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.

Check your leash size, 'cause Drew Droege's cult-hit Chloe has returned from much too long of a hiatus (spent sharing a raw salt lunch with Carol Channing) to explore the world of "Pets."

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)

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Inside this week's edition: The Vatican's porn habits, new study on the appeal of penis size, guessing tops and bottoms, Brendon Ayanbadejo's abs for equality, the hospital drama in Kansas City and much, much more! 

A lot can be said with a hashtag nowadays. The Wanted's Tom Parker knows the power of the Twitter tool and wielded it in a Twitter spat with One Direction's Louis Tomlinson to accuse the younger boy bander of being a closeted gay pop star.

Surprisingly, Bel Ami films were not included on a list of torrent downloads occurring within The Vatican. Instead, lesbian porn starring Tiffany Starr and Sheena Shaw, and a few BDSM titles worked their way over the IP pipeline to the computers of those inside the Holy See.

It's nice to see consumers displaying such a healthy appetite for safe sex!

If the assortment of vaguely berry flavored lubes that tasted like expired cough drops didn't make your taste buds pucker at the thought of a delicious night in the boudoir, perhaps the new bacon flavor condoms from J&D's would've done the trick (no pun intended).

Too bad they sold out pretty much as soon as they were announced.

Parents really have seemed to embrace the lost art form of writing letters lately, sparked, at least in our observations, by having children that break the mold. The latest letter to grace the Internet's inbox comes from the concerned parent of a boy who was kicked out of a public restroom because he was confused for a little girl. Make sense?

Exactly. Follow the jump to read what the hero mom of the day has to say to the man who berated her young son.

...yes, the same Kobe Bryant who was punished for calling a ref a "faggot" in 2011!

At GitHub, a community devoted to the altruism of sharing code with fellow developers, a severe lack of diversity is shining through in many lines of open-source code. Is it time for the development community to take stock and have a conversation about offensive language perpetuated behind the scenes of the Internet?

If there's anything we know about Jodie Foster after the Golden Globes, it's that she's fifty!, single and came out 1,000 years ago in the Stone Age. Sounds like the ideal first candidate for Randy Rainbow's new Lesbian Matchmaking Service, doesn't it? Watch a well-heeled Randy run down the initial application with a determined Jodie Foster after the break.