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Married & Gay: Talking with Your Children Pt. 4

Married & Gay: Talking with Your Children Pt. 4

Advice on speaking with your kids when divorcing because of your sexual orientation.

Speaking with your kids about an impending divorce is scary enough; adding to that the news that your sexual orientation is changing and the stress involved doubles. If there is no burning need to tell your children about your coming out, take the time to come to your own place of self-acceptance before discussing it with them. It’s important that when you decide to share your new orientation with them, you are not speaking from a place of shame and guilt. If shame comes through in your communication, you’re sending a message to them that it is wrong or embarrassing.

Angry Single Blogger: Guess What, Homophobes? You're Probably Gay
All that homophobia is just proof that you're repressing some same-sex attraction.

Angry Single Blogger: Guess What, Homophobes? You're Probably Gay

That's right, haters. You're more likely to be gay than us tolerant folk.

Remember when former Republican senator Larry Craig, who was always so anti-gay rights, got caught "tapping" his foot in a men's bathroom, looking for some man-on-man love? Hypocrite! Even more well-known is Ted Haggard, the crazy gay-hating evangelical Christian who, despite his sermons that condemned homosexuality, was getting busy with a male escort and doing crystal meth to boot.

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J.Crew's Jenna Lyons & 7 More Lesbians Who Used To Be Straight

These famous ladies ditched the dudes and went the lesbian route. Sometimes we can't blame them!

So, apparently Jenna Lyons is getting divorced from hubby Vincent Mazeau, after 10 years of marriage — and is rumored to be in a relationship with a woman.

Zachary Quinto

Actor Zachary Quinto: 'I'm A Gay Man'

Until now, the hunky Quinto -- known for Star Trek -- kept his sexual orientation private.

If actor Zachary Quinto of American Horror Story, Star Trek, and Margin Call wanted the world to know he was gay, he'd probably tell us. But in fact, it appears that, until now, Quinto actually preferred to keep his sexual orientation private. He's never talked about it openly.

Lady Gaga

Study: Women Get More Bisexual As They Grow Older

60 percent of women are attracted to other women. Are you one of them?

Like most women, I have no shame in admitting that I find other females attractive. I have even admitted to being open to experimentation ("Of course I would sleep with Halle Berry! It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity"). For women, it's perfectly acceptable to be a little bi-curious (cue every male fantasy), and according to the latest research, it's the norm.

Thomas Jane

Was "Hung" Actor, Thomas Jane, A Former Prostitute?

Just like his character Ray Drecker, Jane has a pretty scandalous secret.

Eerily similar to the character he plays on HBO's Hung, Thomas Jane knows first-hand what it's like to be poor, strapped for money, and have nowhere to go for support. In a new interview with the Los Angeles Times (via Huffington Post), the 42-year-old actor reveals he had a hard time breaking into Hollywood when he was younger. At 18, he was "homeless, didn't have any money, and was living in his car."

Can You Imagine A Life Without Sex?

Can You Imagine A Life Without Sex?

A survey showed that 71 percent of asexuals are women.

As someone who makes a living writing about, lecturing on, and loving sexual interaction, it's difficult to imagine a world where sex doesn't matter. I'm not saying such a world doesn't exist—it certainly does.

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Can A Serotonin Deficiency Make You Gay?

New research shows serotonin levels in influence gay and straight behavior—at least in mice.

Plenty of movies and TV shows toy with the possibility of turning research subjects gay by injecting them with a serum, but findings published in Nature demonstrate that real-life scientists can do something similar by tweaking the serotonin levels in mice.

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What To Do When (Surprise!) Your Fiance Is Gay

He came out and she wrote a book about it.

Kiri Blakeley was one of the enviable ones. Happily ensconced in a giving, loving,10-year relationship she marveled at her luck while watching the rest of her New York City gal friends tried to negotiate the waters of the meet-and-greet market. Until the night her fiance cried gay.

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8 Reasons Your Friends Don't Like Your Boyfriend

How much should you care if your friends don't like your new boyfriend?

So the day of reckoning has arrived. For the past month, your friends have been clamoring to meet your new guy, but alas, the how-do-you-do's were largely anticlimactic. Are your friends unsupportive? Was everyone in a bad mood? Or was your boyfriend just not that impressive? Everyone knows that love is blind, and no matter how confident we are in our choices, sometimes our friends are just better at analyzing our partners than we are. Here are things your friends might have observed about your guy that escaped your notice: