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Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and his fiancee have exchanged vows in Connecticut out of solidarity with gay friends who can't marry in New York.

Tim Ravndal, president of a Montana tea partygroup, was axed on Sunday after he posted seemingly anti-gay remarks.

In one of my all-time favorite movies, Magnolia, multiple characters reflect on the mistakes and miscues of their past with the saying, ''We may be through with the past, but the past isn't through with us.'' So, it would seem, Ken Mehlman is through with his past, but his past isn't through with us.

Durand Robinson, an organizer of Black Gay Pride, was shot mere days before the 'execution-style' killings of two of the event's participants Two men who had attended the recent Gay Black Pride celebration in Atlanta, Georgia were found dead in an apartment in that city, having each been shot in the head "execution style," according to online ...

Delaware Republican state lawmaker Mike Castle isn't conservative enough for the Tea Party, who have put up their own candidate to run against him for the Senate seat that Joe Biden left when he became vice president.

The Big Sky Tea Party Association's board of directors has removed the organization's president for an exchange on his Facebook page that appeared to condone violence against homosexuals.

We live in a word where people will label us, negatively, insultingly and demeaningly (hmmm that sentence is a flagrant abuse of adverbs) with slurs and to dehumanize us, other us and reduce us. Many will decide they know who and what we are regardless of our own thoughts and feelings - they will define us, box us in and make judgments about us. They will decide who we are. To claim our own labels in response, to say "I'm not that - I'm this. THIS is me. This is who I am. This is what it means." is an act of empowerment.

And we live in a world where we are often rendered invisible, that denies our existence, forgets about us and generally shoves us under the rug and in the closet at every opportunity, then shouting our identity, clearly stating our identity and having a labeled identity is a great way to counter the erasure. I think this is especially important for GBLT people where our existence is not only denied, but the very possibility of our existence is often fought - with us being labeled as sick or deluded, with homosexuality being considered something we do rather than what we are and the huge denial of a trans person's gender identity.

I like being able to say, "I am gay, this is me. This is who I am, this is what I am. Not what you say I am, what I say I am." I like my label, it's important to me and a matter of power to me.

But here's another point - it's my label. I label myself.

Twits. . .er Tweets are an effective means by which people get into trouble by saying what they probably would say to a friend, but instead say it to the whole world for all to see until the proverbial midden hits the windmill. Swimming champion Stephanie Rice did exactly that when she tweeted "Suck on that faggots. Probs the best game I've ever seen!! Well done boys" after her boyfriend, Wallabies star Quade Cooper, and his Australian rugby union team's last minute victory during an early Sunday morning match. She later removed the offensive and even homophobic comment and apologized.

Lady Gaga, the slender exotically dressing singer, has apparently dealt with anorexia and binge-eating rumors all her carrier.

Gunmen are targeting - undesirables' in Columbia and killing them as part of a - social cleansing campaign' where murder is apparently alright but not homosexuality, prostitution or theft.

Organizers are planning Serbia's first gay pride march in nearly a decade next month - after the one last year was canceled amid threats of violence by extremists.

ANY culture in history that rejected God in favour of a hedonistic, pagan, materialistic, pleasure-obsessed lifestyle was doomed to annihilate itself.

Ruth Marcus of The Washington Post accuses Sarah Palin of offending homosexuals when she remarked that the author of a Vanity Fair hatchet job about her was 'impotent and limp and gutless.' Marcus wrote, 'The Vanity Fair writer, Michael Joseph Gross, is gay, which makes matters worse-conjuring the stereotype of 'limp-wristed.' But whatever the ...

Lezgetreal has continued to maintain a pulse on missing child abductor Lisa Miller. After a long and complex custody battle between lesbian Mother Janet Jenkins and 'ex-lesbian', now turned missionary Lisa Miller, the US Courts finally granted custody to Janet Jenkins, based on Miller's failure to adhere Court orders. Lezgetreal has received information that Lisa Miller is hiding out as a Missionary in Quito Ecuador.

QUEENSLAND independent MP Bob Katter has taken a swipe at Tasmanian MP Andrew Wilkie for divulging negotiations but admits he is out for all he can get, on the eve of making a decision which major party he will back.

Plovdiv Bishop Nikolay has declared the Sofia Pride gay parade an epitome of depravity and sin.

Today is Labor Day, and as anyone who follows the news cycle knows, unless there is something huge happening, the news tends to be pretty quiet. I thought I would take the opportunity to write about my personal experiences since my surgery on 17 August. I have already written one piece since I had the surgery, but I figured that I would discuss something a bit broader and a bit more salient to how things are going.

A stunning, 5 ft 2 inch Natalie Portman attended the debut showing of the film where she took on the edgy role of a ruthless ballerina desperate to land the lead in Swan Lake. Critics report that the movie Black Swan which opened this week at the Venice Film Festival played to shocked audiences taken a back by explicit lesbian sex / love? scenes.

The answer is pretty simple. In a follow-up to Republican Ken Mehlman's coming out last month , The Miami Herald has published a piece focused on reaction to the news by gays in both the democratic and republican parties.

After a six-year lull, LGBT pride made a comeback in Oakland on Sunday. Oakland Pride, a daylong music, food and culture event drew at least 50,000 people, organizers said, to celebrate the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.