Late Friday, the American Humanist Association announced that it is prepared to donate at least $20,000 to stage an all-inclusive prom for the Itawamba County Agricultural High School after the Fulton, Mississippi School cancelled prom instead of revisiting and revising an anti-gay policy. Constance McMillen had sought permission to attend the prom with her girlfriend as well as wear a traditional tuxedo, both requests refused by school administrators, and after a letter from the American Civil Liberties Union last week threatening the school with legal action, administrators cowardly cancelled the entire event. Roy Speckhardrt, the Executive Director of AHA said “It’s shameful that closed-minded members of the school board are prepared to deprive an entire class of students their prom over their outdated religious mores. People can hold to any belief or no belief in this nation, but the school board misuses their position when they try to impose their beliefs on the student population in Itawamba.”
A report on Washington, D.C. committed gay couples who balk at the idea of marrying, for various reasons, including that the institution of marriage itself seems frayed and worn.
A new study by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests that the rate of new HIV infections among men who have sex with men (referred to in the study, confusingly, as MSM) is more than 40 times greater that of heterosexual men and women. The study also reveals that the rate of primary and secondary syphilis among men who have sex with men is more than 46 times that of other men and more than 71 times greater than that of women.
In San Francisco, authorities say that a video found in the vehicle of three Hayward cousins already charged with an alleged assault and a hate crime for firing a BB gun at the face of a man the three believed to be gay shows eleven similar attacks in one night, and they are beseeching the victims to come forward.
Gay ally Gavin Newsom, San Francisco mayor, announced Friday that he will run for Lieutenant Governor of the State of California. His term as mayor is not over until January 2012, and at this time, it is not certain who would run to be his replacement should he win both the Democratic primary in June, and the election in November.
Rufus Wainwright, whose new album, All Days Are Night: Music for Lulu, will be released shortly, suggests that he is the “Activia of song writing.”
Ronnie Kroell, the 27 year old runner-up on the first season of Bravo’s Make Me A Supermodel, is set to follow Levi Johnston as the cover star of the May Playgirl.
Smoking sexy Abercrombie and Fitch male model Allen Walker is seen in his white jockey boxer briefs.
Students from the University of Rochester create a gay(er) version of Taylor Swift’s You Belong To Me, a fantasy fulfilled for everyone who had a crush on the star baseball player.
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