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...
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The strength of "gay panic" defenses may be dwindling. Prosecutors in California and New York are lobbying for restricted use of defendants using this excuse – that the sexual orientation of their victim caused justifiable fear – and lawmakers are listening.
"The suggestion that criminal conduct is mitigated by bias or prejudice is inappropriate," said San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris, who organized a two-day national conference on the issue. "We can't outlaw it, but we can combat it."Lawmakers in California and New York are considering bills to deter the common courtroom strategy of making a victim's sexual orientation central to a criminal defense.
Both measures would require judges to remind jurors that bias toward the victim cannot influence their deliberations.
California's bill also would instruct juries that gay panic defenses are inconsistent with state laws protecting gays, lesbians and transgenders from discrimination.
It was prompted by the murder of 17-year-old Gwen Araujo, a transgender teenager who was beaten and strangled in 2002 after two men with whom she'd had anal sex learned she was biologically male.
Perhaps the most interesting, albeit obvious, notioin to silence criticism was brought by George Washington University School of Law professor Cynthia Lee, who suggested "prosecutors could ask the jury to imagine whether they would render the same verdict if the suspect were gay and the victim straight." Or whether the jury would render the same verdict if a white suspect attacked a black victim, and vice versa.
Lifetime has been helping us fill our quiet weeknights at home for a while now, with depressing movies about moms with gay sons who get killed in various situations (the army, by townies, etc.), and now they're branching out with a new film about famously tragic trannie Gwen Araujo. A Girl Like Me stars former Ford model J.D. Pardo as Gwen and Mercedes Ruehl as his mom (who turns out to be the main star of the movie, this being television for Women). Steel yourself for something truly depressing, but possibly moving, as Lifetime's movie budget has gone up considerably in the last couple years.
UPDATE: Check out the review at AfterElton.
A Girl Like Me [Lifetime via PAYOR]
• We’re no longer the gayest blog on the Internets. Look at these two queens over at Wonkette! [Wonkette]
• Pete Burns did not win Big Brother. But he was the fiercest. [WOW Report]
• Three men were sentenced in the Gwen Araujo slaying. Araujo was a SF Bay area transsexual murdered in 2002. [SF Chronicle]
• Tom Cruise looks like this year’s worst actor. And we’re not talking about his role playing “straight.” [Yahoo]
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