The first same-sex marriages got underway Thursday in Mexico City, and “the city put on quite a show” for the historic weddings, reports the Los Angeles Times. Read the rest of this entry »

Next Fall, a gay-themed romance that was a hit at Playwrights’ Horizons last year, makes a giant leap to Broadway today.

Reviews are mixed, but the critics agree on one thing:  “This six-character play that focuses on a relationship between an atheist and a committed Christian faces a challenge to find its audience in the current climate.”

More at CultureMob.

That’s a real headline from today’s UK Guardian, and probably the funniest synopsis of an absurd drama that’s playing out in Mississippi. Read the rest of this entry »

San Francisco – traditionally a huge draw for gay travelers – is facing a dire forecast for tourism this year. Read the rest of this entry »

Hey, kids – remember HIV?  We don’t hear much about it these days – so ’80s.

But men who have sex with men are at least 44 times more likely to be diagnosed with HIV than other men, and 40 times more likely than women, according to an analysis released yesterday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at the 2010 National STD Prevention Conference in Atlanta. Read the rest of this entry »

Just when we think everything’s going to hell – guns at Starbucks!  Hiram Montserrate!  Prop 8! -  images like this restores a little hope that America isn’t a total shipwreck.

Angelisa Young (right) and Sinjoyla Townsend hold hands as Rev. David North speaks during their wedding on Tuesday in Washington, DC.  They became the first same-sex couple to wed under DC’s new marriage-rights law.

If you don’t tear up watching this video, check your ducts.

More at the Huffington Post.

We swear we’re not making this up.

A bill that aims to expand the state’s film incentive program would limit a proposed tax credit to productions that do not promote ‘nontraditional family values.’  Yep, that’s code for you-know-what. Read the rest of this entry »

You have to hand it to the Catholic Church, which continues to find new ways to embarrass itself.

“A nursery school at Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic School, in Boulder, Colorado, will not re-enroll one of their preschoolers because the child’s parents are lesbians,” CNN reports today. Read the rest of this entry »

Bing users in Arab countries searching for “gay,” “lesbian,” or “homosexuality” are met with the warning, “Your country or region requires a strict Bing SafeSearch setting, which filters out results that might return adult content.”

And there’s no getting around it, at least not easily. Bing users in these countries cannot disable the SafeSearch option. Read the rest of this entry »

This image terrifies us personally, but here’s what you missed in Miami Beach this weekend, where the seventh annual Winter Party Festival took place.

The weeklong series of events benefits the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.

More at Steve Rothaus’ Gay South Florida blog at MiamiHerald.com.