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices&ir=Gay+Voices