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Brigham young University has made what the Salt Lake Tribune is calling "a small but significant change" to its honor code which one former student and blogger they spoke with says is a reflection of the fact that visibility, awareness, and education are having an impact on tolerance.

The Tribune reports: "A former BYU student who is now an attorney in Seattle, Nick Literski was among bloggers buzzing about the news. Literski, a gay man who has withdrawn his membership from the church, said his daughter will attend the school this fall. 'What it's reflecting is there's a growing disconnect between church position on homosexuality versus what individual members are coming to see,' he said in a phone interview. 'As more and more members of the LDS Church are coming to know individuals who are gay and finding out that they're human, that these are people just like them, that they're good people, it becomes difficult for them to demonize homosexuality the way the church positions do.'

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David James, a 15-year veteran of British football, penned an editorial in The Observer over the weekend wondering if a gay football player would ever come out of the closet, and encouraging gay players to do so.

Said James (right), who donated his fee for the article to gay rights group Stonewall: "A senior executive in football said to me he wished all the gay footballers would come out so we could just get on with it. I find that view refreshing. In marketing terms they could make a fortune. Just imagine, football's first gay couple playing for rival teams, arguing about offside decisions over the dinner table. They would do Hello! magazine, chatshows, advertisements. Would it upset players being naked in the changing room together? What about the after-hours highly homoerotic activities - indulging in football threesomes and roastings? Would football culture ever be the same again?"

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Anderson Cooper isn't just feeling the heat from the gay community about his decision to keep his sexuality off the table for discussion. If Out magazine's "Glass Closet" cover story wasn't enough for the CNN anchor, Michael Jensen of AfterElton makes note of a New York magazine profile this week on MSNBC commentator Keith Olbermann. Olbermann, citing a Men's Journal article in which Anderson refuses to discuss his sexuality, calls foul on Anderson's non-disclosure.