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We've written about the two small kids who were kicked out of a Catholic school by the Archbishop of Denver because their parents are lesbians. Now the parents are speaking out in their own words. Here's a statement from the parents released anonymously through Boulder Pride; it's long, but worth reading.    The following ...

(New York) New HIV infections are increasing among gays, drug users and prostitutes who don't seek help because of laws that criminalize them, the head of the U.N. AIDS agency said Monday. Michel Sidibe, the head of UNAIDS, said "it is unacceptable" that 85 countries still have laws criminalizing same-sex relations ...

(Washington) The four-star Army general who is managing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan says "the time has come" for the military to rethink its policy toward gays. Gen. David Petraeus stopped short of saying whether he personally believed if the military's policy of "don't ask, don't tell" is outdated or ...

If we learned anything from Prop 8 it was this: gays and lesbians need to tell our own stories. We need to explain to people why we personally would like to be married. That's what Marriage Equality Rhode Island and Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders is doing with their new video, below, ...

Stars on Ice is trying hard to counteract anonymous reports that they excluded Johnny Weir, an American figure skating champion, from their national tour because he is not "family friendly." I've never seen Stars on Ice, but in an industry without a large non-competition market (Stars on Ice is the ...

(New York) The ladies in red brought down the house. Six Broadway divas, spanning several generations of musical theater, pretty much tore up Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall on Monday night as the New York Philharmonic and a bevy of Broadway stars celebrated the upcoming 80th birthday of Stephen Sondheim, composer ...

As you most of you know Hiram Monserrate gets no love here. There's that misdemeanor domestic assault conviction, his summer machinations to halt work in Albany, and those anti-gay fliers he refuses to denounce. Today the voters in the New York's 13th senate district get a choice between Monserrate, Assemblyman ...

Claims that Olympian Johnny Weir was not included in the "Stars on Ice" cast because of his sexual orientation are not true, the figure skating tour said. The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation started an online petition last week, saying Weir was being excluded from the tour because he was ...

What is “having sex”? Well, it depends on who you ask. According to a new study done at the Kinsey Institute, there is no real consensus on the definition. The study found that 95 percent of people say standard penile-vaginal intercourse is having sex. But that number drops to 89 ...

(Washington) For all the evidence of a divided GOP, the Democratic Party has its own widening cracks that could make a potentially bleak election year even more dour. In just the past two weeks, Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln became the latest Democratic incumbent to attract a primary challenger, anti-abortion Democrats fought ...

(Katmandu, Nepal) Nepal wants to paint Mount Everest pink. It wants gay honeymooners trekking through the Himalayas. It wants to host the world's highest same-sex wedding at Everest base camp. But mainly, the conservative Hindu nation wants a chunk of the multibillion dollar gay tourist market to help pull it out of poverty. That ...

(San Francisco) After dropping out of the gubernatorial race last year, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom announced Friday that he is running for lieutenant governor. Newsom's announcement wasn't a surprise - he filed papers Feb. 17 with the secretary of state, a necessary step to run again for a statewide office. ...

(Miami) On his 75th birthday, Bill Farthing decided to be reborn. In the six years since he'd buried his wife of 45 years, he'd felt as he did long before: Lonesome, different, outcast. He wondered if he was going crazy; he contemplated suicide. Looking back, the clues leading to this day ...

Another reason to love Bishop Desmond Tutu. If Bishop Desmond Tutu comes to your town, you best go see him. Hard not to adore a man who writes this when slamming homophobia in Africa, specifically the madness in Uganda.: "Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people are part of so many ...

(New York) Joy Behar, Cynthia Nixon and the ABC drama series "Brothers & Sisters" are among this year's recipients of media awards from the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. Presented Saturday in New York, winners of the 21st Annual GLAAD Media Awards also include the NBC sitcom "Parks and Recreation," ...

(San Francisco) Prosecutors who have charged three cousins with a hate crime for shooting a San Francisco man with a BB gun because they thought he was gay said Friday they're considering charging the suspects in 11 similar shootings. A video recording recovered by police from a car belonging to Mohammad ...

Spring break is a joyous time when students across the planet migrate to warmer climates to cut loose and party. For lesbians, it is a time when we hear the calling from the West to come to mecca – a lesbian party mecca known as the Dinah Shore weekend. Born out ...

The ABC soap opera “One Life to Live” is eliminating its gay storyline. The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation announced Friday it is pushing for the network to review the decision. “Last summer, ‘One Life to Live’ brought a groundbreaking relationship into the homes of millions with Kyle and Fish’s ...

The president of the Iowa Family Policy Center, a group that opposes marriage equality, released a statement that made gay sex appear to be a health menace. “The Iowa Legislature outlawed smoking in an effort to improve health and reduce the medical costs that are often passed on to the state,” ...

Last Wednesday, the New York Times hosted an intimate question and answer session with the lawyers currently working to overturn Proposition 8 in California, Ted Olson and David Boies. (Our earlier recap of the discussion). Even if you've read stories about the evening, Boies and Olson speak with such passion and ...