In a Year of Celebrity OUT-ings... WGAY-TV asks the question: Who is the Queer of the Year?

WGAY-TV the first, free gay TV station, online, anytime at http:wgay.tv, wants to know in a year of celebrity out-ings and queer career comebacks...Who will go down in Gay & Lesbian history as the most remembered of 2006???

In 1997, Ellen Degeneres reigned supreme coming out of the closet on the cover of Time magazine, and coining the phrase "Yup, I'm Gay." Now as 2006 draws to a close, when breakups, babies and betrayals monopolized the headlines, and the phrase being "Lance 'd," might be a better line when a celebrity comes clean on the personal rumors of their private life...

WGAY-TV wants to know who generated the biggest gay headlines this year!

Nominees include:

Neil Patrick Harris

Lance Bass

Rosie O'Donnell

Mary Cheney

and Carmen Electra.

Don't fret if your favorite queer is not listed here. WGAY-TV wants to know your suggestions!

Vote Early and Vote Often...at wgay.tv..

WGAY-TV, America's First Free Gay Station, was established in 2006 by Burt Sherwood and Jason Sherwood, General Manager of WGAY-TV. Currently available online at http://wgay.tv, offering a wide variety of original and acquired programming, dedicated to the world's largest gay and lesbian audience and lovers of the southern most point, Key West.

And thanks once again to Blog Buddy Ellegedly.com for pointing this out to me!

Today is World AIDS Day if you are not aware. While I am fortunate enough to have not known anyone personally lost due to AIDS, I know it remains an epidemic today. And I urge you all to do what you can to educate yourself about this deadly killer so we can hopefully not have to add to those already taken by this horrible monster.

I really didn't know how to commemorate this event. And then it hit me. Since Friday is the day I post Free Porn Clips, I thought we could enjoy some classic Gay Porn. This was all filmed in what is called the "Pre-condom era", before we knew about AIDS and all it is capable of.

So I know this isn't going to bring back anyone you know that is no longer in your life due to AIDS, I just hope this can help you take your mind off it for a little while at least. So, for my third week of Free Porn Friday, I will focus on Classic Gay Porn. These videos may be 20+ years old, but like a fine wine, they only get better with age.

But if wanna watch more, it's simple... Check out the box covers, enjoy the free XXX previews below, and if you'd like to see the entire movie, click the box art and you'll be wisked away to XonDemand where you can buy time and watch the rest, or any of the thousands of other gay video on demand titles they have waiting 365 days a year. Did I mention all new customers get 15 free minutes after they create an account? So you have no excuse not to check it out!

Up first is Fond Focus.

The queen diva of gay porn, Chi Chi LaRue brings you an earlier work, sure to make you hard-up for the hunks in this hot classic movie. Joey Stefano was one of the finest men to ever appear in gay porn, and once you take a look at Fond Focus, you'll begin to see why! The best of the best, this gay classic is something to experience again, or enjoy for the first time!

Next, from Metro Interactive is Matt Gunther & Friends.

Matt Gunther is having some buddies over today, and you're invited. So get ready for a wild ride! Matt can give a blow job like few others can ever hope to achieve. He sucks cock like was born with a dick in his mouth and he fucks like there is no tomorrow! This is one horny dude and his friends couldn't be happier!

Finally today from Galaxy Pictures comes Pushing The Limit.

Hot men, hard dicks, tight asses and a whole lot of action! This is one of gay porn's finest classics that is just as hot today as it was when it was made. Don't believe it? Just watch and see one of the biggest sex orgy scenes ever filmed, it is fucking amazing.

Have a super weekend and enjoy the free Gay Classic porn!

Get ready for even more gay's on TV coming soon, espeically if you live in Florida. I wanted to share this recent press release about the debut of a new television station aimed at the GLBT audience.

Located in Key West, WGAY-TV will be the first, over the air, free gay TV station in the country.... and online at http://wgay.tv. WGAY-TV will launch live on-line at 12AM on January 1, 2007, offering free programming accessible from anywhere in the world? WGAY-TV will also be expanding to cable systems across the U.S. in 2007, with its initial launch exclusively on Key West cable systems.

"Our goal is to offer a variety of free programming both online and through local cable affiliates, that will appeal to the diverse gay and lesbian population." Said Jason Sherwood, General Manager & Co-Founder of WGAY-TV.

Sherwood added, "It's exciting for us to create the concept that gay and lesbian vacationers in Key West will have a local network dedicated to them." "A station they can watch from the comfort of a hotel room on their Key West vacation or back at home when they go online."

WGAY-TV will be developing and creating original material that is fun, positive and entertaining to everyone visiting key west and abroad. The station will interchange original programming produced in Key West, as well as, featuring content from Pride Nation?s extensive library of programming.

Continued Sherwood, "We feel offering this added content will help brand the networks birth here in Key West."

Key West is one of the top destinations for Gay and Lesbian tourists, with Gay consumers spending $55 billion a year on travel, Studies have estimated that the adult GLBT community has a total economic spending power of more than $641 billion per year, according to Wietck Combs (2006).

It has also been found that for every one dollar invested in gay tourism marketing, $153 was returned in direct economic spending in shops, hotels, restaurants and attractions (Community Marketing Inc. 2006), making the GLBT community a viable niche audience for travel and entertainment.

WGAY-TV, America's First Free Gay Station, was established in 2006 by Burt Sherwood and Jason Sherwood, General Manager of WGAY-TV. Currently available online at http://wgay.tv, offering a wide variety of original and acquired programming, dedicated to the world's largest gay and lesbian audience and lovers of the southern most point, Key West.

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Since I don't reside in Key West, for now I have to watch this on-line if I want to see it. I only hope Directv will pick up the service like they did with Logo when it first came out. So will there be room on the dial for another gay tv station (there's a sentence I never thought I'd say...)?

It is good to see so many 24 hour gay stations emerging, I just hope it has enough decent content to sustain it. I like Logo, but it seems like they show the same programs over and over again sometimes. But it is nice to know the channel exists and I for one do not want to see it (or any of them) be removed from the airwaves. So I wish WGAY TV the best of luck and I hope I'll be able to watch it on a TV set in my house soon!

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And not to miss out on the fun, The Late Show With David Letterman poked a little fun at this announcement with their famous Top Ten list. So enjoy:

Top Ten Shows On The New Gay Television Channel:

10. "How I Met Your Brother"

9. "Gary's Anatomy"

8. "Desperate Poolboys"

7. "Everybody Loves Raymond...Especially Steve"

6. "The King Of Queens"

5. "Not-So-Smallville"

4. "I Dream Of Gene"

3. "Gays Of Our Lives"

2. "My Name Is Earl And I Like Construction Workers"

1. "His Deal Or No Deal"

Happy Monday everyone. Get ready for a short week, for most of you at least. A friend of mine found this article over the weekend from MSNBC.com and I thought you all might find interesting as well. With all the recent attention to Penguins, it seemed fitting to share this!

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SHILOH, Ill. - A picture book about two male penguins raising a baby penguin is getting a chilly reception among some parents who worry about the book's availability to children - and the reluctance of school administrators to restrict access to it.

The concerns are the latest involving "And Tango Makes Three," the illustrated children's book based on a true story of two male penguins in New York City's Central Park Zoo that adopted a fertilized egg and raised the chick as their own.

(Click image to buy from Amazon.com)

Complaining about the book's homosexual undertones, some parents of Shiloh Elementary School students believe the book - available to be checked out of the school's library in this 11,000-resident town 20 miles east of St. Louis - tackles topics their children aren't ready to handle.

Their request: Move the book to the library's regular shelves and restrict it to a section for mature issues, perhaps even requiring parental permission before a child can check it out.

For now, "And Tango Makes Three" will stay put, said school district Superintendent Jennifer Filyaw, though a panel she appointed suggested the book be moved and require parental permission to be checked out. The district's attorney said moving it might be construed as censorship.

Filyaw considers the book "adorable" and age appropriate, written for children ages 4 to 8. "My feeling is that a library is to serve an entire population," she said. "It means you represent different families in a society - different religions, different beliefs."

Lilly Del Pinto thought the book looked charming when her 5-year-old daughter brought it home in September. Del Pinto said she was halfway through reading it to her daughter "when the zookeeper said the two penguins must be in love."

"That's when I ended the story," she said. Del Pinto said her daughter's teacher told her she was unfamiliar with the book, and the school's librarian directed the mother to Filyaw.

"I wasn't armed with pitchforks or anything. I innocently was seeking answers," Del Pinto said, agreeing with Filyaw's belief that pulling the book from the shelves could constitute censorship.

The book has created similar flaps elsewhere. Earlier this year, two parents voiced concerns about the book with librarians at the Rolling Hills' Consolidated Library's branch in the northwest Missouri town of Savannah.

Barbara Read, Rolling Hills' director, has said she consulted with staff members at the Omaha, Neb., and Kansas City zoos and the University of Oklahoma's zoology department, who told her adoptions aren't unusual in the world of penguins. She said the book was then moved to the nonfiction section because it was based on actual events. In that section, she said, there was less of a chance that the book would "blindside" someone.

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If you want to read the book for yourself or perhaps to give as a gift this holiday season to hopefully open up some eyes that can't accept things that are different than themselves, Amazon.com has it in stock and is 40% off the cover price. So you can buy it for around $9.00 if you go RIGHT HERE.

I personally am glad the library is continuing to carry this book because if someone doesn't want to read it, they don't have to. But if you restrict the rights of those who do want to enjoy it because others' don't want you to, then you are going against the very principles our great nation was founded on: freedom of speech and independence. The funny part is, this book is based on a true story that actually happened. So in trying to say that homosexuals don't live by hiding this book shows the true ignorance of some people! It's like if you don't agree with something, just pretend it doesn't exist, instead of trying to understand and accept that not everything in life will be the exact way YOU want it to be... and that's OK! Embrace our differences, don't try to supress them.

And you march on you little gay penguins! You have my full support to be who you want to be!

I tend to stay away from religious issues on this blog as to not offend anyone's personal beliefs. But this story was making headlines recently, so if you missed it, I wanted to make sure you got to read it for yourself.

As reported on 365Gay.com: Organized religion fuels anti-gay discrimination and other forms of bias, pop star Elton John said in an interview published Saturday. "I think religion has always tried to turn hatred towards gay people," John said in the Observer newspaper's Music Monthly Magazine. "Religion promotes the hatred and spite against gays. But there are so many people I know who are gay and love their religion," he said. "From my point of view, I would ban religion completely. Organized religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into really hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate."

Religious leaders have also failed to do anything about tensions and conflicts around the world, he said. "Why aren't they having a conclave? Why aren't they coming together?" he asked. John said those in his own field have been similarly lax. "It's like the peace movement in the '60s. Musicians got through to people by getting out there and doing peace concerts, but we don't seem to do them any more," he said. "If John Lennon were alive today, he'd be leading it with a vengeance."

We will have to see if there is any fallout or protect by religious activists over Mr. John's statements. But this is not the first time he's opened his mouth and said something controversial, and it hasn't really effected his career too much. I guess when you are as successful as Elton is, you can get away with this sort of thing more.

What do you think? Do you agree with him or not? Post comments please, I love to hear from my readers!

This story broke late Friday, so it may be old by now to you, but I felt it still deserved a blog entry.

From People Magazine.com: Neil Patrick Harris is gay ? and wants to quell recent reports that he had denied it. The actor tells PEOPLE exclusively:

"The public eye has always been kind to me, and until recently I have been able to live a pretty normal life. Now it seems there is speculation and interest in my private life and relationships.

"So, rather than ignore those who choose to publish their opinions without actually talking to me, I am happy to dispel any rumors or misconceptions and am quite proud to say that I am a very content gay man living my life to the fullest and feel most fortunate to be working with wonderful people in the business I love."

Harris, 33, currently stars in the CBS comedy How I Met Your Mother. He shot to fame in 1989 at age 16 when he played a teen-prodigy doctor on the hit Doogie Howser, M.D. "It was a very fast but wonderful education," he told PEOPLE in 1998.

After the show went off the air in 1993, he shook off his teen image with roles in the musicals Rent and Assassins and a wild turn as an unhinged version himself in the 2004 movie Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle.

"I'm enjoying my 30s," he told PEOPLE in 2004. "I feel like I know where I'm going. And I like where I'm going."

So what is up with all these celebrities coming out in the pages of People magazine lately? It is becoming the "in" thing to be gay and then announce it via People Magazine. As reported here first, we had Lance Bass from 'N Sync come out this summer, then T.R. Knight from Gray's Anatomy made the announcement last month, and now Neil Patrick Harris admits he'd gay, all in People Magazine. So, who will be the next celebrity to kick down the closet door and come out? I won't say who I think it should be... I'll just paint you a mental picture...

VOTE NOW!

OK, there is a very important election coming up soon... No not the one next Tuesday. I'm talking about the 5th Annual X-Biz awards! The XBIZ Awards honor companies that provide business products and services of excellence. Stand up and be counted! While the public may not have heard much about X-Biz, those of us who work in this industry most certainly have and it is a very big deal to be recognized and honored by X-Biz.

The world's biggest B2B award show is coming February 8th 2007 in conjunction with XBIZ Hollywood '07 Conference. Hundreds of leading companies will be competing for the coveted crystal XBIZ Award in our fifth year honoring business excellence.

You can count on XBIZ to pull back all the stops and deliver the biggest industry celebration yet?a star-studded event with more excitement, more energy, more winners than ever before!

The XBIZ Award has been a symbol of excellence within the adult community since the dawn of the new millennium. Nominated by clients and colleagues, judged by a panel of peers, XBIZ winners are the entrepreneurs and business leaders who keep our marketplace eclectic, vital and constantly evolving.

As you know if you read my blog, I have my own Goldie's Gay Galaxy Video On Demand Theater. Well it is run for me by XonDemand and I know they do an excellent job providing fresh new gay content all the time along with free previews that change daily, an easy to use search engine to make it simple to find just what you are looking for, 15 free minutes to all new users, and much much more.

So I encourage you strongly to please go here and vote for XonDemand for best Video On Demand provider for 2006. And be sure to tell your friends too! Thanks!!!

I couldn't be happier to report this news. This post is my 100th post on the blog and I had planned something special. I had no idea at the time, it would be this special!

From CNN.com:

October 25, 2006. TRENTON, New Jersey (AP) -- New Jersey's Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that same-sex couples are entitled to the same rights as heterosexual couples.

But the court left it to the Legislature to determine whether the state will honor gay marriage or some other form of civil union.

Advocates on both sides of the issue believed the state posed the best chance for gay marriage to win approval since Massachusetts became the only state to do so in 2003 because the New Jersey Supreme Court has a history of extending civil rights protections.

Instead, the high court stopped short of fully approving gay marriage and gave lawmakers 180 days to rewrite marriage laws to either include gay couples or create new civil unions.

"The issue is not about the transformation of the traditional definition of marriage, but about the unequal dispensation of benefits and privileges to one of two similarly situated classes of people," the court said in its 4-3 ruling.

New Jersey lawmakers voted to allow domestic partnerships in 2004, but they have been reluctant to delve into the sensitive issue of marriage.

Under domestic partnerships, gay couples have some benefits of marriage, such as the right to inherit possessions if there is no will and healthcare coverage for state workers.

The case was brought by seven gay couples who say the state constitution allows them to marry.

New Jersey is one of only five U.S. states with neither a law nor a state constitutional amendment blocking same-sex marriage. As a result, the state is more likely than others to allow gays to wed, said advocacy groups on both sides.

Read the rest of the story here!

One can only hope other states follow the example New Jersey is making with this landmark decision!

This is pretty cool! As any video game junkie like myself would attest, most hardcore gamers are male. And most of them are straight and in their teens. That is why you often see scantily clad women in games, but not often men. Gotta appeal to all those horny teenagers and their desire to see nearly naked women... even if they are just pixels in a video game. But as far as gay video game characters??? Forget it. Well, until now.

I have no idea how much of the total game this accounts for, or how it fits in with the actual storyline, but in the new PS2 release Bully, there is a scene of actual guy on guy making out. Pretty cool if you ask me. Now I'm sure some 13 year old watching this while he plays is gonna get grossed out, but then again... it may turn him on too! Rockstar Games who created Bully is known for pushing the envelope with their Grand Theft Auto games, and it looks like they have done it again with their latest release Bully! Read on for the full story and the clip from GayGamer.net.

"A few days ago we brought you a story about gay content in Rockstar Games? uber-controversial Bully. Armed with my trusty PS2 and a brand spanking new copy of Bully, I set forth to find the boys who are available for kissing. I know of four, but the one I found first was Trent, one of the "white shirts". After a little talking and a bouquet of flowers he was more than willing to get down to business, and he and our hero Jimmy really seemed to enjoy it. I was shocked later, when I went into the town near the school, to find my blonde hunk holding hands with a red haired jock while waiting in line for the movies. Needless to say, my heart was broken, but I was able to see through my tears long enough to make this little video of the whole make-out experience. I hope you enjoy watching it as much as we enjoyed making it."

If you want to purchase Bully for yourself, it is available for $40 from Gamestop.com right here! Or for $10 more, you can get the Limited Edition version complete with special packaging, a dodge ball, and a comic book!

I'm not holding my breath for it, but maybe this will help pave the way for a video game where the entire storyline involves gay characters (and not called Bully either). Time will tell I suppose. In the mean time, I'm off to play my copy of Bully to see if I can uncover this groundbreaking scene for myself!

Fan's of the mega hit ABC medical drama "Grey's Anatomy" will especially want to check this out.

"Grey's Anatomy" star T.R. Knight says he's gay, but hopes people don't consider that "the most interesting part of me." The 33-year-old actor addressed rumors of his sexuality in a statement to People magazine Thursday.

"I guess there have been a few questions about my sexuality, and I'd like to quiet any unnecessary rumors that may be out there," Knight's statement read. "While I prefer to keep my personal life private, I hope the fact that I'm gay isn't the most interesting part of me."

Knight plays Dr. George O'Malley on the popular ABC drama. A former stage actor, his television credits also include "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" and "Law & Order: Criminal Intent."

Knight's "Grey's Anatomy" character, a bumbling, puppy-eyed surgeon, has long been in love with Dr. Meredith Grey ( Ellen Pompeo).

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Also, you may have missed this, but another star has also come out of the closet this week. On Wednesday, former "American Idol" finalist R.J. Helton came out when he told Sirius Satellite deejay Larry Flick, "Just because I am gay does not mean I can't love God." After telling Flick he'd just outed himself "three seconds ago," he said, "It feels good."

This is kinda ironic because his first studio album has lots of religious Christian undertones.. If you want to support him, you can buy it from Amazon.com for $12 right here.

Who will be the next person to come out of the closet??? Time will tell... But Clay Aiken... I'm waiting!