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Chris and Steve talked about New England, motorcycles and the Marines. Tyler was with his biker friends but took time out to pose with Chris, still wearing his league jersey.

One of the perks of living in a place like L.A. are these random kind of meetings, and one way to get some pub for a gay flag football league.

Steven and Chris:

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Check out the cool video below. If only my high school did something remotely like this when I was a kid… 

Hat tip to The Advocate.

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The reported story said that another male passenger spewed homophobia at Turbay because he made a pro-Obama statement. According to Turbay, that isn’t true. The passenger had been clearing his throat loudly and Turbay asked him if he was okay. Turbay claims the man became belligerent, saying “you’re a queer, you faggot.”

When an Alaska Airlines employee came to resolve the dispute, the male passenger claimed that Turbay had called him an “asshole” first. That’s when Cornell interjected that the other passenger was lying. Cornell’s wife also said she was offended by the passenger’s anti-gay comment.

Alaska Airlines eventually asked the man to leave. It was only after the man had left the lounge that another passenger made a pro-Obama statement.

Turbay was not thrilled with how the airline handled the incident:

I thought Alaska Airlines did a poor job. Even after confirming the incident, they were concerned about not calling security so the guy would not be kicked out and miss his flight. And also were very attentive to him to reimburse him for been kicked out. Meanwhile other than a later apology, nothing was offered to me to compensate for the incident.

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As for the song, well…not even Tom Brady could get me to download that one.

Hat tip to just about every gay blog and Web site in the universe.

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The Wild suspended Fontaine for two games for the original tweet. From the Star Tribune:

“Minnesota Sports and Entertainment (MSE) apologizes for the offensive slur that was posted by Justin Fontaine on Twitter last night,” the Wild said in a statement Monday night. “Fontaine has been suspended from playing in the next two games for the Houston Aeros.”

What about DiSalvatore? I realize the guy has only made it into five NHL games in his eight-year career, but he shouldn’t get any less than Fontaine after retweeting his buddy’s homophobic comment.

Still, it’s good to see a smart, measured response from the Wild. Taking someone’s playing time away is a powerful statement, but two games isn’t overkill.

Hat tip to Puck Buddys.

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He jumped in front of the camera recently, along with some other British Olympic hopefuls, to lip sync to LMFAO’s “I’m Sexy and I Know It.” Video after the jump.

Hat tip to Towleroad.

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Stereotypes just don’t bug me much. Some people fall into them, others don’t. Heck, I certainly fall into some. I prefer a fruity martini over beer. I’d rather watch ‘Real Housewives’ than ‘The Sopranos.’ And then there’s that whole prefers-sex-with-men thing.

But boy did we gay-gay-gay it up last week. From Chelsea to West Hollywood, you’d have thought 115 million people were actually tuning into a Madonna concert with a football game as the side show, not the other way around.

The picture above is from a promotion I found last Thursday at Revolver in West Hollywood. “MADONNA HALFTIME SHOW! (also, it’s superbowl sunday).” That pretty much sums up the thoughts I heard and the Facebook messages I read over the last couple weeks…

• “You mean those men throwing the ball around sandwiching the Madonna concert?”
• “another amazing party for the Madonna concert, errr, Super Bowl!”

Gay comedian Billy Eichner did a horribly un-original piece for Conan O’Brien (below) in which he ran around Indianapolis wanting to talk to people only about Madonna. He must have dug to the depths of his creativity for that one.

To be sure, Madonna was part of the Super Bowl story. Our headline at Outsports referenced both the Giants and Madonna “winning” on Sunday. Plenty of mainstream outlets talked about Madonna’s halftime show and propped it up alongside the game. Often the halftime shows are part of the game. Last week I watched a replay of the Rams-Patriots Super Bowl; They included U2′s halftime performance in the condensed replay. I get that.

But this “who cares about the game when there are commercials and Madonna” mantra is just kind of…tired. We get it, we get it, gays aren’t supposed to like sports. We’re supposed to think of “Like a Prayer” when Tim Tebows. Images of “Greta Garbo and Monroe, Dietrich and DiMaggio” should dance in our heads as athletes perform touchdown celebrations. We get it, and there’s some validity to it.

Most stereotypes are rooted somewhere. As Jim noted in his post-game column, about 60% of the (mostly gay) people at our Super Bowl party watched most of the game; 100% of them watched the halftime show (conversely, I watched 100% of the game and talked to my brother on the phone about the first half through most of Madonna’s set; I later watched it, she was awesome).

I don’t care if people love Madonna. I had my moments with her (somehow she lost it for me after Evita). And I embrace the stereotypes of our community.

But I’d just love a little more room for sports fans and athletes. When I came out in 1996, I was met with lots of dismissive “oh that’s so butch” comments when I said I played football or love the NFL. It wasn’t surprising back then. But in 2012, it’s a little surprising to me; And I still get that “oh that’s so butch” reaction from time to time (though much less frequently than 16 years ago).

I got into some heat a couple years ago when I took Jesse Tyler Ferguson to task for feeling the need to demonstrably show just how little about sports gay men know. People said I was inconsistent, and maybe I am. I just don’t like the continual perpetuation of this “what gay man watches sports?” mantra. I remember being a kid struggling with that; Today we still hear from young athletes and sports fans who struggle with it.

I want those kids to feel they can celebrate who they are, even if they’re a Buffalo Bills fan. I want the people who are Madonna maniacs to celebrate who they are too. I’d just love to see them stop diminishing each other. It’s not particularly funny or original in 2012.

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Openly gay former Villanova basketball player Will Sheridan has release a new music video in anticipation of his debut album release in February. His music name is actually W!ll Sheridan; You can read more about him at his blog.

The remix of ‘Set Fire to the Streets’ by Great Tiger is pretty damn good! I can absolutely envision this being played in the clubs.

Photo by Josh Maready

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