Recently in the news, it was reported that a certain medical treatment carries the possible side effect of limiting homosexuality -- bringing up once again the thorny issue of sexual orientation and whether or not it can be changed or "fixed" and raising the spectre of "engineering in the womb". Bioethicist and writer Jacob Appel talks to BigThink about why he thinks parents should be allowed to choose the sexual orientation of their child and how much of sexual orientation is genetically determined. Watch:
Homophobia Rears its Head in Halifax Taxi Cab
Homophobic Cabbie -- Gay Couple in Halifax Share a Kiss in a Cab & End Up Walking Home.
A Memory by Edward Carpenter
The following poem, A Memory, was written by Edward Carpenter, (August 29, 1844 – June 28, 1929) an English socialist philosopher, poet, anthologist, women's rights champion, sexual reformist and early gay activist*.
Monday's Gay Entertainment Buzz
Monday's Gay Entertainment Buzz: Jane Lynch's Emmy Moment; Neil Patrick Harris on Fatherhood Prep; Blue Power Ranger's Claim; True Blood Gayness; George Michael & Drugs.
Monday's Gay News Links
Monday's Gay News Links: The MI6 agent story; Black Gay Pride Organizer Investigation; Life & Lebanese Gays; Tory Prison Minister Comes Out; A Cabinet Minister's Gay Rumours...
Featured Music Video: Ice Cream Truck
This week's featured music video is Cazwell's hot "Ice Cream Truck". Watch:
Bryan Safi Salutes Focus on the Family
Back to School with That's Gay Salutes: This week, Bryan Safi salutes Focus on the Family for making sure children aren't tricked into giving up homophobia as they head back to school. Even pictures of cute animals aren't safe anymore! Watch:
Friday's News Links
Friday's Gay News Links: Gay Jim Carrey Film Coming Out Finally; Being Gay & Middle Aged; Sex & The Older Gay; Spotlight on Nepal; Mehlman Changed? Not Much...; Gay Dem's Death Threat; Nevada Megachurch Fallout...
Ken 'No Regrets' Mehlman Has Some Rethinking To Do
Blogger Mike Rogers and radio talk show host Stephanie Miller talk with Cenk Uygur about the irony of Ken Mehlman’s decision to announce he’s gay after he headed one of the RNC's most anti-gay campaigns. Watch:
Headlines for Thursday
Gay News Headlines for Thursday: Former RNC Chair Mehlman Comes Out; Raw Story on Mehlman's Past; The Root Of Anti-Gay Sentiment In Uganda; Minister 'crossed line'; Polish gay rights group hits out at new textbook.
Russian Authorities Try To Make Us Second Class People :Moscow Gay Activists
Gay rights activists from Moscow set off for Strasbourg after filing complaint with European Court of Human Rights over local official's prejudices of gays and the right of assembly. Russia Today has the report:
Looking For A Better Way of Reducing HIV Through Intervention
Better interventions are needed to reduce HIV risk among men who have sex with men.
Wednesday's News Posts
Wednesday's Gay News Posts: Stabbed Because He Was Gay in Colorado?; DADT's Other Victims; Marine Corps Commandant on Gay Roomies; Spotlight on Gay West Point Cadets; Toronto Baptists' "Misunderstanding"; Homophobia & hyper-masculinity in Sports; This Day in History...
Tuesday's Gay News Links
Tuesday's Gay News Links: Latest update on the McInerney Trial; BBC presenter's Bogus Claim; The State's 'Gay Cure' in Calif.; Marching for Rights in Ireland; Obama's Position on Marriage; Being Gay is for the Birds; Lesbian Presbyterian Minister to Be Tried in House.
Filmmaker Rob Epstein On Film Editing
Award-winning filmmaker Rob Epstein of Telling Pictures and Erinn Clancy (BFA Media Arts 2010), a film editor who worked as an intern at the industry-celebrated production studio on HOWL, talk with California College of the Arts' web editor Jim Norrena about what it's like to work as a film editor. Watch:
Headlines for Monday
Gay Headlines for Monday: Britain's Gay Health Taboo; Radio Host's Stupid Comments on 'stupid behavior' of gays; The DADT Spouse Survey Details; Gay Bar vs NYPD; Ottawa's Gay Community Groups Reject Police Donations; The Gay Vicar & His Younger Lover.
Featured Music Vid: Freeway of Love
This week's featured music video features dance recording artist Pepper MaShay and her latest single, "Freeway of Love". Watch:
Thom Filicia on Design, TV, 'Queer Eye' and Coming Out
Interior designer, Thom Filicia talks to Big Think on various aspects of interior design, TV, 'Queer Eye' days and coming out. Watch:
Friday's Gay News Links
Friday's Gay News Links: Updates on Target, Best Buy Controversy; Update on Jackson Lesbian Teen's Court Case; Protests in Calif.; Maggie Gallagher Quotes; Pride in the NWT.
Ricky Martin's Summer Book Buzz
Ricky Martin's Highly-Anticipated Memoir To Hit The Shelves November 2nd, 2010 -- English- and Spanish-Language Editions, Entitled Me and Yo Respectively, To Be Released Simultaneously.
Thursday's News Links
Thursday's Gay News Links: Michael Musto's Book Held Hostage; Scott Thompson Ain't No Mammy; Margaret Cho on Music, Gay Rights & More; More DADT Survey Stupidity; Mary Cheney's Anti-gay Donation; Mexico City mayor sues Guadalajara bishop; Catholic adoption agency loses bid to bar gay parents.
Gay News Links for Wednesday
Gay News Links for Wednesday: The Canadian Census and Queers; Teen Extortionist Behind Phone Sex Sting; Nepal's first foreign gay wedding; Inheritance tax rights in Germany; Do-or-Die - DADT; 'Right-wing Judy Garland' Coulter Dumped.
'It hurts that I'm not included in my senior yearbook' :Tux Wearing Teen
Mean-spirited in the South -- ACLU Sues Mississippi School For Excluding Teenager Wearing Tuxedo From Yearbook -- Group Charges Gender Discrimination.
Prop. 8 Case Could Take A Year or More Before Reaching US Supreme Court
Gay marriages are on hold in California -- Msnbc's Norah O'Donnell talks with Emory University professor Robert Schapiro about the latest Prop. 8 ruling -- why the stay was ordered and what's next.
Tuesday's News
Tuesday's Gay News & Updates: Prop. 8; JetBlue guy; Gay Air Force Pilot Reaches Deal; talks with Target break down; Sports & "Gay Cures"...
Rhetoric, Framing Efforts in Same-sex Marriage Debate Have Little Effect
ATLANTA, GA -- A study by Indiana University researchers found that terminology and efforts to frame an issue -- often effective in influencing public opinion -- have no effect on public opinion concerning the ongoing debate in the U.S. over legalizing same-sex marriage.
Monday's News Links
Monday's Gay News Links: Pride Parades: Joy, Sorrow & Questions; Colm TóibÃn on Homosexuality & Priesthood; Medical Treatments & Gays; Italy's Summer of Homophobia; Lesbian War Resister's Battle; Gay Ex-Cop Wins Battle for Job; Anti-gay Wedding Registrars in England.
Neil Patrick Harris: We're Having Twins!
Busy, Busy! That's the forecast for Neil Patrick Harris and his long-term partner David Burtka. Over the weekend NPH revealed on Twitter that he and David are going to become daddies to twins this Fall. Hands-on gay daddy Ricky Martin who has twin boys of his own had some advice for the gay daddies to be.
Featured Music Vid: Ooh Ooh Ooh
This week's featured music video is from Jason Antone's video single "Ooh Ooh Ooh" from his album "Start To Move." Watch:
Friday's Entertainment Buzz
Friday's Gay Entertainment Buzz: A Straight Girl's Gay Date; George Michael charged AGAIN; Elton John's Helping Hand; Japan's gay parade; Daniel Radcliffe Dishes; Filmmakers reach beyond the cliched coming-out story; Vancouver Queer Film Festival Coverage; Pouring the Perfect Glass of Bubbly...
Friday's News Links
Friday's Gay News Links: Verdict in Vancouver Gaybashing Trial; Verdict in Brutal Killing in Australia; Prop. 8 Watch; What do Obama and Lincoln have in Common?; Montreal Rabbis Sign On...
Obama's Promises, Maddow's Reminder & Message
Rachel Maddow notes promises by President Barack Obama to do away with the military's "Don't ask, don't tell" policy -- Plus tells Obama to do the right thing. Watch:
Meet the West Point Cadet Who's Transfering to Yale
Rachel Maddow talks with high-achieving West Point Cadet-Sgt. Katherine Miller, who is leaving the military and transferring to Yale to avoid having to deal with the strain of remaining closeted to satisfy the military's "Don't ask, don't tell" policy. Watch:
Yet Another Soldier Fired from the Army for Being Gay
Rachel Maddow talks with Captain Jonathan Hopkins who was fired from the U.S. Army under the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy Tuesday. Watch:
Gay U.S. Fighter Pilot Fighting to Serve
Lt. Col. Victor Fehrenbach, a U.S. Air Force Fighter Pilot facing discharge under "Don't ask, don't tell," is accompanied by his attorny, M. Andrew Woodmansee, in talking with Rachel Maddow about the lawsuit they've filed to block Fehrenbach's discharge. Watch:
Wednesday's News Links
Wednesday's Gay News Links: Opinions and news on gay marriage; The Surname Debate; Judge Vaughn Walker; Update on Ex-Edmonton Capitals manager; Florida's AG on Homosexuals Guiding Children; German Foreign Minister's Travel Decision...
Gay News Links for Tuesday
Gay News Links for Tuesday: Vancouver Gay Bashing Trial Update; JetBlue Flight Attendant's Embarrasing Days; Would Be Brit Foster Parents Try to Dictate Who Can Adopt; Gay University Prez's Coalition; Lib Dems to vote on full marriage rights; Gays Unite Against Referendum on Civil Unions in Costa Rica; West Point Cadet Resigns; Called Out for Abusing Gay Ump...
Carl Van Vechten's Impertinent Catalogue of Modern Composers
History File: On August 8, 1917, Carl Van Vechten, an American writer and photographer, patron of the Harlem Renaissance and literary executor of Gertrude Stein, wrote a short piece titled: "The Modern Composers at a Glance - An Impertinent Catalogue". Given some of his remarks in this piece it seems almost unsurprising and delicious to learn that Van Vechten, despite having married twice, was indeed a homosexual or at the very least bisexual....
Monday's News Reports
Monday's News Reports: Update from Uganda; Film Screening Controversy; Palin, Johnston & Same-sex Marriage; Schwarzenegger's Urge; The Early Struggles of Pfc. Bradley Manning; In Iran: false charges of sodomy; A A gay mecca in South America.
ONN: Loveless Couples Lash Out
Onion News Network Reports: New Law Would Ban Marriages Between People Who Don't Love Each Other. Watch:
Featured Music Video: ALEJANDRO Parody
This week's featured music video is the outrageous parody of Lady Gaga's ALEJANDRO by Sherry Vine. Watch:
Entertainment Buzz for Friday
Gay Entertainment Buzz for Friday: Rosie's Next Oprah Gig; 'Glee' Creator on Gay Kissing; Justin Timberlake to go GAY for a Cartoon; Lady Gaga Inspired by Prop. 8 Ruling to Pen Tune; A Mayor with Drag Creds.
Friday's Gay News
Friday's Gay News Postings: Flogged for Being Gay; Target Updates; The Rantings of Nut Jobs Re: Prop 8 Ruling; McCain objects to Senate ‘Don’t Ask’ consideration; B.C. Lesbian Teen Ordered to Quit Pride Activities....
GLAAD President Jarrett Barrios' Big Think Interview
GLAAD President Jarrett Barrios sat down with Big Think to talk about growing up gay, coming out, discrimination and prejudice faced by Hispanic and LGBT communities; how being gay influenced the way he's raised his children; inviting people to understand and more. Watch:
Alaskan Couples Challenge Discriminatory Tax Law
Three Alaskan Same-Sex Couples File Lawsuit Against State Of Alaska And Municipality Of Anchorage Over Discriminatory Tax Laws
Rachel Maddow Reviews the Prop 8 Victory
David Boies and Ted Olson, the attorneys who argued against Prop. 8 talk with Rachel Maddow about their victory Wednesday and their expectations for the appeals process going forward. Plus more coverage from Rachel -- Watch:
Big Day - Big Victory - Ban on Same-sex Marriage Struck Down in Calif.
It's a big day with a big victory in California. On Wednesday, a federal judge in California struck down the state's ban on same-sex marriage. CNN's Dan Simon examines the details of a California judge's ruling that Proposition 8 violates the U.S. Constitution. -- Plus more Prop 8 Coverage.
Iraq War Vet Dan Choi: 'This Is Clearly a Failure of Our Government'
Amy Goodman at Democracy Now! talks to openly gay discharged Iraq war vet, Dan Choi on "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and the failure of the U.S. government. Watch:
Wednesday's Headlines
Wednesday's Gay News Headlines: The Sorid Lives of the Clergy; Gay Marriage Battles; Meet the Woman Who's Taking on Target; Protesting Against "Americans For Truth About Homosexuality"; BBC rejects complaint about homophobic hate question.
Gay Sports Headlines for Wednesday
Gay Sports Headlines for Wednesday: News & Updates from the Gay Games in Cologne, Germany; Plus Other gay sports news from around the globe.
PSA: Beware The Homosexual Menace!
OMG! A short, yet informative piece highlighting the perilous proclivities of the homosexual gay man...Watch:
Tuesday's News Headlines
Tuesday's Mix of Gay News Headlines: Coalitions for Rights; Life in Cameroon; Political Crossfire in China; Latest Legal Maneuver in McInerney Case; Female Condoms; Right-Wing Homophobia; El Paso priest's twisted rant; Police & Palm Springs; The Crime of Being Gay...
Highlights from Vancouver Pride Parade 2010
Headlines, Photos & Videos from the 2010 Vancouver Pride Parade which took place on Sunday.
Monday's Entertainment Headlines
Monday's Entertainment Headlines: Gay Canadian Films Down Under; Out Celebs; The Pink List; Marc Jacobs Photo Shoot & Gossip; Johnny Weir's Secrets; And a Media Spat.
Gay Games Cologne Opens With Fire, Music & Fun
The 2010 Gay Games VIII in Cologne, Germany kicked off this weekend. Here's some highlights, videos and news from the first two days:
A Peek At the Vancouver Queer Arts Fest
The Queer Arts Festival is happening right now, (until Aug. 14th) in Vancouver, BC -- Xtra went to check it out:
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