Families and gays are clashing in San Francisco’s Castro district. Gay sex shop owner: “There are always a few outspoken couples with children, both heterosexual and gay, who expect everything to be prim and proper. But this is the Castro and anybody who moves here knows what they are moving to. We are very sexual people and we do tend to flaunt it a little. I have cleaned up my windows to the extent I am willing to. This is the one place in the country where we can all gather and be ourselves and not have to worry. I don’t like that people are trying to change our ways.”

Delaware-dwelling Johnny Weir says he wants to become a fashion designer when he quits ice skating: “I’ve already decided that I’ll skate four more years, and achieve everything that I want to achieve in those next few years. But there’s more to life than just skating. So I’m going to try four more years, do my best, maybe pick a new style.”

New BBC doc focuses on the trouble with gay men: “He argues on the show that gay men are obsessed with their looks, drugs and sex…Mr Fanshawe concludes that gay men can only embrace the new world by growing out of the drugs and sex and settling down to a more responsible lifestyle.”

The Muslim council of Britain has backtracked on a promise it made to reach out to the gay community. According to the Observer, “The plan was hailed as a breakthrough by gay rights campaigners and a sign the organisation was looking to distance itself from comments made earlier this year by its secretary general, Sir Iqbal Sacranie, who described homosexuals as ‘harmful, immoral, unacceptable and diseased’.” Now, a spokesman for the Muslim organization says they made no such promise: “‘There is no truth in these quotes. Our position is very clear, our Secretary General was nearly prosecuted for this because we maintain that homosexual relationships are sinful in Islam.'”