Almost half of those surveyed (49.4%, to be exact) said yes, they believe they have at least one gay teammate. In the Pac-10, 70% of those surveyed said yes.

And this is football. Imagine volleyball.

[via Queerty]

The tool is not exactly scientific, but it searches your tweets for cliché words used by and about homosexuals (albeit arguably “cliché”), then it rates your heterosexuality as a percentage. But does it include cheeky commentary about your results and a list of words that earned you the label? Check!

It turns out, @bewilderedsoc is 73% hetero! (Well, as a boy, that is — as a girl, it’s only 45% hetero, whew!) According to some in-depth research at AfterEllen.com, that makes us about 10% less hetero than Lindsay Lohan and 61% more hetero than FoxNews. Click the image to read in full detail.

So, what’s the verdict? Are you more or less hetero than @bewilderedsoc?

Read the entire tounge-in-cheek ad at Woot.com (today only, because we can’t do this all week)

[via Queerty]

ThinkProgress posts some selected excerpts of the interview. Below, a crucial moment in Stewart sorting out crap from fact, as transcribed by the site:

STEWART: Segregation used to be the law until the courts intervened.

HUCK: There’s a big difference between a person being black and a person practicing a lifestyle and engaging in a marital relationship.

STEWART: Okay, actually this is helpful because it gets to the crux of it. … And I’ll tell you this: Religion is far more of a choice than homosexuality. And the protections that we have for religion — we protect religion. And talk about a lifestyle choice — that is absolutely a choice. Gay people don’t choose to be gay. At what age did you choose to not be gay?

The show’s staff posted their own blog to get the conversation going on the Daily Show site. Ignorance and long-winded essays abound!

The hate crime and workplace discrimination initiatives seem strong. Repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” would eliminate an extremely ignorant policy, which was an act of workplace discrimination in itself. Obama also supports extending adoption rights for gay couples, getting more children out of the system and into healthy and happy families.

Obama also supports repealing the Defense of Marriage Act and giving committed gay couples the rights married couples have. The plan indicates a desire to stamp out efforts to restrict same-sex marriages, but doesn’t suggest redefining marriage as a union between any two people. As I understand it, the LGBT community is split on this one. I think if you’re going to give us the rights — hospital visitation, tax breaks, etc. — who cares if you call it marriage.

The initiative that set me off was his HIV/AIDS prevention measures. HIV/AIDS support is important, don’t get me wrong. But it’s not a civil rights issue. And despite popular opinion, I don’t think it it’s an LGBT issue. The verbiage tries to identify that here:

Obama has also been willing to confront the stigma — too often tied to homophobia — that continues to surround HIV/AIDS.

What I don’t think he realizes is that by identifying HIV/AIDS awareness as part of his plan to support the LGBT community, he’s essentially perpetuating the stereotype. According to the CDC, African Americans are the largest demographic in new diagnoses for HIV.

Although blacks, or African Americans, made up only 13% of the population in the 33 states [reporting], they accounted for almost half of the estimated number of HIV/AIDS diagnoses made during 2006.

HIV/AIDS awareness should simply be standard in sex ed programs. Everyone needs to be educated about it. Not simply gay men who have unprotected sex.
Overall, it’s clear LGBTs are going to be much better off with Obama as president than when we had good ol’ W around.