Hillary Clinton's campaign came back from the dead last night. The Buckeye state's Democratic voters in Ohio overwhelming supported the Senator from New York, as did citizens in Rhode Island and Texas.

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Is nothing sacred!? A troublesome trio assaulted a number of gay folk at a Dallas area gay club last week:

[Sid Gonzales] said he tried to be friendly and make small talk with the trio. But he said he was not trying to hit on the men, whom he described as straight-looking, well-dressed and college-aged.

When Gonzales asked a few questions, the woman responded but the men said nothing and looked uncomfortable, he said.

Gonzales said he reached out to shake hands with one of the men. The man grabbed Gonzales’ arm, twisted it in the air and slammed it against a knee. Gonzales said the first man also stabbed him in the hand with an unidentified object, while the second began kicking him in the backside.

"I think it was a hate crime," Gonzales said. "They weren’t there to have fun. They were there to pick fights with queers."

Gonzales went for security following the incident, but couldn't find them: apparently they were tied up with some other homos who had encountered the men and woman.

The Dallas Police Department has yet to assign an officer to the case. Shocking, right?

Barack Obama's probably feeling pretty confident right now - he's won the last eleven primaries, has eaten into Hillary Clinton's base and keeps climbing in national numbers. It seems the Senator's just two states away from clinching the Democratic presidential nomination. If he wins in Texas and Ohio on Tuesday - well, even Bill admits that Hillary's campaign's not going to make it.

One can't get lazy, of course, which may explain why he's now placing the above "generic" LGBT ad in gay newspapers in Ohio and Texas. Oh yeah, Obama's definitely stamping on Clinton's queer territory. It's a crazy strategy, yes, and may just push Obama over the edge…

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Barack Obama's in it to win it. The Democratic presidential candidate has snatched up ads in some Ohio and Texas' gay weeklies. From The Advocate's Kerry Eleveld:

The Obama campaign is lavishing some of its cash advantage on the LGBT community with targeted ad buys in Ohio and Texas leading up to the critical March 4th primaries in both states (Rhode Island and Vermont also vote that day). According to Obama LGBT Steering Committee member Eric Stern, the campaign has just completed an ad buy with queer newspapers in the four largest LGBT markets of those two states — Columbus, Cleveland, Dallas and Houston.

Full page ads will appear starting this Friday in Outlook Weekly of Columbus, the Gay People's Chronicle of Cleveland, the Dallas Voice, and OutSmart, which is Houston based. Buying a full-page, four-color ad that appears one time typically costs anywhere between $1,000 and $2,000 in weekly publications. In the Gay People's Chronicle, for instance, the ad cost about $850 according to the paper's advertising manager; the same ad went for about $1500 in the Dallas Voice.

Stern called the coordinated buy "the icing on the cake" in terms of the Obama camp's outreach to the gay community in Ohio and Texas. "It's a direct appeal to LGBT voters asking for their support," he said…

Obama's obviously trying to cut into Hillary Clinton's last secure base: the gays, who have consistently backed the famously gay-friendly former First Lady.

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama had what may be their final debate last night…

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Texas Governor Rick Perry describes his attachment to the Boy Scouts as "intensely personal". That's why he's decided to pen a book - On My Honor: Why the American Values of the Boy Scouts Are Worth Fighting For - that defends the group's anti-gay attitudes:

Perry, a Republican, targets the American Civil Liberties Union as the primary force behind a leftist push to accept homosexuality and challenge Scouting's duty to God.

"The ACLU and its allies seemed determined to force the Boy Scouts to bend to their version of what is right and wrong," he writes.

If intimidation and the threat of lawsuits succeed, Perry writes, "the culture war will be lost before we know it. If that happens, we will find ourselves living in a world where moral relativism reigns and individualism runs amok."

Wait, that sounds surprisingly like a capitalist liberal democracy… What a nightmare!

Perry makes sure to celebrate the gays, saying he values our little pink lives, but insists the Scouts should eschew sexual discussions of all types, which is really just a way of telling gay folk to keep a lid on it.

Wired magazine's website recently spilled some virtual ink on gays in space. It's out of this world.

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A 20-year old Texan man will go to jail for an eight month rape spree back in 2006:

A jury convicted a man Tuesday of raping another man, one of five sexual assaults he is accused of committing on men in an eight-month spree in 2006.

The sentencing phase of the trial was to begin later Tuesday for Keith Hill, who could receive anything from five years' probation to life in prison for aggravated sexual assault.

The trial focused on just one of the cases against him: A May 2006 attack of a teenager who said he was forced to perform oral sex at gunpoint after he was abducted from his driveway near Houston.

Hill admitted to police that he had raped the men, but his defense attorney argued that the written confession may have been coerced. Thus, Hill pleaded not guilty during the trial. Apparently the jury thought otherwise.

A big gay congratulations to Joel Burns! Despite some anti-gay folks' best efforts, the politico has become Fort Worth's first openly gay councilman!

Real estate agent Joel Burns defeated Fort Worth school trustee Juan Rangel Jr. in a runoff election Tuesday to represent District 9 on the Fort Worth City Council.

Burns will replace Wendy Davis, who resigned to run for the Texas Senate in 2008.

Burns won with 54 percent of the vote. About 14 percent of registered voters cast ballots in the runoff, down from 18 percent in the Nov. 6 election.

Burns' political turf includes downtown Fort Worth, the hospital and Texas Christian University.

New York residents Evan and Addison (left and right) recently became domestic partners. Our editor sat down with them to talk about growing up gay in Texas, Devo and how things get slippery…

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Convicted killer Jon Buice won't be seeing the light of day anytime soon. A Texas parole board decided that Buice still hasn't served enough time for his role in the 1991 murder of 27-year old banker Paul Broussard, who lost his life at the hands of ten vicious men. Buice was sentenced to serve 45 years. It's been sixteen.

In those years, Buice says, he's learned the viciousness of his actions. He wrote in a 1999 letter:

I have gained a more relative understanding of what took place that night in Houston. It was never my intention to harm anyone… In my youth I made poor decisions. After years here in prison, I see how disruptive my life and attitudes were.

Buice's alleged sorrow isn't saddening Andy Kahan, who directs the Mayor's Crime Victims Office, "We're thankful the parole board saw fit to deny parole to someone who has not served half of his sentence." Kahan vowed to continue the fight in 2009, when Buice will again face parole review.

Broussaid's mother surely celebrated the news: she doesn't want Buice to be considered for parole until at least 2018, 27-years after Buice helped kill her 27-year old son.