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April 29, 2012
Comic strip adds gay plot

Comic strip Funky Winkerbean will celebrate 40 years with a gay story arc

To celebrate its 40th anniversary, the newspaper comic strip Funky Winkerbean will feature a gay plot line.

April 28, 2012
Fox News analyst apologizes for bigoted tweet

Fox news analyst Monica Crowley  uses Twitter to apologize for homophobic Twitter comment

Fox News contributor Monica Crowley is walking back one of her tweets. On Thursday, 26 April,  she wondered about Sandra Fluke's announcement about being engaged.

'To a man,' the Fox News analyst asked on Twitter, as reported by the Huffington Post.

March 18, 2012
Bayard Rustin: freedom's organizer

Bayard Rustin's 100th birthday celebrated

Yesterday was Bayard Rustin's 100th birthday. While not a household name, his organizing tenacity and political philosophies, brought about multiple civil rights victories in the United States. He did all of this while being out about his gay sexuality, a rarity for many LGBT men and women in the 20th century.

March 12, 2012
In search of the supergays

San Franciscan couple Lisa Dazols and Jenni Chang are traveling the world seeking out the ‘supergays’. Nine months in, we hear about where they’ve been, who they’ve met and what they’ve experienced

When Lisa Dazols and Jenni Chang left their home in San Francisco last June to travel around the world in search of ‘supergays’, they didn’t know who they would meet or how it would affect their relationship. Nine months into their journey they’ve met dozens of inspirational gays, from Prince Manvendra Sign Gohil to the organisers of Shanghai Pride and are now engaged, but Jenni’s traditional Chinese parents still won’t accept their relationship. Gay Star News interview them in Brazil over Skype.

March 9, 2012
How to not argue against gay marriage

Why actor Kirk Cameron and Cardinal Keith O'Brien argue against gay marriage

Everyone has an opinion on gay marriage, with sadly a minority of them being overwhelmingly stupid.

It’s a fruitless exercise to argue about gay marriage, mainly because it is so shockingly simple.

A person of sound mind promises to be with another person of the same gender for the rest of their life. If they do so, they are promised all the legal rights from the state as their heterosexual peers.

March 8, 2012
Kathy Griffin prepares for talk show by sounding off on Kirk Cameron

'For a homophobe, he sure is obsessed with bananas'

Kathy Griffin's new weekly talk show on the Bravo cable network does not premiere until April 19.

But if the gay-friendly comedienne were already on the air, she says she would be sounding off on Kirk Cameron who last Friday said on CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight that homosexuality is ‘unnatural,’ ‘detrimental,’ and ‘ultimately destructive,’

March 5, 2012
Obama's transgender former nanny found outcast on the streets of Jakarta

Evie says she is too frightened to live as a woman in Indonesia anymore

President Obama's former nanny, from when he lived in Indonesia as a child, has been found heart-broken and destitute because she can't live as a woman.

The Huffington Post reports that the ex-nanny, Evie, has given-up dressing as the gender she feels most comfortable as because of the violence she has received and witnessed living as a 'waria' in Indonesia.

January 27, 2012
I can’t eat shoots so I’ll leave

Acclaimed gay photographer Stuart Sandford explains why he’s hanging up his camera for good

I’ve been working creatively and artistically all my adult life, be it in the theatre, as a writer, or as a visual artist. I didn’t pick up a camera and think that I could make art with it until 2004 and only then because I saw it as an easier (and much cheaper) way of making narrative images that explored the ideas I wanted to explore. I never wanted to be a photographer but that’s what I’ve been labelled as for the past eight years.

January 27, 2012
Johnny Weir is on comeback trail

Skating champ says new husband supportive of his latest Olympic bid

Johnny Weir placed sixth in the 2010 Winter Olympic Games and is determined to improve upon that result when the next Olympics take place in Sochi, Russia, in 2014.

Much has happened to the skating star since the last Olympics: He publicly came out as a gay man on the pages of his autobiography released in 2011; He became the star of his own reality show; and on New Year's Eve, he married Victor Voronov in New York City.

January 25, 2012
HomoLAB 30

HomoLAB from the Z Hotel in Soho where the team ask if bisexuals get the respect they deserve

Amy Lamé, Lucio Buffone, Baylen Leonard present week 30's HomoLAB podcast from the Z Hotel in the heart of Soho, London.

For this week's broadcast the trio tackle the issues of raising a gender neutral child, whether being gay is a choice and if bisexual people get the respect they need from other members of the LGBT community.

January 25, 2012
Homophobic teacher struck off indefinitely

Teacher in UK barred for teaching after four schools complain about his abusive behavior.

A teacher in the UK has been banned from teaching after calling pupils 'poofs' and 'batty boys'.

A disciplinary hearing panel heard how Jason Gibbs, while employed at East Brighton College of Media Arts in 2003, warned students, 'don't go into the shower because this group will start bending you over and do you up the ass'.

January 16, 2012
Ugandan gay activist fears for his life

Gay activist Frank Mugisha too afraid to go out alone after homophobic backlash to article.

A Ugandan gay activist says he fears for his life after speaking out against homophobia in his country.

Frank Mugisha, executive director of Sexual Minorities Uganda, says he has received threats and is too afraid to go out alone after he wrote a New York Timespiece critizing the African country's anti-gay policies.

January 10, 2012
Tatchell says gay and straight identities blurring

Veteran LGBT activist Peter Tatchell argues sexual identities will soon be a thing of the past

As civilisation evolves and homophobia diminishes, the differences between gay and straight identities will no longer matter, argues human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell.

Writing for the Huffington Post, Tatchell explains: 'The demise of homophobia is likely to make redundant the need to assert and affirm gayness.'