Federal Judge Vaughn Walker has decided to uphold … or overturn … California’s highly controversial and uncivilized Propositoi 8, which bans marriage between two people who fail to meet arbitrary gender-based criteria specified in the proposition. Some call this the first test of the constitutionality of the law, but that is, of course, absurd. The…

Good for her, but this is just another incremental step in the continued isolation of a social backwater in Mississippi known as Itawamba. She won’t say which school she now attends, but she plans to graduate June 2. Meanwhile … Members of a fundamentalist church from Kansas say they’ll protest the Itawamba graduation Saturday because…

The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments Monday in a major case testing whether state colleges and universities can deny official status and subsidies to student groups that bar homosexuals and other groups from membership.

Same Sex Couples to Have Equal Treatement President Obama on Thursday signed a memorandum requiring hospitals to allow gays and lesbians to have non-family visitors and to grant their partners medical power of attorney. The president ordered the Department of Health and Human Services to prohibit discrimination in hospital visitation. The memo is scheduled to…

Recently, the Itawamba County School District, in Mississippi, canceled the high school prom because a lesbian student had asked if she could show up in drag and with her girlfriend. The school district officials stated that they hoped that a private group not bound by the same laws as a school district would hold an…

Fabulis.com is a social networking thingie for gay men and does its banking at Citibank. Apparently, someone at Citibank decided that the contents of the Fabulis blog was not fabulous, and violated Citibank rules of conduct whereby you must do things a certain way or they will close your accounts.

In a remarkable act of cynicism and moral bankruptcy, Iowa legislators are considering removing LGBT students from the protection of a Safe School law. So it would be illegal to bully students unless they are gay. Then it would be OK. Reps. Shultz & Windschitl Introduce H.F. 2291 to Exclude Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender…

Rachel Maddow pursues the Uganda Kill The Gays problem in a series of startling bits of reporting. Holy crap, people. (Note that AGW denier link, BTW!)

OMG if you are going to watch 17 minutes and 56 seconds of television for the rest of your life, make it this 17 minutes and 56 seconds!!! Seriously:

Adam Lambert, who should have won American Idol, was to appear on ABC’s Good Morning America show, but they canceled because he is controversial in a gay way. ABC was … concerned.

What are they up to?

The Chicago Cubs have become the first major-league team to have an openly gay owner according to the Windy City Times. On Oct. 30, the Ricketts family became the new owners of MLB team, the Chicago Cubs. The family bought the team and Wrigley Field for $845 million. Laura Ricketts, one of the purchasers, is…

The right wing is shameless. In one ad after another, voters in California and Maine were besieged with images of what would supposedly happen if same-sex marriage were legal: Students on a field trip to a lesbian wedding, elementary kids gobbling up books featuring gay couples, kindergartners learning about homosexuality from their teachers. The strategy…

New yorkers, call your state reps NOW. Seriously.

It appears that Maine repealed the right of same sex couples to marry. (Boston Globe)

The Balloon Boy family seems to have made a rap video with some really nasty homo-phobic, anti-gay, and indeed, gay bashing lyrics. It is below the fold.

President Barack Obama pledged to end the ban on homosexuals serving openly in the military in a speech Saturday, but acknowledged to a cheering crowd that the policy changes he promised on the campaign trail are not coming as quickly as they expected. “I will end ‘don’t ask-don’t tell,’” Obama said to a standing ovation…

Modeled after Black and Women’s History Months, GLBT History Month highlights annually the achievements of 31 gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender Icons–one each day–with a free video, bio, bibliography, downloadable images and other resources.

A news report from back a year ago: The latest:

I have to admit that when I first saw the headline for this story (which I’ve used as the title of this post) in the 365-gay-news service (a GLBTA news aggregator), my first thought was “Is this something happening on Cape Cod, out in P-Town? Or is this something happening in South Africa, in Cape…

Militiamen are torturing and killing gay Iraqi men with impunity in a systematic campaign that has spread from Baghdad to several other cities, a prominent human rights group said in a report. … The bodies of several gay men were found in Baghdad’s main Shiite district of Sadr City earlier this year with the Arabic…

The Anoka-Hennepin school district agreed to pay a family $25,000 after two teachers allegedly harassed a boy because of his perceived sexual orientation.