First Presbyterian Church of North Palm Beach tonight will begin discussing whether it should split from the Presbyterian USA group, which recently approved openly gay clergy and lay leaders, and join another Presbyterian group, which does not. First Presbyterian has about 1,100 members, among them golf legend Jack Nicklaus and former GE head Jack Welch. [...]
Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) took a few swipes at Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich Monday at a press conference in Newton, Mass. announcing his retirement. “I did not think I had lived a good enough life to be rewarded by Newt Gingrich being the Republican nominee,” Frank said. “I look forward to debating, to take [...]
The world’s first animated lesbian sci-fi film is headed our way. As SheWired.com is reporting, the first clips of “Strange Frame,” from producer, director and animator G.B. Hajim and writer Shelley Doty will premiere at Bent-Con, an LGBT sci-fi and comic convention, in Los Angeles on December 3. According to the project’s Facebook page the [...]
A scholarship honoring film producer and author Perry Moore, whose untimely death earlier this year shocked those who followed his career, will carry on his message about the importance of gay characters. Film producer and author Perry Moore, whose untimely death earlier this year shocked those who followed his career, will have his message about [...]
California’s Supreme Court cleared the way on Thursday for supporters of the state’s same-sex marriage ban to defend it in federal court, a crucial ruling that allows the pitched battle to decide if gay marriage is a U.S. right to go forward. The case on California’s 2008 ban, the voter initiative known as Proposition 8, [...]
After a long wait, gay and lesbian students and employees at Florida Atlantic University are now specifically protected from discrimination and harassment. FAU’s board of trustees amended its policy Wednesday to add sexual orientation as a protected class, joining race, color, religion, age, disability, sex, national origin, marital status and veteran status. All other state [...]
Broward has come out — again — as gay friendly, passing a law preventing the county government from doing business with companies that don’t treat same-sex couples the same as spouses. Earlier this month, Broward became the first county in Florida, and one of just a few in the country, to pass a law that [...]
Film director Brett Ratner is out of a high-profile job as Oscar producer, submitting his resignation to Academy Award organizers on Tuesday in the face of an industry firestorm over his use of a gay slur. During a question-and-answer session at a screening of his new comedy “Tower Heist” last week, Ratner was asked about [...]
A suburban Chicago man was sentenced to two years in prison this week after brutally attacking a gay man who was targeted because of his sexual orientation. Marquitte West, 18, was one of three men charged in the June 24 attack in far west suburban Oswego, CBS Chicago reports. West allegedly knew Bryce Stiff, 29, [...]
The planned separation of a “gay” penguin couple at the Toronto Zoo is causing a commotion both among zoologists and the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender media. As the Toronto Star is reporting, Buddy and Pedro have not only been inseparable, but have also shown signs of traditional mating behaviors. Bred in captivity, 10-year-old Pedro [...]