New Study: Gay Men are less likely to be offered Job Interviews

This is unsettling. According to this study, gay men struggle to get job interviews:

Harvard University researcher Andras Tilcsik sent two realistic but fictitious CVs to 1,700 white collar job openings, such as managerial positions.

One CV mentioned relevant experience in a university gay society as a treasurer, while the other listed experience in the ‘Progressive and Socialist Alliance’. 

Both were Mr Tilcsik said that since employers are likely to associate both groups with left-leaning political views, this would separate any ‘gay penalty’ from the effects of political discrimination.

The results showed that applicants without the gay reference had an 11.5 per cent chance of being called for an interview. However, CVs which mentioned the gay society had only a 7.2 per cent chance. The difference amounted to a 40 per cent higher chance of the heterosexual applicant getting a call.

The study found that states in the South and Midwest – Florida, Ohio and Texas – had the largest differences in callback rates. However, minimal differences were found for Western and North-Eastern states such as California, Nevada, Pennsylvania and New York.

 Not surprising, but not cute to read about.

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MSNBC talks to City Councilman Joel Burns

MSNBC's Thomas Roberts interviewed Joel Burns, the Texas Councilman who gave his emotional "It's Gets Better" speech during a city council meeting

Tiwonge Chimbalanga and Steven Monjeza are Fine, gives interview

This is not translated yet, but I wanted to show they are okay and together.

Tiwonge Chimbalanga, 20, and Steven Monjeza, 26, gave a brief news conference in the administrative capital Lilongwe late Wednesday, their first public appearance together since Saturday's pardon from the sentence of 14 years' hard labour imposed after they held a symbolic wedding.

The pardon followed a meeting between Mutharika and United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

Malawi has been sharply criticised by the international community for jailing the couple and maintaining laws that criminalise homosexuality.

The couple asked the media and the general public to respect their privacy.

"So much has been said and written about us, both positive and negative. We think this is the time for us to be given an opportunity to enjoy our freedom," they said.

They called their ordeal "the most stressful period in our lives."

Chimbalanga told AFP in a phone interview that he was in Lilongwe to "have a breather", while his partner had returned to his village.

Gift Trapence, director of the underground gay movement Centre for the Development of People (CEDEP), which paid the couple's legal fees, said the group was trying to find jobs for Chimbalanga and Monjeza.

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WATCH Conan O'Brien's 1st interview on 60 Minutes

Moose Mess believes we are heading towards Socialism

Does she really know what that is?

When you come for Joe Biden, you better come CORRECT

Newscaster and Sea Hag, Barbara West, tried to ambush Joe Biden with silly questions that obviously proved her Repub strategist husband, Wade West, had something to do with it.

She start spitting out mess about ACORN and Marxist crap that was not really questions. It was an attack. An attack that failed.