Via Reuters
LOS ANGELES, July 24 (Reuters) – E. Lynn Harris, whose best-selling novels explored the lives of black men in gay relationships, has died at age 54, his personal assistant said on Friday.
Laura Gilmore said Harris collapsed at a Los Angeles hotel on Thursday and could not be revived. Harris was on a business trip [...]

Via The Advocate
Mayor Stu Rasmussen, the country’s first openly transgender mayor, is under fire for apparently violating Silverton, Ore., city [...]

Via Twin Cities.Org
The gathering at Camp, a downtown St. Paul gay hot spot, was more celebratory than usual Wednesday. And one could tell by the way many of the nightclub’s patrons completed each other’s sentences that some of them had been together for decades.
Dan Hanson, 61, of St. Paul, started talking about the day’s events: [...]

Hello, my name is Kim.  I have just been out for 5 and a half months.  I always was attracted with women since the age of 12.  I didn’t understand it. I have had relationships with two different women.  I remember this feels right.  Yet I felt so guilty.
I was in the traditional church.  It [...]

GayOnlineNews.Com brought you this original story previously this week.  More information has become available…see below.
Via Pink News UK
A gay pre-med student from Arkansas has been “forced” into therapy to cure him of homosexuality.
According to his friends, Bryce Faulkner, 23, was preparing to come out to deeply religious family when his mother discovered emails to his [...]

Via Chicago Tribune
Vote for rival allegedly sparks attack by Evanston, Skokie men
Not many beauty pageants end with a judge and contestant attacking another judge — with a trophy.
Two men were ordered held on bond Wednesday after they were charged with beating a judge at a gay men’s beauty pageant earlier this month on Chicago’s West [...]

Recently Jack Speaks posted an article on Massachusetts seeking rights for the transgendered.  ( Jack Speaks – Transgendered Bathrooms ) Boston.Com has also written a follow up to the proposed legislation.  As a follow up to Jack Speaks, we bring you… Boston.Com.
“AT A HEARING at the State House last week, supporters of a bill to [...]

RYAN J. FOLEY, Associated Press Writer
MADISON, Wis. (AP) Social conservatives asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Thursday to strike down the state’s new domestic partnership law, saying it violates a constitutional ban on gay marriage.
The lawsuit, filed by three members of Wisconsin Family Action, acknowledges the court will not have time to act [...]

Via Pink News UK
A number of fundamentalist Christian churches in Britain are thought to be performing ‘exorcisms’ on gays and lesbians to cure them of homosexuality.
In June, a video of a 16-year-old boy in America being “exorcised” of gay demons appeared on the internet. It provoked calls for a police investigation.
However, the practice is also [...]

Via Sign On SanDiego
SAN DIEGO – A sailor has been charged with fatally shooting and burning a gay serviceman last month at Camp Pendleton, but Navy officials said Thursday it was part of a crime spree not related to the victim’s sexual orientation.
Prosecutors accuse Petty Officer 2nd Class Jonathan Campos of killing Seaman August Provost [...]