The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission or TABC has fired three employees associated with the raid on the Rainbow Lounge in June. Several individuals had been arrested during raids on three TABC licensed businesses, and one of the patrons of the Rainbow Lounge was badly injured while in custody. Shortly after the raid on the Rainbow [...]

This is the kind of mystery I do not like to report:
Longtime Pennsylvania ACLU lobbyist and Executive Director Larry Frankel, who in the last year or so has become the lobbyist for the national ACLU, has apparently been found dead in Washington under mysterious circumstances. This is a breaking news story in which most key [...]

TS Eliot’s reputation as one of the past century’s most austere and solemn poets will be blown apart by a major new exhibition opening next month casting him in a far softer light: as a champion of lesbian fiction and compassionate father figure to struggling writers.
Letters written by Eliot when he was a publisher at [...]

ATLANTIC CITY – Harrah’s marketing strategy is coming out of the closet.
The world’s largest casino company will begin courting gay and lesbian travelers in hopes of attracting new customers to a market decimated by the recession and competition from Pennsylvania slot parlors.
The push to establish Atlantic City as a “gay friendly” town not only underscores [...]

Tom Schaller is commended for his thoughtful commentary in the Baltimore Sun regarding marriage equality for same-gender couples (“Md. should be a leader on gay marriage,” Aug. 25). While serving as Prince George’s County executive and governor of Maryland, I was a forceful advocate for enacting laws that ban discrimination on the basis of sexual [...]

“The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force mourns the loss of Senator Edward Kennedy, a true champion of the people and a dear friend to our community.” stated Rea Carey, Executive Director, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
The Task Force statement further pointed out that Senator Kennedy was a strong supporter of the Civil [...]

I woke this morning to an 11 pound dog lapping my face, and squirreling around well before my alarm was set.   A guest in my house, he obviously didn’t understand the rules.  Let mommy sleep until the very last possible second.  Moments later, Jack Malone comes bounding up the stairs trying to yell in a [...]

A Baptist pastor in Minneapolis said a tornado that damaged a Lutheran church on Wednesday was a divine sign of opposition to the [...]

I was recently involved in a discussion on same-sex marriage in which the issue of its potential effects on children came up. That should be a surprise to nobody – the religious right frequently makes hysterical claims about the supposedly horrendous results of allowing gay marriage and/or gay adoption, apparently imagining a future where a [...]

By altering a gene in the brain of a female worm, scientists were able to change its sexual orientation so that it was attracted to other females. Scientists activated the gene that makes male structures develop in the body, but only turned it on
in the brain.

The result was worms that “look like girls, [...]