Video: Queer Lisboa 16 – Death of the Gay Cliche!
I somehow missed this awesome ad for the 2012 Queer Lisboa 16 – Lisbon Gay and Lesbian Film Festival commercial created by the agency FUEL Lisbon. It hits one of…
gay person of color
Maryland Senate approves marriage equality bill
On Thursday, the Maryland Senate approved, by a 25-22 vote, a marriage equality bill that will now be sent to its sponsor, Governor Martin O’Malley, who has promised to sign…
Rick Mercer takes on Vic Toews
Gay Canadian comedian, television personality, political satirist, and blogger, Rick Mercer, addresses Public Safety Minister Vic Toews’s proposed Internet-surveillance legislation, Bill C-30, in a brilliant, two-minute video rant. A must…
John Baird feeling the heat over privacy concerns?
During question period in the Canadian House of Commons on Friday (February 17), Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird accused the opposition National Democratic Party (NDP) of having been caught…
Kath & Kim’s Magda Szubanski (Sharon) comes out
British-born Australian actress Magda Szubanski, well known for her portrayal as Sharon on the international hit, Kath & Kim, on Tuesday (Valentine’s Day) came out publicly as gay on the…
Washington Governor Signs Marriage Equality Into Law
On Monday, Washington became the 7th U.S. state (and eighth jurisdiction) to legally allow marriage for same-sex couples. Governor Christine Gregoire signed the marriage equality bill into law at a…
Living gay under Gaddafi in Libya
A must-read for the week is the two-part interview featured at Gay Star News of Khaleed, a 31-year-old LGBT activist in Libya who gives us some perspective on being gay…
Action: Sign petition to have CNN fire Roland Martin
So, just a few days after CNN published a stellar article by Rob Smith about his observations as a gay man of color, CNN analyst Roland Martin comes out to…
Gay writer and U.S. Army veteran offers CNN readers some perspective
It’s nice to see that a mainstream media source has published an insightful article about some of the issues that enter the minds of those of us who are both…
Video fail: Gay Chicken – SteamRoomStories.com
This video, Gay Chicken, one of the webisodes of Steam Room Stories, makes me want to put a bag over my head in shame for being of the same species…
Video: Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire for marriage equality
Christine Gregoire has become the first American governor to appear in a Human Rights Campaign (HRC) video endorsing marriage equality. The move comes as the Washington state Senate on Wednesday…
Aeroflot tells gay flight attendant to marry woman
Pure insanity from Russia. After Maxim Kupreev created an LGBT group within Aeroflot to fight for the protection of the rights of gay employees in June 2011, the airline offered…
Cynthia Nixon is a hero
Apparently, “Sex and the City” co-star Cynthia Nixon has sparked a backlash after telling the New York Times Magazine that for her, being gay is a choice: “I gave a…
Video: Lost in Paradise (trailer) from Vietnam
Behold the power of art. Lost in Paradise has been making some waves in Vietnam recently, with filmgoers reportedly flocking to see the story of a doomed love affair between…
Microsoft endorses marriage equality
American multinational computing corporation, Microsoft, headquartered in Redmond, Washington, pushed for gay marriage legislation in the state Thursday via the company’s official blog in which Brad Smith, General Counsel &…
Over 70 American Mayors join in marriage equality support
What a nice idea. Mayors of more than 70 cities in the United States are joining forces to support marriage equality. From Associated Press: The mayors of Boston, Houston, Los…
Video: The Gay Rights Movement
A trailer to raise funds for Second Class Citizens, a documentary on the gay rights movement by Ryan James Yezak, this short video is a powerful historical document in itself,…
Video: Love Wars (Star Wars style)
Check out this short film (in Spanish with English subtitles) that offers a clever critique of a society forcing gay individuals to live in the closet, Star Wars style! Written…
Album Review: The Search by Mike Acerbo
Openly gay musical artists are still a rarity these days. Yes, in an ideal place and time in the future, perhaps it won’t matter whether or not a performer is…
Rick Santorum on hypothetical gay son
“I would love him as much as I did the second before he said it, and I would try to do everything I can to be as good a father…