» Methodists defrock lesbian minister, allow ejection of gay church member (Reuters)
» Conservative Anglicans warn pro-gay churches in West (Reuters)
» Right-wing attack lawyer living high on the hog (Legal Times)
» HIV medication to be available in easier-to-take tablet form (Forbes)

» New Zealand transgender protection bill dead (Stuff)

» HIV+ Canada football star arrested in sex case (Toronto Star)

» Case of ejected gay worshiper splits Methodists (Washington Post)
» Alaska Supreme Court rules in favor of partner benefits (Fairbanks Daily News-Miner)
   › Alaska Supreme Court opinion (Alaska Supreme Court)

» Candidates who play the anti-gay card (Washington Post)

» Maine residents affected by anti-gay discrimination speak out (Maine Today)
» E.U. will monitor Poland politics after anti-gay candidate wins presidency (PlanetOut)
» Transgender job fair in the works for New York (Reuters)
» "Ex-gay" radio network starts up (365Gay.com)
» Basketball's Sheryl Swoopes acknowledges that she's a lesbian (ESPN)

» Rosa Parks showed gays the way (365Gay.com)
   › Rosa Parks obituary (New York Times)
» AIDS is the latest of Sudan's agonies (Reuters)
» Gay in Appalachia (Collegiate Times)
» Poll says Maine voters support gay rights law, maybe (Bangor Daily News)
» Opponents of Texas marriage ban amendment turn tables on supporters (Houston Chronicle)
» Fired in Maine for being gay (WayneBesen.com)
» Pro-gay Maine group airs its first television ads (Maine Today)
» Protein in St. John's wort suppresses HIV (NutraIngredients)
» Maine is seventh state to protect transgenders if law stands (Associated Press)
» Irish transgender female may be sent to male prison for failure to pay fine (Gay.com)
» Anti-gay Waraw Mayor wins Poland presidency (Gay.com)
» Catholic bishops can choose to deny Communion of pro-gay politicians (Gay.com)

» AIDS tsunami could sweep Pacific (Dominion Post)
» Gays protest Don't Ask Don't Tell at Naval Academy (Fox News)
» Richard Gere campaigns for HIV/AIDS awareness in India (WebIndia123)
» Namibia chips away at taboos against homosexuality (Washington Post)
» Transgender businesswoman saves U.K. soccer club from closing (London Times)
» Frank shows, Phelps no-shows at Massachusetts Laramie production (Boston globe)
» Reach of Texas marriage ban proposal unclear (Austin American-Statesman)
» China could have 10 million HIV+ within five years (Reuters)
» U.S. provides funding to study Africa herbal HIV treatments (Business Day)
» U.K. to liberalize immigration law to include gay couples (Gay.com)
» Maine non-discrimination law includes transgenders (Portland Press Herald)
» South Africa morticians call for HIV disclosure (News24.com)
» A traditional gay wedding (Reason)
» Gay Arizona fraternity to get official recognition (KPHO-TV)
» Tuberculosis vaccine can sicken HIV+ children (AIDSMap)

» Editorial: Texas, land of domestic violence and adultery, wants to ban gay marriage (Jacksonville Progress)
» Every candidate for an Iowa town council opposes equal rights protection (The Hawk Eye)
» U.N. envoy blasts the West for Africa AIDS apathy (CBC News)
» Transgender Day of Rememberance to mark lives of the fallen (Eureka Reporter)
» No room at the inn for gay South Africa churchgoers (Johannesburg Sunday Times)
» Texas businesses wary over marriage ban proposal (Dallas Business Journal)
» Gay M.P. will be among the first to wed under new civil partner law (London Times)
» The transgender Bond girl (MI6)
» South Africa gay couple denied fertility services at Catholic hospital (Johannesburg Sunday Times)
» Florida Democratic candidates courting gay voters (Miami Herald)

» HIV vaccine said to be the most promising in twenty years (Associated Press)
» Gay rights group gains limited access inside Naval Academy (The Capital)
» Two charged in vicious London beating death (BBC)
» Battle lines drawn after Kansas underage gay sex ruling (Reuters)
» Angola has had over 17,000 HIV/AIDS cases (Angola Press)

» St. Louis aldermen urge Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal (Kansas City Star)
» Cheney raises $300,000 for Santorum (Associated Press)
» New Zealand Labour Party trying to ease out transgender M.P. (New Zealand Herald)
» Report details Maine anti-LGBT discrimination (Bangor Daily News)
» Maryland students hold counter-rally after hate fest (Associated Press)
» Frog sweat may kill HIV (The Tennessean)
» Standing-room crowd braves torrential rain to hear Frank (Norton Mirror)
» Two Texas schools among ten worst for gays (Houston voice)
» Beleagured Cheney comes out of hiding to stump for Santorum (The Citizens' Voice)
» Gay rights protestors threatened with arrest if they assemble peaceably (Associated Press)
» Gay New York Democrats abandoning ship for Bloomberg (New York Blade)
» Virginia lesbian candidate subjected to dirty tricks (Washington Blade)
» D.C. Mayor pressured on LGBT liaison vacancy (Washington Blade)
» Column: Closeted celebrities should come out (Washington Blade)
» Australia gay military to get partner benefits (365Gay)

» A beleaguered Santorum suddenly votes for a minimum wage hike (OpEdNews.com)
» Massachusetts family fights diversity (Newsday)
» Nevada board may allow pharmacists to refuse HIV prescriptions (Las Vegas City Life)
» Editorial: Our rights are at stake in California November election (Bay Area Reporter)
» California anti-marriage petitions curiously are not being circulated (Bay Area Reporter)
» California Speaker says marriage bill dead until 2007 (Bay Area Reporter)
» Gay Northern California teacher sues district for anti-gay bias (Bay Area Reporter)
» Turnout will decide Maine non-discrimination ballot question (Ellsworth American)
» HIV/AIDS in the South Pacific is a "storm gathering" (United Nations)
» Illinois to require reporting of names in HIV+ tests (Rockford Register Star)
» NYC club sued for gender, transgender discrimination (365Gay.com)
» Walgreen's targeted for Gay Games support (PlanetOut)

» GOP poll has Santorum behind by 16% (The Hill)
» Report: Circuit parties must do more to curb HIV infections (Windy City Times)
   › Report text (Sage Publications)
» Palm Beach county approves costly partner benefits (Sun-Sentinel)
» Outing increases on the internet (Associated Press)
» Phelps brood smear troops, gays in Oklahoma City (Daily O'Collegian)
» Florida county sued over Pride ban (Associated Press)
» Gay 85-year-old viciously killed in London (Gay.com)
» Equality Bill back in U.K. Parliament (Gay.com)
   › B&B gay couple ban shows need for Equality Bill (Daily Record)
» Turkey gay group to stay open despite Governor opposition (Gay.com)
» Tennessee AIDS activist Debbie Runions passes away (WBIR)
» Bulgaria gets $8 million grant for HIV/AIDS prevention (Sofia News Agency)
» Hundreds support gay tolerance campaign at Pennsylvania university (Daily Item)
» Life for the Australia High Court's gay Justice (Sydney Morning Herald)

» Three arrested in brutal London gay killing (left) (BBC)
   › Victim could have been saved (Life Style Extra)
» New York gay marriage case moves to Appeals Court (Albany Times Union)
» Editorial: HIV self-test has substantial risks (Daily Free Press)
» India health minister warns of subcontinent AIDS holocaust (Chennai Online)
» Massachusetts marriage foes engage in dirty petition-gathering tricks (Associated Press)
» Male cheerleader overreacts, quits squad over erroneous gay taunt (Denver Post)
» California county's cutting-edge AIDS program turns twenty (San Francisco Examiner)
» Miers opposed AIDS non-discrimination ordinance as council candidate (Washington Blade)
   › Miers' Eagle Forum questionnaire (Washington Blade)
» HRC says Vitter should apologize for Katrina/Rita same-sex union comment (Human Rights Campaign)
» HRC increases commitment to Maine fight (Human Rights Campaign)
» Catholic university reconsiders rejected gay student group application (KDKA-TV)
» HIV is epidemic in Russia (Today Online)
» HRC says investigation should reign in Bloch (Human Rights Campaign)

» Viet Nam former drug addict helps HIV+ people (Viet Nam News Agency)
» Foreign Anglican clergy are poaching U.S. Episcopalians (Lexington Herald-Leader)
» Uganda AIDS treatment capacity is overwhelmed (Reuters)
» Anti-gay Russia protest shut down by authorities (Gay Russia)
» Lots of bells and whistles, only one condom machine (New Kerala)
» Editorial: Texas marriage ban amendment should be rejected (Waco Tribune)
» Australian Archbishop thinks Church won't split from Canterbury (Courier-Mail)
» Major pharmaceutical firm pleads guilty in AIDS drug fraud (Reuters)
» Bush calls for release of Bulgaria nurses in Libya HIV scandal (Reuters)
» Palm Springs school board candidates squirm over sex questions (Desert Sun)
» HIV rate in Ghana creeps down (Ghana News Today)
» French actress acknowledges HIV+ status (United Press International)

» Gay speaker rejected at Farrakhan's Millions More Movement (Washington Post)
» Texas marriage ban vote looms (Brownsville Herald)
» London gay man savagely beaten to death (Scotsman)
» Maine churches encouraged to support gay rights law (Associated Press)
   › Maine vote is fourth in a decade (Portsmouth Herald)
   › Grievances unlikely to surge if Maine gay rights law upheld (Portland Press Herald)
   › Maine church stands for fairness, against discrimination (Village Soup)
» India village shuns HIV+ woman (NDTV)
» Gay-straight club to start at Provo High School (Daily Herald)
   › Student reactions to gay-straight club (Daily Herald)
» Libya AIDS trial postponed again; Bulgarians facing firing squad (Focus News)
» Free HIV tests at El Paso international bridge (Borderland News)
» Editorial: Texas voters should reject marriage ban amendment (Star-Telegram)
» Holding hands an act of campus defiance (Patriot-News)
» Denver health fair targets Latinos' rising HIV risk (Denver Post)
» Kansas City observes Shepard murder anniversary (Kansas City Star)

» Statewide New York group endorses Ferrer over Bloomberg (Empire State Pride Agenda)

» Casey, other Democrats, surpass GOP fundraising (The Hill)

» GLSEN bullying report (Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network)
   › Report text (Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network)
» AIDS activist LeRoy Whitfield passes away (Associated Press)

» Casey leads Santorum in fundraising (Associated Press)
» Three lesbians talk about breast cancer (Out in the Mountains)
» Vermont and Virginia tussle over child's custody (Out in the Mountains)
» Vermont PFLAG mom recognized by United Way (Out in the Mountains)
» Vermont university recognizes foreign gay marriages (Out in the Mountains)

» Cruel, cruel summer for Santorum and Bush (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

» New rules affirm Benedict's stance against gays (Washington Post)

» Gay Atlanta City Council candidate can't get his résumé straight (Southern Voice)
» Gay man named to Atlanta Human Relations Commission (Southern Voice)
» Gay man sues over Texas prison rapes (Washington Blade)
» Spokane recall election is certified (Seattle Times)
» Michigan GOP Senators ask state Supreme Court to place partner benefits on hold (Lansing State Journal)
» Gay Iran torture victim pleads for U.N. help (Washington Blade)
» New Hampshire marriage ban amendment proposal unlikely to succeed (Concord Monitor)
» Two Texans sentenced to six years in gay bashing/rape (Austin Statesman-American)
» Vatican may allow gay priests if celibate for three-plus years (Ireland Online)
» New Hampshire Governor opposes marriage ban amendment (Associated Press)
» D.C. Mayor hopefuls court LGBT vote (Washington Blade)
» Embattled D.C. AIDS office tries to move forward (Washington Blade)
» Catholic hospital says no to would-be gay parents (Cape Argus)
» New Zealand court rules that condom use negates need to inform of HIV+ status (New Zealand Herald)

» Casey now has 18% lead over Santorum (Quinnipiac University Poll)
» Traditional Values Coalition gets its Victoria's Secret panties in a wad (Traditional Values Coalition)
» U.K. town council feels constituent wrath over anti-gay stance (Bromley Times)
» Spokane recall petitions may be certified today (KIRO-TV)
» Massachusetts Supreme Court hears suit over nonresident gay marriages (Associated Press)
» Schwarzenegger veto fuels LGBT anger (Bay Area Reporter)
» California group fighting anti-gay ballot issues likely to increase fundraising (Bay Area Reporter)
» New Hampshire commission suddenly passes marriage ban resolution (Associated Press)
» AIDS could lower South Africa life expectancy to 46 (Xinhua)
» Tanzania opens $35 million HIV/AIDS center (IRIN)
» Author ejected from school after calling Harry Potter gay (Reuters)

» "Ex"-gay with AIDS harasses San Diego queer community with anti-gay activities (San Diego City Beat)
» Tom Ford gets naked with mannequins, frolics with the Karshner triplets (W)
   › Photos (W)
» Germany HIV infections jump 20% (Reuters)

» Miers opposed repeal of Texas sodomy law (365Gay.com)
» Christine Jorgensen 1958 interview with Nipsey Russell, who died Sunday (QueerMusicHeritage.com)
» Baldwin helps usher in first stem cell bank in U.S. ()
» Protestors and no applicants force Stanford military recruiters to leave (San Jose Mercury News)
» Gay marriage foes rally at New Jersey statehouse (The Times)
» Lesbians challenge Ireland same-sex couple adoption ban (U.K. AdoptionNet)
» Sinead O'Connor says Catholic anti-gay stance is blasphemous, anti-love (Contact Music)
» Column: Scwarzenegger all talk and no action on gay rights (Los Angeles Times)
» East Texas Stonewall Democrats open office with county party (Longview News-Journal)
» Elton comes to aid of embattled Nepal gays (New Kerala)
» Turkey gay leader says joining E.U. would help gays (Gay.com)

» Gay rights groups urge caution on Miers (365Gay.com)
   › City council candidate Miers took gay support, gave nothing in return (New York Blade)
   › Lambda Legal raises questions about Miers (Lambda Legal)
   › HRC calls for thorough review of Miers (Human Rights Campaign)
   › Stonewall Democrats raise red flag about Miers selection process (National Stonewall Demcorats)
» Column: Scapegoating gay clergy will not stop sex abuse (The Age)
» India city has half a million HIV+ (Financial Express)
» Poland Prime Minister candidate says gays are unnatural (Reuters)
» Hong Kong appeals pro-gay ruling (PlanetOut)
» Thirty-eight Ukraine HIV infections each day (ForUm)
» HIV may be rebounding in Thailand (Associated Press)
» Edinburgh teen gets fine in rib-breaking gay bashing (Gay.com)
» Column: Why does Stanford allow military recruiters? (Stanford Daily)
» U.K. government feared rise of lesbianism during World War II man shortage (Gay.com)
» Three Dublin gay bashings in ten days (Ireland Online)
   › Dublin hate crimes task force called for (Ireland Online)
» Catholic Church may ban pro-gay politicians (UK.Gay.com)
» U.K. celebrities sign on to Iran protest (UK.Gay.com)
» Cathedral City Mayor abstains on Don't-Ask-Don't-Tell resolution (Desert Sun)
» Hundreds of HIV counseling centers to start up in India state (WebIndia123)
» Jolie points out Iraq budget is a drain on AIDS funding (Independent Online)

» Gay teens push Tom Delay off Time cover (Page One Q)
» Knoxville Mayor refuses Pride proclamation (Associated Press)
» Tennessee "ex-gay" facility sues state over license requirement (Associated Press)
» Popular cartoon character educates about HIV/AIDS in Japan (Anime News Network)
» U.K. government feared rise of lesbianism during World War II man shortage (BBC)
» Michigan Senate to consider anti-gay benefits bills (365Gay.com)
» Toldeo residents rally for equality (Toldeo Blade)
» Schwarzenegger giveth, Schwarenegger taketh away (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
» Massachusetts Catholic Church leads gay marriage ban petition drive (Associated Press)
» Gay youth are coming out at earlier ages (Associated Press)
» Connecticut civil unions have something for everyone to dislike (Hartford Courant)

» Number of U.K. gay couples buying property soars (London Times)
» University ban on military recruiters is among Supreme Court cases in new term (Washington Post)
» Canada lesbian wins in vitro discrimination suit (CTV)
» Minnesota students sue svhool district over gay-straight club equal access (Star Tribune)