Friday: Cowboys are damn sexy. ‘Specially when they’re gay. Hence our warm feeling when we heard about Rode Hard, Put Away Wet: Lesbian Cowboy Erotica. Bluestockings hosts a reading at 7 pm starring the editors and a few contributors, pardner.
Saturday: We don’t think the Five Lesbian Brothers are really brothers, but we are curious about […]

Well, mayors were dropping like flies in San Diego after wide-ranging pension and bribery scandals, but the city finally has an interim chief executive. And she’s a lesbian—former Councilwoman, now Mayor Toni Atkins. San Diego is now the biggest city in the country to ever have an openly gay mayor. Three cheers for […]

From The Guardian: The Shiite Islamic republic and charter member of the “axis of evil” has become one of the global centers for sex-change operations, all due to a meeting some 20 years ago with a brave MTF and a shockingly sympathetic Ayatollah Khomeini. As early as 1963, Khomeini had written that there was […]

A pissed off Utah mother won a victory over the state Motor Vehicle Divison. Elizabeth Solomon, whose daughter is a lesbian, attempted to get a vanity license plate that read either GAYSROK or GAYRYTS, but was denied on the grounds that vanity plates can’t be used as a “public forum.” (Guess they’ve never […]

Speaking of “santorum”…
If you missed Dan Savage’s essay on NPR’s This American Life this weekend, be sure to listen in on the site archive. Part of the show entitled “A Little Bit of Knowledge,” Savage reads a moving excerpt from his upcoming book The Commitment about his longtime boyfriend Terry Miller and their son […]

Crooks and Liars has a video clip of Sen. Rick Santorum’s appearance the other night on The Daily Show. The good Senator with the gay aide is shilling for his new book It Takes a Family. (Newsflash! He prefers the heterosexual kind.) Host Jon Stewart has been getting flack online for being […]

Researchers have unearthed a “sculpted and polished phallus” in a cave in Germany, believed to be 28,000 years old. Fragments of the artifact were kept in storage, but it wasn’t until the discovery of the 14th piece that research team were able to discern what the completed scultpure actually represented. The BBC article […]

We’re wondering if the folly of the Iraq War could end up accomplishing something even Bill Clinton couldn’t. A report released yesterday concluded that if the US military lifted its ban on gays, then the armed forces could expect 41,000 new recruits. This news comes soon after the Pentagon’s admission that it faces […]

The first lesbian couple to legally marry in Spain tied the knot on Friday in a small town near Barcelona. Veronica and Tiana’s nuptials were attended by 15 guests and nearly 50 reporters and photographers.
Massachusetts governer Mitt Romney has refused to issue new birth certificate forms for the children of gay couples and instead […]

The word from Righteous Babe Records is that after 15 years on the road, Ani DiFranco will take an extended break from touring after this month. The singer was diagnosed with tendonitis in both of her hands and wrists earlier this year and had taken three months off to no avail. The statement […]