Vatican: Gay 'behavior' in seminaries declines
Org. sought review of schools' teachings on chastity and celibacy
NEW YORK (AP) | Jan. 15 at 5:26 PM Jan. 15 at 5:26 PM
A Vatican evaluation of U.S. Roman Catholic seminaries in response to the clergy sex abuse scandal concluded that administrators have largely been effective in rooting out "homosexual behavior" in the schools, although the agency said it persists.
Org. sought review of schools' teachings on chastity and celibacy
NEW YORK (AP) | Jan. 15 at 5:26 PM Jan. 15 at 5:26 PM
A Vatican evaluation of U.S. Roman Catholic seminaries in response to the clergy sex abuse scandal concluded that administrators have largely been effective in rooting out "homosexual behavior" in the schools, although the agency said it persists.
The Congregation for Catholic Education sought a broad review of how the schools screen and educate prospective priests, but gave special attention to teachings on chastity and celibacy. The Vatican also directed evaluators to look for "evidence of homosexuality" in the schools.
In a report U.S. bishops released this week, the Vatican agency noted past "difficulties in the area of morality" ...
Fla. conservatives fight transgender restroom rule
Gender-identity provision was added to anti-discrimination law last year
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) | Jan. 9 at 4:41 PM Jan. 9 at 4:41 PM
A blond girl heads from a playground into a women's restroom. A scruffy man, lurking outside, darts in behind her. "Your City Commission Made This Legal," the words on the TV screen read. And it's true, sort of.
Gender-identity provision was added to anti-discrimination law last year
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) | Jan. 9 at 4:41 PM Jan. 9 at 4:41 PM
A blond girl heads from a playground into a women's restroom. A scruffy man, lurking outside, darts in behind her. "Your City Commission Made This Legal," the words on the TV screen read. And it's true, sort of.
The dark ad came from opponents of a gender identity provision added last year to the city's anti-discrimination ordinance, which now allows the city's roughly 100 transgender residents to use whicuse whichever restroom they're most comfortable using.
Foes want to repeal the new protection with a March 24 ballot measure that has divided Gainesville, a generally gay-friendly university city surrounded by staunchly conservative north Florida.
Those wh ...
Regent Media merges with PlanetOut and Here Networks
Creates Here Media, Inc.
From Washington Blade staff reports | Jan. 9 at 10:05 AM Jan. 9 at 10:05 AM
PlanetOut Inc. announced yesterday that it has signed a definitive agreement to merge with Here Networks LLC and Regent Entertainment Media Inc, according to a press release. The three companies will become Here Media Inc.
PlanetOut is made up of gay.com and planetout.com, Here Networks provides gay programming services to cable and satellite television and internet platforms, and Regent Entertainment Media is the publisher of The Advocate, Out and Out and HIVPlus.
"Following a very thorough review of all of the strategic alternatives available to us, and the proposed transaction, our Board concluded that the opportunity to combine with Here Networks and Regent Ent ...
Creates Here Media, Inc.
From Washington Blade staff reports | Jan. 9 at 10:05 AM Jan. 9 at 10:05 AM
PlanetOut Inc. announced yesterday that it has signed a definitive agreement to merge with Here Networks LLC and Regent Entertainment Media Inc, according to a press release. The three companies will become Here Media Inc.
PlanetOut is made up of gay.com and planetout.com, Here Networks provides gay programming services to cable and satellite television and internet platforms, and Regent Entertainment Media is the publisher of The Advocate, Out and Out and HIVPlus.
"Following a very thorough review of all of the strategic alternatives available to us, and the proposed transaction, our Board concluded that the opportunity to combine with Here Networks and Regent Ent ...
Religious group attempts to halt leather 'play party'
Americans for Truth urges members to bombard DC's Doubletree
By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO, Washington Blade | Jan. 16 at 1:26 PM Jan. 16 at 1:26 PM
A religious group that believes homosexuality is “evil” is trying to keep a leather S&M party from happening this weekend at Doubletree Hotel near Washington in Arlington, Va.
Americans for Truth About Homosexuality, a group “dedicated to exposing the homosexual activist agenda,” sent an action alert to its members today urging them to call the Doubletree and its owner Hilton to halt the event. Americans for Truth President Peter LaBarbera said a gay man forwarded his group an invitation to the event, supposedly hosted by a group called Fort Troff which dubbed it, according to Truth, a “pig sex” event called “MAL Maneuvers — ...
Americans for Truth urges members to bombard DC's Doubletree
By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO, Washington Blade | Jan. 16 at 1:26 PM Jan. 16 at 1:26 PM
A religious group that believes homosexuality is “evil” is trying to keep a leather S&M party from happening this weekend at Doubletree Hotel near Washington in Arlington, Va.
Americans for Truth About Homosexuality, a group “dedicated to exposing the homosexual activist agenda,” sent an action alert to its members today urging them to call the Doubletree and its owner Hilton to halt the event. Americans for Truth President Peter LaBarbera said a gay man forwarded his group an invitation to the event, supposedly hosted by a group called Fort Troff which dubbed it, according to Truth, a “pig sex” event called “MAL Maneuvers — ...
Suspects in alleged gang rape of Richmond lesbian plead not guilty
Enter pleas to charges including gang rape, sodomy, kidnapping and carjacking
MARTINEZ, Calif. (AP) | Jan. 16 at 11:18 AM Jan. 16 at 11:18 AM
Three suspects in the alleged gang rape of a lesbian woman in Richmond pleaded not guilty Thursday and were likely to remain jailed until a judge decides whether there's enough evidence to put them on trial.
Lawyers for Humberto Hernandez Salvador, 31, Josue Gonzalez, 21, and Darrell Hodges, 16, entered the pleas to charges that included kidnapping, carjacking, gang rape and sodomy in the Dec. 13 attack.
Enter pleas to charges including gang rape, sodomy, kidnapping and carjacking
MARTINEZ, Calif. (AP) | Jan. 16 at 11:18 AM Jan. 16 at 11:18 AM
Three suspects in the alleged gang rape of a lesbian woman in Richmond pleaded not guilty Thursday and were likely to remain jailed until a judge decides whether there's enough evidence to put them on trial.
Lawyers for Humberto Hernandez Salvador, 31, Josue Gonzalez, 21, and Darrell Hodges, 16, entered the pleas to charges that included kidnapping, carjacking, gang rape and sodomy in the Dec. 13 attack.
Salvador also was charged with committing a hate crime, to which his lawyer said he would also plead not guilty.
A 15-year-old boy also accused in the attack has been charged as a juvenile, but prosecutors were revie ...
A 15-year-old boy also accused in the attack has been charged as a juvenile, but prosecutors were revie ...
Boy George sentenced to 15 months
Guilty of 'gratuitous violence'
LONDON (AP) | Jan. 16 at 10:59 AM Jan. 16 at 10:59 AM
Singer Boy George was sentenced to 15 months in jail on Friday after being convicted of falsely imprisoning a male escort by handcuffing him to a wall in a London apartment.
Guilty of 'gratuitous violence'
LONDON (AP) | Jan. 16 at 10:59 AM Jan. 16 at 10:59 AM
Singer Boy George was sentenced to 15 months in jail on Friday after being convicted of falsely imprisoning a male escort by handcuffing him to a wall in a London apartment.
British Judge David Radford said the 47-year-old former Culture Club frontman, whose real name is George O'Dowd, was guilty of "gratuitous violence."
O'Dowd's lawyer said his client and the escort had both behaved like "drug-crazed idiots" and that O'Dowd's substance ...
Three men who were arrested in connection with the rape of a lesbian in Richmond, Calif., have pleaded not guilty to the four charges they face in court. 
Boy George was sentenced to 15 months in prison Friday for falsely imprisoning a male escort in the singer's London apartment. The jail time was announced at Snaresbrook Crown Court in east London, the Associated Press reports. 
Episcopal bishop Gene Robinson appeared on The Rachel Maddow Show Wednesday night and discussed President-elect Obama, the Rick Warren controversy, and other topics with the MSNBC host. Robinson, the gay bishop of New Hampshire, will give the opening invocation at Obama's inaugural festivities this Sunday and said -- once again -- that he's disappointed in the incoming president's selection of Warren to conduct a prayer on Inauguration Day. 
About 25 peaceful protestors lined Old Hickory Blvd. in Brentwood early Saturday morning, Jan. 17, outside the Arte' Hotel to draw attention to what twat two gay, former employees are calling unfair termination from the hotel./[x20]/i/[x20]/i/[x20]/i/[x20]/iFormer...
The new Nashville Pride hosted an encore performance of Barb Neligan's comedy show titled "Kudzu, Cotillions, and Kissing Girls" at Mad Donna's in East Nashville. Nashville Pride raises funds for the annual LGBT Pride Festival held in June to affirm...
Two gay, former employees organized rally after being fired earlier this month. About 25 peaceful protestors lined Old Hickory Blvd. in Brentwood early Saturday morning, Jan. 17, outside the Arte' Hotel to draw attention to what two gay former employees...
Equality Va. gets new leader - and he's straight
Blair takes helm as state lawmakers ready pro-gay bills
By CHRIS JOHNSON, Washington Blade | Jan. 7 at 1:50 PM Jan. 7 at 1:50 PM
The board of directors for Virginia’s statewide gay rights group announced Wednesday it has chosen a straight man to serve as its executive director.
Jon Blair, the newly appointed chief executive officer of Equality Virginia, joins the organization after working as campaign manager for freshman U.S. Rep. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) in the 2008 election. Blair succeeds Dyana Mason, the former executive director for Equality Virginia, who left the organization Dec. 31.
Blair, who was unavailable for comment before Blade deadline, said in a statement, “I believe in Equality Virginia’s mission of basic human rights for all, and I am proud to fight fo ...
Blair takes helm as state lawmakers ready pro-gay bills
By CHRIS JOHNSON, Washington Blade | Jan. 7 at 1:50 PM Jan. 7 at 1:50 PM
The board of directors for Virginia’s statewide gay rights group announced Wednesday it has chosen a straight man to serve as its executive director.
Jon Blair, the newly appointed chief executive officer of Equality Virginia, joins the organization after working as campaign manager for freshman U.S. Rep. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) in the 2008 election. Blair succeeds Dyana Mason, the former executive director for Equality Virginia, who left the organization Dec. 31.
Blair, who was unavailable for comment before Blade deadline, said in a statement, “I believe in Equality Virginia’s mission of basic human rights for all, and I am proud to fight fo ...
Opposition to a gay marriage bill quickly forms in Maine
Murder frames the final season of lesbian drama 'L Word'
Assertive but more polished now, Michelle Obama may watch her words while speaking her mind
This, on the heels of the BHBA filing an amicus curiae brief opposing Proposition 8: Beverly Hills Bar Association Objects to Site of State Bar Meeting The Beverly Hills Bar Association has formally objected to the site selected for the annual meeting of the State Bar and Conference of Delegates. Beverly Hills Bar Association President Nancy Knupfer told [...]
You know it has to be one helluva good story to make us link to Faux News — but since the meat of it is in direct quotes, it’s got to be legit: Tom Hanks Says Mormon Supporters of Proposition 8 ‘Un-American’ Tom Hanks, an Executive Producer for HBO’s controversial polygamist series “Big Love,†made his feelings [...]
Backstory: Google Takes Stand For Marriage Equality, Urges Californians to Vote NO on Proposition 8!, September 26, 2008 From the Official Google Blog, January 15, 2009: Supporting equality 1/15/2009 05:00:00 PM In September of last year, Google announced its opposition to California’s Proposition 8. While the campaign was emotionally charged and difficult for both sides, in the wake of the [...]
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