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Pro-gay rights attitudes have reached high points this year, according to a new poll, with more Americans expressing tolerance.

Today, 57 percent of the American public believes homosexuality should be sanctioned as an acceptable alternative lifestyle – the highest the Gallup Poll has recorded since 1982. Also indicating higher tolerance, 59 percent of Americans believe homosexual relations should be legal.

The Gallup Poll has recorded a general increase over the past 20 years of those who believe homosexual relations should be legal. The statistic reached an all-time high in May 2003 at 60 percent but then fell to 50 percent in July of that year and has remained level through 2005. A June 2003 Supreme Court decision that struck down a Texas law banning homosexual sodomy appeared to have produced a backlash of public opposition to gay rights, the Gallup report noted. The leveled trend began rising again last year with 56 percent saying homosexual relations should be legal and today, the statistic is nearly at the record 60 percent mark.

Revealing a long-term increase in pro-gay rights attitudes, 46 percent (up from 27 percent in 1996) believe same-sex couples should be recognized by the law as valid with the same rights as traditional marriages. And the percentage of those who say they should not be recognized by the law as valid fell from 68 percent in 1996 to 53 percent today.

On the question of morality, Americans were found to be nearly evenly divided. Since 2001, the percentage of those who say homosexual relations are morally acceptable has increased from 40 percent to 47 percent. And for the first time in the 21st century, less than the majority of Americans say homosexual relations are morally wrong (49 percent). Last year, 51 percent said such relations are morally wrong.

At the same time, the majority of Americans say sex between an unmarried man and woman (59 percent), divorce (65 percent), and having a baby outside or marriage (54 percent) is morally acceptable.

As debates continue over the origin or cause of homosexuality, the Gallup Poll found that an increasing percentage of Americans believe homosexuality is something a person is born with. The poll showed 42 percent express such a view compared to 13 percent in 1977. And the percentage of Americans who believe homosexuality is due to factors such as upbringing and environment fell from 56 percent in 1977 to 35 percent today.

Among those who believe homosexuals are born that way, 78 percent say homosexuality should be considered an acceptable lifestyle. In contrast, among those who believe homosexuality is caused by upbringing or environmental factors, only 30 percent say it should be acceptable.

Gallup’s results support other surveys that indicate more open and accepting attitudes among today’s young adults. A recent Pew survey found 58 percent of 18-25-year-olds say homosexuality should be accepted.

The Gallup Poll found younger Americans aged 18-34 years old (75 percent) are more likely to express the same view than older Americans aged 55 years and older (45 percent). Women (61 percent) are also more likely than men (53 percent) to say homosexuality should be an acceptable alternative lifestyle, the poll further found. And highly religious Americans who attend church weekly (33 percent) are less likely to say it’s an acceptable lifestyle than those who seldom or never attend church (74 percent).

Results from the Gallup Poll are based on telephone interviews with 1,003 adults, aged 18 and older, conducted May 10-13, 2007.

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I was checking around on 365gay.com today and read that Gays are supposly twice as likely to smoke… Now I thought to myself some crazy things… but then I was wondering what scientific evidence would prove such a thing?

Anyways, you should read it and tell me what you think…

(Toronto, Ontario) A study of Canadian gays shows that members of the LGBT community are twice as likely to smoke tobacco as members of the general population.

The research was carried out by a consortium of Toronto health agencies and focused on the city’s LGBT community – the largest in Canada and estimated at close to a half million people.

Called the The Toronto Rainbow Tobacco Survey: A Report on Tobacco Use in Toronto’s LGBTTQ Communities, the report says that 36 percent of LGBT participants reported current smoking, while the latest figures from Toronto Public Health show that 17% of the city’s adults are smokers.

“This confirms what other research from the U.S. has told us about smoking in queer and trans communities,” said Michele Clarke, of the Sherbourne Health Center, one of the groups that participated in the study.

The Canadian Cancer Society, the Center for Addiction and Mental Health, the Council for a Tobacco-Free Toronto and Toronto Public Health also took part in the research.

The Toronto Rainbow Tobacco Survey gathered data from over 3,000 members of Toronto’s LGBTTQ communities from April to July 2006 through outreach at LGBT community events and through an online survey.

The study is the first major look at smoking in Canada’s LGBT community.

The survey also found that 25 percent of those questioned were past smokers and 39 percent had never smoked. That compared with 22 percent of the general Toronto population who were past smokers and 61 percent who never smoked.

The researchers also found that within the LGBT group bisexuals, both male and female, had a higher smoking rate than people who identified as gay or lesbian.

But the highest rate was among LGBT youth. Among those 15 – 19 years of age the rate was 57 percent and 50 percent for those under 15.

“Smoking is a serious health issue for our communities and these higher rates mean that we need more education targeted at LGBTTQ people and more treatment to help them quit,” said Clarke.

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Marriage Amendment Tops Agenda

(Columbia South, Carolina) Pride and politics mixed on the streets of Columbia on Saturday, as organizers of the state’s largest gay pride gathering tried to rally opposition to a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage.

“No one has a right to tell me who to marry or who to love,” said 23-year-old Velvet Wilson of Charleston, who cheered on participates as the parade passed. “People should vote no to this amendment because these are our rights. We live in the United States of America and we the people have rights.”

Armed with a megaphone and signs, small groups of protesters also gathered to show their support for the amendment.

“I want to warn these people … to warn America that it is turning its back on God through supporting homosexuality,” said Lewis B. Rivers, 54, of Columbia. “Homosexuality is evil. It’s an abomination to God. Marriage should be between a man and a woman. There’s no doubt about that.”

James Budenbender and a few members of Concord Baptist Church in Lexington held signs quoting Bible verses.

“I don’t agree with same-sex marriage. I don’t agree with same-sex at all,” Budenbender said. “The Bible is against it and I stand on God’s word.”

Voters will decide in November if the state Constitution should be changed to prohibit same-sex marriages.

State law already bars same-sex unions, but supporters say a constitutional ban is needed because a judge’s ruling could trump the law and force South Carolina to recognize same-sex unions from other states.

“This amendment is not good for anyone,” said Radar Williams, an organizer for this year’s South Carolina Pride parade and festival.

“It even affects heterosexuals. A lot of legal documents may become invalid. Domestic partner benefits may become invalid. You can even have instances where restraining orders for a girl who may be abused by a boyfriend would become invalid because the government would not recognize that union,” Williams said.

Same-sex marriage was the subject of contentious debate in Congress on Thursday as a Senate committee approved a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.

The panel voted along party lines to send the constitutional amendment to the full Senate, after a shouting match that ended when one Democrat walked out and the Republican chairman bid him “good riddance.”

The amendment, which stands little chance of passing in the full Senate, would prohibit states from recognizing same-sex marriages.

Constitutional bans on same-sex marriages in some states, including Georgia, have been subject to legal challenges, Williams said.

A judge on Tuesday struck down Georgia’s ban on same-sex marriage, saying a measure overwhelmingly approved by voters in 2004 violated a rule that limits ballot questions to a single subject.

The judge said Georgia’s voters must first decide whether same-sex relationships should have any legal status before they can be asked whether to ban same-sex marriages.

Organizers of the South Carolina pride event did not rule out the possibility of a lawsuit if the amendment passes.

“We’re not sure at this point what the legal ramifications of this amendment would be,” said Kate Goodrich, president of the South Carolina Gay and Lesbian Pride Movement. “Several lawyers have looked into it and are considering things.”

And there could be other repercussions of the amendment, said Ann Willbrand, delegate for the South Carolina Equality Coalition.

“It could affect anyone who is living in a household that is not a blood relative or married relative,” said Willbrand, 52. “That’s why it’s so nasty. It’s just a cheap shot. It’s cynical. It’s gay-bashing at its worst. And we want to show that South Carolinians are better than this.”

At least 48 vendors and dozens of groups participated in the parade and festival.

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It’s time to stop drooling over those muscles in the Abercrombie ads and start developing some of your own. Remember: Whether you’re a mesomorph, endomorph or ectomorph, the fact is that anybody can morph into a better body — if he has the proper training techniques.

In this spirit, we welcome you to “Worth the Weights,” a series focusing on the art of exercise. Our goal is to help people of all experience levels and body types design sensible routines that work. Through text and images, we will show you the right and the wrong way to lift weights and at the same time strip away the myths and fads of getting fit simply by getting back to basics.

While our opening segments will be geared toward beginners, experienced weight lifters should feel free to relearn the basics, because we’re all about proper from and function.

We also hope to address questions you may have about weight lifting. Let’s start by answering some of the most commonly asked:

What’s so intimidating about the gym?

Let’s face it: Our community puts a lot of importance on self-image and the illusion of the perfect body. So gym beginners with body-image issues can often feel as out of place as Woody Allen at a convention of Abercrombie models. The reality is that 80 percent of the guys in the gym look just like you (talk among yourselves as to whether that’s a good thing) and the muscle studs are a distinct minority (talk among yourselves as to whether that’s a good thing). The gym shouldn’t be a scary place. The playing field is more even than you think.

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“Arrested Development” fans, your wait is over. Portia de Rossi and the rest of the gang are finally back with a new episode at 8 p.m. on Fox. As most of you know, Fox has cut back its order of the comedy, which pretty much brings the series to an end — unless, of course, the rumors of the show being shopped around to other networks are true. Imagine what the show would be like if it were on HBO or Showtime.

“Kitchen Confidential,” which airs directly after “Arrested,” is most likely over. Fox never gave the restaurant comedy a chance to gather an audience, despite its appearance on many critics’ “must see” lists of the new season. The series stars Bradley Cooper as former hot-shot chef Jack Bourdain, who is given a second chance at success. Among his staff is bitchy gay waiter Cameron, played by out actor Sam Pancake. Catch it while you can.

TV Gay Guide hasn’t found anything interesting gay-wise on MTV for a while, but that’s about to change. “Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Gauntlet II” starts its new season of challenges at 10 p.m. This time it’s the “Veterans” against the “Rookies” for cash and prizes. Playing for the Veterans are Ruthie (“Real World: Hawaii”) and Aneesa (“Real World: Chicago”). And for the Rookies, it’s Danny from “Road Rules: Xtreme.” Yup, they’re all gay.

I thought I should bring this to attention because I am so happy our culture is finally changing

My partner has trouble having an orgasm when we have oral sex, but he has no trouble bringing me to climax. What’s going on?

Answer:

Believe it or not, a lot of men feel that they’re being selfish — or even dirty — if they let a partner bring them to orgasm orally. Your partner may feel that going down on a woman is loving, but having you do the same for him demeans you. Another possibility: Your guy just doesn’t like to see you working so hard to bring him pleasure. He sees your tired jaw and cramped muscles and thinks making love has become work.

Of course, there could be other factors at play. For instance, he may prefer to ejaculate inside of you. Some men think sex just isn’t sex unless the orgasm happens during intercourse. (Or, he may think that you feel that way.) Finally, he may not like the idea of coming in your mouth, possibly because he’s worried that the taste or volume of semen will gross you out.

So what can you do if you really want him to have an orgasm this way? First, start touching him with your hand. If you get him close to orgasm this way, you won’t have to work as long orally before he climaxes. Or alternate between using your hand and your mouth, finally switching to just your mouth when he is very close to ejaculating. That way, he won’t worry that you’re toiling too long.

If none of these tactics works, simply tell him you’d really like to experience him coming in your mouth. Tell him you fantasize about it, that it turns you on. If he thinks he is doing something for you rather than to you, he might be more open to this kind of sex play.

I read this and I was like Oh My God! Some guys dont like oral sex? Seriously I have never met a guy that didnt like this, whether he is straight or not. So I thought I better write a post about it. I want to know… Is there any guys reading this that just dont like to recieve oral sex? I honestly never get enough even if I was able to get felliacio 7 times a day it wouldn’t be enough. I love it when all my semen is swallowed as well, but thats just me. Post your comments and let me know what you think. Do you like getting or recieving head? Guys and girls, there are not enough of you that do this.

This past summer, a sex study conducted by researchers in Chicago and Toronto supposedly demonstrated that most of those men calling themselves bisexual respond to sexually-charged visual stimulation more like gay men than straight men. The implication, widely picked up on by both the gay and mainstream press, was that most self-reported bisexual men were either self-deluded or misrepresenting their attractions: “Gay, Straight, or Lying?” as a New York Times op-ed piece put it.

The study involved about one hundred men recruited from ads in gay and “alternative” publications. Study subjects fell into roughly equal thirds: those calling themselves bisexual, gay, or heterosexual. Each participant was hooked up to a penile plethysmograph (to measure any swelling in the penis) and shown a set of short films, including one of two men having sex and one of two women having sex. When researchers toted up their boner stats, they found that most of the bisexual men responded– like gay men– more strongly to the man-on-man erotica than they did to the lesbian action. The researchers, concluded that “it remains to be shown that male bisexuality exists.”

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Many people have noted the methodological shortcomings of the study: participants were drawn largely from responses to ads in gay publications, suggesting that any bi guys recruited thusly might tend toward their homo side, for researchers did not ask for “men equally attracted to men and women.”

But a more fundamental problem lies in one of the lead researcher’s assertion that, “for men, arousal is orientation.”

By that standard, almost all teen boys, erect as often as not, must “sexually oriented” to tight jeans, wrestling, doctor’s visits, and Baywatch re-runs.

Some guys would undoubtedly find films of animals copulating arousing; are all of them closet zoophiles?

What of the one-third of the study participants who had no measurable arousal to any of the films? Do they lack a sexual orientation? And what about the three self-identified gay guys who got chubs watching lezzie action, but didn’t while viewing gay male erotica? If arousal equals orientation, have researchers uncovered three heterosexual men pretending to be gay?

Straight men in the military or prison turn to homosexuality with a gusto that often doesn’t even pretend to need the excuse that exclusive heterosexuality on board ship or behind bars would mean celibacy. They can get aroused and like sex with women, they can get aroused and like sex with men. Many such men report that sex with women is different from sex with men– both are enjoyable, but not interchangeable.

Furthermore, ones sexuality can shift. Many men discover (or develop) only later in life various kinks and quirks that become key parts of their sex life; it is often intellectual intrigue– not an erect penis– that leads guys to explore leather, S&M, piss play, and a whole host of perversions whose nervousness-generating novelty may initially inspire impotence before blooming into a new fetish.

And consider carefully: the majority of preadolescent boys engage in genital sex play, and most of such sexual activity is with other boys; such homosexual activity only stops when adolescence’s rabidly homophobic socialization targets “queer stuff” for ridicule and beating. As adults, many such men may genuinely enjoy sex with women, but may again turn to guys later once their nuptial sex life dries up; rest areas and tea rooms (and now chatrooms, too) are full of married guys looking for man-on-man action. No matter how varied their sexual life history, though, few of these men would ever label themselves “bisexual.”

Whatever labels people choose, or that researchers assign, bisexual behavior is common and widespread. Instead of calling people liars for not fitting into predetermined categories, let’s recognize and celebrate that human sexuality is wondrously diverse.

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Did you know that when-ever cold weather comes around every guys penis shrinks about 1 cm until the weather gets warm again? I believe it’s also because of the outside atmospheric pressure changes tracked by a barometer. It depends on the altitude you are at as well I suppose, there are many varibles. I just thought it was interesting the other day when I read a guys penis will shrink, I wonder if this happens with womens breasts as well.

The weather has been very cold today which is why I thought I should write something about it. I really didn’t feel like showing porn today. So have a great day, check out the free movie galleries on the right. Also at the top right click on “Whack Porn” and there is lots of links you can find there.

Apparently basketball star, Shaquille O’Neal, is looking for another career. Shaq has been in training to be a reserve police officer in the City of Miami where he lives. As he was driving in his car, he witnessed an assult that was preceeded by some anti-gay slurs and broke up the fight.

Miami Heat center Shaquille O’Neal sprang into action last weekend when he saw a man allegedly assault a gay couple.

Around 3 a.m. on Sunday, the 7-foot-1 basketball player was driving in South Beach when he saw a passenger in a car yell anti-gay slurs at the couple before throwing a bottle and hitting one of them.

O’Neal sped after the car, flagging down an officer who later arrested Michael Gonzalez, 18, on charges of aggravated assault and assault with a deadly weapon. The driver of the car was not charged.

The man who was hit with the bottle was not hurt seriously.

O’Neal, who hopes to be a police chief or county sheriff, released a statement about the incident. “For this incident I don’t want to be credited as an individual who does police work. I want to be credited as a Miami Beach police officer.”

Miami police spokesman Robert Hernandez said O’Neal has completed the training to be a reserve officer, but has not taken the state certification exam yet.

“He should be certified any day now,” Hernandez told the Miami Herald. “He’s already been fitted for a uniform.”

“I think he’s a great guy and he was just doing the right thing,” said Cyd Zeigler, co-founder of the LGBT Web site OutSports.

Zeigler says although several athletes have made headlines for making anti-gay slurs, O’Neal has kept a low-profile on LGBT issues. “His attitude about life has always been live and let live and do what you want. He’s a fun-loving guy who’s trying to do the right thing.”

“He exhibited the best qualities of law enforcement: he showed a blind eye,” Zeigler pointed out. “It didn’t matter who was being wronged.”

“We live in a culture where we are still surprised when a heterosexual sports icon steps up for us,” said Shawna Virago, the domestic violence program director of Community United Against Violence. “We can now say, ‘Shaq has our back.’”

Good for you Shaq! And for that, I might actually take up watching basketball!

A Florida man staged a fake anti-gay hate crime in which he set fire to his mobile home and spray painted the words “Die Fag” on the steps. It later came out that he set fire to his own house and spray painted the words himself in order to get insurance money.

In what authorities believe is an apparent insurance scam, a gay man in central Florida is under arrest for staging what originally looked like an anti-gay hate crime.

Polk County fire investigators said Christopher Michael Robertson confessed to setting fire to the mobile home he shared with his partner in Lakeland, Fla., this past July. Robertson confessed while in jail on an unrelated incident.

Back in July, the couple said they had been out shopping and came back to find their burnt home at the King Manor Mobile Home Park. “Die Fag” had allegedly been written on the stairs leading into their home. Several expensive items, including a laptop computer and television, were also missing. At the time the two told police neighbors had harassed them and made anti-gay threats in the past. The two had been living in the mobile home park for about a year and a half.

Upon investigating, fire inspectors did find accelerants at the scene, but they did not know exactly how the fire started. Neighbors interviewed in the investigation said they hadn’t actually seen anyone start the fire, nor had they seen anything unusual at the mobile home.

In the course of investigating the incident, Polk County investigators said Robertson admitted he set the fire because he wanted the insurance money. He also admitted to taking the electronics. Robertson put some items in storage and sold the rest. He filed an insurance claim for the valuables and for the fire on July 25 with Citizen’s Insurance. There is no word on how much he expected to gain from the incident.

People like this should be shot. Hate crimes are not to be taken lightly, there are people out there who have given their life because a person hated them due to their sexual orientation. For this scumbag to fake such a trauma is completely dispicable. I hope he’s in jail for a looooong time!!

A coffee cup featuring a quote from a gay author has been pulled off the shelves of Baylor University, which is a Baptist College.

The Starbucks at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, has pulled coffee cups featuring an author’s quote about growing up gay.

The quote comes from novelist Armistead Maupin, who gained fame through his “Tales of the City” series.

The quote on the cups reads: “My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don’t make that mistake yourself. Life’s too damn short.”

Aramark, the dining contractor, pulled the cups from the campus store after an e-mail said the quote was inappropriate at a Baptist university.

Now is that really appropriate? The author was just revealing his feelings and stating a fact, I don’t see where the cup had to be pulled. I’m sure Baylor has some GLBT students, what message is that sending to them? Shame on you Baylor University!

Connecticut is the newest state to offer same-sex civil unions as of October 1st. It seems like all of the states of New England are the first to recognize gay couples’ marital rights. Currently Vermont and Massachusetts have the same laws in place.

HARTFORD, Conn. – Connecticut joins Vermont on Saturday as the only states offering same-sex civil unions, but the day may pass with only a few raised glasses of champagne as the first gay couples exchange vows.

Because Oct. 1 falls on a Saturday, only a handful of town clerks’ offices plan to be open. Gay rights activists know of some planned ceremonies that day — including one officiated by Stamford Mayor Dannel Malloy, who’s running for governor — but don’t know how many couples will race to apply for civil unions.

“Saturday is going to be a landmark day in the civil rights movement in Connecticut,” said state Sen. Andrew McDonald, D-Stamford, one of a handful of openly gay legislators in Connecticut’s General Assembly.

But the law is also creating confusion with some employers who will be required to extend health benefits to same-sex couples.

“I think employers are going to start getting requests (for benefits) as soon as Monday. And they’re not prepared,” said Bruce Barth, an employee benefits attorney at Robinson and Cole in Hartford.

Connecticut’s law passed in April, making it the first state to recognize same-sex unions without court intervention. Laws in Vermont and Massachusetts, which allows gay couples to marry, were created as a result of legal action. In California, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger followed through on his promise Thursday to veto a bill to legalize same-sex marriage.

Connecticut will recognize Vermont’s civil unions but officials are still researching other states’ domestic partnership laws and civil unions granted in foreign countries. But it will not recognize same-sex marriages because its law specifies that marriage is between a man and a woman, a distinction that angers some couples.

Some gay rights activists are pissed that this is not the same thing as a same sex marriage. I tell them “hey at least you’re getting some recognition by the government!”. Now same sex civil union couples will be able to get the same insurance and legal benefits that married couples have enjoyed in the past. Progress is being made, celebrate it don’t criticize it!

A 14 year old girl was expelled from a private Christian school because she has two lesbian mothers. What kind of thing is this to teach our children? The girl is loved, isn’t she? Then what difference does it make! How can adults sleep at night teaching hate to our children!

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ONTARIO, Calif. – A 14-year-old student was expelled from a Christian school because her parents are lesbians, the school’s superintendent said in a letter.

Shay Clark was expelled from Ontario Christian School on Thursday.

“Your family does not meet the policies of admission,” Superintendent Leonard Stob wrote to Tina Clark, the girl’s biological mother.

Stob wrote that school policy requires that at least one parent may not engage in practices “immoral or inconsistent with a positive Christian life style, such as cohabitating without marriage or in a homosexual relationship,” The Los Angeles Times reported in Friday’s edition.

Stob could not be reached for comment by the newspaper. Shay and her parents said they won’t fight the ruling.

School administrators learned of the parents’ relationship this week after Shay was reprimanded for talking to the crowd during a football game, Tina Clark said.

Clark and her partner have been together 22 years and have two other daughters, ages 9 and 19.

Way to go Ontario Christian School. You’ve only proved yourselves to be jackasses, is that a ‘Christian’ thing to do?

A gay legal group called “Lambda Legal” is expressing their concern over newly nominated judge John Roberts as the new Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

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Lambda Legal came out against the nomination of Judge John Roberts as chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday. In a prepared statement, the LGBT community legal advocates said Roberts’ unresponsive answers during three days of Senate hearings left too many open questions.

“Having carefully monitored the testimony during those hearings,” Lambda said, “we have reached the unavoidable conclusion that Judge Roberts, despite being given every opportunity, has failed to demonstrate that he is committed to fairness and equal rights for all Americans.”

Lambda specifically cited the nominee’s failure to comment on whether privacy rights extend to women, gays and other minority groups, as well as his ambiguous position on the power of Congress to outlaw discrimination.

Well, duh! Did they think with an appointment by ultra conservative, George Bush, this guy would be a radical liberal? Times are about to change, my friends. With Bush in the White House for another 4 years, he had the power to change the entire dynamic of the Supreme Court by being able to nominate two new judges. We’re in for some tough roads ahead of us with this new conservative wave to come over the Supreme Court for the next 20-30 years now. The next thing you know, porn will be illegal…..

I was thinking the other day when I was at a business meeting about handshakes, I think what got me thinking was I got to meet a couple of guys; one that was shaking my hand way too hard and the second guy not hard enough.

As I sat down I was not really paying attention to the meeting, I don’t remember why. I just seemed to spend my time contemplating handshakes. I narrowed down to five basic handshakes. Two are great. Three are of the devil.

The 5 different handshakes:

The Limp Fish – If you’re sticking your hand out there to simply be squeezed, then you are a little creepy. A good, solid, firm handshake. It’ll do wonders for your self-esteem.

The Big Dick – There are the boneheads that squeeze too hard. You tend to find this from men who wear wife-beater T-shirts and/or snake skin boots. This handshake is predominately found East of the Mississippi and is usually an attempt to hide the existence of a small genital member.

Those are two unacceptable handshakes.

The Firm Handshake – This is your goal. In a forward movement, arm extended, palm to the left, contact. Wait for it. Thumbs lock, squeeze. Not too hard. Not too soft. Successful handshake established!

The Charmer – This is more a pre-50′s and/or European handshake but can still be very effective when used at the right time. Hand extends, palm to the left, thumbs lock. Light squeeze and twist until your hand is on bottom then pull. You bring the woman’s (or mans) hand to your lips and lightly kiss.

Warning: If you use this technique with a dude, there’s a chance you’ll get belted.

And this brings us to the final handshake. That which Satan himself uses on a regular basis.

The Premature Ejaculatory Handshake – I know you’ve experienced it. You go for the handshake but the “squeeze” comes too fast. Thumbs never locked. You find your fingers in a clasp. You have no control. You are at the mercy of your acquaintance. You are incomplete.

I used to wonder… what did I do wrong? How did I screw it up? Because I can’t recall ever squeezing someone’s fingers short of the thumbs locking. So clearly I must have been doing something wrong to allow myself to get boinked in the middle of the handshake.

Ahh, but with age comes experience and with experience comes knowledge.

I now realize that I was not screwing up after all. Because I never squeezed early. If your fingers get caught half in and half out of a handshake…it wasn’t you! You did nothing wrong! Your partner in this unspoken bonding premature’d.

You did right…you were waiting for the thumbs to lock before going for the squeeze! It’s your partner in the handshake that came too fast!

Why? I don’t know. Nervousness seems the best bet. Perhaps you intimidate. Perhaps there are homophobic issues and your partner in the handshake simply wants to get in and out.

For now, if you find yourself catching an unsuspecting handshake victim’s fingers in a vice… then stop it. Take a breath. Wait for the thumbs to lock, then squeeze!

And thats my 2 cents

California legislature has passed a bill to allow gay marriages in the state:

In a stunning come-from-behind victory, California’s gay allies in the state Legislature have sent a bill to legalize same-sex marriage to the desk of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Led by San Francisco Assemblyman Mark Leno, the bill passed the state Senate last week by one vote, but was expected to have a tough time passing the Assembly. On Tuesday night, however, the marriage bill squeaked through the lower house without a vote to spare.

Its passage makes California the first state in the nation to legalize same-sex marriage through legislative action, a historic first that may well be nullified by a veto pen.

However I think AH-nold will veto the bill once it reaches his desk. He’s pretty conservative and I can’t imagine him letting this pass.

I can actually understand why people don’t want to legalize gay marriage, I get where they’re coming from. They somehow think that if they legalize this, they’ll be public gay sex in the streets and queers holding hands at the mall, etc. Basically they’re afraid. However I wish they’d understand where we’re coming from.

If my partner has brain damage and we’ve been together 50 years and he’s a vegetable, I’m not allowed to make the decision to pull the plug or to keep him alive because I’m not legally his spouse. Or if I get a job and they have great insurance benefits and my partner has no health insurance, I’m not allowed to put him on my policy because we aren’t married. I could go on….there are many benefits that married couples have that same sex couples do not. I would even be willing to compromise, don’t legalize gay marriage as a religious right but do legalize gay marriage as a legal right. I would want my partner to be recognized legally as my partner and get all the same legal benefits as straight married couples. It’s only fair! We are humans too!

Anyhow good luck to those in the State Of California with this new marriage bill, we’ll be rooting for you!