This is really sad:

“My sense from even the most out, comfortable, well-adjusted, emotionally healthy gay people is that there is concern about when to identify as gay in the newspaper,” explains Kelly McBride, the ethics group leader at the Poynter Institute, a school in St. Petersburg, Fla., for journalists.

The issue becomes more complicated after the person has died and the reporter has to rely on siblings, parents and children to articulate their loved one’s wishes. And it is not only the dead person’s privacy that is at issue, McBride points out; a partner may not want to be identified as gay.

What else ya got for me? This:

*Gay revolution puts red China in the pink
*Australian, Fijian acquitted of homosexual crime
*Gay-marriage challenge seen defeated in Massachusetts
*Romney plays ‘Hardball’ on gay marriage, 2008
*Making a Switch: Trans-gendered Sportswriter Changes Byline
*Provocative covers in LGBT history