We know as much about opera as we do about professional sports, which isn’t much.
But it’s somehow still surprising to read in Opera News that one of the world’s leading sopranos – Patricia Racette (above) – has a wife.
Even better, the spouse is another opera star.
We were tipped off to the story online, by the way; we’ve never actually seen a copy of Opera News. (more…)
Our favorite hateful kooks, Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church, paid another visit to NYC this week – just in time, respectfully, for the Jewish High Holidays.
Naturally, the inbred bigots had no idea what they were up against when they picketed Brooklyn synagogues, BrooklynPaper reports. (more…)
OP board member Twilla Duncan forwarded the following note from City Council Speaker Christine Quinn (above). You’ll see why we share Speaker Quinn’s outrage: (more…)
If you’re an elected official, beware of Turkish lesbians!
LezGetReal reports that Illinois Rep. Jan Schakowski (above) “is bisexual, and the Turks sent a female agent to seduce Rep. Schakowski.”
“Rep. Schakowski was added to an investigation regarding a blackmail ring originating out of Turkey.”
At age 13, we had a peach-fuzz mustache, got bar-mitzvahed, and played Pac-Man.
Now, 13-year-olds come out to classmates and chase same-sex crushes.
The New York Times Magazine this week does an amazing job of reporting on brave pre-teens who are dealing with their sexuality – and how others are dealing with them. (more…)
What if you could get $153 for every dollar you invested?
That’s been the return – in terms of direct spending – on Philadelphia‘s marketing to lesbian and gay tourists, today’s Philadelphia Inquirer reports. (more…)
Is the Lower East Side the next happening gay ‘hood?
Now that an outpost of gay institution Uncle Charlie’s has arrived, it could happen. (more…)
When San Francisco Chronicle reporter Beth Spotswood won an Olivia cruise in a San Francisco Gay Pride raffle, she didn’t let her heterosexuality stop her from enjoying her prize.
In fact – like a good reporter – she used it as a learning opportunity about lesbian life.
The results, in a blog today, are quite poignant – and make us think lesbian and gay cruises should become mandatory for straight people: (more…)
Why didn’t these people take a booth at the Center’s Out to Work job fair last week?
London’s Daily Mail reports that the Metropolitan Police – better known as Scotland Yard – are recruiting gay, lesbian, and transgender people to guard the Queen. That’s with a capital “Q”. (more…)
We don’t know if this is a true story or an attempt at post-mortem image rehabilitation.
But in a new memoir, George W. Bush speechwriter Matt Latimer insists his old boss was nowhere near as homophobic as we were all led to believe. (more…)
