We trust you survived Pride with all your faculties intact, but if you haven’t had enough celebration of your gayness yet, check out Queerty this morning for a collection of video clips from Prides across the country, in addition to some nice shots of Kevin Aviance as he defiantly stole the show in New York […]

Dan Henninger of the Wall Street Journal went on Fox News to note that a woman in India married a snake last week and he took that moment to smugly wonder whether the slippery slope of gay marriage would lead to people wedding animals one day. With his infallible logic, Stephen Colbert responded to the […]

Katherine Jefferts Schori, who just became the first woman to head the American Episcopal Church, gave an interview to CNN yesterday. Queerty’s got the video clip. The press is speculating how big a problem it is for the U.S. church that they’ve gone and elected a girl (many traditionalists don’t think women should even be […]

Alison Bechdel’s blog has up pictures from her Sunday-night signing at Cattyshack, including one with Brooke and Aja, and another one with a fan who looks a lot like Bechdel, who looks a lot like Mo, if Mo were a live person instead of a drawing. (Speaking of which, we noticed the recent release of […]

We were watching a clip from the documentary Wordplay about the NY Times‘ crossword puzzle and the (famous) people who love it, when we caught a glimpse of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers sitting with a newspaper on their knees telling tales of their crossword prowess. (They use pen!)

The federal marriage amendment might have failed in the Senate, but the religious right has other ways. Leaders in the anti-gay marriage movement recently met to discuss calling for a actual, honest to God, Constitutional Convention to ratify an amendment without Congress. They’d need three quarters of state legislatures to call a convention, and then […]

A fire destroyed part of the LGBT section of a Chicago public library branch in Lakeview on Tuesday. It hasn’t officially been called a hate crime yet, but Chicago Pride is only days away, and the section was labeled with a big old “Gay.” A rep from Equality Illinois, however, laid the blame at another […]

So much for freedom of speech in academia. Jeffrey Nielsen, a Mormon and professor of philosophy at Brigham Young University in Utah wrote an op-ed early this month for the Salt Lake Tribune expressing his opposition to the federal marriage amendment. A few days later, he was told his contract wasn’t being renewed because he’d […]

Sarah Warn at AfterEllen has a funny column up about recent news that an actress named Janina Gavankar will play a “smokin’ hot” (so says the Showtime press release) Latina named Papi on next season’s L Word. In addition to noting how Latinas on the show are always described as “smokin’ hot,” she wonders why […]

In a historic move last month, the Australia Capital Territory approved a domestic partnership law for gay couples, that carefully defined the unions as something other than marriage. Well that wasn’t good enough for the conservative Prime Minister John Howard, who invoked special powers to invalidate the law, leading one to suspect that any legal […]