Windsor Police Arrest Second Suspect In Attack On Gay Man But Hate Crime Charge Unlikely, Angry Queers Against Israeli Apartheid Agitate In A Bad Way, Calgary Gay Film Festival Underscores City’s Homophobia, Massachusetts Attorney General Challenges Defense Of Marriage Act, Oakland Pride, Ryan Bertroche, Brad Goreski All Shirtless And Sexy, Brandon Flowers, Zac Efron

Police in Windsor, Ontario have now arrested the second suspect in the violent attack against 26 year old Chris Rabideau, who was beaten in the entrance to the lobby of his apartment building early Friday after being followed by two men for blocks. Police have charged 45 year old Stephen Lambert, arrested Monday, with robbery, chocking, assault causing bodily harm, forcible confinement, mischief, and resisting arrest. 27 year old Michael Allard arrested Tuesday, with robbery, assault causing bodily harm, forcible confinement, mischief, and escaping lawful custody. Rabideau says that during that attack, both suspects employed a number of anti-gay slurs (at one point telling him because he was gay he deserved to be beaten), but police are not investigating the incident as a hate crime, saying Rabideau was not initially targeted because he is gay. “He was in the wrong place at the wrong time walking by himself,” a police spokesperson, Sgt Brett Corey, said. “These guys saw a crime of opportunity. He was the victim of a robbery. As the events unfolded, it appears that’s where the anti-gay slurs were being uttered. We don’t doubt it took a turn that way, but we don’t believe it was a targeted attack against a gay member of the community.”

In Toronto Tuesday, a news conference by Pride Toronto explaining the group’s decision to ban the use of the phrase “Israeli Apartheid” which effectively eliminated the group Queers Against Israeli Apartheid from participating in any and all Pride events, turned, well, unfortunate, representatives from QuAIA behaving a manner that befit Pride’s decision, the protestors disrupting the conference, and acting in a way that seemed to secure their role as incendiaries less interested in celebrating Pride and more interested in promoting a particular political message without contradiction, in a vacuum, so to speak

A look at the Calgary’s Fairy Tales Queer Film Festival, now entering its 12th year, underlining the continual fact that homophobia in the city is obvious and insidious.

The office of Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley Wednesday challenged the constitutional validity of the federal Defense of Marriage Act in a Boston court, Assistant Attorney General Maura Healy arguing that states have historically been afforded the right to define marriage. She said that the because of the federal law that defines marriage as that only existing between a man and woman, same sex couples legally married in Massachusetts – legal since 2004 – are routinely denied Medicaid and other federal benefits allowed to opposite sex couples.

The city of Oakland, California is celebrating its first Pride since 2004, scheduled to being September 5th. In advance of the celebrations, a fundraiser is being held this Saturday.

New Polaroid’s of Ryan Bertroche.

Brad Goreski visits Terry Richardson and channels his inner hotness – never before has geek sexy seemed so shirtless and so smoking!

A new editorial featuring the easily edible Brandon Flowers.

Zac Efron spotted at the premiere of Get Him to the Greek Tuesday evening.