Scientists from the French National Institute for Public Health Surveillance found that nearly half of the 7,000 people newly infected with HIV in the country in 2008 were gay men, and the incidence among homosexual men is 200 times higher than in the heterosexual population. Experts said the findings showed that French authorities needed to revise and [...]

One month after Mychal Judge’s body was pulled from the shattered lobby of 1 World Trade Center, and three weeks after his televised funeral, some of the friar’s friends decided to hold a smaller memorial evening of Celtic music and storytelling. Priests, nuns, lawyers, cops, firefighters, homeless people, rock-and-rollers, recovering alcoholics, local politicians, and middle-aged couples [...]

The Gay and Lesbian Times has an editorial about the 21st Annual Gay Rodeo in San Diego, CA. Read about the IGRA here.

Freelance writer John Blanchette has an article at EDGE about openly gay NASCAR Grand Am driver Evan Darling . Here’s some highlights from the article. It was during high school that Evan began wrestling with his sexuality. “I’m not the kind of guy who is comfortable in the closet. I didn’t want any skeletons haunting me later on in life so [...]

The Sawmill Campground and Resort in Dade City, Florida is having a meeting this Saturday (September 11) regarding what could become the first of its kind co-op of residents and members of an LGBT resort. In its weekly e-blast newsletter is a PDF which describes the upcoming meeting. According to the material an exploratory committee created the Sawmill [...]

Automaker Jaguar is none to happy with Stephanie Rice’s use of the word faggot in a recent Tweet on her Twitter. Ever wonder why Twitter is called what it is … it often brings out the worse in twits. Here’s part of the story from The Daily Telegraph , The luxury car maker severed ties after former rugby league [...]

I day dream .. a lot. Ever since I was a kid in school. Today and for the past couple of decades idiot school psychologists call this ADD or attention deficit disorder. My attention is not deficit at all, just not paying a mind to what you buggers may be talking about at the time. And [...]

In case you hadn’t heard about this, Hall of Fame defensive lineman Dan Hampton who is doing analyst (if you can call it that) for the MSG Network threw a homophobic zing at the Dallas Cowboys when he said “The Cowboys think they’re Clint Eastwood, they’re more of the Brokeback variety if you know what I’m [...]

New Anti-Smoking Ads Warn Teens ‘It’s Gay To Smoke’

As was first reported in June of this year the Foxwoods Casino here in Connecticut had instituted an LGBT friendly policy for its employees. Now Foxwoods and The MGM Grand have expanded LGBT policies as reported by reporter Patricia Daddona of The Day and Indian Country Today . Lesbians, gays, bisexual and transgendered people not only represent an important market for [...]

5 on the fifth ,   here we are again,  another month done,  and already  time for the monthly posting of 5 on the fifth,  a wonderful,  delightful idea from Stephen Chapman’s  The State Of The Nation UK blog. Basically,   y ou take 5 photographs on the 5th of the month (or the days leading up to the [...]

Tammye Nash, senior editor at the Dallas Voice takes an extended look at the coming out of Ken Mehlman, former RNC chair and 2004 campaign manager for George W. Bush and those in the community who would rather burn Mehlman at the stake than welcoming him in as “one of us”. Erin Moore, president of Stonewall Democrats of [...]

Something’s been missing for a little over a month. Oh…wait…that’s me at the gym. Or doing exercise of any kind. I have a million excuses, one of which is actually even really good. But that’s exactly what they are: excuses. So it seems I can “talk the talk” but not “walk the walk.” This really [...]

Twenty years ago, Oakland Tribune Senior Vice President Leroy Aarons stood before a gathering of editors in Washington, D.C., presented a study on gays and lesbians in the newsroom – then finished by telling the crowd that he was a gay man. That statement made an impact in the community, and later that year Aarons gathered [...]

Behind the Mask the African LGBT website reports in an article written by Ken Were, African Anglican Bishops are ready to sever ties with the Anglican Church in the West over the issue of homosexuality. Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni, whose government has frequently criticized gay movements in the country, hosted the bishops for dinner at Imperial Resort [...]