Memories Pizza In Indiana Receives Donations After Backlash Over Gay Weddings Stance
An Indiana pizzeria under fire for saying it would refuse to cater a gay wedding shut down on Wednesday after its owners said they received threatening messages.

However, a GoFundMe page set up for Memories Pizza in Walkerton has raised more than $40,000 in just six hours.

The pizzeria made national headlines this week when its owners called the business a “Christian establishment” and said the state’s contentious Religious Freedom Restoration Act would allow it to refuse to make pizzas for a hypothetical gay wedding.

That led to a flood of angry reviews on Yelp as well as the threatening messages.

“I don’t know if we will re-open, or if we can, if it’s safe to re-open,” co-owner Crystal O’Connor told TheBlaze, the news network run by conservative talk show host Glenn Beck. “We’re in hiding basically, staying in the house.”

The fundraiser was set up by Dana Loesch of TheBlaze, and Lawrence B. Jones III, a contributor to the network.

“Nobody should ever have to suffer or suffer alone for their faith, for standing up for Christian principles,” Loesch said on her broadcast.

Earlier in the day, Memories co-owner Kevin O’Conner said he would serve a gay customer in his store, but wouldn’t provide pizzas for a gay wedding.

“That lifestyle is something they choose. I choose to be heterosexual,” O’Conner told ABC 57. “They choose to be homosexual. Why should I be beat over the head to go along with something they choose?”

O’Conner also told the Daily Beast that he had never been asked to cater a gay wedding.

“I don’t turn anybody away from the store, I don’t have a problem with gay people,” he was quoted as saying. “I just don’t condone the marriage.”

After the story went viral, the restaurant’s Yelp page quickly filled with negative reviews and images. However, those reviews will likely be removed as they do not describe a firsthand customer experience at the business.

“Non-germane, media-fueled reviews typically violate our Content Guidelines,” a Yelp spokesperson told The Huffington Post. “One of these deals with relevance. For example, reviews aren’t the place for rants about a business’s employment practices, political ideologies, extraordinary circumstances, or other matters that don’t address the core of the consumer experience.”

Reviews that don’t meet guidelines are generally removed.

The Huffington Post’s Cavan Sieczkowski contributed to this report.

www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/01/memories-pizza-gofundme-donations_n_6989852.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices&ir=Gay+Voices

WATCH: Student Defies Russia's Propaganda Ban With Hozier's 'Take Me to Church'

Ignoring Russia’s antigay law, a Brazilian medical student risked it all by dedicating his public performance of Hozier’s international hit, ‘Take me to Church,’ to his boyfriend sitting in the audience.

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Thom Senzee

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Andy Cohen's Top 5 Shirtless Moments from Watch What Happens Live! – VIDEO

Andy Towle

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The Funniest April Fools' Day Pranks Of 2015 From Around The Web
April Fools’ Day has become synonymous with brands and companies lying to everyone on the Internet, but let’s not forget what it’s really all about: clever pranks on friends.

People didn’t waste any time today in getting the drop on their friends, family and co-workers for April Fools’ Day. Some pranks took a lot of time, and some took a lot of evil. But all of them are at the expense of someone else and not us so let’s just sit back and be entertained by the good-natured misfortunes of others!

Here are some of the best ones from around the Internet.

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Final Four Coaches Agree: “Discrimination of Any Kind Should Not be Tolerated”

Today, the Men’s Final Four coaches released a joint statement standing against Indiana’s discriminatory Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA).
HRC.org

www.hrc.org/blog/entry/final-four-coaches-agree-discrimination-of-any-kind-should-not-be-tolerated?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss-feed

This Bi-Curious Man Is Thinking About Losing His Anal Virginity, But He Has Some Concerns

A bi-curious Reddit user by the name of wormsaregreatlovers is thinking about jumping into the man pond, but he has a few questions before making the plunge. He starts out by writing:

“So, I’m bi-curious with no gay experience and I am thinking about popping my bum cherry. I’ve played with myself anally here and there but now I’m thinking about the real deal.

Question is I like the way I am now (character wise) I’m abit of an ‘alpha male’, I’m confident in myself and I like the state of mind I am in.”

(First of all, wormsaregreatlovers, it’s called a “chocolate cherry,” and some would argue that if you’ve “played with yourself anally here and there” then it’s already been popped, or at least half-popped.)

Wormsaregreatlovers continues:

“If I submit myself will my personality change in a way that’s more feminine? will my personality change in general? will I like gay sex more than straight sex? ultimately I’d still want a wife and kids and to live a straight life. help gaybrahs please

(apologies if it’s an ignorant question, there’s no where else I can really ask this question besides reddit ;| )”

Reddit user MattDM92 wastes no time answering the question in the clearest way possible: “Your personality won’t change if you get Rodgered up the bum.”

But jet_silver doesn’t totally agree. “Your personality will change a little,” he argues. “You’ll know what it feels like to have a cock inside you and it will make you a little proud and happy.”

Then he adds: “Having a cock inside you does not mean you are submissive. Having a cock inside you is fun.”

“Generally your personality is what it is,” ilikestripes says. “Also there’s no reason you can’t still be ‘alpha male’ and enjoy anal sex.”

(Word. It’s called “power bottoming.”)

Tinapasadena would like more clarity from wormsaregreatlovers, writing: “Your question seems to be more focused on anal sex vs the attraction to a same sex partner. Is this a bisexual question or an anal sex question? If it’s simply a desire to have anal penetration, then let me suggest pegging…Good luck and don’t forget to breathe.”

Meanwhile, ConsideratelyYours keeps it real: “If a potential shift away from alpha maleness is such a scary thought for you that you would rather bypass the pleasures of buttsex for it, then you should probably not engage in buttsex. Sex partners don’t need that kind of insecurity/baggage.”

(Sounds like someone’s been burned before.)

Ferny530 then chimes in, drawing from his own experiences as a once bi-curious male: “I was in your shoes not to long ago,” he writes, “I had never done anything with a guy before only with girls. But when I did it was the greatest experience in my life so far. It felt so right and so natural. It didn’t change who I am at all.”

But perhaps Nizzle-Mcfly has the best advice of all, telling wormsaregreatlovers: “You only have to worry if you come glitter, then it is too late.”

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Graham Gremore

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