Robbie Rogers, who played for the national team in the 2008 Olympics and Major League Soccer's Columbus Crew, revealed that he's gay. He also revealed he no longer intends to play soccer.
Discovered: Physicians who see too many patients are more prone to slip up; gay men are gayer than straight guys; taking trays out of cafeterias reduces waste; new criteria for 'habitable' planets.
Discovered: Male fish who engage in same-sex flirting lure in female fish; cheese dates back 7.5 millennia; Americans love public transportation once they give it a chance; depressed mice cheer up after brain stimulation.
Discovered: No sign of a gay gene, but homosexuality could start in the womb; childhood obesity is going down; that fish you're eating probably isn't really fish; a new SARS to freak out about.
For centuries, some insults have been considered so offensive that a plaintiff didn’t have to prove harm in a defamation lawsuit—"gay" included.
The makers of the location based dating app for gays launched a straight version today
Describing a trial for sodomy, a diplomatic cable refers to 'non-heterosexual' behavior
Finding could help improve mental health treatment in gay populations, doctor says
Playwright Lee Hall says homophobia led to the cancellation of his latest opera
Although Fox News is taking the high road on this one
What we did and didn't learn from a new study on serotonin
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