UConn welcomes gay players STORRS, Conn. -- Gay and play hockey? You're welcome at the University of Connecticut. That is the message the school's men's hockey team is sending out in two videos for a program called You Can Play. The goal of the international initiative ... http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/7968996/uconn-gay-hockey-players-welcome-play-connecticut-huskies -

Obama Campaign Targets Pro-Gay Rights Republicans President Barack Obama's reelection campaign will not ignore Republican voters as it conducts a national outreach effort targeting the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. On a conference call to announce the launch of Obama Pride ... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/23/obama-campaign-gay-rights_n_1540705.html -

Top 10 gay wedding destinations NEW YORK (Reuters) - The steadily increasing stream of states and countries legalizing gay marriage has dramatically changed the lives of LGBT people and their loved ones in recent years. In honour of the growing number of places to celebrate ... http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/25/uk-travel-picks-gayweddings-idUSLNE84O02B20120525 -

Interviews suggest more acceptance for gay players The NFL has never had an openly gay player. While former players have shared their sexual orientation after hanging up the cleats, the NFL locker room doesn't historically make the list of welcome havens for gay athletes. Perceptions might be ... http://www.nfl.com/news/story/09000d5d8294df33/article/interviews-suggest-more-acceptance-for-gay-players -

Strong Support for Gay Marriage Now Exceeds Strong Opposition Strong public support for same-sex marriage exceeds strong opposition by a significant margin for the first time in ABC News/Washington Post polls, and African-Americans have moved more in favor, perhaps taking their lead from Barack Obama on ... http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/05/strong-support-for-gay-marriage-now-exceeds-strong-opposition/ -

Colin Powell on gay marriage: "I have no problem with it." CNN lead political anchor Wolf Blitzer sat down with former Secretary of State Colin Powell to discuss his new book and a variety of foreign policy issues. A highlight is after the jump. Blitzer’s full interview with Gen. Powell will air ... http://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/23/colin-powell-on-gay-marriage-i-have-no-problem-with-it/ -

A Company’s Stand for Gay Marriage, and Its Cost In the months leading up to North Carolina’s vote this month to ban gay marriage, most of the state’s business leaders were conspicuously silent. While some executives spoke out against it as individuals, not one Fortune 500 company ... http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/26/business/replacements-limiteds-stand-for-gay-marriage-draws-repercussions.html -

'Big Bang Theory' Star Jim Parsons is Gay, By the Way Jim Parsons, the lanky, Texas-born actor who has won two Emmys and a Golden Globe award for playing persnickety genius Sheldon Cooper on CBS's The Big Bang Theory, acknowledges that he is gay and in a 10-year relationship, the New York Times reveals. http://tv.yahoo.com/news/big-bang-theory-star-jim-parsons-gay-way-193139985.html -

Air Force Academy Graduates First Openly Gay Cadets COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Eight months after a repeal of the military's "don't ask , don't tell" policy, the U.S. Air Force Academy today graduated its first group of openly gay cadets. As President Obama addressed the graduates, no rainbow flags could be ... http://news.yahoo.com/air-force-academy-graduates-first-openly-gay-cadets-210553975--abc-news-politics.html -

Gay marriage flap may sell Manny Pacquiao fight The guy he really should be boxing will be in a jail cell when Manny Pacquiao enters the ring next, not that it’s the furious little fighter’s fault. Neither was the faux uproar that erupted when shoddy journalism and the rush to judgment ... http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/other_sports/boxing/view/20120523gay_marriage_flap_may_sell_manny_pacquiao_fight/ -

Report: New gay D.C. Comics superhero is… No no no, it’s not Batman. C’mon. It doesn’t mean a man is gay just because he feels alienated from society and spends lots of time with a male companion and, er, dresses flamboyantly in a way that shows off his buff physique. Wait — are ... http://hotair.com/archives/2012/05/24/report-new-gay-d-c-comics-superhero-is/ -

North Carolina Pastor's Follower Defends Anti-Gay Sermon To Anderson Cooper A member of North Carolina's Providence Road Baptist Church defended Pastor Charles L. Worley to Anderson Cooper last night, saying she agreed with her reverend's notoriously anti-gay sermon which called for putting gays and lesbians behind ... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/25/north-carolina-pastor-anti-gay-anderson-cooper-_n_1545761.html?ref=gay-voices -

Colombian court rules for gay adoptive dad BOGOTA, May 23 (UPI) -- A Colombian court has restored custody of adopted sons to a homosexual man, opening the door for gay adoptions. The Constitutional Court found that the country's Family Welfare Institute simply assumed the father's sexual ... http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2012/05/23/Colombian-court-rules-for-gay-adoptive-dad/UPI-10761337795377/ -

Gay and play hockey? You’re welcome at UConn STORRS, Conn. — Gay and play hockey? You’re welcome at the University of Connecticut. That is the message the school’s men’s hockey team is sending out in two videos for a program called "You Can Play." The goal of the international ... http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/college/hockey/view/20120524gay_and_play_hockey_youre_welcome_at_uconn/ -

Gay marriage: About time or unnatural? Today, a same-sex marriage proponent calls gay marriage the new normal. An opponent  says such unions erode the country’s moral fabric. There’s a “new normal” brewing across the country, yet it embraces values that have stood the test ... http://blogs.ajc.com/atlanta-forward/2012/05/24/gay-marriage-about-time-or-unnatural/ -