Can RuPaul Revive Drag?

(NEWSER) - Gay bars across the country are facing an unexpected dilemma, the Anchorage Daily News reports: Attract straight customers or close down. With Americans growing more tolerant and gay connections moving online, one gay activist says "it's like 'mission accomplished.'" But bars from Pittsburgh to San Francisco are shutting their doors as more gays integrate into the straight world. More»

Gathering at West Hollywood gay bar hiss at controversial pastor's invocation

(NEWSER) - A crowd gathered today at West Hollywood’s premier gay bar to celebrate Barack Obama’s inauguration, but also to watch with dismay as Rev. Rick Warren took the Capitol stage, the Advocate reports. Many in the community were shocked by Obama’s choice of the anti-gay marriage pastor to deliver the invocation—and many hissed or left the room during Warren’s invocation. More»

Richard Grenell says gay marriage doesn't make up for Obama's flaws

(NEWSER) - The gay spokesman who resigned from Mitt Romney's campaign at least in part over pressure from anti-gay conservatives isn't about to jump ship to team Obama. Richard Grenell applauds President Obama's embrace of same-sex marriage, but he still takes "exception to his dismal national-security and economic records," he writes in the Wall Street Journal . For him, the former isn't enough to make up for the latter. More»

Dr. Robert Spitzer apologizes for study supporting 'gay cure' therapy

(NEWSER) - A psychiatrist who revolutionized how people view homosexuality has given a tearful apology for a study that supported the notion of a "gay cure." The New York Times looks at how Dr. Robert Spitzer conducted his study, withstood years of merciless criticism, and, suffering from Parkinson’s, finally wrote his mea culpa. "You know, it’s the only regret I have; the only professional one,” he said. More»

Social battle moves to the Internet

(NEWSER) - Electronic Arts is launching a brave new world of gay relationships in online role-playing games, and that's sparking an Internet armageddon. EA has been lambasted by religious right-wingers who fear the dangerous influences of an imagined transgendered " Darth VaPaula " in a Star Wars game, and have begun a boycott against the company . They're being slammed in turn by gay rights activists. Now AllOut.org has yanked its anti-boycott petition off the Web because the petition itself had become a target of an army of spambots apparently launched by anti-gay forces. More»