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...



• Luscious lesbian Portia de Rossi, girlfriend of Ellen DeGeneres, finally comes out to her 99-year-old grandmother. Grandma's response: "I knew you were living with Ellen and all this time I was thinking, I hope that lesbian isn't hitting on my granddaughter!'" [PinkNews]
• Big Love isn't doing well in the ratings--and that's too bad, because it is some good, twisted shit. And the constant shoutouts to the gays are much appreciated. [NYT]
• We were waiting for this one: Mandisa, who uses American Idol as her platform for spreading the word of Jesus, supports ex-gay ministries. Ugh. She could have been the next gay icon. [TheAdvocate]
• Apparently a lot of people in Phoenix have sex with animals. And be forewarned: to get a job with the police, they'll polygraph-test you about it. [EastValleyTribune]
• America doesn't hate us as much as they did last year; senior citizens especially have had a change of heart. We know that we've been guilt-tripping our own grandmas quite a lot. Are the rest of you doing your part? Let's improve these numbers some more by the November mid-term elections. [AP]

• An important meeting took place on March 16 between gay activists and several high profile Democratic Senators, including Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York. The quick summary: Gays: "We strongly urge you to actually support us verbally instead of through winks and nods." Senators: *wink, wink, nod, nod.* [Washington Blade]
• Gay Jews often feel unwelcome in their own communities, according to a new study, but they are not going to take it lying down. They are going to start a synagogue rating system, so intolerant rabbis had better watch out or they'll have a big fat F to contend with, and not the nice kind. [JTA News]
• Is polygamy the new gay? How quickly trends change, and we miss things sometimes, but someone really should have told us about this one. The short answer is no. The long one involves lots of hot and nasty Mormon sex as illustrated on the new HBO drama Big Love. [Slate]
• President Bush's top domestic policy advisor, Claude Allen--who likes to criticize political opponents for liking "queers"--was caught shoplifting at Target. Said the security guard: "Is that a Todd Oldham lamp in your pants, or are you just happy to see me?" Ba dum CHING! [SoVo]
• Liza With A 'Z': The Movie has been found! Apparently Liza misplaced it. Go figure. [Yahoo]
• Australia offers residency to domestic partners of "skilled labor" migrants. They're specifically interested in doctors. And we're guessing "gay blogger" doesn't count for anything. Damn it. [SSO]
• Polygamists are the new gays. [MSNBC]
• Michael Jackson is broke. You know, paying off child molestation victims doesn't come cheap. [Yahoo]
• Gay bathhouse owners filed suit to prove they are not "sex venues." What a relief! Every time we've been to a bathhouse, not a single guy has tried to have sex with us. [LA Times]