New York sperm donor ordered to pay child support to lesbian couple.
Departing ambassador slams State Department and Condoleezza Rice for DISCRIMINATORY policies: “For the past three years, I’ve urged the Secretary and her senior management team to redress policies that discriminate against gay and lesbian employees. Absolutely nothing has resulted from this. And so I’ve felt compelled to choose between obligations to my partner — who is my family — and service to my country.”
Buffalo, New York man charged with third-degree assault after punching a man for making “an open display of homosexuality.”
Peter Andre says that in the 80’s he had a crush on Boy George and thought he was female: “She is hot. I thought I was going to marry this woman.”
Studies of HIV positive gay and bisexual men reveal high rates of unprotected sex: “The research team found that 37.3 percent of the men said they had engaged in unprotected anal intercourse over the past three months. In 41.3 percent of these cases, unsafe sex took place with another HIV-infected partner, but in 31.4 percent of cases the unprotected behavior took place with a partner whose HIV status was unknown. In 23 percent of cases, the infected man engaged in unprotected sex with a partner he knew to be HIV-negative, the study found.” The CDC also reported that “more than twice as likely to be infected with the AIDS virus than their white counterparts,” although the reason why wasn’t immediately clear.
In London to accept his GAY award, Jesse Metcalfe puts on his prettiest face and assaults a paparazzo.
Starting point: Same-sex couples in Victoria, Australia will soon be allowed to register their relationships. “Attorney-General Rob Hulls said legislation tabled in Parliament yesterday would allow the couples to record their relationship with the Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages. Mr Hulls said the register is not gay marriage or a civil union, but would improve access to entitlements, such as superannuation, without de facto and same-sex couples having to prove repeatedly that they are in a committed relationship. ‘These reforms provide that Victorian laws, in most cases treat de facto and same-sex couples the same way as married couples,’ he said.”
Daniel from America’s Most Smartest Model is now doing Mayonnaise ads.
Fort Worth Baptist Church postpones decision on including photos of gay members in a 125th anniversary pictorial directory: ” Broadway Baptist Church has debated whether the directory should include gay couples, or gay people individually but not as couples, or whether to omit all individual and family photos. Members were to vote Sunday after morning worship. But in a clear indication that they are divided over how accepting to be of homosexuality, they met for an hour and then postponed any decision until deacons make a recommendation on Feb. 24.” Bigotry can be so indecisive.
“Etiquette enforcer” on the Long Island Railroad is also apparently a homophobe: ” The latest chapter began March 28, as Clifford took his a seat on the 8:02 a.m. train from Long Beach, in a spot where he might stretch out his 6-foot-4 frame. Nearby, a young man talked loudly on his cellphone to a girlfriend, a railroad no-no. Clifford got upset only after the guy started yammering to Girlfriend No. 2. ‘I asked him to keep it down. The kid just ignored me. I started arguing with him, ‘Shut the f- – – up!’ I said, ‘F- – -ing faggot,’ or whatever.'”
Little pink houses: Brad Pitt calls New Orleans home. And in other Pitt news, Radar wonders if the gaudy ring on Brad’s right hand is a symbol of his spiritual solidarity with the gays.
New Axel Hotel is defining moment for gay and lesbian tourism in Argentina: “That Buenos Aires would be chosen for such a marketing experiment is a result of a marked change over the past several years in the acceptance of gay men and lesbians in Argentine society. This city of three million people has come a long way from the years of military dictatorship, when being openly gay could lead to jail. Five years ago this was the first major Latin American city to legalize same-sex unions, and this summer it was host to a World Cup for gay soccer players, a first in the region.”
