(CNN) -- An assistant attorney general in Michigan has been fired, weeks after coming under fire for targeting an openly gay University of Michigan student online and in person, Attorney General Mike Cox said Monday ( Read more... )

From a news item in today's Guardian newspaper:
Gay and lesbian asylum seekers have won the right not to be deported from the UK if they would be persecuted in their home countries ( Read more... )

It isn't just Texas that wants to criminalize bedroom activity between consenting adults.

This part of their platform is short:

"We support the clear will of the people of Montana expressed by legislation to keep homosexual acts illegal."

WTF? I wasn't aware that Montana had recently held a referendum on sodomy.

Have any of you studied abroad/lived/stayed extensively in a foreign country where homosexuality is forbidden? Will you share your experiences? I want to study abroad in an Arabic-speaking country, particularly Egypt, but, uh...I'm wondering how many issues I'm going to have as a queer American woman over there.

Article here.

Excerpt:

The "improved" security situation in Iraq is not benefiting all Iraqis, especially not those who are gay. Islamist death squads are engaged in a homophobic killing spree with the active encouragement of leading Muslim clerics, such as Moqtada al-Sadr, as Newsweek recently revealed ( Read more... )

Men who have had sex with other men, or women who have sex with a man who has had sex with a man, cannot donate blood in the US and Canada. Yet a man who has had anal sex with a prostitute for years can wait 6 months and if he has no STDS can still donate ( Read more... )

By Staff Writer, PinkNews.co.uk ( Read more... )

( My Letter to Rep. Sally Kern )

[from today's NY Times]BAGHDAD - In a city and country where outsiders are viewed with deep suspicion and attracting attention can imperil one’s life, Mohammed could never blend in, even if he wanted to ( Read more... )

I don't know about you guys, but I'm getting annoyed and bored with all of the Dumbledore stuff. But I saw this and was compelled to share. Any thoughts on the clues?

A new study has found that gay men earn 23% less than married, heterosexual men in the same jobs. Interestingly, the story found that lesbians face less workplace discrimination.
And ( Read more... )