Ashley Inman:
Welcome to America, where women are welcome to engage in lesbian pornography for men's sexual pleasure but god forbid they get married. (via)

When something sudden and unexpected happens, instinctive reactions can say a lot. Rupert's marriage to Wendi Deng may involve a large age gap, but she has "stood by her man" with far more effective physical response than any of the males present ( Read more... )

Made me laugh: Dante’s Internet.

Ms Eleven argues for why she should get a laptop.

About beer and the rise of civilisation.

A nice rant on energy drinks, with a recipe for a healthy energy drink.

Study finds that “pre-flight” style surgery checklists save lives.

Nice presentation on different cultural attitudes to time ( Read more... )

Dustin (Hoffman) and Jason (Bateman) doing the big kiss thing.

Iceland’s PM has married her partner of several years.

UK forced marriages unit is finding gay or bisexual men being forced into marriages.

Slavic gay pride in Belarus defies ban.

China has its first gay pageant.

About standing against Uganda’s “execute homosexuals” laws ( Read more... )

An Arab Muslim country held an election and the incumbent government did not win with the Saudis being pleased by the electoral success of a Shi'a political leader.

The Federal Leader of the Liberal Party is a Catholic, trained as a seminarian, and tentatively endorses civil unions. Doing so in an extensive interview on GBLTI station Joy FM. (A ( Read more... )

An Austrian opposite-sex couple are suing for the right to have a civil partnership.

As the debate over health care grinds on in the US, the NHS is doing its bit to provide a suitable horrible example of socialised medicine.

A girl dies after police and safety officials were delayed by 2 hours from entering the water to rescue her by health and ( Read more... )

About Abu Nuwas, Muslim queer poet.

Study finds that the interaction of Western personnel and concepts with Pashtun culture is causing something of a sexual identity crisis:
The U.S. army medic also told members of the research unit that she and her colleagues had to explain to a local man how to get his wife pregnant ( Read more... )

The funniest blog post (or is that meta-blog post?) ever. (Do read the comments.)

The Gettysburg Address as a PowerPoint™ presentation. Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech as a PowerPoint™ presentation.

Natural selection explains why there are more jocks than nerds in the world.

Humans are part virus.

Study estimates there were only ( Read more... )

Test your homophobia (my score was 8 - Your score rates you as "high-grade non-homophobic.").

It was not much fun being queer in old Dutch New Amsterdam (now New York):
The journal chronicles van den Bogaert’s journey through the Mohawk Valley to Oneida, a pathbreaking trip in the winter of 1634 ( Read more... )

Texan judge who first struck down sodomy laws has died.

Attempt to put into the El Salvadorean constitution a ban same-sex marriage or adoption by same-sex couples fails.

The danger in providing religious services to gays in Jamaica.

A 2005 study of (pdf) the private lives of GBLTI Australians, particularly their health and wellbeing. The ( Read more... )