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November 2008
- Earlier Milk Release Might've Killed Prop 8
  
  Slate | Nov 27, 08 3:30 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - If Milk, the film on San Francisco’s first openly gay city supervisor, had opened earlier, might it have swung the Proposition 8 vote? Maybe, writes Dennis Lim in Slate—but in light of the passage of the California gay-marriage ban, Milk becomes both a poignant “look-how-far-we-haven’t-come” tale and a roadmap for the gay-rights battle ahead. More »
- Van Sant Spills About Milk
  
  Los Angeles Times | Nov 23, 08 4:58 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - What do President-elect Barack Obama and a 1970s gay activist have in common? Grassroots backing and a yes-we-can ethos, Rachel Abramowitz writes in the Los Angeles Times. “I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living,” said Harvey Milk, a San Francisco supervisor and gay-rights activist played by Sean Penn in Gus Van Sant’s upcoming movie, Milk. More »
- Rosie: View 'Camaraderie' Fake
  
  Los Angeles Times | Nov 20, 08 10:32 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - The co-hosts of The View are not friends, Rosie O’Donnell says. “I'm not saying they loathe each other, but the fact of the matter is there was not a lot of camaraderie off camera,” the talkfest's onetime lightning rod says. During an appearance to promote her upcoming NBC variety special, O'Donnell did acknowledge that "arguing about politics is not the best use of my talent," the LA Times reports. More »
October 2008
- Deputy Admits Gay Affair With Austrian Rightist
  
  Times (UK) | Oct 23, 08 10:08 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The successor of the Austrian far-right leader Jörg Haider lost his position yesterday after admitting that he had a sexual relationship with the firebrand politician, who died in a car crash last week. "He was the man of my life. Our relationship went far beyond friendship," said the 27-year-old Stefan Petzner, who was president of the Alliance for the Future of Austria for just one week. More »
- Allowing Children to Choose Gender Is Slippery Slope
  
  Atlantic Monthly | Oct 17, 08 7:43 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - For parents raising boys who profess to be girls and vice versa, puberty blockers may seem a godsend, writes Hanna Rosin in a look at gender—and transgender children—in the Atlantic . Boys will emerge from their teens with no Adam's apple, girls will bypass menstruation, allowing them to live inconspicuously as transgender adults. But has the growing acceptance of nature versus nurture gone too far? More »
- Etheridge, Girlfriend to Wed
  
  Extra | Oct 2, 08 10:46 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Melissa Etheridge will wed her longtime girlfriend, actress Tammy Lynn Michaels, and they have a deadline: before next month's vote in California on amending the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage. “We have four children and we’re trying to find the right time,” the rocker told Extra this week. More »
September 2008
- Troubled Son 'Outs' Celeb Architect
  
  New York Post | Sep 25, 08 12:33 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Celebrity architect Richard Meier’s son claims his dad locked him up in a mental hospital and is trying to disinherit him for revealing that his 73-year-old dad is gay. Richard Meier's friends insist he's straight, but Joseph Meier plans to write a book "about my tragic experience with a gay father that didn't want to come out of the closet," he told the New York Post . More »
August 2008
- DeGeneres to Wed Tomorrow
  
  Us Magazine | Aug 15, 08 9:54 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi’s intimate wedding will take place this weekend in California, Us Weekly reports. The daytime gabber and her 35-year-old bride announced their intentions to wed following the Supreme Court’s gay marriage ruling this spring. "Planning a wedding is very stressful. It's crazy. My gardener is now invited," DeGeneres, 50, has said. More »
- Breakfast With Billie Jean King
  
  Vanity Fair | Aug 10, 08 9:58 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - As her book Pressure Is a Privilege hits shelves, tennis legend Billie Jean King discusses life as a feminist icon and her "Battle of the Sexes" victory over Bobby Riggs with Vanity Fair. "It caused social change, that tennis match. It was about Title IX," King says of the 1973 event. "Before 1972 a woman could not get an athletic scholarship." More »
July 2008
- Bigoted 'Don't Ask' Has No Support, Must Go Now
  
  Time | Jul 23, 08 6:17 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - On the occasion of the first “don’t ask, don’t tell” congressional hearing in 15 years, John Cloud revisits the policy that bars gays from serving openly in the military in Time and deems it “a tissue of barely disguised bigotry.” He contends that the policy is out of touch—polls show most in the military don't care if fellow soldiers are gay—does more harm than good, and hasn't greatly changed the number of gays discharged per year. More »
- 10 Ways to Say 'I'm Not Gay'
  
  Radar | Jul 22, 08 1:23 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Star Jones' ex, Al Reynolds, used YouTube to make it official—he is not gay, just "kind of soft." His coming-in announcement prompts Radar to list the 10 best moments in defensive heterosexuality. Oprah Winfrey on rumors about her and Gayle King: ''Oh, please.'' Jake Gyllenhaal: "I can honestly say I've never been attracted to a man sexually, but I don't think I'd be afraid of it if it happened." More »
June 2008
- Gay Sports Leagues Net Straight Players
  
  Village Voice | Jun 18, 08 9:40 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Gay and straight men in New York are teaming up, literally: The city’s many gay-sports leagues feature scores of heterosexuals looking for competition and friendship. “I was reticent,” admitted one straight footballer. “I was used to a high level of play.” But he and others have since sidelined their hesitance, saying gay leagues are just as tough as mainstream clubs. More »
- Gay Daughter No Problem for Mass. Governor
  
  Boston Globe | Jun 13, 08 2:23 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - For some politicians—Dick Cheney, say, or Alan Keyes—a gay daughter might be a major inconvenience. But the public coming-out yesterday of Katherine Patrick, daughter of supportive Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, is being praised as a "very powerful statement" by gay-rights groups, and the low-key nature of how Katherine Patrick's sexuality was made public—in a Massachusetts GLBT weekly—was hailed for its sensibility. More »
- LiLo KOs $1M Lesbian Confession
  
  New York Post | Jun 2, 08 11:01 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Lindsay Lohan turned down a $1 million offer from OK! to come out on the magazine's cover, the New York Post reports. Lohan and the gossip weekly were negotiating a story about her relationship with celebrity DJ Samantha Ronson. "Lindsay really wants this to happen and she needs the money," said a source, but the starlet's flak says there's nothing in the works. More »
May 2008
- Lesbian Liplock Sparks Stadium PDA Dispute
  
  KOMOTV.com | May 30, 08 12:10 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The Seattle Mariners' response to a fan complaint has set off a dispute about gay rights and public displays of affection. A Safeco Field employee told a lesbian couple they had to either stop kissing in the stands or leave the game, KOMO TV reports. One of the women says the kiss was a peck on the lips, but security received a report of "groping and making out," the team tells the Post-Intelligencer. More »
- Gay Paris Mayor Sets Sights on Presidency
  
  Daily Telegraph (UK) | May 22, 08 12:44 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The battle is on for the leadership of France's opposition Socialist Party, and a man who says the nation is ready for a gay president is the surprise leader, the Telegraph reports. Bertrand Delanoë, the popular mayor of Paris, is the early favorite, outpolling Ségolène Royal, who lost last year's election to Nicolas Sarkozy. More »
- Hollywood Is Homophobic, Star Says
  
  BBC | May 2, 08 3:15 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Hollywood is filled with closeted gay actors—and off-balance media coverage and Hollywood homophobia are keeping them there, says actor Alan Cumming. “I don't think the people that go see films care that much,” the X-Men 2 star told the BBC. “The media make it more of a deal and it’s made into controversy.” Cumming, who is openly gay, thinks Hollywood is an especially anti-gay place. "Definitely." More »
April 2008
- Out Names Most Powerful Gays
  
  Out | Apr 13, 08 12:29 PM CDT

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Earlier Milk Release Might've Killed Prop 8

Van Sant Spills About Milk

Rosie: View 'Camaraderie' Fake

Deputy Admits Gay Affair With Austrian Rightist

Allowing Children to Choose Gender Is Slippery Slope

Etheridge, Girlfriend to Wed

Troubled Son 'Outs' Celeb Architect

DeGeneres to Wed Tomorrow

Breakfast With Billie Jean King

Bigoted 'Don't Ask' Has No Support, Must Go Now

10 Ways to Say 'I'm Not Gay'

Gay Sports Leagues Net Straight Players

Gay Daughter No Problem for Mass. Governor

LiLo KOs $1M Lesbian Confession

Lesbian Liplock Sparks Stadium PDA Dispute

Gay Paris Mayor Sets Sights on Presidency

Hollywood Is Homophobic, Star Says

Out Names Most Powerful Gays