Try this logic on for size: “It’s a practical law because the gay community has much higher rates of sexually transmitted diseases. We must take our precautions wisely,” she said. “Even if they lie on the form and say they are straight, everyone’s blood will go through a final screening test for diseases.” What is…

The US Senate added several amendments that will limit the new Federal Hate Crimes bill in important ways. The amendments were snuck onto an utterly unrelated bill that can’t be voted against (a bill to SUPPORT THE TROOP… can’t vote against that). The point of these limitations is to keep the hate crime bill from…

Do you remember Chasity Bono? The cute little daughter of Sonny and Cher, frequently brought out on stage by the duo at the end of their show to throw a kiss to the audience? No? Did you ever see the Sonny and Cher Show? No? Do you remember the 1960s at all? No? Too young?…

From Dan Savage: Most residents of Fort Worth have never even seen the inside of a gay bar. Fort Worth’s police chief Jeff Halstead is counting on that fact–counting on the average person’s ignorance about gay bars and certain stereotypes about gay men–to get a half a dozen Forth Worth police officers off the hook…

If you don’t know what the Sontewall Uprising is, and you are interested in Gay Rights, then click here and be edumicated.

… in the sense of an attempt to Exorcise Teh Gay.

… who are mostly probably out anyway, but that is not the point. OK, this is complicated. Philip Irvin is an anti-gay emplyee of the Seatle City Light company (a city agency). He believes that gay people are sick and need to be de-gayed. THe LGBTQFC is a GLBTA group which is one of several…

Patricia and Alexander Harrison have been ordered by a British Columbia supreme court justice to pay $15,000 (approximately $13,000 U.S.) for harassing and tormenting a gay couple who lives next door to them. Rod Boggs and Bill Hart, who have lived in the four unit condo since 2006, said the Harrisons and their 17-year-old son…

… In Illinois, at least. And probably lots of other places. The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) released a report Wednesday showing that LGBT students in Illinois face an alarming level of harassment, both physical and verbal, at school. Inside Illinois Schools: The Experiences of LGBT Students surveyed 206 Illinois students about the…

OK, so this guy is married, and he and his wife have four kids. But he’s gay, and has a few affairs, gets caught, there’s a messy divorce, and some judge in Georgia (the state, not the country) orders dad to keep all his homosexual friends away from the kids forever. Which, when you think…

… in a Virginia Prison. Virginia’s largest women’s correctional facility allegedly segregated inmates on the basis of actual or assumed sexual orientation over the past year. Women presumed to be gay were housed in a separate wing, 5D, referred to as the “little boys wing” or “butch wing” by guards at Fluvanna Correctional Women’s Facility,…

Which is held in June, not March, is planned for Saturday, June 27th. Dyke and Dyke Allies will meet in front of the Walker Arts Center at 1750 Hennepin (that’s the place with the giant cherry) at 7:00 PM.

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During a May 28 show, one of the three hosts on KRXQ’s “Rob, Arnie & Dawn” show said he would hit his son with his shoe if he put on high heels. Another said he would tell a boy he was “a little idiot” if he asked to wear a dress. Officials with Bank of…

As suspected by millions, Adam Lambert, Nearly American Idol … is gay.

.. according to a recent study… A new study by a team of military law experts asserts that President Obama has the legal authority to end gay discharges through an executive order. The report, “How to End Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: A Roadmap of Political, Legal, Regulatory, and Organizational Steps to Equal Treatment,” was sponsored…

Has the US reached a tipping point on gay marriage? Go chime in. The results are actually rather disappointing so far. I suspect there is some right wing blog action going on here.

Washington DC city council has voted to recognise same-sex marriages conducted in other US states. Because Washington DC is not a state, the decision will now have to be approved by Congress before it can become law. bbc This should be interesting …

Know Thy Neighbor has posted the names of all 83,000 Arkansas voters who signed petitions calling for a ban on adoption by same-sex couples. details