DOMA rears its ugly head again. Queerty is reporting that a lesbian Naval serviceman will not have her wife recognized by a Virginia Naval base at her retirement ceremony after nearly 20 years of service. The reason given? The federal government doesn't recognize her marriage.

More after the jump.

Former New York Mets catcher Mike Piazza swears he wasn't (and isn't) catching or pitching for our team. 

The 44-year-old tackles (somebody give us a baseball-related pun!!) the persistent gay rumors in his book Long Shot. 

See what he has to say after tthe jump!

...but also supports military chaplains' religious right to not marry gay couples. Check out a synopsis and videos from possible Sec. of Defense Chuck Hagel at today's Senate confirmation hearings after the jump. 

A new survey from the Community Healthcare Network in New York enlightens us to some troubling statistics: nearly 50 percent of gay men who find hookups on location-based apps engage in unsafe sex. 

The Marine Corps is putting its best foot forward in the wake of last month's controversy in which an Army same-sex spouse was denied admittance into a Fort Bragg officers' spouses club.

The Marine Corps has issued a legal advisory stating that spouses clubs operating on Marine bases must admit same-sex spouses if they intend to remain on base. 

More after the jump. 

Noah Syndergaard, a new acquisition for the New York Mets, is getting his MLB career in the lower 48 started on the wrong foot after tweeting an anti-gay slur. Details follow. 

With all the Chris Kluwes and Hudson Taylors of the world, it's sometimes easy to forget that homophobia is still the default hallmark of poor sportsmanship in the sports world.

Take Monday night's National League Championship Series ending for instance.The San Francisco Giants took out the Saint Louis Cardinals for the win, an ending that then saw a league of barely literate bigoted Cardinal fans swing their bigot bats at low hanging fruit (no pun intended) with outrageously homophobic swipes at San Francisco, gay men and the HIV positive. 

With gay rights, homophobia, and coming out seemingly becoming a topic of conversation in every professional sport, ESPN magazine took the opportunity to gauge where the four major pro sports in the US individually stand on the issue of marriage equality.

The results may surprise you. Find out what they uncovered after the jump!

Sacha Baron Cohen was so inspired by the story of Hong Kong kingpin Cecil Chao and his daughter Gigi that he's set on bringing it to the big screen. Unfortunately (or fortunately, if they've got a robust sense of humor) for Cecil and Chao, the movie adaptation based on the father's $65 million bounty to any man that can seduce his lesbian daughter will be in the controversially irreverent style of Borat and The Dictator. 

The Rangers are "looking into" an anti-gay slur tweet issued by the account of the baseball team's starting pitcher Derek Holland over the weekend. Holland denies writing "ur a fag" in response to an angry fan on the social network, but the team's general manager is taking the unwelcome distraction "very seriously."

Kevin McClatchy, the former general managing partner and chief executive officer of the Pittsburgh Pirates, waited until five years after leaving his post in 2007 to come out as gay. With the timing coinciding with an ideal and historic moment in the MLB's transformation of acceptance, could his story be the spark the sports wolrd needs?

Ozzie Guillen, the controversy-prone manager of the Miami Marlins, has rushed to defend Blue Jay Yunel Escobar's blatant use of a Spanish anti-gay slur on the MLB field and chalked it up to a difference of culture.