» Tampa Pride contretemps began over a library poster (Miami Herald)
» After long battle, Canada rejects rejection (Winnipeg Sun)
» Brazil moves to break HIV pharmaceutical patent (Infozine)
» Spate of HIV suicides at India hospital (Afternoon)
» California gay marriage bill backers seek revival in Senate (San Diego Union-Tribune)
» Right-wing Massachusetts group goes beserk over gay program funding (Article 8 Alliance)
» HIV+ face ignorance and stigma in India (WebIndia123)
» Doctors without Borders calls for faster AIDS treatment delivery to developing world (Reuters)
» HRC statement on Canada marriage vote (Human Rights Campaign)

» Canada Commons passes same-sex marriage bill (Canadian Press)
   › A "frequent heart attack survivor" is put in harm's way over gay marriage (Canadian Press)
» Phelps brood picket heterosexual Green Beret's funeral just because (Los Angeles Times)
» NGLTF pays $10,000 reward in Alston case (National Gay and Lesbian Task Force)
» Gay retirement communities growing (Cox News Service)
» Lott may run for Senate leadership position again (The Hill)
» Transgender worker loses federal sex bias lawsuit (Associated Press)
» Maryland schools to continue references to homosexuality in sex-ed (Washington Post)
» HIV+ serial rapist now pleads for AIDS treatment (Daily News & Independent)
» South Africa Health Minister continues promoting garlic for HIV (South Africa Press Association)
» Belfast Pride parade raises right-wing hackles (BBC)
» Tennessee rejects child abuse allegations against "ex-gay" reparative cult (ABC News)

» Illinois voters support civil unions, but not marriage (Equality Illinois)
» NYC politicians court Pride crowds (New York Times)
» Black churches work to increase HIV/AIDS awareness (Associated Press)
» Spokane Mayor appeals ruling on recall (Associated Press)

» Jerusalem court approves Pride parade (Jerusalem Post)
» Gay marriage issue looms over New York's Pride parade (New York Times)
» New York's largest LGBT group endorses Miller in Mayor primary (Empire State Pride Agenda)

» Dempsey running for NOW President (Southern Voice)
» Bush names closet case to Commerce post (New York Daily News)

» New Zealand has its Falwells, too (Daily Post)
» United Farm Workers support California marriage bill, urge Gallo boycott (United Farm Workers)
» Canadian convicted in HIV+ blood injection attack, face carving (Winnipeg Sun)
» Baptists lift Disney boycott, descend on Nashville doorsteps (Southern Baptist Convention)
» Teen's blog leads to Tennessee investigation of "ex-gay" camp (New York Blade)
» Seattle Pride this weekend (Out in America)
» New Hampshire commission hears testimony on gay marriage, civil unions (Foster's)
» Tampa Chamber of Commerce won't repudiate county's Pride rejection (Tampa Bay Online)
» Pride celebration at Toronto seniors home (City of Toronto)
» San Francisco Pride this weekend (Inside Bay Area)
   › Pride events, schedule (San Francisco Pride)
» Missouri school district agrees student may wear pro-gay T-shirts (Joplin Globe)
» Israel Interior Minister says Jerusalem Pride should go forward (Jerusalem Post)

» PFLAG to give Safe Schools workshop at PTA national convention (PFLAG)

» Cracker Barrel tries to recover from anti-gay and racist history (Associated Press)
» Spain Catholic Bishops organize anti-gay protest (BBC)

» Gay groups target Boyle court nomination (Washington Blade)
» Catania proposes emergency bill for cash-strapped D.C. AIDS group (Washington Blade)
» Virginia Republican candidates seen as most anti-gay in years (Washington Blade)
» Transgender support services growing in D.C. (Washington Blade)
» Online journal examines use of internet by anti-gay groups (Southern Voice)

» Forum explores homophobia among blacks (The Gazette)
» Researchers say sexual orientation is genetic, not developmental (Manchester Guardian)
» NYC Comptroller notes success getting corporate non-discrimination policies (Gay City News)
» NYC LGBT club encounters another endorsement controversy (Gay City News)
» Parliamentary maneuver may save California marriage bill yet (Gay City News)
» Almost half of black men who have sex with men are on down low (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
» Malaysia's Islamic government considers free syringes, condoms against AIDS (Malaysia Star)
» Canada marriage bill could pass as soon as next week (San Francisco Chronicle)
» Bush raises $1.5 million on Santorum campaign swing (Suburban and Wayne Times)
» Florida commission bans county from recognizing Pride (Tampa Tribune)
» Cross-examination of key witness ends in Araujo case (Tri-Valley Herald)

» Tennessee teen's blog tells of "ex-gay" reparative therapy hell (UKGayNews.org)
   › Zach's blog (myspace.com/specialkid)
   › Queer Action coalition grassroots effort for Zach (fightinghomophobia.blogspot.com)
   › Tennessee "ex-gay" program is a nightmare for alumni (Memphis Commercial Appeal)
   › More Tennessee "ex-gay" horror stories (Memphis Commercial Appeal)
» Editorial: Abstinence-only programs aren't working (Eugene Register-Guardian)

» Blacks are almost half of American HIV+ (Reuters)
» Coming out is getting harder (Alternet)
» Left and right preparing war rooms for Supreme Court vacancy (Associated Press)
» Log Cabin counsel files sex harassment suit against his law firm (New York Law Journal)
   › Law firm erases attorney's profile from web site (White & Case)
» Mandela takes AIDS fundraising tour to Arctic (Associated Press)
» HIV catching up on rabies as killer in China (Xinhua)
» China official acknowledges AIDS discrimination is rife (Reuters)
» Czech premier to support same-sex partner bill (Prague Daily Monitor)
» Women increasingly victimized by HIV in developing world (Earth Times)
» CDC fighting HIV in black men (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
» Bush to appear at Santorum fundraiser tomorrow (Associated Press)
» Salt Lake Pride flamboyant and usual (Associated Press)
» Baldwin is almost a millionaire (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

» Rural community north of San Francisco accepting of gays (Lake County Record-Bee)
» AIDS cases in American women increasing dramatically (Associated Press)
» Thousands join Villaraigosa at Los Angeles-West Hollywood Pride (North County Times)
» Mandela: We spend more on weapons than on AIDS (iAfrica.com)
» HIV spreading rapidly in conservative Japan (Associated Press)
» AIDS intervention for China prostitutes, drug addicts sparks disputes (Xinhua)
» Women increasingly at risk for HIV (Seattle Times)
» Bureaucratic bottlenecks slow AIDS spending in Africa (Boston Globe)
» Finding U.S. homes for foreign HIV+ children (Newsweek)
» Oxford cops arrest student for calling their horse gay (London Telegraph)
» U.K. proposal for forced HIV testing of suspects criticized (Sunday Herald)
» Phelps brood picket California school with Gay-Straight Alliance (San Francisco Chronicle)
» AIDS funds graft a problem as G8 countries forgive Africa debt (Reuters)

» Spokane Mayor decides God has forgiven him (Spokesman-Review)
» Michigan students fight anti-gay graffiti with pro-gay graffiti (Washington Post)
» Mennonite community slowly warms to HIV+ family (Associated Press)
» Anti-HIV microbicides for Africa women won't be available for years (Advocate)
» AIDS toll climbs in Lancaster County (Lancaster Sunday News)
» Indicted Delay cronies running Texas anti-gay amendment campaign (Star-Telegram)
» Gay teens struggle with hate in Houston (Houston Chronicle)
» Journalist fined for comparing Turkey premier to transvestite (Kathimerini)
» Warsaw Pride goes forward in spite of ban by Mayor (Polskie Radio)
» Victory Fund holds campaign training in Denver (Denver Post)
» Brooklyn bashing victim in coma (New York Daily News)
» Jury out on gay panic claim in killing of banker (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

» AIDS drug trials shut down over ethics concerns (Washington Blade)
» Legislative sessions end with mixed results (Washington Blade)
» Anti-gay organizations are big business (Washington Blade)
» Activists debate strategies at D.C. forum (Washington Blade)
» Scramble for funds to keep D.C. AIDS center operating (Washington Blade)
   › Whitman-Walker cuts have suburbs scrambling (Washington Blade)
» D.C. Pride less political than in the past (Washington Blade)
» Lesbian child custody case goes to Vermont Supreme Court (New York Blade)
» Lincoln Center finally reaching out to gays (New York Blade)
» Spokane Pride participants ambivalent about West (Spokesman-Review)
» Old Spokane scandal unearthed: Scuba student in West's care died (Spokesman-Review)
» Poland leader calls for tolerance of gays (Polskie Radio)
» Small California town confronts anti-gay harassment (Tracy Press)
» Araujo murder defendants continue to turn against each other (Inside Bay Area)
» Column: Time for another March on Washington (Southern Voice)
» Pope insists abstinence-only is the answer to AIDS (Associated Press)
» South Africa AIDS conference attendees assail government inaction (News-Medical.net)
» Gay journalists promote Pride story ideas (National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association)

» Spokane Mayor tries to get recall election killed (Spokesman-Review)
   › Thousands of West's e-mails to be made public (Spokesman-Review)
   › Recall petition hearing to resume Monday (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
» Noble says LGBT community should present moral arguments (Freedom Press)
» Editorial: U.S. must prevent HIV in prisons (New York Times)
» Transgender workers see changes in colleagues (USA Today)
» The evolution of D.C. Pride (Metro Weekly)
» Lawsuit filed to overturn Michigan marriage ban amendment (Associated Press)
» Bush restricts AIDS group overseas efforts (USA Today)

» European Parliament calls for fighting homophobia, transphobia (European Parliament)
» FRC applauds Africa refusal of Episcopal funds over gays (Family Research Council)
» Judge orders St. Augustine to fly gay Pride flags (Associated Press)
» Maine House kills marriage ban amendment (Portland Press Herald)

» Oregon school district confronts harassment (KVAL-TV)
» Eighty-year-old gay veteran was a good soldier (Chicago Sun-Times)
» Libya police acquitted of torturing Bulgarians in HIV scandal (Reuters)
» Witness tells of rage on learning of Araujo biological gender (San Francisco Chronicle)
» China to reach out to groups at high risk for HIV (Xinhua)
» Spokane panel complete for West investigation (Spokesman-Review)
» South Africa holds second AIDS conference (BBC)
» Conservative phone company markets to anti-gay sector (ABC News)
» Almost one-fourth of South Africa armed forces are HIV+ (Reuters)
» Tens of thousands lack anti-retrovirals in Myanmar (Associated Press)

» Texas Governor tells gays to move if they don't like marriage ban (NBC5i)
» Ohio's abstinence program found to be misleading and unscientific (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
» Companies targeted by right-wingers for Gay Games support (Chicago Tribune)
» LGBT groups to try last-ditch effort to derail Pryor nomination (Gay.com)
» Subsistence living, drought, AIDS create nightmare in South Africa (Inter Press Service)
» The boycott and the far right (Counterbias)
» Gay-oriented history book donation considered by Oklahoma City high schools (KOCO-TV)
» Jean O'Leary, a link of kindness and humanity (Los Angeles Times)
» Gregoire ruled Governor over GOP demand for judicial activism (Associated Press)
» Report: Employers improving on LGBT issues (Human Rights Campaign)
   › Report text (Human Rights Campaign)
» Another anti-gay attack from Benedict (Reuters)
   › HRC slams latest anti-gay comments from Benedict (Human Rights Campaign)
» Engagement rings as transgressive symbols (In the Fray)
» HRC event in Utah a big success (Salt Lake Tribune)
» HIV+ beauty pageant held in Nepal (Zee News)
» Religious leaders join HIV/AIDS campaign in Bengal (WebIndia123)
» A man, a plan, a dress (Providence Journal)
» Boston AIDS Walk draws 15,000 (Boston Herald)

» Jean O'Leary, a giant, passes away (San Francisco Chronicle)
» Jim West, the conservative-approved model of being gay (Houston Chronicle)
» Switzerland approves same-sex partnerships in landslide (SwissInfo)
» Maryland right-wing failure to put gay issues on ballot good for Dems (Associated Press)
» Into class and out of the closet (Daily Southtown)
» Gay teen found his voice in high school (Daily Southtown)
» Teen found coming out means not having to lie (Daily Southtown)
» Column: We teens want and need classroom sex ed (Washington Post)

» U.N. official says HIV/AIDS reversal by 2015 unrealistic (Associated Press)
» California marriage bill: Anatomy of a defeat (Associated Press)
» Print and video highlights of Take Back America conference (Take Back America)
» Milan Pride draws 100,000 (Agenzia Giornalistica Italia)
» Column: When will Democrats capitalize on Republicans' hypocrisy? (Counterpunch)
» Spokane Mayor has press conference, avoids questions (Spokesman-Review)
» Canada is taxing HIV fund intended for those infected with tainted blood (Globe & Mail)
» Upstate New York gay-straight alliance getting blocked (Poughkeepsie Journal)
» Two million India women have HIV (New Indian Express)
» Column: Anti-gay legislators should let librarians do their jobs (Baton Rouge Advocate)

» State, local GOP officials demand West resignation (Spokesman-Review)
   › Mayor's lawyer gives rationale for West not to resign (Spokesman-Review)
   › West's lawyers try to keep tight control on today's press conference (Spokesman-Review)
   › Spokane Pride week starts (OutSpokane)
» Several Democrats abstain or vote No on California marriage bill (Sacramento Bee)
» Texas Governor to sign marriage ban bill at Christian academy (365Gay.com)
» Thousands turn to untested HIV diet in South Africa (iAfrica)
» HRC Utah event unaffected by sponsor dropout (Salt Lake Tribune)
» House hate crimes bill includes gender identity, Senate version doesn't (Washington Blade)
» Congresswoman blasts Indiana Democratic councillors on anti-gay vote (Indianapolis Star)
» Column: Every day is Pride day (PlanetOut)
» Detroit Pride starts (Detroit Free Press)
» Switzerland about to vote in domestic partnerships (Bloomberg)

» Spokane recall effort moves forward (Spokesman-Review)
» California marriage bill dies by four votes (Associated Press)
   › Vote tally (San Francisco Chronicle)
   › Bill short by six votes in earlier reading (San Francisco Chronicle)
» Araujo's accused killers turn on each other in court (Associated Press)
» Canada marriage bill likely to go to vote in summer (Canada TV)
» Utah bank withdraws from HRC event over gay marriage (Associated Press)
» One accused Araujo killer says he actually cared for her (San Jose Mercury News)

» Spokane council unanimously demands Mayor resignation (Spokesman-Review)
   › Files for Spokane Deputy accused of sex abuse are lost, then found (Spokesman-Review)