Essence’s first lesbian wedding! Early returns from DADT Survey have good news! And Stephen Colbert faces his fears, which include the editor of OUT Magazine, Feministing interviews Rachel Maddow and Winston is a snail for Halloween. Also, moar, with a special appearance by Anderson Cooper and the Jersey Shore (not together).
An Arkansas school board member responded to a call to fight homophobic bullying with, surprise, homophobic bullying. Good thing he resigned last night? Sort of. And while we’re on topic; apologies for comparing gay marriage to marrying tables/dogs and predicting homo-apocalypse.
“I will no longer seek to slow down the witness to inclusiveness by pretending that there is some middle ground between prejudice and oppression. There isn’t.”
26-year-old Joseph Jefferson was a gay youth activist and an inspiring human being. Now he’s dead.
Sometimes you stalk people on Facebook, sometimes Facebook stalks you with targeted ads based on outdated stereotypes and doesn’t tell you.
Corey Jackson, a sophomore at Oakland University in Michigan, was gay and killed himself.
A dude in Serbia thinks homosexuality can be “cured” if you drink enough water and think good thoughts! Also: put your purple on people, Hillary Clinton says it gets better.
Largely positive, and largely in video form! A Fort Worth councilman breaks every part of your heart and then puts it back together again, awesome kids with awesome families fighting against queerphobia, and other people working to help our communities.
The week that science was gay. We bring you ALL THE STUDIES. Did you know that lesbians love The L Word, Ani DiFranco, Tegan & Sara and other homosexuals? That’s just one of the many factoids we have to share with you today.
We need gay and lesbian teens to stop killing themselves. Which means we need the rest of the world to stop making it so fucking hard for them that it feels like they would be better off dead.
This week 300 people participated in a large-scale public protest in the middle of Grand Central Station to call attention to the needless deaths of queer people by suicide and hate crimes. Did it work? You decide.
This week there are many parts of the Sunday Funday that we cannot fully process/understand, like how ABC Family Originals factor into the march towards equality and world peace, or how relevant Jared Leto still is, because I am not sure what he’s done since Fight Club, or actually who he even played in that. Also, did you know Lady Gaga was in an episode of the Sopranos? What is happening I don’t even
An update on Chantal Dubé’s story and a statement from her family.
It’s tempting to look for people to blame in the wake of the terrible tragedies this past week has brought, but it’s best to resist that urge. Oh wait, no. You can blame these people.
Our faith in the workings of the universe/the concept of justice is partially restored with the news that crazed homophobic stalker Assistant Attorney General Andrew Shirvell has taken a leave of absence and will face disciplinary hearings, and also that Jene Newsome, black lesbian DADT victim, is suing the Rapid City police who outed her.
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Be the change you want to see in the world, Perez Hilton.
Two more gay teens commit suicide this week: an 18-year-old college freshman jumps off a bridge after finding his roommate secretly recording and transmitting his sexual encounters over the internet and 13-year-old gay-bullying victim Seth Walsh is taken off life support 9 days after he hanged himself.
13-year-old Asher Brown was bullied for being gay. Last week he decided he just couldn’t take it anymore.
Today there was some good news related to DADT just in time for Sunday Funday! Lucky you. Also, Stephen Colbert did something funny, Celebrate Bisexuality Day happened, many people have many feelings w/r/t Glee and one of those feelings is BRITNEY, and we have insights from Franzen and A REVIEW OF HOWL OMFG.