British gay group Stonewall may have egg on its face this Thursday when trans activists protest the organization's eponymous awards at the V&A Museum.

Activists are annoyed over the group's nomination of lesbian journalist Julie Bindel, who, in 2004, wrote an article in which she pitted her feminism against trans rights.

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Homo-journo Billy Norwich has been palling around with ladies!

No, the style guru hasn't gone straight - he's been anonymously writing for the estrogen-heavy website, wowOwow.

For months Norwich has been penning columns as the "Etceterist," but today, Halloween of all days, he's decided to take off the mask and explain himself, like why he's been calling himself the Etceterist:

This is a site with such gravitas and serious intent, so adding commentary and news about style matters, the fluffy vainglorious concerns about food, clothing and shelter — as opposed to the need for them — we had better make it clear to our readers that we know, that they know … this is the lighter side of life, the etcetera. Hence The Etceterist.

Leave it to the lavender set to highlight the "lighter side." Now, where are our loafers?

Lesbian journalist Carol Anne Burger committed suicide last Thursday minutes before police were set to question her about the gruesome murder of her wife, businesswoman Jessica Kalish, who's pictured on the right.

The women, who wed in 2005, separated last year, but stayed living in the home they shared since 2000. Though admittedly depressed over the break-up, Burger, who worked for Huffington Post, seemed to be pulling through, her friends say, but something went horribly awry last week.

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We all love Anderson Cooper. (It would be UnAmerican not to!)

And no one wants to make America's silver fox out to be some sort of hypocrite or anything - he's certainly a good, down to earth journalist, but can we just pause and call bullshit for a second?

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The Arizona Daily Star's editorial staff did the right thing this weekend when they came out against Proposition 102, a ballot measure meant to define marriage as between one man and one woman.

Citing the state's already existing ban on gay marriage, the journos made clear that Proposition 102 has far-reaching - and dangerous - impact:

At best, Proposition 102 is an effort to keep same-sex couples from ever having the right to marry in Arizona. At worst, it is the first step toward possibly ending legal benefits for people who are in same-sex relationships.

Many large companies in Arizona offer gay couples the same kind of benefits afforded to heterosexual couples. If Proposition 102 passes, conservative activists could attempt to take away those benefits based on their opinion that gay marriages are wrong.

A good reason to reject this proposition can be found in Michigan. That state's voters passed a similar constitutional amendment in 2004. Once the new definition of marriage became part of Michigan's Constitution, court actions resulted in the loss of domestic-partner benefits for state employees by 2007.

The piece goes on to assert that gay unions do not threaten marriage, as the right would like you to believe, and that Proposition 102 amounts to nothing more than conservatives trying to "legislate morality."

Gay activist Andrejs Visockis attended last month's gay festival in Bosnia, and was one of the ten people injured by anti-gay nationalists. He recently took to his blog to tell his tale:

I suddenly saw with the back of my eye that a group of people were running at us and a second later we were attacked from behind. I tried to turn around to defend myself and get away from them but fell and found myself surrounded by what seemed to be four young guys who started kicking the living daylights out of me from all sides. Somehow, I managed to get back on my feet and get out of the circle, so I started running all I could without looking back. As I was running, I noticed I was basically blind on my left eye and my hands were covered in blood.
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This was pure terrorism and not many ordinary people in Sarajevo seemed to care.

No, we don't imagine they do. Nor does much of the world.

Readers, non-readers and everyone else in between, there's a virtual scourge threatening our internet existence - and, in fact, all existence: the fag bomb.

You know, when people call other people a fag simply because they have differing opinions. It's really quite ugly and does nothing but stunt potential conversation.

Thus, in an effort to keep human discourse alive, Kirby Ferguson has disseminated this righteous video on how we can - and must - decimate the dreaded fag bomb.

Remember Benoit Denizet-Lewis' lengthy exploration of young gay marrieds in Sunday's New York Times?

Well, the journalist got flack for only profiling white, middle-class, educated men, which led some to wonder whether he simply chose to ignore people of color.

Tired of whispers and murmurs, Denizet-Lewis sent out an email earlier this afternoon and tried to clear things up.

He's not a racist, you see, but simply couldn't find any black people! In fact, there aren't many black marrieds to be found, he says - after the jump, of course.

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Nico Pitney's more than a pretty face.

The Tokyo-born, California-bred 26 year old currently works as Huffington Post's National Editor, but traces his occupational origins to more activist endeavors at the Center for American Progress.

Editor Andrew recently sat down with Pitney to discuss the intersection of journalism and activism, the state of the conservative movement and how there's no such thing as objective reporting.

Read all about it, after the jump…

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