British researchers recently announced that they can now turn embryonic stem cells into sperm capable of producing offspring. What does this mean in the real world? Well, someday it could mean that certain types of male infertility could be overcome. And more “controversially” (as the Daily Telegraph piece explains), it could also mean that a […]

The Times has up a moving piece on the memorial service for Denice Dee Denton, the chancellor at UC Santa Cruz who likely committed suicide last week. Not only was she a pioneer for women in science and engineering—she was among the early critics of Lawrence Summers at Harvard over his comments about the ladies’ […]

Today is the 25th year since the Centers for Disease Control quietly reported a rare pneumonia in a cluster of five Los Angeles gay men, who would later become the first documented cases of AIDS. We’re not sure what cosmic coincidence would have such an anniversary fall on the very day of President Bush’s press […]

Want to see an ex-gay “therapist” cradle his wannabe former-homo “patient” like a mewling kitten in order to recreate the father-son bond that never was that naturally led to the man’s homo-ness? Yes? If you’re patient and watch closely, other cure-alls include beating a pillow with a tennis racket while screaming your mother’s name. Works […]

We were pleased as punch to learn that, first, a zoo in the Dutch town of Overloon keeps both a gay and a lesbian stork couple. And second, when zoo administrators gave the couples their own eggs to hatch and tend to, both the boy couple and the girl couple did just fine. Said the […]

Funny letter in the Times today regarding the ever-confusing Swedish study on lesbians and which hormones they like to sniff. It’s from a fragrance artist in Alabama who said that in 10 years of perfume research, she’s had cause to study the scent-preferences of over 100 lesbians. She writes, “What I have noted is a […]

(Via Queerty) We’re all for continued research into the biological basis for sexuality, so we were pleased to see this study announced on GayHealth.com that will look at gay siblings for any genetic link. The first sentence of the piece says: “Do very feminine boys and/or very masculine girls inevitably become gay adults?” We’ve often […]

Ok, maybe not after all. The AP had to issue a “clarification” to their science story that claimed lesbians reacted similarly to straight men when it came to sniffing female hormones. Turns out that while there was some difference in how gay and straight women reacted, it wasn’t statistically significant and thus doesn’t prove anything. […]

The same Swedish research team that reported last year that gay men react differently than straight men to sexual pheromones, are now reporting that lesbians react differently than straight women. The relationship, was naturally more complicated for the women then it was for the men. The AP piece reports:
Heterosexual women found the male and female […]

The Wigan Today in the UK reports that nurses at a local infirmary decided the best way to put women at ease during gynecological procedures would be to put a collage of photos of hot men like George Clooney and Brad Pitt on the ceiling of the exam room. Because nothing says relax to us […]