Texas Politician Blasts Log Cabin Repubs: Gays Promote ‘Unnatural’ Sex

Sen. Bob Hall went on an antigay tirade during a committee hearing over whether LGBTQ Republicans will be allowed at the state GOP convention.

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Straight dude buys billboard hoping to land a date, disappointed when most respondents are men

A straight dude from the U.K. who bought a billboard in hopes it of finding a date says he’s “flattered” by the flood of inquiries from men, but that’s not really what he was aiming for when he placed the ad.

30-year-old Mark Rofe paid £425 (roughly $550 U.S.) to put up the roadside ad on Fairfield Street in Manchester. It reads: “Date Mark. This could be the sign you’ve been waiting for” and directs people to visit www.DatingMark.co.uk to learn more about him.

“I’ve had more than 100 people get in touch,” he tells the BBC. “Unfortunately, half are men, but I’m still very flattered.”

Rofe, who has been single for a year, says the idea came to him while he was at the pub.

“I was talking to my mate saying how I was struggling on all these dating apps and I joked that I should put my face on a big billboard,” he explains.

“We laughed about it but then actually I thought what a good idea. I tried to make it funny,” he adds.

“Hopefully, I don’t come across as a desperate loser.”

According to www.DatingMark.co.uk, over 1,500 people have now applied to date Rofe. Here’s hoping he finds a match!

Related: Straight dude makes out with best friend while high, wonders if he’s suddenly gay

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Live From New York, It’s RuPaul on SNL, ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine,’ ‘Katy Keene’ and More TV This Week

Check out our weekly guide to TV this week, and make sure you’re catching the big premieres, crucial episodes and the stuff you won’t admit you watch when no one’s looking.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine is back on NBC. The series is beloved for its portrayal of LGBTQ character Raymond Holt, but the unit also boasts the bisexual Rosa Diaz. The GLAAD Media Award-nominated series kicks of this season with a manhunt Thursday at 8 p.m. Eastern.

The Archie kids are getting ready to take Gotham. Sorta. The latest addition to the Archie television universe is Katy Keene, a New York City-set teen drama starring Lucy Hale. In addition to Hale in the titular role, the new gang includes Jorge, whose drag alter-ego is Ginger. The series premieres Thursday at 8 p.m. Eastern on the CW.

Edie Falco is the new Los Angeles chief of police on the new drama Tommy, premiering Thursday at 10 p.m. Eastern on CBS. She’s not only the first female officer in the job, but she’s also got to contend with being a real New Yawkah and a lesbian.

HBO’s brilliant, narcotic dramedy High Maintenance is back for a fourth season Friday at 11 p.m. Eastern. The character-based stories provide probably some of the most realistic portraits of New York City ever on television.

This weekend, herstory will be made as RuPaul hosts Saturday Night Live, 11:30 p.m. Eastern on NBC. A drag queen host is unprecedented, and we’re looking forward to whatever wild, gay nonsense SNL rising stars Bowen Yang and Julio Torres have in store for Mama Ru.

What are you watching on TV this week?

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Another antigay pastor and popular conversion therapist accused of underage sex crimes

A retired pastor from Australia who used to run the country’s most popular gay conversion clinic has just been charged with sexually assaulting an underage boy.

Former Rev. Ron Charles Brookman appeared in court this week to address accusations that he sexually assaulted a 13-year-old boy between September and October 1989.

At the time of the alleged assault, Brookman was a senior pastor at Newtown Mission Church, where he worked from 1984 to 1998. He later went on to be the director of Living Waters Australia, an antigay organization that aimed to “cure” people of homosexuality, from 1999 to 2014.

In addition to that, Brookman worked as the director of a sex addicts support group and has been involved in leading several groups to “support men wanting freedom from internet addictions and other forms of broken sexuality,” according to his LinkedIn profile.

In 2008, he opened up about his own struggles with his sexuality, telling an interviewer that he joined the Presbyterian Church at the age of 17 and that it caused his homosexuality to be “driven inward, but it was always just under the surface.”

“When I was 26 I discovered homosexual pornography,” Brookman continued. “I got married when I was 29 for all the wrong reasons. I wanted to keep up appearances as a happily married minister but it was a very sad and dysfunctional marriage.”

It wasn’t until 1990 when he claims he was finally able to rid himself of his homosexual demons, thanks to Christian psychiatrist John White.

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