“I wouldn't have taken him," Dungy, who was head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers from 1996 to 2001, and the Indianapolis Colts from 2002 to 2008, told the Tampa Bay Tribune. “Not because I don't believe Michael Sam should have a chance to play, but I wouldn't want to deal with all of it. It's not going to be totally smooth—things will happen."

Ironically—or perhaps tragically—Dungy was the first African-American coach to win a Super Bowl, and faced racist taunts from angry fans. He has since retired but still provides NFL commentary for NBC.

Strangely, Dungy, an evangelical, was one of Michael Vick's biggest supporters when the former Falcons quarterback returned to the NFL, after doing time for operating a dogfighting ring.

Right, because that’s not a distraction?

Tim Kelemen, police chief of Campbell, Wisconsin, had been at odds with Tea Party leader Greg Luce since last fall, when the right-wing faction began staging protests on a town overpass.  Citing concerns that the demonstrations were distracting drivers, Kelemen convinced the town council to ban signs, banners and flags on the bridge. Luce retaliated by urging Tea Party supporters to bombard the police department with harassing phone calls and threats.

Then, in January, Luce started receiving calls and emails from gay dating, porn and health-care websites in January. When investigators followed the trail back to Kelemen, he initially denied any involvement, but eventually acknowledged he had cyberpranked Luce.

"This is more of a harassing situation than to harm someone's reputation," said Monroe County District Attorney Kevin Croninger."That is the distinction I see."

While the charge carries a maximum penalty of 90 days in jail and a $1,000 fine, Kelemen would be able to keep his job. But Kelemen's lawyers are offering a deal in which he'd plead no contest and avoid a conviction if he completes counseling and  40 hours of community service.

"I think it isn't fair when the behavior of the Tea Party has been unchallenged and unabated," said attorney Jim Birnbaum. "Then to have a charge filed against the chief because of, really, an act of frustration is unfortunate."

The job market is so tough, apparently, that straight business-school students are crashing career fairs intended for LGBT students: Only one of the 15 students from Rice University who attended the Reaching Out MBA conference in New Orleans last year was openly gay.

The laws, which vary greatly state to state, were enacted in the early years of the AIDS epidemic, when little was known about transmission, and infection was tantamount to a death sentence. (In 1990, states t hat enacted HIV-transmission laws were given more public-health funding.)

But with improved HIV treatments, experts are calling for these laws to be struck down—especially since research shows they discourage people from finding out their HIV statuses. “Generally the best practice would be for states to reform these laws to eliminate HIV-specific criminal penalties except in two distinct circumstances,” the DoJ said in a statement.

The recommendations include maintaining "criminal liability" if a person commits a sex crime where there is a risk of transmission, and if "evidence clearly demonstrates the individual’s intent was to transmit the virus."

[caption id="attachment_159285" align="alignright" width="292"] Owsley (left) and Cordell-Reeh[/caption]

A  former Goldman Sachs banker engaged in an ugly custody battle with his ex-wife insists, among other accusations, that she was trying to "turn" their son gay.

Millionaire Henry Owsley III  informed administrators at his 16-year-old son’s new California boarding school that his former spouse “was trying to make her son gay in order to get back at him,” his attorney revealed.

Owsley, 59, also accused his wife of forcing their son and his twin sister to participate in seances to summon their dead grandmother, Shanahan said in court. The former high-school sweethearts, who both live on the Upper West Side, currently share custody of the twins.

When the couple first split in 2002, Owsley alleged his ex, Danica Cordell-Reeh, was starving her children and making them perform lewd sex acts on her. “I’m trying to be a private person. My children are clearly private people. I’m very sensitive about it,” said Owsley, who is now with the Gordian Group investment-banking firm.

The judge in the case urged the two sides to get along for the sake of their children.