Hundreds of Sacramento-area students rallied to support four students suspended for wearing anti-gay shirts. One participant said: "It's only going to get worse against Christians. We're going to get persecuted more and more. But those who stand to the end: God is going to save them." Um, right...
Sony's banking on Spider Man 3. Literally. Some insiders claim the flick cost $300 million to produce. No doubt, however, it'll make it back. And then some.
The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission will honor Nepal's Blue Diamond Society for all their hard activist work. Unfortunately, they will not be honored with actual blue diamonds.
We've never quite understood Kate Moss and Pete Doherty's relationship. Now we do. And they're kind of cute. Still total nutters, but cute...
The fuzz may have been investigating theft at Atlanta's airport, but they found a bunch of horny gay men, instead. Now they're looking for more.
Regional lawyers have ruled that Latvia's City Council acted unjustly in barring last year's gay pride parade. Hoorah!
Maryland's House has passed a bill requiring health insurance companies to extend benefits to same-sex partners and children. The bill now needs to be signed by the governor to become a law. (We totally just had a School House Rock flashback.)
GLAAD's celebrating the tenth anniversary of Ellen Degeneres' coming out with a month full of flag-waving faggotry.
Sri Lanka may forbid homosexuality, but that's not stopping gay activists from planning a pride event. Trouble is, they don't have any money. Do you?
In an effort to make a more single friendly album, Madonna has joined forces with Justin Timberlake and uber-producer Timbaland. If they can't help her sales, no one can...
The House Judiciary Committee isn't fucking around with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. They've just issued a subpoena for more documents regarding the allegedly illegal firing of federal prosecutors. Nail him to the wall, kids!
New York has agreed to extend benefits to employee's same-sex partners. About fucking time, no?
Mario Vasquez still claims he's not gay. But, of course, the interview took place before that whole sexual harassment lawsuit, so who knows...
Don Imus may have called them "nappy-headed hos", but the Rutgers Women's basketball team has agreed to have a little sit-down. We hope they give it to him good.
Robbie Williams may have ditched Take That! to embrace his bad boy image, but some are saying the recently rehabbed singer's mulling a musical reunion. Um, is that supposed to be a career booster or a death rattle?
21-year old Akino George has been sentenced to eight years in prison for his role in the beating of gay singer, Kevin Aviance. Like his violent cohorts, George copped a plea. Smart fucker...




Human Rights Campaign held their 10th Annual National Dinner last night featuring the biggest names in gay activism, ie: Reichen and Lance Bass, pictured here with HRC President, Joe Solmonese.
Huge, right? We'd go on about how we think HRC's really not that great, or about how coming out's the best thing that could have ever happened to Bass, or the suspicious timing all of this has to Reichen's upcoming book, but we won't. We trust you're all smart enough to draw your own conclusions.
We've pasted the entire press release and a selection of pictures after the jump.
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• Police identified 18-year-old Lyon Tatum as the second suspect in the San Diego gay pride parade attack. He was originally thought to be a minor, though prosecutors were expected to charge him as an adult. He joins James Carroll and an unidentified 16-year-old boy as the trio of suspects. [SDUT]
• The United States Tennis Association will christen the Billie Jean King Stadium at the National Tennis Center during a cermony at the U.S. Open, which comes as a surprise to even the tennis great, who didn't know she was being honored. [NYT]
• In the UK, anti-abortion group Operation Christian Vote is receiving some of its funding from an unlikely source: royalties on gay anthem "So Macho." [Gay.com UK]
• Gay rights activist Peter Tatchell is calling for the gay community to support the Iranian Ahwazi community following the executions of two gay Ahwazi teens. [Pink News]

HBO premiered its documentary "Billie Jean King: Portrait of a Pioneer" last night on HBO; the documentary will now repeat 10,942 times through the end of May on HBO and HBO2. By the end of May, if you haven't seen it, Billie Jean King herself will crawl out of your TV and beat you with her tennis racket until you watch the documentary about her life as a tennis champ and big lesbian.
King revolutionized the world of sports by beating tennis mega-star Bobby Riggs in a "Battle Of The Sexes" tennis match, originally meant just for fun--until she won. Since then, no one has paid any attention to Riggs' multiple Grand Slam Tournament wins, as he is now stuck with the legacy of "I got beat by a girl" for the rest of eternity. Although we get beat by girls all the time in sports and we don't see what the big deal is.
Ode To Billie Jean [Seattle Times]