Musgrave: Gay Marriage Is "The Most Important Issue That We Face Today"

ThinkProgress has the video of this congresswoman. She warned that the future is grim if gay marriage is not banned. Cunt.

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Nixon: 'There was no struggle with my sexuality'

Former Sex And The City star Cynthia Nixon insists she never suppressed her lesbianism, despite having left her male partner Danny Mozes for a woman in 2003.

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Gay Rights Champ Pedersen Wins Key Seattle House Race

Go Seattle! Go Pedersen!

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2006 Southwest Gay and Lesbian Film Festival

If you happen to live in New Mexico or are going to be in the area this weekend, then this is of particular interest to you.

The SWGLFF will start tomorrow and run through next Thursday. Even if you are not gay or lesbian, you should check out these films. First, they are playing at the Guild, the Southwest Film Center (which is a really nice theater) and the Film Cafe in Santa Fe. These are all really cool, hip, neat local theaters.

There are about 10 full length movies and maybe 20-30 shorts (shown in thematic groupings). Each movie is usually shown with one or two of the shorts as previews (think the original theatrical release of Toy Story).

On Friday night, Another Gay Movie is showing. This is supposed to be a hilarious farce in the spirit of Not Another Teen Movie. In fact, it's a spoof of a spoof. How could you miss that?

So check out the schedule and find something you like!

"...a gay young man today has a 50 per cent chance of being HIV positive by the time he reaches his late 40s."

From an article on 365gay.com:

...a gay young man today has a 50 per cent chance of being HIV positive by the time he reaches his late 40s.

Can this possibly be true? Is it still really this bad? I have so many (idiot) friends who have unprotected sex, anonymous sex and promiscuity problems that it scares me. I like to watch bareback videos, but the thought of doing it in real life scares the hell out of me. I like to watch horror movies, too, but I would never go out and chainsaw someone's intestines. Porn is fantasy. Real life is not? Why don't gay men get this yet?

Well, like everything else in life, it's more complicated than that.

"These are guys that are the products of a virulently homophobic culture, who've been viciously stigmatized because of HIV for 25 years. They believe being gay means death. Being gay means getting AIDS. Being gay means dying early. This is what's supposed to happen.

"They would even say they want to get it over with. Gift givers would offer to end the waiting."

That scares the hell out of me. Some gay men are just waiting to die because it's somehow part of their fate? I shiver.

Rochester To NY Legislature: Legalize Gay Marriage

"Rochester City Council is sending a strong message to state lawmakers: allow same-sex couples to marry. The entire city council has signed a letter to Speaker Sheldon Silver and State Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno calling for an end to discrimination against same-sex couples." Of all states that should legalize gay marriage, New York is tops.

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Long Prison Sentences For Brutal San Diego Gay Pride Beatings

"Three men accused of vicious attacks on men leaving San Diego's gay pride festival last July were handed long terms in prison on Monday. Six men were attacked as they left Balboa Park where San Diego's gay pride was being held on July 29. The victims were taunted with homophobic remarks then beaten." 11 years in the pen and he'll sympathize.

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Miss Cleo Comes out of the Closet, does gay weddings

Miss Cleo, everyones favorite late night fake psychic, has come out of the closet as a lesbian.

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The Mafia Control of Gay Bars

This story provides an overview of the historical control over gay bars in New York and other cities that the Mafia exercised. Indeed, it was the Mafia which started the gay bar and nightlife business. This is an interesting part of gay history and culture that we do not hear a lot about although it was a recent theme on The Sopranos.

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Germany ready for a gay leader? Many say yes

HE IS silver-haired, handsome and hugely popular. And Klaus Wowereit may well be on his way to becoming the world's first gay leader.

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Corporate America Has Concluded That Welcoming Gays Is Good Business

Gay rights in America ultimately will be achieved because that is in the best interest of business, and the overwhelming majority of Fortune 500 companies now provide domestic partnership benefits and workplace protections. And since business really runs the country, can the rest of America be far behind in catching up?

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Reggae star's concert canceled in LA

A nightclub has canceled a performance by Buju Banton, a reggae star whose violent lyrics about gays and lesbians have made him a controversial figure, after receiving complaints from patrons.

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Some Straight Men Have Gay Sex

A new study found that 10 percent of men who said they were straight had gay sex at least once in the past year...

First of all, no shit. Second of all, if they're getting fucked in the ass, doesn't that make them ... ahem ... excuse me for being so blunt ... GAY!? or at the very least BISEXUAL?!

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Tom Cruise's Lawyer Threatens Legal Action Over Gay Claims

Tom Cruise's lawyer is looking into legal action after allegations on the internet that his client had a homosexual affair. Porn producer Paul Barresi published a chapter of his new book on his website, which included the claim that a man tried to sell him his account of an affair with the Hollywood star.

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India's Intellectuals Appeal to Abolish Anti gay Law in India

Almost hundred of India's intellectual breed, such as eminent personalities of literature, film and academics has urged the government of India and the judicial system of India to revoke the colonial-era law of 1861 that declares homosexuality as a criminal act.

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Gregory Keith (Trey) from Noah's Arc is Hot

Hmmm. Yes. Gregory Keith from Noah's Arc. Hot. Hot. Hot.

How did San Francisco become so popular with gay people?

As it turns out, the military is the main reason so many gay men settled in San Francisco. During World War II, the United States armed forces "sought out and dishonorably discharged" homosexuals. Many men who were expelled for being gay were processed at San Francisco bases.

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Medical School Bans Gay Student Groups

For this to happen in the U.S.A. is sad.

"The Gay and Lesbian Medical Association has publicly decried the decision of the Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine, a private medical school in California, to ban a student group that focuses on the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) patients and students."

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Schwarzenegger vetoes bill on gay protections in textbooks

A bill passed by California lawmakers would have prohibited the use of language in school textbooks that is discriminatory toward gays, but Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger refused to sign it. Schwarzenegger said Wednesday that the state's education laws already prevent discrimination and that the bill "would not strengthen this important area of legal protection from bias based on sexual orientation.

Out, Proud & Young in Dublin

Ireland’s gay magazine, GCN, short for Gay Community News, last week celebrated publication of its 200th issue—with a new edition of the magazine entirely edited and written by gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered teenagers.

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It is something of a milestone marking the explosion of Ireland’s out-of-the-closet gay community to have a group of out teens with enough self-confidence and maturity in their identities to take charge of an entire issue of an established publication.

Homosexuality was still illegal in Ireland when GCN, which today has a circulation of some 11,500 and an estimated readership of triple that figure, first began publishing in 1988. For those of us who grew up with the legendary sexual repression of Ireland’s traditional, extraordinarily austere and strict Catholic culture—the stuff of countless plays and novels—imprinted, as it were, on our inherited cultural DNA, and even transmitted across the Atlantic, the gay teen issue of the magazine is a stunning sign of progress.

CNN's Thomas Roberts Comes Out at Gay Journo Confab

If he hadn't made his sexuality known before, he reportedly let it all out in Miami, announcing that the conference was the "biggest step" he had taken to really being out in public, and that he had slowly been coming out at CNN over the years.

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CNN's Thomas Roberts Comes Out at Gay Journo Confab

If he hadn't made his sexuality known before, he reportedly let it all out in Miami, announcing that the conference was the "biggest step" he had taken to really being out in public, and that he had slowly been coming out at CNN over the years.

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Oprah to interview McGreevey

TRENTON (AP) -- Former New Jersey Gov. James E. McGreevey is to tell the story of his rise to power as a closeted gay man and his shocking fall from grace as the nation's first openly gay governor in a taping of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" on Tuesday.

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Gay Weatherman is Attacked by Cockroach

A Gay Weatherman is attacked by cockroach twice while on the set.

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Michael Moore Confronts Anti-Gay Church With A Bus Full Of Gay Guys

Michael Moore proves a good point when he confronts Fred Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church (the Church behind godhatesfags.com and godhatesamerica.com) with a Bus-load of gay guys... One of the funniest clips I've seen in a while. I love the Sodom Mobile.

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