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 Island of Lesbos, located in the Northeastern Aegean Sea, is the homeland of the right-on 7th-century B.C. gay-interest poet Sappho, revered during an entire eon and saluted today by Queerty.com. In her era, Sappho had so enormous a reputation as a poet that when she visited Syracuse, they erected a statue in her honor. Her contemporaries praised her art so profusely and in such detail that we compare their discussions of it to the extant work and surmise that much of her poetry has been lost. Nobody knows who lost it, but if you find any missing bits lying around, please let us know. Many fragments of Sappho’s poems have been studied to a fare-the-well by scholars straight and gay. To llustrate now: in Sappho’s People Do Gossip, the hot gossip is that Leda once found an egg hidden under wild hyacinths. You can’t get gayer than that if you spend Saturday night inebriated and shakin’ your booty to deep house in a disco on Ibiza.
Maximus of Tyre, though a philosopher, nonetheless loved gossip himself. Besides writing that Sappho was “small and dark,” he compared her relationships with females to those Socrates had with his bepenised brethren: “What else was the love of the Lesbian woman except Socrates’ art of love? For they seem to me to have practiced love each in their own way, she that of women, he that of men. For they say that both loved many and were captivated by all things beautiful. What Alcibiades and Charmides and Phaedrus were to him, Gyrinna and Atthis and Anactoria were to the Lesbian.”
Sappho has never ceased to inspire. In the 19th-century, Charles Gounod composed an opera based on her life. Author Diana McLellan titled her book exploring female relationships in Tinseltown Sappho Goes to Hollywood. To more thoroughly explore lesbian poetry through the ages, you can go to www.sappho.com.
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