Pride in Oklahoma

A very nice story, worth your time.

Straight Dude Learns the Real Meaning of Defriended

After attending his gay brother's wedding:




BTW, Your Head Trucker still finds it hard to believe that millions of straight guys are actually on our side now. But I guess it must be true. Hard to get my around that after all these many years, though. I remember all the abuse, and the scars still hurt.

Can the leopard change his spots? Really?

There'll Always Be an England

Straight dudes getting nekkid with school ties on - Andrew Sullivan says its to benefit an anti-gay-bullying organization run by straight rugby player Ben Cohen:



Buy the calendar at their website, if they tickle your fancy.

The Cross in the Closet

Just in time for National Coming Out Day, straight dude Timothy Kurek has written a book that describes his experience as a straight man pretending to be gay for a year. From his website:

Timothy Kurek, raised within the confines of a strict, conservative Christian denomination in the Bible Belt, Nashville, Tennessee, was taught the gospel of separation from a young age. But it wasn’t long before Timothy’s path and the outside world converged when a friend came out as a lesbian, and revealed she had been excommunicated by her family.

Distraught and overcome with questions and doubts about his religious upbringing, Timothy decided the only way to empathize and understand her pain was to walk in the shoes of very people he had been taught to shun. He decided to come out as a gay man to everyone in his life, and to see for himself how the label of gay would impact his life.

In the tradition of Black Like Me, The Cross in the Closet is a story about people, a story about faith, and about one man’s “abominable” quest to find Jesus in the margins.

Here's the trailer for the book:



Also, Thomas Roberts of MSNBC did an interview with Kurek:

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The book is available via Kurek's website and on Amazon in paper and various electronic formats as well.

Mormon Bishop Finally Gets It - Really, Really Gets It

Actually, now an ex-bishop. And he got it via, of all things, reruns of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. Excerpt from his essay in this week's Advocate:

For me it was much more than watching five gay men help get straight guys’ act together in grooming, home decor, fashion, culture, and cuisine. It began to create a bond for me to these men. They had a certain synergy that kept me wanting to watch more. I liked them as people. I saw them as individuals expressing their God-given talents and trying to make people’s lives and the world a little bit better. As Carson Kressley, the show’s fashion guru, would often say, it’s not a makeover show, it’s a “make better” show.

I would watch the show and imagine what it would be like for them to be in a Mormon bishop’s home, which is probably considered the heart of enemy territory by some in the gay community since Proposition 8. There was something about the spirit of these men that seemed to break barriers of orientation, politics, and even religion. Perhaps like every other fan, I considered them to be more familiar than reality would dictate. Then something that Carson said in his cheeky manner struck me like a thunderbolt. He said, “We are very pro traditional marriage.” Those words echoed in my mind for months and months. It seemed to disrupt and challenge a deeply held belief that the traditional family was under attack by a so called “gay agenda.”

That belief was dismantled at that moment and I realized that these good men had no desire to hurt me, my marriage, or my family. On the contrary, if they were in my home, I could only see them supporting me, my traditional marriage, and my family.

Watch as Kloosterman apologizes for the church's homophobia - not speaking on behalf of the church, mind, but what seems to be a very sincere, very aware personal statement:




P.S. - So you mean, like, straight guys really do watch that show?  Seriously??!


Honk to Truth Wins Out.

Are You a Man?

From straightnotnarrow.ca:

Kids These Days

It sometimes takes my breath away to realize just how much the world has changed since I was a young'un. Here's a couple of totally NSFW vids from the kids at FCKH8, with a great message. 



And some hot bods.  Even if your old Head Trucker really can't comprehend straight boys doing this - it was way different in my day and time:

Change Dribbles In

Republican women seem to be getting it; you remember John McCain's wife took part in a photo shoot supporting equal marriage a few months ago.  Now this from Laura Bush:



Where the women go, the men always follow.  Eventually.  It's a straight thing.

People who say Laura should have spoken up while her husband was in the White House are simply immature, juvenile in judgment - and probably have never been married.  It wasn't her job to pick a public fight with her husband over any political issue, was it? 

You know guys, we need to take our allies wherever and whenever we find them, and not be overrighteous, ungrateful, bitchy queens about it.  You want to have a friend, you have to be a friend, my mama always said.

And across the water, this startling fact from Andrew Sullivan:  11 members of the now-governing Conservative party are gay and out.  Here we have only 3 openly gay congresspeeps, all Dems.  Wonder when we will ever see the first out gay Republican in national office?