Teen Lesbian Can Sue School District for Disclosing Her Sexual Orientation to Her Mother
District Judge James V. Selna has ruled that Charlene Nguon, a 17-year-old lesbian whose high school principal, Ben Wolf, revealed her homosexuality to her mother last year, can sue the Garden Grove Unified School District claiming violation of privacy rights.…
Arlington Assembly of God Funds Commercials Linking Sexual Abuse to Homosexuality
Arlington Assembly of God, a church in Arlington, VA, is sponsoring a new series of commercials which feature "ex-gays," one man and one woman, each saying that they were sexually abused as a child and later led a "homosexual lifestyle,"…
Yale Queer Committee Boycotts Club for Hosting Allegedly Homophobic Artists
Yale's Queer Political Action Committee plans to urge students to sign a petition (they've set a goal of 1,000 student signatures) and pledge to stop attending Toad's Place, a nightclub owned by Brian Phelps, as long as the club continues…
Linking It Up
Links from my nine functioning fingers: George Takei to appear on On Q Live Corner of Christopher and Hudson streets in NYC named Rivera Way in honor of Sylvia Rivera St. Louis Log Cabin Republicans ask for drag show investigation…
World AIDS Day 2005
From the website of AVERT, an international AIDS charity: According to UNAIDS estimates, there are 38 million adults and million children living with HIV, and during 2005 some million people became newly infected with the virus. Around half of all…
China’s First Autobiographical Lesbian Love Story
From Chinastic: China's first autobiographical "Lala" novel by lesbian writer -- "My angel my love" has been published by China Theatre Publishing House. This is China's first novel reflecting lesbians at work, at love and their lifestyle and psychology. The…
News From the Volkskrant Daily on Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Film on Gays and Islam
Ayaan Hirsi Ali says the actors in her upcoming film dealing with gays and Islam, a sequel to her short “Submission†(a fictional study of abused women in Muslim households that led to the murder of Theo van Gogh, its…
Gay Men in the United Arab Emirates to Face Hormone Treatments, Jail Time and Lashing
Over two dozen gay Arab men were arrested at what United Arab Emirates police called a "mass homosexual wedding" at which some men, prepared for their marriage ceremony to each other, dressed as "female brides" while others wore traditional male…
Liberal Judaism Gay Marriage Service a First in the UK
According to Guardian Unlimited, members of Britain's Liberal Jewish community are the first of mainstream religious organizations to create a gay marriage service to tie in with UK's civil partnership law which goes into effect in December. more at 365gay
Focus on the Family Gives Gays Balls to Squeeze
Focus on the Family has come up with the perfect plan to get the attention of gays: balls. They will be handing out 5,000 stress balls, directing gays to (a site which promotes reparative therapy), at Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.…