Palm Springs’ gays “unified in outrage” over openly gay Mayor Ron Oden’s courteous welcome of Focus on the Family’s “Love Won Out” conference for ex-gays to the area. Oden, a minister, says he was only being Christian: “I do not agree with Focus on the Family… yet, I believe that I should show them common or Christian courtesy.”
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Latvian Parliament passes amendments to labor law banning discrimination based on sexual orientation. Move brings Latvia in line with EU directive.
Openly gay HGTV Design Star winner David Bromstad will develop a “color show” for the 13-episode series he won, says he’s unlike his onscreen persona: “I’m a weirdo. I’m a very quiet person when I’m not working. All i really do is go to the beach; I stay home, I don’t go out. I’m kind of a homebody. But when I’m around people, I think I just thrive around people, they give me so much energy.”
Sean Penn’s advice to his daughter’s dates: “I tell them that whatever they do to my daughter that night, they better be prepared to come home and do it to me too.”
DJ Tiësto hospitalized in the Netherlands for heart condition.
Gay man passed over in election of new Episcopal bishop: “It marked the second time in five months that a diocese of the U.S. Episcopal church has considered a gay person for bishop. In an election in May the Diocese of California, headquartered in San Francisco, also passed over a candidate who was gay. The 2.4 million-member U.S. church has been in turmoil since the 2003 consecration of Gene Robinson of New Hampshire, believed to be the first openly gay bishop in more than 450 years of Anglican history. Gay activists in the Newark Diocese said before the vote that choosing their new bishop was about picking the right person for the job, and not not about sexual identity.
REVIEW: Rupert Everett memoir “a splendid book, a monument to a series of demi-mondes and fleeting bittersweet moments. Definitely several cuts above the conventional showbusiness memoir, laced with quirky insights and dazzling phrases, it reads like a lurid dream, recalled in deliciously acute detail – in short, a heady triumph of observation and reverie.”
