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News (USA)
Portuguese model convicted in grisly murder of celebrity journalist
A jury in New York has convicted Renato Seabra, a former Portuguese model, of the grisly murder of celebrity journalist Carlos Castro in a New York hotel last year, just after the victim had ended their relationship.
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Life
Army veteran weds in first same-sex ceremony at West Point Cadet Chapel
WEST POINT, N.Y. — In a historic first for the venerable chapel at the United States Military Academy at West Point, Army veteran Brenda “Sue” Fulton married her longtime partner, Penelope Gnesin, in front of family and friends in a ceremony officiated by Army Chaplain, Colonel J. Wesley Smith of Dover Air Force Base.
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News (USA)
Maryland AG: Same-sex marriage licenses can be processed now for New Year’s Day weddings
ANNAPOLIS, MD — Marriage officials in Maryland can begin processing marriage applications for same-sex couples, allowing them to wed on New Year’s Day, according to an opinion by the state’s Attorney General.
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Life
‘Band of Thebes’ helps community source the best of LGBT literature
With LGBT bookstores shuttering and the consolidation of gay media resulting in reduced promotional opportunities for publishers and authors, few venues remain for discovering literature reflecting the gay experience. Happily, Stephen Bottum continues to provide one of the best sources for LGBT publishing news on his blog, Band of Thebes, which he began five years ago.
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Commentary
The Salvation Army doesn’t ring the gay bell
Try and imagine how you would feel if you needed help and were turned away from a shelter simply because of who you are and who it is you fell in love with. Charity is defined as something given to a person in need, there’s nothing in the definition about exceptions for the LGBTQ Community. These exceptions belong entirely to The Salvation Army…
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Life
Liberty Counsel’s Matt Barber: AIDS a metaphor of ‘God’s love for gays’
Matt Barber, Director of Cultural Affairs for the anti-gay organization Liberty Counsel, marked World AIDS Day with a tweet on Friday declaring that AIDS is a metaphor of “God’s love for gays,” with a link to a photograph of a young AIDS victim on his deathbed.
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News (USA)
N.H. transgender state rep to resign due to flap over prior felony convictions
NASHUA, N.H. — Newly elected State Representative Stacie Laughton, one of the nation’s first openly transgender state officials, ceremoniously signed her letter of resignation Thursday on a cable access show hosted by fellow Democrat and friend, State Rep. Ken Gidge.
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News (USA)
Pennsylvania Republican State Rep. Mike Fleck: ‘I’m Gay’
Pennsylvania State Rep. Mike Fleck (R-Huntingdon) publicly acknowledged Saturday that he is gay, making him the first openly gay lawmaker in Pa. and the only* currently sitting openly gay Republican state legislator in the entire country.
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News (USA)
White House commemorates World AIDS Day with Presidential Proclamation
President Barack Obama on Friday issued this Presidential Proclamation in advance of World AIDS Day, an annual observance to raise awareness and commemorate those who have lost their lives to one of the most destructive epidemics in recorded history.
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Life
World AIDS Day: For the countless many, gone too soon
Thirty-one years ago, on June 5, in 1981, the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta published a report of five cases of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) among previously healthy young men in Los Angeles. All of the men were described as “homosexuals” — two had died. This was the first official mention of a disease that had no name, no known means of transmission, no treatment and no cure.
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Commentary
It’s World AIDS Day. Does anyone care anymore?
Today, people still die from AIDS. While drug advancements have substantially decreased that number, it has also created the false-belief that contracting the disease is essentially meaningless. To some, taking one pill a day is an easy trade-off to having to wear condoms. Most disturbing, however, is the sheer number to whom AIDS just doesn’t matter, having relegated it to a page in history…
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News (USA)
Male students forced to hold hands as punishment criticized as bullying
MESA, Ariz. — Two Arizona high school students were forced to hold hands in front of their classmates as punishment this week for fighting. Critics are calling the discipline a form of bullying because it subjected the students to taunting and name-calling, and evoked anti-gay sentiments.
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News (USA)
Court denies anti-gay groups’ efforts to intervene in Ill. marriage equality lawsuit
Cook County Circuit Court Judge Sophia Hall rejected motions to intervene in the trial challenging the state’s ban on same-sex marriage Friday by two anti-gay churches and the Illinois Family Institute, an anti-gay hate group.
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News (USA)
U.S. Supreme Court takes no action on same-sex marriage cases
The Supreme Court, after taking most of the day to prepare new orders, took no action Friday on the ten same-sex marriage cases now on the docket. It did agree to rule on whether taking a human gene out of the body is a process that can be patented. It also agreed to rule on legal protection for makers of generic drugs.
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News (USA)
Clinton unveils ‘blueprint’ to achieve ‘AIDS-free generation’
The Obama administration unveiled on Thursday a “blueprint” for confronting the global AIDS epidemic that includes as one of its goals targeting populations that are most vulnerable to HIV/AIDS — including men who have sex with men.
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News (USA)
Victim in Thanksgiving Day beating says attacker ‘intended to kill me’
MOBILE, Ala. — Mallory Owens, the 23-year-old Alabama woman who claims that she was brutally beaten by her girlfriend’s brother on Thanksgiving Day, has released a statement as said she believes her attacker intended to kill her.
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Life
HRC’s Municipal Equality Index details the state of LGBT equality in U.S. cities
WASHINGTON — A new report released this week by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation found that many U.S. cities lack sufficient protections for LGBT people, even in some the “bluest” states with progressive reputations.
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News (USA)
Federal judge in Nevada denies challenge to state’s ban on same-sex marriage
LAS VEGAS, Nev. — A federal judge in Nevada has rejected a lawsuit brought by Lambda Legal on behalf of eight gay couples challenging the state’s constitutional ban on same-sex marriage.
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Life
Virginia university scrutinized over firing of openly gay volleyball coach
RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia Commonwealth University has found itself the center of a discrimination controversy after a newly hired athletic director fired the schools openly gay women’s volleyball coach.
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News (World)
Russian Parliament to consider adopting national anti-gay legislation
MOSCOW — The Russian State Parliament will hear the first reading of a federal level bill that is designed after a series of regional laws banning so-called “propaganda of homosexualism.”