The National Football League has never had an openly gay player and Alan Gendreau wants to change that.

He's got the gay part down.

Now all he has to do is make it on an NFL team.

Gendreau, 23, was a standout placekicker at Middle Tennessee State where he had a record-breaking career and seemed headed to the pros.

But a poor start to his senior year derailed that path and he was not selected in the 2012 NFL draft.

A gay bar in a wet mid-winter London may seem as far from Tennessee as you could get. But one proud Redneck is sparking a new trend in Britain’s LGBT scene by bringing country music and Southern hospitality to the UK capital.

The Tennessee many gay Brits imagine is the one that is currently debating a bill aimed at outing school kids and making it illegal for teachers to discuss LGBT issues. But that’s not what the South is really about – and Tennessee boy Baylen Leonard is determined to prove it.

A bill forcing teachers, school nurses and counselors to ‘out’ gay students has been slammed by parents, teachers, rights leaders and even by Republicans.  

State Senator Stacey Campfield, a Republican, introduced SB 49 back in 2012 when it said teachers should not discuss any other sexual orientation other than heterosexuality.

The president of America’s Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights has claimed that a dog being saved from being put down after its owner refused to care for him because he thought he was gay is evidence of pro-gay and anti-straight bias.

A bill nicknamed ‘Don't Say Gay’ that aims to prohibit teachers from discussing any sexuality except heterosexuality until students have completed grade eight has been resurrected in Tennessee.

The bill proposed by Republican State Senator Stacey Campfield, entitled officially ‘Classroom Protection Act’, prohibits elementary and middle school teachers from discussing sexual activity that is not related to ‘natural human reproduction’. It even bans the acknowledgment that homosexuality exists.

A man who worked for seven years at Rocketown, a Nashville, Tennessee music venue and Christian youth outreach facility, says he was fired for wearing a T-Shirt to work which stated: 'I Support Same-Sex Marriage.'

Wes Breedwall immediately made his firing, and the reason why, public by posting a photo of himself in the T-Shirt on Instagram stating in part: 'Here is a picture to show my support for equality and free speech including social media. Cheers to my friends for having my back through all of this.'

Dolly Parton says she has received death threats from the Ku Klux Klan over her 'Gay Day' at theme park Dollywood in Tennessee.

Rumors about the relationship between the gay icon and her female best friend Judy Ogle have followed her throughout her career.

'Judy and I have been best friends since we were like in the third and fourth grade,' she said in the interview with the Daily Mail.

Fortunately the country western singer feels secure enough in her 46-year long marriage with Carl Dean that she is able to laugh off such claims.

We go TransAtlantic this week! Amy and Lucio keep it warm back in London while Baylen goes back to his roots in Tennessee! 

Scottish comic superstar Susan Calman chats with A&L ahead of her shows at Soho Theatre and Baylen goes to his hometown gay bar & bumps into International internet sensation Chris Crocker who talks about what it's like being out and famous in the American South.

Plus all the news from Gay Star News.

Dolly Parton is showing she's still going strong with her latest CD/DVD An Evening With Dolly just passing the 500,000 mark in sales to become the first gold record sold via Cracker Barrell Stores.

Parton is also featured in the documentary Hollywood to Dollywood about gay twins Gary Lane and Larry Lane who rent an RV and drive across the country to the Dollywood theme park during the park's 25th anniversary festivities to personally deliver a movie script they wrote for Parton.

Mark Clayton is a colorful politician. According to Mother Jones, he's certain  a four football field large highway is being constructed, by the federal government, from Mexico City to Toronto. This imagined roadway is the start of the North American Union, and the official end of the US.

For nearly a decade, Pauley Perrette has played eccentric forensic scientist Abby Sciuto on the popular CBS drama NCIS.

The actress has also become a well-known civil rights activist who has been especially committed to LGBT equality and to raising money for the battle against AIDS.

A Tennessee high school journalism teacher has outraged the community after publishing a pro-gay article of a graduating student in the yearbook.

The article called ‘It’s OK to be Gay’, written by an anonymous student staff writer of Lenoir City High School, profiles the experiences of American gay student Zac Mitchell.