Earlier I linked to a piece of news that reported Bono was to play at a concert fundraiser for anti-gay Senator Rick Santorum. The truth is that man-on-dog Santorum has access to a skybox he is using for a $1,000-a-head fundraiser during the U2 concert. (thanks glenn)

In the biggest case of its kind since laws extending discrimination rules to gays and lesbians came into effect in Britain last year, investment banker Peter Lewis is suing Europe’s biggest bank for firing him because he is gay.

1,200 Croatian gays come out of the closet in mass newspaper ad that reads “I don’t want to hide any more. Little divides us and a lot unites us. Reconsider your prejudice.” The ad appeared in three newspapers and additional magazines. National Coming Out day here in America, is today.

The award has previously gone to a report on gay necrophiliac ducks, so it shouldn’t surprise that this year’s top Ig Nobel Prize (“Every Ig Nobel Prize winner has done something that first makes people laugh, then makes them think.”) went to a study on fluid dynamics, for measuring the pressure required for penguins to projectile shit the way they do.

Original R.E.M. plays wedding set for one of the band’s roadies.