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...




• The case of a California high schooler's anti-gay T-shirt falls flat (along with his claims of First Amendment infringement), with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal opting not to hear the case. Instead the justices issued an opinion citing case history, which prohibits students from causing "substantial disruption" of normal school activity or infringing on the rights of other students. [SPLC]
• The Mel Gibson fallout continues: New reports coming from a Reader's Digest interview include unpublished comments where Gibson calls the Holocaust a "numbers game." Meanwhile, Gibson's ICM publicist Ed Limato has gone on the record calling his client's remarks "inexcusable." [Fox 411, HWT]
• Jody Watley's was barred by producers from discussing her then upcoming performance at the Gay Games when she was a guest on Chicago’s V103. The radio station claims it's not homophobic — it just wanted to use all the time available to discuss her music. [WCMG]
• With plenty of right-wingers out there willing to sabotage the gays, why does the queer community opt to lambast its own? [After Elton]
• Via press release comes word that in August, Logo will launch the new reality series Jacob & Joshua: Nemesis Rising, which will chronicle the musical twin brothers' efforts to establish a music career — as out gay men.
• We don’t know what was more surprising about Madonna’s Grammy performance, her perfect body or her ability to actually carry a tune. [You Tube]
• And for the record: the new video is fierce. [You Tube]
• Michael Lucas is on Howard Stern’s show this AM with Clay Aiken’s buttboy. Someone needs to tell us what was said. [Lucas Blog]
• Planet Out is looking for a blog network manager to develop their blog network. And they have not called us up yet, why? [Craigslist]
• This is a great interview with Jody Watley, who we love dearly here at Queerty. [Midnight Lounge]