Weather Forecast Shafts East Coast, Penetrates Canada; Expect Flooding

The masters of meteorology over at AcuWeather.com alerted readers to some heavy weather patterns this week, predicting rain could reach “up to two inches.”

From where we sit, it looks like a hell of a lot more than two inches has extended up the eastern seaboard. In fact, much of the east coast got shafted during Tuesday’s forecast.

Cue inner child snicker

Batten down the hatches, fellas — it’s going to be a wet one:

Dan Tracer

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Gay Basketball Player On Being Removed From High School Yearbook: ‘It Was Humiliating’ – WATCH

Earlier, we told you about gay basketball player Dalton Maldonado whose rural Kentucky high school removed him from his team’s yearbook page. Dalton is now opening up about what it was like learning he was the only member of his team not pictured in the yearbook and how he was forced out of the closet by an opposing team after a game.

Maldonado told popular vlogger Raymond Braun he was looking forward to see his picture on his team’s page and alternately devastated when he saw he had been left off:

“It was humiliating and embarrassing at the same time…I even like double checked. I looked at it like four times at least to make sure that my picture was not in there. All of the underclassmen’s pictures were in there.”

Dalton had no warning that he would be omitted from the yearbook, telling Braun, “No one had hinted to me. I just opened it up and I was just like, wow, did this really just happen?”

Of his experience coming out, Dalton explains he didn’t have much of a say in the ‘how’ or the ‘when.’ After a basketball game a player from the opposing team “turned around and said, ‘Hey number 3, I heard you’re a faggot.” Dalton explains that he paused before saying, “Yeah babe, can I have your number?” But Dalton’s ‘joking it off’ couldn’t erase the hate that had been sent his way. After crying in the locker room he came out to his team. But the incident didn’t end there; instead, he was taunted by the opposing team as he boarded his team’s bus. The other team shouted, “Let the faggot off.” They then followed the bus and the police were eventually called.

Despite the awful moment that precipitated his coming out, Dalton says coming out brought him and his team closer together.

Of the yearbook controversy, Dalton says that the school’s superintendent is the only one to have acknowledged what happened. He reportedly told Dalton, “we didn’t mean to do this to you.” But Dalton is focused on the bigger picture, saying that school officials “don’t realize the damage they’re doing to other LGBT teens.”

“I want to make sure that no other teen has to go through this,” Dalton adds. 

Watch the interview below:

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LGBT-Supportive Catholics Protest Michigan Conference

The conference is cosponsored by a group that promotes celibacy as the only option for Catholics with ‘same-sex attractions.’

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Trudy Ring

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Sun, Surf And Skin Are Among The Pleasures Of Barcelona's Circuit Festival

Known as a glittering metropolis of sun and surf, Barcelona is currently playing host to an estimated 72,000 gay travelers from around the world.

They’ve come for the annual Circuit Festival, which organizers have touted Europe’s largest gay and lesbian celebration. Since it was first established in 2008, the festival has been the place to see and be seen for many gay globetrotters, with parties, dances and other activities created specifically for the community spread out over 12 days, between Aug. 5 and 16. 

As these sizzling photos attest, one of the Circuit Festival’s many highlights is the daytime Water Park Day. An estimated 8,000 swimsuit-clad merrymakers touched down on the Isla Fantasia Water Park in Vilassar de Dalt for the splashy fête, which is billed as the biggest open-air gay party on the continent. 

Once the Circuit Festival wraps in Barcelona, the festivities move on to Ibiza. Another 25,000 people are expected to attend that installment, which kicks off Aug. 19.  

Based on the photos below, there’s no question the festivities were memorable! 

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Gay basketball player in Kentucky only team member left out of high school yearbook spread

Dalton Maldonado was the starting guard on the boys basketball team at Betsy Layne High School in rural Kentucky.

But inexplicably, he was the only team member to not be included in a two-page yearbook spread that featured all of the seniors on the team.

He also happens to be the only team member who was openly gay.

‘I recently saw my senior yearbook, I flipped right to the sports basketball page only to find my senior basketball picture missing…which devastated me,’ Maldonado wrote on his Facebook page.

Maldonado had come out to his teammates this spring on the day that a kid on an opposing team tried to humiliate him by calling him a faggot in front of the entire team and their fans at a basketball tournament.

‘They all stood by my side in spite of the other team trying to scare and intimidate me because of my sexuality,’ he wrote.

The incident received national attention when it was featured on the site Outsports.com which broke the story Wednesday (12 August) about the yearbook snub.

Maldonado wrote on his Facebook page Wednesday that he has received good wishes and support from across the country and also got a call from the superintendent of schools.

‘He told me that I was in the annual fifteen times, and that they may have overlooked my senior basketball picture,’ he wrote. ‘He went on to say that they were going to make a new annual and he hoped I knew they were so proud of me.’

Still, Maldonado believes the school has attempted to sweep under the rug his being harassed and coming out to his teammates.

‘I refuse to let this happen again!’ he wrote. ‘I was a senior point guard who had played for three years, and I was even in the center of the team picture. I don’t care if I was in other parts 100 times, my individual picture wasn’t in there! I find it unbelievable that their “investigation” took less than one whole school day and once again they’re just letting it go! I will not stop fighting this.

‘No one deserves this, and I’ll make sure no other LGBT teen in Floyd (County) has to face this type of discrimination!’

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Greg Hernandez

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Supreme Court of Mexico Rules State’s Ban on Same-Sex Adoption Unconstitutional

The Supreme Court of Mexico ruled on Tuesday that a 2013 law passed in the state of Campeche that forbids same-sex couples in civil unions from adopting is unconstitutional.
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Straight Guys React To Skimpy Gay Underwear

Gay underwear design can get a little confusing if you don’t know how the various straps and holes are meant to align on the body.

Good thing there are lots of pretty pictures to use as models while discerning front from back.

But how do straight guys feel about these sinfully suggestive undergarments?

Cue the awkwardness:

Dan Tracer

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Former Child Star Calls Out Roland Emmerich: Stonewall Wasn’t One of His Parties for ‘Young, Fit, White, Gay Men’

There’s been plenty of controversy and consternation over the trailer for Roland Emmerich’s gay rights bio-pic, Stonewall, and its fictionalized depiction of the actual events that spurred on the beginning of the modern gay rights movement.

Now joining in the chorus of critics is former child star Mara Wilson (whom you may recall from Matilda, Mrs. Doubtfire, and Miracle on 34th Street).

Mara took Emmerich to task on Twitter, tweeting,

“Has anyone told Roland Emmerich that Stonewall wasn’t one of the parties at his house exclusively for young, fit, white, gay men[?] Go ahead and have your parties, but don’t try to alter history. It’s just sad. Emmerich has said it was the studios that made him change it, buuuuut somehow I’m not buying it.”

Has anyone told Roland Emmerich that Stonewall wasn’t one of the parties at his house exclusively for young, fit, white, gay men

— Mara Wilson (@MaraWritesStuff) August 11, 2015

Go ahead and have your parties, but don’t try to alter history.

— Mara Wilson (@MaraWritesStuff) August 11, 2015

It’s just sad.

— Mara Wilson (@MaraWritesStuff) August 11, 2015

Emmerich has said it was the studios that made him change it, buuuuut somehow I’m not buying it.

— Mara Wilson (@MaraWritesStuff) August 11, 2015

Famed activist Larry Kramer recently spoke out against critics of the film. Matt Baume, ever educational, for his part offered some insight on how Emmerich’s trailer stacks up to reality (or what we know of reality).

Emmerich himself has spoken out about the controversy, saying,

“When this film – which is truly a labor of love for me – finally comes to theaters, audiences will see that it deeply honors the real-life activists who were there — including Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, and Ray Castro — and all the brave people who sparked the civil rights movement which continues to this day.”

Meanwhile, an online petition to boycott the film has received nearly 23,000 signatures. 

What do you think of the continuing controversy over Stonewall?

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Sean Mandell

Former Child Star Calls Out Roland Emmerich: Stonewall Wasn’t One of His Parties for ‘Young, Fit, White, Gay Men’