I'm always reminded of one of the
scariest books I've ever skimmed when things
like this happen. Sometimes my brain defaults to an apocalyptic setting, only not the one
they're always talking about. Did you know the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange
released more than 10,000 pages of letters, handwritten notes and other documents from the personnel files of 15 priests and teachers as part of its $100-million settlement in yet another in the ongoing series of class-action sexual abuse lawsuits? And they say they know the definition of evil and it is us. Please. I'm not religious, but even I can see the sin
canning your pastor for teaching love and tolerance.
The end result is that we need to take time out for the truly important things in life, like cheering
for Carrie Underwood and screaming like a teenage girl as Alias pulled their ridiculous excuse for a season out from a serious tail spin to deliver three final hours that quite possibly
made up for it all. And with the recent arrival of Tivo and it's freedoms, coupled with the season finale spree winding down anyway, it seems the delerious summer days are about to unfold like a cashmere blanket. I'm just going to go on out and wrap myself up in it.
About 500 Romanian gays marched through central Bucharest on Saturday as passers-by booed and shouted angrily. As gays and lesbians held banners reading "Out and proud" and "Stop prejudice, I love who I want," riot police protected the marchers from onlookers shouting, "Shame on you" and "Get out of Romania." 10 members of the far right organization "New Right" broke police ranks waving banners reading "Against homosexuality, for normality" and were detained by police. It was the first event of its kind in the formerly communist country.
Cambodia's now retired King Norodom Sihanouk, 82, wrote 
A Church of England proposal has would allow gay priests to marry their boyfriends, although they still have to 
Microsoft announced that they've 
Dartmouth lacrosse goalie Andrew Goldstein has routinely taken on 100 mile an hour hard rubber balls with 110 saves this season, yet ESPN is acknowledging his bravery being an out gay athlete on Sunday's SportsCenter, as well as with 
While some are busy calling 
"Gender-bending" chemicals that mimick the female hormone oestrogen are being found to be responsible for the 
ABC's "Nightline" is devoting an episode to Robert Trachtenberg's book, "When I Knew," which is a compilation of recollections by gay men and women, some famous, some not, about the moment they "knew" they were gay. The book includes the insights of Michael Musto (pictured), Simon Doonan, Arthur Laurents, B.D. Wong, Marc Shaiman and 
Pope Benedict XVI made his first trip outside Rome since his election six weeks ago and 
My original amazement at the sheer complexity of Apple's programming, the way they somehow managed to designate the shuffle setting to put certain styles distinctly together with unexpected aural delights blending ever so perfectly, all of that has given way under the weight of realizing I'm dealing with providence itself. 5600 songs selected at random - and my recently acquired iPod follows a 
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court said that gay marriages can continue today, 
On a day when oil prices jumped again for a company that made a $25 billion profit last year, Exxon Mobil Chief Executive Lee Raymond said, "One of our key strengths is to see past the short-term market noise and focus on the long-term challenges and trends." Apparently that includes ignoring the trend of having employment policies explicitly barring discrimination against gays. Exxon Mobil, the only Fortune 100 oil company not to have such a policy, actually repealed the one they did have three years ago, making them the only American company to take such protections away. Shareholders 
Nadia Almada, the Portuguese transsexual who won Big Brother UK, is putting her celebrity status to good use 
UCLA students recently gave Queen Esther, Haman and Queen Vashti 
National federal hate crimes legislation 
Dallas suburban homemaker Lura Stiller, 34, says everything she knew about gay people she lured from "Will and Grace" and "The L Word" prior to meeting Dr. Cary Friedman and his partner, Dr. Rick Wellisch. In December, Stiller gave birth to Samantha, conceived with a donor egg and the sperm from one of the partners - they chose not to know which. It's one of the stories in a lengthy 
Toby Hill-Meyer 
The New York Court of Appeals ruled today that New Paltz Village Mayor Jason West 
Ismail Merchant, film producer, director and screenwriter, 
It's not something I see a lot of, particularly from a place like Nevada County, California. Yet here, Worlds away from San Francisco, The Union delivers 
Maine gay rights activists 
Three large 
In Canada's Northwest Territories, Yellowknife City Councillors 
Mario Cantone is probably most well known as Anthony Marantino, the ruthless gay wedding stylist from "Sex and the City." Now he's got himself his own Showtime special, Laugh Whore, a taping of his Broadway comedy show. A New York Times review said, "Much of the funniest material in Laugh Whore expresses a buoyantly, exuberantly, even belligerently gay sensibility." Cantone, however, says he doesn't want to just paly to a gay crowd - "I want a mix. I don't like performing to all of one thing for anything."
A New Jersey lesbian couple 
Donita Ganzon and Jiffy Javellana showed up for what they thought was a routine interview at US Citizenship and Immigration Services in Los Angeles. U.S. citizen Ganzon was born in the Philippines and had been living with Javellana, her husband of three years, a Filipino immigrant. They thought a green card would be replacing his temporary work visa. Instead, his application for permanent residency 
Special counsel Scott Bloch told a Senate panel yesterday that he lacks the legal authority to enforce the Bush administration's ban on discrimination against federal employees based on sexual orientation. Block testified before a Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs subcommittee that if a federal manager fires, reassigns or takes some other action against an employee simply because that employee is gay, there is nothing in federal law that would permit the Office of Special Counsel to protect the worker, adding that "The courts have specifically rejected sexual orientation as a class protection."
The airing of "The Colony," a History Channel reality TV series, was postponed the night before airing in Britain, when young lesbian Carina Stephenson, 17, 
A Seattle area church is hosting Dobson's national "Love Won Out" conference next month that claims gayness is preventable. Redneck looking host Glenn Reph, pictured, said, "It's not negative. It's not gay bashing," adding that letting children "choose" homosexuality "would be like letting them choose murder or adultery." The good news is PFLAG is 
Arizona's proposed constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage has Damien McNeal and Richard McLean preparing for financial trouble. The initiative 
Imagine a world where gender is fluid, where a person can cross the boundaries of male and female, gay and straight, and freely roam the in-betweens. Imagine that world at Yale, then read the 11 page Hartford Courant story 
In California, Kern County Superior Court Judge Arthur E. Wallace 