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 […]

You might have heard news that hit singer Kevin Aviance was badly beaten by a group of men in the East Village early Saturday morning. He’d just walked out of the Phoenix at 1 a.m. when he was taunted by the men who shouted anti-gay slurs and then beat and kicked Aviance while he […]

You remember the news that two gay men from New York were attacked by thugs while vacationing on the Caribbean island of St. Martin? And the further news that the police didn’t really care because the victims were gay? Well, GLAAD has up news that the local St. Martin newspaper ran an editorial that basically […]

We found this very funny, albeit disturbing, video clip from YouTube.com—it’s a 1950s-era public service newsreel about the homosexual menace.

No less a source than Time magazine has dubbed Jamaica the most homophobic place on earth. Which is something, if you’ve been paying attention to the earth lately.

Last month, a gay man on a Washington D.C. tourist bus complained to the driver about an anonymous poster hanging from the back of the driver’s seat that called homosexuality a sin. Although it’s not clear if the driver hung the poster, he did tell the gay man to go to the back of the […]

We’ve been following this story out of St. Martin in the Caribbean, where two American gay men were beaten with tire irons by a group of three men outside a bar last week. As if that weren’t bad enough, the St. Martin police showed a complete lack of interest in pursuing an investigation, probably in […]

The AP reports that a Stockholm kennel owner had to pay a $2,600 (but you know, in kronor) fine after she agreed to sell a dog to a woman, then reneged when she found out the buyer was a lesbian. She must’ve heard about that bogus Focus on the Family study that showed that puppies […]

First, we were pleased to hear that Minneapolis has a lesbian fire department chief. Second, we were boggled by the messiness of this story. The St. Paul Pioneer Press details the lawsuit that was filed against the chief, Bonnie Bleskachek, and the city by her former girlfriend, a fire captain named Jennifer Cornell. Cornell […]

Sounds like there’s a twisted celebrity murder mystery making news in France, involving a lesbian love triangle and an accused hitman. Even stranger, the story is proving that the French don’t always know what to do with the “l” word.