Etta James Dies At 73
The powerhouse rhythm and blues singer passed away quietly this morning in Riverside, California. read more
View ArticleMan Asks for Help, Says Swedish Government Forcing Him to Get Sterilized for...
The Swedish Government mandates forced sterilization of any trangender person who wants to legally change his or her gender. Love Georg Elfvelin, a 21 year old store manager in Sweden, explains, in a...
View ArticleSh*t the Dowager Countess Says: VIDEO
For fans of the PBS soap opera Downton Abbey, AFTER THE JUMP... (warning: may contain spoilers)
View ArticleThree Men Convicted of Inciting Anti-Gay Hate in First-of-Its-Kind Trial in...
Three Muslim men have been convicted in the UK over inciting hatred on the basis of sexuality for distributing leaflets calling for gay people to be killed. One of the leaflets used G-A-Y initials...
View ArticleWhite House Asked if Obama is Ready to Endorse Marriage Equality in 'SOTU'...
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney was lobbed a few questions about Obama's 'evolving' position on marriage equality today. One reporter sarcastically asked whether there are books that Obama...
View ArticleNews: James Dobson, Koala, David Furnish, Skinny Models, Apple
Apple now worth more than Greece. Tammy Baldwin raised more than $1 million last quarter for her Senate race. "Baldwin is the presumptive Democratic candidate running for the retiring Sen. Herb Kohl...
View ArticleFall 2012 Fashion Week: Adam Kimmel
Kimmel makes a somber, and beautifully-crafted, showing in Paris. adamKimmelFall2012x120.jpg Display Thumb:Â No read more
View ArticleJohnny Depp "Dark Shadows" Photos Leak
A little Nosferatu, a little Eddy Munster, and whole lot of eye shadow. read more
View ArticleRobyn's Call Your Girlfriend, in ASL: VIDEO
Mister Chase offers up a take on Robyn's dancing in a bare room theme, with some signing to go along with it. Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...
View ArticleStar Wars Uncut, a Crowd-Sourced Masterpiece: VIDEO
Star Wars Uncut, a complete, feature-length replication of the original Star Wars film, completely crowd-sourced and edited together using submitted 15-second snippets, has been released online after...
View Article70+ American Mayors Announce Support for Marriage Equality: VIDEO
Earlier today I reported that more than 70 mayors from across the United States have released a joint statement supporting marriage equality in a new campaign called Mayors for the Freedom to Marry....
View ArticleFox Psychiatrist On Newt Gingrich: Infidelity A Sign Of Awesomeness
South Carolina's big primary is today, and Newt Gingrich is the most talked about man in America. He's been up, he's been down, and then he was up and then down and now up again, and the caprices of...
View ArticleAdoption Debate In Virginia Hits The Legislature
Last month in Virginia, the VA Board of Social Services "finalized regulations" peeling back discrimination protections encoded in the state's adoption laws, according to the AP, allowing religious...
View ArticleWas Henry De La Plaz Gay Bashed At Miami Bar?
Henry De La Plaz says he was gay-bashed at San Antonio's Miami Bar. The bar's staff says he wasn't. The police say there were no injuries or "signs of struggle." Commentators say evidence was...
View ArticleReligious Freedom To Discriminate Under Assault In Alaska
... and it's not just in Virginia. In Alaska, too, securing legal protections for gayfolk may prevent the free exercise of religion. From The Anchorage Daily News: A national conservative Christian...
View ArticleAnti-Gay Leaflets Lead To Seven Years In Prison
Derby, UK, is not a great place to distribute anti-gay literature. So learned four young Muslim men this week. Ihjaz Ali, Kabir Ahmed, and Razwan Javed have been sentenced to seven years in prison for...
View ArticleNEWS: Gingrich, Gingrich, Gingrich, Bradley Manning, And Iran
Newt Gingrich crushed Mitt Romney in SC tonight, and then, in his acceptance speech, explained how. It's not that I'm a good debater. It's that I articulate the deepest-felt values of the American...
View ArticleA Fawn Welcome to Your Week: VIDEO
This is sometimes how I feel on Monday morning with a long, cruel week stretching ahead. So enjoy this moment of awesomely cute tranquility while it lasts. Watch, AFTER THE JUMP... p.s. - the music...
View ArticleWATCH: Newt Gingrich Wins South Carolina
Here's that victory speech. A representative excerpt: So many people who are so concerned about jobs, about medical costs, about the everyday parts of life, who feel that the elites in Washington and...
View ArticleGLAAD Lays Off Almost A Quarter Of Employees
The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation laid off 11 of its 45 employees last week. From The Advocate: The cuts come against the backdrop of an economy that still has not fully recovered, and...
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