"I came out so I wouldn't have to hide myself. That was me—what you saw was me, it wasn't staged," Sam told Winfrey. "When I got that phone call it was one of the happiest moments of my life. It was three long days [of] almost not being drafted. I wanted to share a moment with the one person who had spent the same three days [with me]. I wanted to share a moment with him. I'm not a pretender anymore."

“During the second film shoot, [a performer] had symptoms of a viral infection,” an alert stated. “The actor went to a clinic and had another blood test that showed he had recently become infected with HIV.”

A second actor has since tested positive, and its believed he was "probably" infected by the first, who had apparently tested negative initially.

But shortly after that first test, the alert declared, "HIV levels in his body rose rapidly to where he could infect other actors through unprotected sex."

A law banning bareback sex in porn movies shot in Los Angeles has been supported by some politicians and the L.A.-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF).

Earlier this month, the Supreme Court declined to grant a stay, meaning the freedom to marry will come to the Sunshine State while the case is on appeal, starting January 6.

“State laws and constitutions denying marriage to gay and lesbian citizens are bad for our businesses,” read a friend-of-the-court brief filed last week by corporations ranging from Amazon, Delta and eBay to GE, Target and Viacom. “The burden – imposed by state law – of having to administer complicated schemes designed to account for different treatment of similarly situated employees interferes with our business and creates unnecessary confusion, tension, and ultimately, diminishes employee morale.”

The Eleventh Circuit is expected to review the case early next year.

Publix, the country's sixth-largest privately held corporation, hasn't had the best track record on LGBT rights: The company received a zero rating on the Human Rights Campaign's 2014 Corporate Equality Index and in 2012, the Broward County Human Rights Board ordered Publix to pay $100,000 to a bakery employee who alleged that he had been fired for being gay.

"Complaints by LGBT Publix employees have been a regular feature in Florida's alternative press for the last few years," reports Joe My God.

Timur Isayev says he snooped through his victims' social media profiles, grabbed “incriminating” evidence of their homosexuality, and sent it to their supervisors.

“It’s a crime to allow such teachers as [redacted] around children... [she], doesn’t only demonstrate her personal life, but she also puts up photos of sodomy on the Internet, for everyone to see," he wrote about one victim, purportedly a lesbian. "[She] shows up at school with lesbian attributes: rings on her big fingers and pinky fingers, dressed like a man, cutting her hair short, which can be a bad example for the behavior of children.”