A gay kiss in the musical “Zanna Don’t” staged at a Connecticut high school triggered a walkout last week. The musical was playing last Friday night at Hartford Public High School when the incident took place reports CBS Connecticut. Students from the high school’s law, government, and nursing academies were in attendance. The plot of [...]
The National Organization For Marriage (NOM) is an anti-gay group that has gone to great lengths in hopes of ensuring that marriage remains between one man and one woman. Lately its members have turned their attention to New Hampshire, where Republican lawmakers are working to repeal the 15-month old gay marriage law passed by the [...]
New York City will soon be home to the nation’s first full-time center for elderly lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender residents, which is scheduled to open in January. On Wednesday, the Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE) was awarded an “Innovative Senior Center” (ISC) contract by the office of Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the [...]
City Pages has painted an extremely unflattering picture of “Diner’s Drive-Ins and Dives” star Guy Fieri. The paper relies on damning quotes from former “DDD” producer David Page who, among several grievances, claims Fieri exhibited homophobic behavior. From City Pages: Fieri also needed protection from homosexuals, or at least advance warning. Early in the show’s [...]
Wheaton College, a religious Christian school in Chicago’s west suburbs, has for the second time in three years ranked as the least LGBT-friendly college in the nation, according to a new report released by the Princeton Review. Some 400 gay, lesbian and supportive alumni of the Christian school signed onto an open letter, which OneWheaton [...]
The coming out of “Star Trek” hunk Zachary Quinto has already inspired an ABC news anchor to publicly follow suit. Though Dan Kloeffler’s admission was certainly subtle and nonchalant — “I’m thinking I can lose my distraction about dating actors,” he quipped while commenting on a segment about Quinto — it was the first time [...]
A Florida school board turned town a nearly $55,000 grant from a group affiliated with Boy Scouts for the first time in 11 years. A majority of board members agreed that Boy Scouts discriminates against LGBT people, WTSP reports. Pinellas County School Board member Linda Lerner has been fighting against accepting the money for 10 [...]
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum doubled down on his recent comments opposing allowing gay soldiers to serve in the U.S. military, invoking the image of soldiers showering together to explain his support for reinstating the discriminatory “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. “The problem is that sexual activity with people who you are in close quarters [...]
Diddy snapped after this weekends BET Hip Hop Awards, when he threw ice and shouted racial and homophobic slurs at another man, Ricky Parker. Allegedly, Parker was called out for not drinking Diddy’s brand of alcohol, Ciroc, at an event for the booze. Now, the mogul realized that he has “backslid and regressed”.
Archie Comics announced that its popular new character Kevin Keller, the first openly gay member of the iconic Riverdale Gang, would star in his own ongoing comic book. The publisher also told readers they would see Keller get married in a future issue of Life With Archie, the series that explores the possible paths of [...]