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Gay News

If time and space are curved, where do all of the straight people come from? ~Author Unknown

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December 2007
- Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Go!
  
  CBS | Dec 14, 07 5:08 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - The US military, whose resources are stretched overseas, has become far more tolerant of gays. One Army sergeant turned over a video of a passionate kiss with his boyfriend to superior officers and was merely told to go back to work, according to a "60 Minutes" investigation to be aired Sunday. "I don't care if you're gay or not," he said one officer told him. More »
- Flies Gay, Straight, Gay Again
  
  LiveScience | Dec 10, 07 12:22 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Fruit flies were gay one hour and straight the next in a recent study in which researchers used drugs to flip the switch of sexuality, reports LiveScience. When scientists disabled a gene called genderblind, male flies courted other males; they reverted to pursuing females only hours later when given a gene and drug combo that altered brain synapses. More »
- Philly Boots Scouts Over Gays
  
  New York Times | Dec 6, 07 2:25 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Philadelphia will evict the Boy Scouts from a municipal building known as the group’s birthplace, citing its exclusion of gay members, the New York Times reports. The city requires renters to put nondiscriminatory language into leases; the BSA has fought the stipulation at the building where it's held the $1-a-year lease since 1928. A deadline passed this week; eviction is set for June 1. More »
- Lesbian Gossip Trumps Mideast Peace Plan
  
  Times (UK) | Dec 3, 07 6:26 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Sure, Condoleezza Rice is trying to broker Mideast peace, but isn't she really gay? Like Hillary Clinton? And isn't John Edwards having an affair? A recent spate of articles has swung the political spotlight on gossip, the Times of London reports—and the Columbia Journalism Review is so concerned that it hosted a panel this year to discuss government funding of serious newspapers. More »
November 2007
- Vets, Activists Fight 'Don't Ask'
  
  Army Times | Nov 30, 07 5:21 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - A gay rights coalition marked today, the 14th anniversary of the enactment of “Don’t ask, don’t tell,” with a renewed push against the law. Activists planted 12,000 American flags on the National Mall to commemorate the troops discharged under the policy and sent an open letter to Congress signed by 28 retired generals and officers urging its repeal, the Army Times reports. More »
- Stanford Considers Co-Ed Rooms
  
  San Jose Mercury News | Nov 29, 07 8:52 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Stanford students want co-ed dorm rooms, and the administration may take them up on the idea. "It's not about sex," one student told the San Jose Mercury News , but about feeling "comfortable in your living space." Transgender students started the initiative to build on the school's anti-discrimination policies, but now both gay and straight students have rallied behind the idea. More »
- Marriage and State Should Get a Divorce
  
  New York Times | Nov 26, 07 8:44 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Modern love has snubbed its nose at the state, writes Stephanie Coontz in an op ed piece in the New York Times , with 40% of US children now from unmarried parents. So it's time for the law to follow suit, and get out of the marrying business. Marriage licenses—a relatively recent phenomenon, historically—are about conferring "spousal" legal benefits, and those should go along with committed relationships, without regard to marital status. More »
- Singapore Lifts Ban on Game With Lesbian Love
  
  Straits Times | Nov 16, 07 2:54 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Gamers in Singapore may now buy Microsoft's Mass Effect despite a female-female love scene. The country has decided to allow the sale of the video game under an M18 rating, reports Singapore's Straits Times , after previously banning it due to a scene showing a human woman and an alien woman kissing. More »
- Game Banned for Lesbian Scene
  
  Reuters | Nov 15, 07 8:53 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Singaporeans anticipating Microsoft’s much-ballyhooed Mass Effect video game should stop anticipating. Thanks to a scene in which a human woman kisses and caresses an alien woman, Singapore has banned the action-RPG, Reuters reports. Microsoft said it would respect the ban, but outraged gamers decried the decision as too strict. Sex between men is against the law in Singapore. More »
- House Bans Bias Against Gays at Work
  
  New York Times | Nov 7, 07 10:14 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - It took more than 30 years, but House Democrats today passed a bill banning workplace discrimination against homosexuals, the New York Times reports. Thirty-five Republicans joined 200 Democrats to pass the legislation, which would amend the Civil Rights Act and safeguard workers against discrimination because of their “actual or perceived sexual orientation.” Ted Kennedy says he will introduce it in the Senate. More »
- Candidates Still Figuring Out Web Ads
  
  New York Times | Nov 7, 07 11:45 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Politicians have decades of experience putting ads on television, but they haven’t figured out this Internet thing, the New York Times says. Thanks to ad networks, banners are showing up in embarrassing places – Mitt Romney accidentally advertised on Gay.com – making politicians look like blunderers. “Corporate media consultants don’t make mistakes like this,” one advertising executive said. More »
- Anti-Gay Church Ordered to Pay Dead Marine's Family $11M
  
  CNN | Nov 1, 07 2:00 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A fundamentalist Kansas church has been ordered to pay $11 million to the father of a Marine killed in Iraq after a jury decided that anti-gay church protesters violated the family's privacy. Members of Westboro Baptist Church routinely wave anti-gay posters at soldiers' funerals because they claim the war is punishment for the nation's tolerance of gays. More »
October 2007
- Obama Angers Gays With Choice of Gospel Singer
  
  Chicago Tribune | Oct 23, 07 7:47 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A Grammy-winning gospel singer who claims homosexuality can be “cured” is scheduled to perform this weekend at a show organized by Barack Obama's campaign, setting off a political brouhaha in the gay community. Obama’s camp has rejected calls to drop Donnie McClurkin, the Chicago Tribune reports, but the candidate said he “strongly disagrees” with the reverend's views. More »
- Religious Republicans Dig Fred
  
  Politico | Oct 20, 07 12:36 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Fred Thompson's campaign is making headway with conservative Christian voters, according to new polling data reported in Politico . Thompson, whose late campaign start was much maligned by Republican insiders, trails Giuliani by 8 percentage points among all Republicans, but he leads 29% to 19% among weekly Republican churchgoers—a group that holds much sway. More »
- Vatican's Fast Action on Gay Priest Could Herald Change
  
  Newsweek | Oct 19, 07 12:15 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - An incident in which a Vatican official was caught on video making advances in his office to a younger man has raised questions about homosexuality in the hierarchy. The immediate suspension of the official also has some convinced that the Holy See has turned a corner in cracking down on priests, reports Newsweek. The video, shown on Italian TV this week, comes as the Vatican is still grappling with pedophile priests. More »
- Whoops! Uncle Sam Doesn't Want You
  
  USA Today | Oct 18, 07 1:29 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The US Army, Navy and Air Force were surprised Tuesday to learn they'd been advertising thousands of jobs on GLEE.com, a gay networking website included in job-listing giant Monster.com's "diversity and inclusion" package. The website is at odds with the military's exclusionary "don't ask, don't tell" policy, which bars openly homosexual people from the armed services, USA Today writes. More »
- Archbishop 'Sorry' for Giving Communion to Gay 'Sisters'
  
  San Francisco Chronicle | Oct 17, 07 12:56 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The archbishop of San Francisco has apologized for giving Communion to two male members of the outlandish gay group the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. The archbishop sparked a nationwide controversy when he administered Communion to the pair, dressed as nuns, from the San Francisco-based activist group that lives by the motto "go forth and sin some more," the San Francisco Chronicle reports. More »
- 'I Was Only Pretending to Be Gay'
  
  Associated Press | Oct 15, 07 11:15 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A high-ranking Vatican official suspended after he was caught on video making advances to a young man said yesterday in an interview with Italian newspaper La Repubblica that he posed as a homosexual as part of his work as a psychoanalyst. Monsignor Tommaso Stenico said he is celibately heterosexual and only pretended to be gay to gather information. More »
- Gay Vatican Priest Outed on TV; Ousted by Holy See
  
  Associated Press | Oct 14, 07 6:55 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The Vatican yesterday suspended a senior official caught on hidden camera making advances to a man and saying that he didn't believe he was sinning by being involved with gays. Italian television showed the priest with his face distorted, but Vatican officials recognized the office where he was filmed. The suspended priest, Monsignor Tomasso Stenico, works for the Vatican's Congregation for Clergy, which aims to ensure proper conduct by priests. More »