After Robbie Rogers came out, soccer has trumped hockeystick ball or whatever as our favorite athletic competition show sport thingymajig. So we were very happy to learn that fans of professional soccer who were attending a recent Portland Timbers match were met with an incredible display of LGBT support ahead of the International Day Against Homophobia on Friday. Go local sports team!

Details follow.

Downtown Portland's Lonesome Pizza caused quite an outcry amongst the transgender community and their allies when a controversial menu item called "tranny stix" was highlighted by Transadvocate on Facebook. 

The "tranny stix" (they're actually breadsticks) were paired on the menu with a picture of Lonesome Pizza co-owner Nic Reddy dressed in drag.

However, in a move that gives us hope (and has us ready to chow down on a slice), Reddy issued an honest apology. Check it out after the jump!

Same-sex marriages have begun in Maine, Instincters!

Lobster for everyone!! (Just don't send us the check!)

More after the jump!

Officials in Portland, Maine are expecting large crowds tomorrow, the first day marriage certificates will be available for same-sex couples in the state. Portland is one of only a few communities in Maine that are extending Saturday office hours to accommodate the anticipated love fest. 

ABC News (and other news outlets) are highlighting Allan Fonseca, the young Lancome counter worker who risked his life to get numerous shoppers to safey during yesterday's shooting at Clackamas Town Center in Portland, Oregon.

Fonseca is presumably "family" (if we had to guess) so we take a little extra pride in his heroism! 

Watch Fonseca and the first woman he saved, Jocelyn Lay, speak to ABC News after the jump!

Portland, Texas police have released a sketch of a man suspected in the horrific shooting of a teenage lesbian couple. Details follow. 

Forget that whole feed the poor, help children in need and clothe the homeless stuff. The Catholic Diocese of Portland, Maine would rather focus its time and effort on telling gays to stop having sex. 

More than 4,000 people of all ages and identities gathered in the rain Sunday night and symbolically held hands with one another in response to two men being attacked for holding each others' hands last week. Details about this amazing display after the jump.

Police in Portland, Oregon are investigating a likely hate crime attack concerning two men who were beaten after holding hands while walking.