Anthony Woods, the Iraq war veteran who launched an energetic and historic campaign to become the first openly gay African-American elected to Congress, lost his bid to represent the 10th congressional district in the East Bay area near San Francisco on Tuesday, finishing fourth among Democratic candidates with 8% of the vote.
September 2, 2009
By Julie Bolcer

Gay visibility in video games took a big, platform shoe-accessorized step forward on Tuesday with the release of the trailer for Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony.
September 2, 2009
By Julie Bolcer

The National Organization for Marriage met defeat in Iowa on Tuesday when a candidate supported by the antigay group lost a special election for a state house seat.
September 2, 2009
By Julie Bolcer

American Idol's first openly gay contestant, Jim Verraros, announced on his Facebook page that he and his partner, Bill Brennan, are getting married this weekend.
September 2, 2009

Anderson Cooper to broadcast from Afghanistan, Washington residents appear to support same-sex unions, and more.
September 2, 2009
By Julie Bolcer

Sex and gender took center stage during a televised debate for the Manhattan district attorney race on Tuesday evening, when NY1 moderator Dominic Carter asked Leslie Crocker Snyder, the lone woman in the competitive three-way Democratic primary, what she meant by her repeated use of the term “old boys network."
September 2, 2009
By Julie Bolcer

Majority Whip Dick Durbin said the U.S. Senate may be too swamped to work on repealing the ban on openly gay and lesbian military personnel.
September 2, 2009
By Michelle Garcia

A plan to convert a 170-year-old hotel building into an exclusive sex club in Gloucester, England, was sunk by moral objections from the local community, which prompted the city council to vote against the development project.
September 2, 2009
By Julie Bolcer

Education is about five times more important than race when determining whether voters in Florida favored the ban on same-sex marriage in 2008.
September 2, 2009
By Michelle Garcia

Los Angeles–based website LAist.com has ranked the five gayest beaches in California -- seemingly based on their distance from West Hollywood hot spot the Abbey and how many men are likely to be wearing spandex, Speedos, or simply nothing at all -- with Santa Monica’s Will Rogers State Beach taking the top spot.
September 2, 2009