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President Obama nominates out black judge to federal bench

Yesterday President Obama nominated Judge William Thomas to the United States District Court of Southern Florida. If approved, Thomas will become the first openly gay black man to serve on the federal bench. Chris Geidner has more:

Thomas is the first out LGBT black judge to be nominated by Obama, but, if approved by the Senate, he would be the second out LGBT black judge. The first, Judge Deborah Batts, also was the first out LGBT federal judge. She was nominated by President Clinton and sat on the Southern District of New York bench. She took “senior status,” a near retirement, earlier this year. It is unlikely, due to the time nominations take to proceed in the current Congress, that Thomas, currently a state-court judge in Florida, would see a vote on his nomination in this Congress.

Geidner adds that the president has now nominated seven openly LGBT judges to “lifetime-tenured positions.”

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Chris Kluwe – Salon’s Sexiest Man of 2012

I can’t say enough good things about this guy.  He simply rocks.

Vikings punter and creatively articulate LGBT ally Chris Kluwe has been named by Salon as the sexiest man of the year.

Chris Kluwe knows how to write an angry letter.

After Maryland delegate Emmett C. Burns Jr. attempted to silence an NFL player’s same-sex marriage activism, the Minnesota Vikings punter responded with a profanity-laced missive in which he referred to the politician as a ”narcissistic fromunda stain.”

He also sarcastically reassured Burns that legalized same-sex marriage won’t “magically turn you into a lustful cockmonster.” The letter wasn’t just hilariously inappropriate: It deftly took the pol to task for homophobia, hypocrisy and disrespect of free speech. Kluwe even name-checked COBRA and Social Security benefits.

But let’s be honest: He had us at “lustful cockmonster.”

Rockstar status. Period.

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Got that “In-between” mustache? It Gets Fuller

The month formerly known as November, where men proudly let their masculinity shine by growing a handsome moustache in support of men’s cancer research.

Riffing on the “It Gets Better” videos, Nick Offerman from The Office consoles and gives advice on growing a moustache for Movember. If you’re stuck at the “Ugly Geraldo” stage, hang in there because… it gets fuller!

The video comes from Made Man, a proud partner of Movember, the month where men grow moustaches to support men’s health. Donate to support Made Man’s Movember team today!

Last year Made Man helped raise over $40,000 in support of Movember – part of the movement that raised $120 million worldwide.

More info at Man Made

(via AccidentalBear)

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The science of “morning wood”

The Sex-Ed class you never got in school!

Why do men tend to wake up with “morning wood”? AsapSCIENCE looks at the hard facts and some of the biology of an erection, to discover the mechanism behind this phenomenon.

I’ve always been a curious guy. I love the AsapSCIENCE guys for these quick explanations about things I’ve wondered about. Follow them on YouTube.

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Trailer: “Any Day Now”

In “Any Day Now,” Alan Cumming and Garret Dillahunt play a gay couple fighting to retain custody of a child with Down syndrome (Isaac Leyva) who comes to live with them after his mother abandons him.

The film won the Audience Award at Outfest and the Chicago, Seattle, Woodstock, Provincetown, and Tribeca Film Festivals, as well as an acting award for Cumming at this year’s Outfest. Release date is December 14.

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Pat Robertson on David Petreaus: “He’s a man”

The icky chuckle at the :25 mark is just a bit creepy for me.

I’m curious where Pat Robertson sees the sanctity of marriage in all this.

Text of Robertson’s comment: “He described Broadwell as an “extremely good-looking woman” who is a “marathon runner, she’d run Iron Man triathlons and so she’s out running with him, and she’s writing a biography,” and Petraeus simply couldn’t help himself: “The man’s off in a foreign land and he’s lonely and here’s a good-looking lady throwing herself at him. He’s a man.”