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Stage: 'Tis the season for traditions. The stories behind some family traditions are unpacked every year like a favorite Christmas tree ornament. Others are observed because ''that's what we've always done.'' What is certain -- regardless of the how or why -- is that if you decide to do a ham instead of a turkey someone is going to make you live to regret it. Whatever else happens that day it will forever be the holiday you did not make a green-bean casserole. Some traditions are simply not to be touched. Cast of 'Peter Pan' The argument could be made that, among this vast treasure trove of untouchables, is the green suit worn by that boy who won't grow up, Peter Pan. It's as classic as a Chanel suit, the calling card of a character who has achieved mythic status thanks in no small part to the worldwide machinery that is ''The Mouse.'' ...more

SPOILER ALERT: 'L Word' is killing 1 of its major characters
Final season of show starts with death, continues with flashbacks
NEW YORK (AP) | Dec. 5 at 1:27 PM Dec. 5 at 1:27 PM
Dead is the word when "The L Word" returns.

Showtime's drama about a circle of lesbian friends and lovers is going to kill off one of its major characters on the premiere of its sixth — and final — season.

The victim is Jenny Schecter, Showtime has disclosed. Jenny, a would-be writer and accomplished two-timer, has long been embraced by fans as the character they most love to hate.

The episode, which airs January 18, begins with a splash as Jenny's ...

SC high school principal rethinks resignation over gay club
School board had refused to ban club
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP | Dec. 5 at 11:35 AM Dec. 5 at 11:35 AM
GRAY BOX ARTICLE CONTENTSchool officials say the South Carolina high school principal who said he would resign because of a gay club at the school has changed his mind. /GRAY BOX ARTICLE CONTENT

Irmo High School principal Eddie Walker had said he would retire in May because his values conflicted with a proposed Gay-Straight Alliance.

Lexington-Richland District 5 spokesman Buddy Price told The State newspaper Thursday that interim superintendent Herbert Berg got a letter from Walker that said he wanted to stay. Price says Walker's contract will be up for renewal in the spring.

Walker wrote last May that he believed the club would be ...

Boy George guilty of false imprisonment
Will be sentenced Jan. 16
LONDON (AP) | Dec. 5 at 9:15 AM Dec. 5 at 9:15 AM
A jury convicted pop singer Boy George Friday of falsely imprisoning a male escort.

Norwegian Audun Carlsen had alleged he was restrained with handcuffs by the musician at the singer's London apartment on April 28, 2007.

Carlsen, 29, also accused the former Culture Club frontman of swinging a metal chain at him as he fled the singer's f ...

The San Francisco Movie Bears group is leading what they bill as a peaceful protest at the CineArts at Empire, 85 West Portal, San Francisco tonight and tomorrow (Friday, December 5 and Saturday, December 6) at 6 p.m. Milk, the movie about gay city Supervisor Harvey Milk, who was assassinated in 1978, is set to open [...]

A coalition of groups will hold a community forum, “Proposition 8 and Race: What’s Next?” on Wednesdayednesday, November 19 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the LGBT Community Center, 1800 Market Street in San Francisco. The Stop AIDS Project, And Castro for All, And Marriage for All, and the Bayard Rustin LGBT Coalition are hosting the [...]

New York state senate Democrats may have secured control of their chamber by bargaining away marriage equality on Thursday. Since Election Day, when Democrats won a two-seat majority in the chamber after decades of Republican rule, three conservative members of the caucus had threatened to defect to the GOP unless they received more power. But a handshake deal in New York City apparently gave the holdouts what they wanted, The New York Times reports.

Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov has banned "the propaganda of sexual minorities' opinions" because, he says, gays spread HIV/AIDS.

California has failed to implement a six-year-old law designed to provide impoverished HIV-positive residents with medical care, a Los Angeles superior court judge ruled in a decision made public on Thursday.

Maria Salas says she's 'not a candidate'. David Glasgow, 44, has confirmed to Out & About Newspaper that he is considering running for the newly opened Metro Council seat that will soon be vacated by Keith Durbin. Durbin, who won the seat...