Usually I pretend UFC doesn't exist, but this picture of Jason 'Mayhem' Miller got my attention. The boy has a flare for showmanship and a taste for pink boas, and it gets him fired! Mayhem almost makes watching men give themselves brain damage appealing.

When UFC President Dana White talked to reporters about the firing he said, "He's done. He's not with us anymore." Apparently his fashion statements were the last straw. "If you get embarrassed the way you did against Michael Bisping," White continued. "And then you show up at the next fight with a pink whatever that thing was... I'm not into that stuff. It's not my thing. I don't really care if guys do it, because you see it at weigh-ins all the time. But come on, man. Take this thing seriously. If you want to be a clown, you can do that later. Do that on your reality show."

I have no idea what the hell just happened but I still think it's an injustice. Mayhem's cute! I like a boy in pink.

Speaking of cute boys, have you seen these pictures of "hot navy guys climbing a monument covered in lard"? Yes, that's a thing now. A very good thing.

I love these crazy bitches. Every time I think of One Million Forty Thousand Moms, I think of this racist character in The Help. Yes, I read that shit. Funny story: I dated the author Kathryn Stockett's college boyfriend in New York. He was so cute and Southern.

If you haven't read the book, it's set in Mississippi in the 1960s, and there's this one character named Hilly who is a stuck-up bigot and wants all the black housekeepers to use outhouse bathrooms. I'm sure in truth One "Million" Moms are a bunch of obese and naive churchgoing bores, but in my mind I like to imagine them as an army of a million thousand Bree Van de Camps. 

I haven't been following all the gay comics news, but I hear congratulations are in order to X-Men's Northstar, who recently got hitched!

Now DC Comics has revealed that one of its historic superheroes will be coming out as gay in June, and gay nerds everywhere are creaming in their Spiderman boxers.

Of course, this made our beloved psychos twitch worse than when a guest at their home doesn't use a coaster. Here's what the, uh, activists? had to say on their website:

"Parents may have been able to avoid a new character since it would not be one many children have grown to admire. Who will they choose; Batman, Superman, Flash, Green Lantern, Plastic Man, or another one of their characters that children look up to? Children desire to be just like superheroes. Children mimic superhero actions and even dress up in costumes to resemble these characters as much as possible. Can you imagine little boys saying, "I want a boyfriend or husband like X-Men? This is ridiculous! Why do adult gay men need comic superheroes as role models? They don't but do want to indoctrate [sic] impressionable young minds by placing these characters on pedestals in a positive light. These companies are heavily influencing our youth by using children's superheroes to desensitize and brainwash them in thinking that a gay lifestyle choice is normal and desirable."

They then urged their members to email DC and Marvel to object to homosexual superhero characters. 

These moms need to wake up and be real parents. Parents who aren't afraid to sensibly explain the realities of life to their children. Parents who want their kids to be open-minded, to have questions and a diverse outlook on life. 

It isn't all about oppression and fear mongering, ladies.

Vancouver Men in Leather (VML) have circulated an email about their alleged treatment by Club Five Sixty staff and security at Xtra! Presents Hard: A Leather & Fetish Ball. According to the email, Five Sixty did its best to make Hard soft, by ending the night an hour earlier than promoted and having security restrict what went on in the infamous "play area." Many were left confused, with some saying they feel the mistreatment was homophobic.  

Here's the email in its entirety:

Dear VML members and VML-followers,

After staff changes at Five Sixty several months ago, there was concern about having our fourth HARD Party at Five Sixty. Vancouver Men in Leather (VML) was assured by the persons negotiating with Five Sixty that the event would go ahead as planned with a safe play space. A few days before the party we were informed by the management of club Five Sixty that the party would end at 1.00 AM and not at 2.00 AM as advertised and we were told was previously agreed to by Five Sixty.At that point it was too late to try to get an extension on the hours.

We were told the liquor board asked Five Sixty about the play space before the event and we were assured they had no problem with it as long as there was no alcohol in the play space area. We had monitors at the entrances to the play space to comply with the liquor board rules. (This also was done at the last three HARD Parties.) After the event began, we were told that there was to be no oral or anal sex in the play space. This was protested by our group but to no avail. Security, hired by Five Sixty began walking regularly through the play space. They confronted guys who they felt were too amorous, and told them they had to stop. Eventually they sent a large security guard to confront guys more aggressively. One brave guy who said he was “passionate” but had his genitals in his pants asked “Why are you doing this?” A confrontation ensued with many witnesses. Many felt that the confrontation was heavy handed and stemmed from what some guys said felt like homophobia.

We would like to apologize to our supporters who were subjected to this treatment. We felt that we took sufficient steps to assure that this party would take place under the same conditions as our three previous successful HARD parties. VML, as one of the organisers of the HARD party, would never knowingly subject our party guests to abuse and humiliation. If VML had known that Five Sixty would behave in such a manner, we would not have had our HARD Party at Five Sixty.

Gay guys have enough issues/shame about sex already without having to deal with such insensitive accosting of party goers at a gay party. The actions of Five Sixty contribute to our community’s struggle for self-acceptance as a sexual gay man.

Although many of our guests had a great time on the dance floor, Vancouver Men in Leather feels badly that others were subjected to such treatment by Five Sixty staff. We as an organization are embarrassed that that part of the party did not go as planned, and some guys may feel they were harassed and shamed by Five Sixty staff.

The goal of VML is to provide a party that is both fun and sex positive. We failed at providing a sex positive party. We would like to apologise again to those who felt shamed, harassed, and embarrassed by Five Sixty security guards. As a result of what happened, VML will reconsider holding other events at Five Sixty.

Vancouver Men in Leather plans to continue to offer fun and interesting party experiences with a sex positive environment for the gay leather and fetish community.
 
-Vancouver Men in Leather 

For Xtra's complete coverage of this story click here.

At the first US Air Force graduation in Colorado Springs, Colorado, post the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, four openly gay cadets celebrated their achievements and their freedom. ABC News has released this video of interviews with cadets who talk about the tolerance and respect they've been taught by the Air Force and the changes, or lack thereof, that the appeal has brought to the military. 

Trish Heller, who is head of "Blue Alliance," the name for the LGBT Air Force Academy Alumni, said, "The whole thing is we don't want to be identified as anything different. We want to serve, to be professional and to be symbols of what it means to be Air Force Academy graduates."

Anderson Cooper had some plastic surgery maniac from the UK who calls herself "the human Barbie" (even though she looks more like Barbie's bloated granny) on his daytime talk show Anderson. I don't know the full story about this woman, who goes by Sarah Burge when she's not answering to Barbs, but apparently she has given her seven-year-old daughter a voucher for plastic surgery, to be used when she's 18, and doesn't believe that gays should be able to get married 15-year-olds should sweat. 

Anderson, frankly, had enough and let the sack of silicone know it. I believe his exact words are "I think you're dreadful and I honestly don't want to talk to you anymore" before cutting their interview short. 

Never fuck with a Vanderbilt!