In case you hadn’t heard, Tom DeLay is out. Meaning he quit, not the other thing. Ding dong, the witch is dead!
A New York state judge ruled that, actually, dancing is not a constitutional right, thus upholding the city’s archaic and arbitrary cabaret law. It may be hard to get the gays excited about politics, […]

Another spring, another tale of a young dyke thwarted from bringing her lady love to the prom. Laura Murphy, a senior at the Catholic all-girls high school Villa Maria Academy in Buffalo, NY, was told by school officials that she cannot bring her girlfriend as her date. Murphy has circulated a petition, but the […]

After Iraq’s Shiite leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, issued his fatwa calling for the killing of gays in the “most severe way,” Iraq’s Badr Corps responded by…executing gays. A political journalist reports that special death squads have ramped up their entrapment of gay men on the Internet. Gays have been kidnapped, beaten, and found dead […]

A Kabbalah rabbi in Jerusalem has helpfully informed us all of the real origins of the bird flu: It’s God’s punishment for the gays.
Eight gay couples in Connecticut think civil unions are second class and launched their arguments in court for full marriage rights.
The makers of Colgate announced plans to purchase Tom’s of Maine for […]

An international gay rights group announced that Iraq’s Shiite leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has issued a fatwa calling not only for the death of all homosexuals, but clarifying that they should “…be killed in the worst, most severe way of killing.” Sistani is, of course, the guy whose help the U.S. desperately needs to […]

Remember the news about the Catholic social services in Boston that were trying to wiggle out of allowing gay couples to adopt children in spite of Massachusetts’ anti-discrimination policy? Well, Catholic Charities in Boston has decided to stop all adoptions rather than help the miniscule number of gay couples who adopt through their agency. Catholic […]

The Soulforce Equality Riders got their bus tour off to a bang-up start when they were arrested at Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University on Friday. Falwell had previously forbidden the traveling gay rights’ group from stopping at Liberty during their tour of Christian colleges and military academies that ban gay students, but like good activists, […]

Soulforce, a Virginia-based gay rights group, just launched their “Equality Ride,” a seven-week, cross-country bus ride to religious colleges and military academies that ban the enrollment of gay students. Sounds like a hoot, right? Well Liberty University, the Christian school in Soulforce’s home base of Lynchburg just rescinded the invitation. Good ole’ Jerry […]

Jane Spahr, the Presbyterian minister who was in trouble with her church for performing two lesbian weddings, was acquitted by the church judicial commission. The decision sounds a bit like a technicality—there was no reversal of Presbyterian policy, just an acknowledgment that the marriage laws offered a “definition, not a directive,” which left enough wiggle […]

The NY Times‘ reports that the committee that sets policy for Conservative Judiasm will be reconsidering its ban on gay rabbis and same-sex unions. Both were formally banned in 1992, but since then, there’s been a movement among congregants and rabbinical students to reverse the policy. It’s not clear yet what the committee will decide, […]