Happy New Year BGG readers!

We appreciate all the support you have given us in 2009 — from sharing our posts with friends to your often hilarious comments. As we venture into this new year together, our team will continue to work to bring you the latest scoop on celebrities, fashion, music, culture and entertainment in both the mainstream and LGBT communities.

So please, continue the conversation, comment and support the artists, authors, and other talent in the LGBT community you read about on our site.

Best Wishes for 2010!

~ The BGG Team

MTO recently posted photos of Jamie Foxx taking a nude photo of himself with a camera phone. The image shows Jamie in the buff in front of a bathroom mirror with all his man berries front and center.

Jamie responded to the leaked photo saying the photo is of him and was taken for the purpose of a movie role. Hmmm. Don’t know if I buy that. Where was Read the rest of this entry »

If it wasn’t for that pesky self-diagnosed A.D.D. of mine, I would tune in to Starbury TV more often. It’s like a multi-vehicle wreck on the highway, you just can’t help but to rubberneck and pray it turns out for the best.

Well, here’s the latest coming from the world of Stephon Marbury & Starbury TV. Earlier this week, Marbury was shown on Starbury TV smoking what appeared to be weed while riding as a passenger in his car. TMZ then posted the video to its website speculating the nature of what Marbury was smoking. Marbury got word of this and responded by creating another video admitting he was in fact smoking marijuana. Oy Vey! Marbury goes on to explain, Read the rest of this entry »

Now we’ve all come across “straight” women who talk about switching teams for a myriad of reasons. Well, we here at Black Gay Gossip compiled a list of the top 5 reasons straight women seek out a little lady loving and our thoughts on it. Check it out! Read the rest of this entry »

And for all of us really. My heart sank when I read this story.

Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover, an 11 year-old Massachusetts boy, hung himself on Monday after ongoing bullying and anti-gay taunting from classmates at his middle school.

Carl was a junior at New Leadership Charter School in Springfield, Mass, and although he did not identify as gay, he endured bullying at school and daily taunts of being gay.

His mother, Sirdeaner L. Walker, pleaded with the school on a weekly basis to remedy this bullying problem. Obviously, the school’s action, if any, was not enough.

Carl would have turned 12 on April 17th.

Ok, people, let’s talk for real here. We’re all adults and as adults we should be able to have frank conversations with one another.

HATE IS HATE regardless of your justification and reasoning for it. And when Read the rest of this entry »

Hello BGGers,

This post was inspired by a brunch conversation I enjoyed with some friends who are “in the industry.” Our conversation got me to thinking and led me to write the following list of Top 7 Ways to Convince People You Are Not “In the Closet.”

Now, let’s get it straight (no pun intended), I’m not suggesting people should leave the closet before they are ready, if ever at all. While staying in the closet may eventually become suffocating, it is a personal choice.

This list is for those closeted individuals who harm both the homosexual and Black community at large by perpetuating homophobia. Whether rooted in self-loath or fear, there are many who vehemently deny they are homosexual, as if it is some negative, nasty stain ridiculously thrown upon them. Help us help you.

If you would like to remain in the closet and end the accusations once and for all, try some or all of the following suggestions:

1. Stop engaging in homosexual acts.

Unfortunately, or rather, fortunately, sex involves the participation of more than just you. So now, someone other than you knows you are either homosexual, or were just having a homosexual kind of day.

2. Stop addressing homosexual rumors every chance you get.

Analogy: A man acquitted of a crime chooses to go on every media outlet to say he didn’t do it and later writes a book saying how he would have committed the crime if he did do it. Down the road, the man ends up in jail. Do you see how confusing and insane that sounds? In the end, you just look guilty.

3. Stop using homosexual slurs, especially with vigor.

Example: If when you say “faggot” or “homo” or even “gay,” it sounds like you dug deep down into your bowels to muster up the deepest contempt possible, as if a homosexual person wiped out your entire family, to get those words to eject from your mouth, you may be “doing too much.” You sound closeted.

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