News
Anthony Woods
Loses Congressional Bid
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
News
Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony
Trailer
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
News
NOM-Backed
Candidate Loses in Iowa
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
News
Idol's Jim Verraros to Marry Boyfriend
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
News
Roundup: Anderson
Cooper, R-71, Venice
Anderson Cooper
to broadcast from Afghanistan, Washington residents
appear to support same-sex unions, and more.
September 2, 2009
By Julie Bolcer
News
Sex and Gender
Drive N.Y. DA Debate
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
News
Durbin: Senate
Too Swamped for DADT
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
News
Moral Outcry
Sinks Hotel Sex Club
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
News
The Greatest Gay
Beaches in California
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