Parents Say HS Gay-Straight Alliance Promotes an Unacceptable Lifestyle
A group of parents of students attending Michigan's Okemos High School aren't very happy about the school's gay-straight alliance. A group of concerned parents have been sending email to inform other parents about the club and urging them to take…
Martina Navratilova Against Experiments on Gay Sheep
PETA has distributed a letter from Martina Navratilova in which the tennis star speaks out against experiments on gay sheep attempting to "manipulate the sheep's sexual preferences and make them heterosexual" being performed at Oregon State University and Oregon Health…
Make Daily Dose of Queer the Winner of the 2006 Verve Best GLBT News Blog Award!
Daily Dose of Queer is up against 429 News, PageOneQ, Queerty, and towleroad for the 2006 Verve Best GLBT News Blog Award. Click on the image below to go over to Lone Star Verve and view the finalists of all…
Saturday Morning Roundup
Neil Patrick Harris, best known as Doogie Howser, , comments on speculations over his sexual orientation: "(I) am quite proud to say that I am a very content gay man living my life to the fullest." Thanks for sending the…
Pretty People
You can now see some of the gorgeous people whose words make Queer Shorts over at the Author Bios page at You can find Maria on MySpace here and read her current call for essays on femme identity here. Pick…
My first time was in my elementary school
This is my favorite voting PSA yet. View more public service announcements featuring Tyne Daly, Rosario Dawson, Lauren Graham, Angie Harmon, Marg Helgenberger, Felicity Huffman and Regina King at Women's Voices. Women And VOTE. You can find Maria on MySpace…
LGBT Work Attitudes Survey
If you are an employed LGBT individual who is 18 years of age or older, researchers at the University of Louisville invite you to take a survey about being queer at work. Click HERE to take the LGBT Work Attitudes…
10 People Shot at San Francisco’s Castro Halloween Party
Early reports stated that 7 people were shot at the Castro Halloween bash last night. That number has now increased to 10. The violence broke out on the 2200 block of Market Street, near Sullivan's Funeral Chapel, around 10:40 ,…
Bay Area Femme Study
Liz, a Human Sexuality Studies graduate student at SFSU, is conducting research for her Master's Thesis on Femme Identities Negotiating Communities and she is seeking 21-30 year-old women who have lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for a year…
Hell Houses used to Scare Kids Straight during the Halloween Season
Hell Houses are "religious alternatives to traditional haunted houses that are designed to scare youth into a 'sin-free life.'" Instead of spooking youth with ghosts and monsters, Hell House tour guides direct them through rooms where violent scenes of damnation…