Carolina Ku Klux Klan Rallies To Defend Anti-Gay Georgia University Counselling Graduate Student Jennifer Keeton, North Carolina Representative Larry Brown Calls Gays “Fruitloops” And “Queers,” Catholic Gay Student Groups Stage Protest At Mass Served By Anti-Gay Minnesota Archbishop, Gay Bashing Victim Benjamin Carver Still Loves New York, Binghamton University Rainbow Pride Union Director An Imposter, Abercrombie & Fitch Male Model Fired For Eating

Bobby Spurlock, the imperial wizard knighthawk and grand dragon of South Carolina and North Carolina, announced Tuesday that the Ku Klux Klan will host a rally in support of 24 year old Jennifer Keeton, the Augusta State University counselling student who argues that her First Amendment rights were violated when the school ordered to participate in a remediation program meant to teach her more about the gay community, after she objected to offering counsel to homosexuals, saying it contradicted her Christian beliefs, the Augusta Chronicle reports. The KKK protest will be held October 23rd, the Klan to appear in full dress, Spurlock saying “It’s your constitutional right so how could you tell someone you have to something completely different?” Spurlock says that the KKK is acting on its accord, and that Keeton has not been in contact with the group.

North Carolina Representative Larry Brown, a Republican, under attack Tuesday for an e-mail sent from his personal account commenting on an award from Equality North Carolina to Democratic Speaker Joe Hackney at its annual Equality Gala November 3rd, Brown writing “I hope all the queers are thrilled to him. I am sure there will be a couple legislative fruitloops there in the audience,” according to Winston-Salem Journal. Brown is running unopposed for re-election, and who had declined to comment, is being criticized by fellow Republicans, Representative Bill McGee, saying “It is a bad choice of language and I wouldn’t have sent it. It is an insulting term. I have truthfully never heard Larry express a sentiment like that. I don’t think I have expressed such to anybody. There are all sorts of groups and organizations that do things that I may or may not agree with – I don’t respond in a way that would include such language.”

Minneapolis/St. Paul Archbishop John C. Nienstedt last week refused to give communion to members of gay and lesbian students from the Roman Catholic St. John’s University and the College of St. Benedict who were wearing rainbow-coloured buttons in a sign of solidarity, the Star-Tribune reporting that September 26th members of PRISIM – People Representing the Sexual Minority – positioned themselves to be in the line for receiving communion, but were denied the sacrament. St. Benedict senior and PRISIM member Ana Seivert said the students were protesting the archbishop’s authorship of an anti-gay marriage DVD sent to hundreds of thousands of Catholics in the state, saying “We did this because we needed to address the DVDs and make a statement, and we wanted to do that by participating in the mass. We were just coming off our Coming Out Week where we felt so supported by the community. Nienstedt came in and denied us of our community.”

Benjamin Carver, the victim of an anti-gay attack in the bathroom of the Stonewall Inn bar early Sunday, has nothing but praise for the New York City police and patrons of the gay bar, considered the birthplace of the modern gay rights movement, Carver, according to CBS News update his Facebook status from the ER to read “New York, I still love you.” The 34 year old resident of Washington, D.C. visiting the city with his boyfriend was robbed and assaulted by two men, 21 year old Matthew Francis and 17 year old Christopher Orlando. Francis has been charged with assault as a hate crime and attempted robbery and is being held on a $10,000 bond; Orlando has in custody awaiting arraignment.

37 year old Phillip Calderon of Binghamton, New York was arrested last Wednesday, charged with falsifying business records in the second-degree reports the Binghamton Press. Mr. Calderon pretending to be a Binghamton University undergraduate for two years, and earlier this year the student paper, the Pipe Dream endorsed him as the vice-president for finance of the Student Association. He also acted at the director of the university’s Rainbow Pride Union.

There are rumours – according the New York Post’s Page Six, natch – that Belgium-born model Florian Van Bael was fired from the set of a Bruce Weber photographed Abercrombie & Fitch catalogue shoot for eating ... a croissant. A&F will not comment, nor will the agency Van Bael works for.