The L.A. attorney who represents nine former Micky's employees in a lawsuit brought against the popular West Hollywood gay nightclub has opened up with Instinct about the case that has the city's (and nation's) attention.

Maybe the older generation isn't as rigidly conservative as we had once assumed?

According to a new poll from Gallup, an increasing number of voters over the age of 50 are coming around to support marriage equality. 

Surprise, surprise: the highest frequency of homophobic tweets in the U.S. mostly occur in small towns, not large cities, according to a heat map produced by researchers at Humboldt State University. 

Is your city in the red?

When did you decide to be gay?

It's a question that's lost a lot of steam in recent years but is still, embarrassingly enough, being asked by those whom history's leaving behind.

This video, uploaded in 2008 (an eternity in the Internet time-space continuum) but reaching viral status this week on social networks, turns the tables on heterosexuals to provide an enlightening perspective.

The United States is a melting pot of diversity, except when it comes to profile headers gay men use on Manhunt. In all but one state, the most frequent user headline was a simple "Hey guys." 

In Connecticut, however, users however have bypassed the rest of the country for a more pressing (pardon the pun) issue by being the only state where "Looking for a top" is the most frequent header. Times are rough (or not, actually) in Connecticut.

(h/t Boy Culture)

A new study culled from data found in the National Surveys of Family Growth (NSFG) suggests gay men aren't sleeping around as much as we were a decade ago. 

On one hand, it's applause-worthy that mainstream retailers are becoming more inclusive of straight men who prefer lingerie; on the other, where is the movement's marketing toward gay men who share the affinity?

You may think that jocks have it all in life, from elementary school all the way through to their 20s, but one study out of Michigan State is here to say that the grass AstroTurf might not be much greener.

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After Uruguay became the second Latin American nation to approve marriage equality this week and France pretty much finalized its legislation, the world asks, "Where is the U.S.A.?"

Allure's first ever aging survey puts (yet another) question mark after the gay obsession with One Direction. According to the results, those in the LGBT community are more attracted to people 10 years older than themselves than their straight counterparts.

What do your Facebook "Likes" say about you?

That's the premise of a new study out of the University of Cambridge, where researchers have pinpointed with frightening accuracy the type of person who likes everything from "emo" to "Did you get a haircut no it grew shorter."