Weddings bells ring for D.C. same-sex couples

Rocky Galloway, left, and Reginald Stanley hold their twin daughters after they were married by Rev. Sylvia E. Sumter, center, on Tuesday.
AP One bride wore a knee-length lace dress and pearls. The other bride wore a yellow shirt and white suit. And when a pastor pronounced them “partners in life this day and for always” [...]

Mexico City passes full marriage rights bill

A rainbow ribbon sits on the desk of delegates at the city's assembly in Mexico City December 21, 2009. Mexico City's assembly voted to extend gay couples full marriage rights on Monday in a landmark law that is the first of its kind in Latin America, a traditionally macho and Catholic region. Photograph by: Daniel [...]

The passing of one of the greatest pianists ever. Earl Wild has died.

Earl Wild with Maestro Ponti (right)
Wild was not “wild” when he played. He remained in control, not flailing about with hands and arms as he played; I heard him in an interview quite a few years ago; he said that the pianist was not the important item at the concert; the music was and the [...]

Is Prop 8 like the Anita Bryant crusade?

By Lisa Keen, Keen News Service
Attorneys challenging the California ballot measure that banned same-sex marriage painted the “Yes on 8” campaign as a modern day copycat of Anita Bryant’s late 1970s campaign to “Save the Children.”
Through testimony by gay history scholar George Chauncey of Yale University, the plaintiffs’ legal team discussed, in U.S. district court, [...]

Winq Magazine Picks World’s Twenty Most Powerful Gay Men

Tom Ford
Just received the Fall issue of the Dutch magazine Winq which is distributed internationally. They picked the twenty most powerful gay men in the world. I thought the list was interesting and wanted to share it with you. In no particular order and with a quote or two from the article:
Perez Hilton: Columnist. “Whichever [...]

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