As if we didn't have enough to worry about, Queerty brought it to our attention that a San Diego gay man inadvertantly transmitted smallpox to another man after a sexual encounter. Smallpox was officially eradicated in 1980.

What's next? The Bubonic plague? Rinderpest??

To be fair it's a "smallpox related virus," but still. 

More after the jump.

The 335-or-so residents of Kentucky's tiniest town should pat themselves on their backs after making homo history by becoming the smallest municipality in the country to pass a fairness ordinance. 

The small sliver of reality television time devoted to the T from the great gay rainbow acronym has bumped up from nothing to something, thanks to the premiere of AMC's Small Town Security. Marking the landmark is Lt. Dennis Croft, the only current transgender male on reality TV. Details and video follow. 

Though the National Organization for Marriage might want you to think that hundreds of folks participated, a video report from the "Dump General Mills" protest that took place in front of the company's Minnesota headquarters paints a different picture.