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April 5, 2013
RIP Kurt Cobain: One of rock’s greatest LGBT allies

‘I am not gay, although I wish I were, just to piss off homophobes’

It is 19 years to the day that Kurt Cobain, best known as the singer of Nirvana, committed suicide.

Since his death, he influenced several music artists not only by his music, but his passion for gay rights.

Cobain, who shot himself when he was 27 and would have been 46 today, told people to not buy his music if they were homophobic.

In one of his journals, he said: ‘I am not gay, although I wish I were, just to piss off homophobes.’

March 22, 2013
$50,000 raised for trans activist Kate Bornstein's cancer treatment in two days

Half of target raised in two days, but crowd-funding project seeks $100,000 in total to help legendary gender theorist, who has 'saved thousands of lives' from suicide

Well-wishers have raised over $50,000 (US dollars, €38,600) in two days to fund cancer treatment for veteran trans rights activist and academic Kate Bornstein.

Bornstein's friend Laura Vogel started a page on Go Fund Me crowd-funding site on Wednesday. After one day over $40,000 was raised.

'We are all blown away by how fast this sum has grown, and by how many people have stepped up to stand by Kate's side as she goes through this difficult process of healing,' said Vogel.

In answer to why she started this campaign for Bornstein, Vogel said:

February 6, 2013
Author donates to gay charities after every internet 'troll' attack

John Scalzi has raised up to $50,000 for LGBT and civil rights charities in his 'Counteract a Bigot Drive'

An American author has responded to internet trolls by pledging $5 to gay and civil rights charities every time he receives abuse.

Award-winning science fiction writer John Scalzi has raised over $50,000 (£32,000, €37,000) by today (6 February).

Trolls attacked the author for a pro-choice satirical blogpost from last year in which Scalzi adopted the persona of a rapist. One troll, which Scalzi affectionately calls 'the Racist Sexist Homophobic Dipshit', took particular issue.

December 10, 2012
Dan Savage makes a toast to Washington's new marriage law

Dan Savage has a sip of champagne as he talks about marriage developments

Columnist Dan Savage raised a glass of champagne to those newly married Washington couples (Savage lives in Seattle).

Yesterday (9 December), the noted writer was a guest on the MSNBC news show Up w/ Chris Hayes. The show's host and Savage had a glass of bubbly to celebrate the recent developments in the marriage equality battle.

October 16, 2012
Jesse Tyler Ferguson gets emotional reflecting on Obama's support of gay marriage

Modern Family star joins Jane Lynch, Zachary Quinto, George Takei, and other LGBT celebs in campaign video

Wiping tears from his eyes, an emotional Jesse Tyler Ferguson speaks emotionally about what it meant to him to have President Barack Obama publicly support gay marriage earlier this year.

'If I was a 15-year-old kid in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and I watched the evening news with my parents and the sitting president of the United States said, 'I support gay marriage,' that would have changed a lot,' Ferguson says in a new Obama campaign video featuring famous LGBT Americans.

February 28, 2012
Gay novel Mother of Sorrows set for big screen

Gay film director Terence Davies set to adapt Richard McCann's award-winning novel for big screen

Celebrated gay novel Mother of Sorrows will be adapted for the big screen by acclaimed director Terence Davies.

The British gay film-maker, whose last feature Deep Blue Sea divided critics, has already secured funding the movie, which will be based on Richard McCann's award-winning classic from 2005.

Mother of Sorrows features a handful of interconnected stories, all recounting the tough and tragic life of two gay brothers, growing up in the 1950s.

February 16, 2012
Armistead Maupin upset with socially conservative relatives

Tales of the City author tired of family 'voting for homophobes'

Armistead Maupin, author of the popular Tales of the City novels, is no longer keeping quiet about some of the political differences in his own family.

Maupin is 'outraged' at the anti-gay rhetoric that is coming out of the mouths of the current crop of candidates for president of the U.S. who he saus 'are using homophobia to rally their base.'

January 28, 2012
Armistead Maupin at work on new 'Tales'

Author says 'The Days of Anna Madrigal' to be published in 2013

Author Armistead Maupin has told his 5,000 Facebook friends that they probably won't be seeing him pop up on the social media site very much for awhile.

He's embarked on writing the ninth book in his popular Tales of the City series.

Maupin wrote on Facebook Friday (27 January): 'Okay, here's the deal, friends. I have to stop indulging myself on Facebook and start writing the next "Tales" book. That means you'll be hearing a lot less from me for a while. This one is called THE DAYS OF ANNA MADRIGAL.'