In a case that I first mentioned here in February, the ACLU has made its opening arguments in its challenge of a Florida high school that prevented a student from wearing items in support of gay rights. A Florida high school is “trampling the First Amendment rights of students who support equal rights for gay people”, a federal judge was …

Via NPR: A small group of doctors around the world have introduced a controversial approach to the treatment of preteens and teenagers who believe they are the opposite sex. Right before puberty begins, they prescribe children hormone-blocking medication. This allows the child to continue growing without developing physical characteristics such as breasts, facial hair or Adam’s apples. Later, the child …

Here are some of our recent swag winners: David (left) in Boston won the tickets to the Boy George concert at Terminal 5, saying, “Great excuse to get back to NYC after leaving the Bronx a year ago…thanks.” Monique in Chicago won the tickets to the True Colors Tour, saying, “Suffice to say I’m SO excited to go to the …

Via the Idaho Press-Tribune: Homosexual and heterosexual students should have separate bathrooms and showers in Idaho schools, a Wilder Republican running for the Idaho House said Friday. Walt Bayes, who gained notoriety two years ago by going on an anti-abortion hunger strike that lasted 59 days, said he wasn’t sure how the issue could be handled other than providing different …

After being approved yesterday by Arizona’s House of Representatives, an anti-gay marriage constitutional amendment is headed for the the state Senate. If approved there, the amendment will become a ballot measure in the general election in November. The proposed amendment defines marriage as a union between one man and one woman. The measure has had a roller coaster ride in …

At the corner of Barrow and West in the West Village, the Keller Hotel opened in 1898 as lodging for sailors moored on Manhattan’s west side. Closed for almost a couple of decades, last year it was declared a landmark by the city in response to the “Campaign To Save The Far West Village.” The Keller is among over 100 …

Courtesy of the promoters, today’s Swag Tuesday giveaway is 37 Notebooks, the new album from Jeremy Schonfeld and a supporting cast of Broadway stars. 37 Notebooks is Jeremy Schonfeld’s follow-up recording to Drift and Blue Skies & All. Compared to Billy Joel and Jonathan Larson by the New York Times, Jeremy pulls together a veritable who’s who of Broadway performers …

I am a bad daddy because I totally forgot to mention that the one year anniversary of Shelley’s adoption was two weeks ago. Bad daddy, bad!

Perhaps it’s not very bloggerish of me to mention a good experience with a business, but I was quite pleased with 1-800-Flowers yesterday. The bouquet I sent my mother actually looked nicer than in the online photo and when the local florist making the delivery didn’t find her at home, they tracked her down by phone and made the delivery …

Almost too easy.

On April 18th, University of Toledo vice president of human resources Crystal Dixon penned an opinion piece in the Toledo Free Press in which she said: As a Black woman who happens to be an alumnus of the University of Toledo’s Graduate School, an employee and business owner, I take great umbrage at the notion that those choosing the homosexual …

Via Good As You, here’s the flyer produced by the Family Research Council in their attack on McDonald’s for joining the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce.The FRC wants the flyer printed up and handed to managers at McDonalds outlets because: Apparently, serving McFlurries and Big Macs to the public is no longer enough to satisfy the hunger of …

Last night’s gay wedding on Brother’s & Sisters is considered by some to be the first on-air marriage of major characters in television history. However, I’d always thought that Pedro Zemora and Sean Sasser’s 1994 commitment ceremony on MTV’s Real World was the first. But I can see the argument made that MTV wasn’t/isn’t a “major” network or that Pedro …

In Moldova’s capital of Chisinau: Lesbian and gay activists in Moldova have begged the European Union and the Council of Europe to intervene after their attempt to hold a Pride event at the weekend was banned and then blocked by police inaction and violence. In the capital Chisinau yesterday a bus with 60 Pride marchers was surrounded by hundreds of …

Taken from the Christopher Street Pier with Jersey City in the background.

From the always hilarious John Roberts.

Thursday, 8AM, Upper East Side I’m dropping off my laundry at the service in my building’s basement…. Clerk: Cuánto es Sarah y Miss Dolores? How much are Sarah and Miss Dolores? Joe: I don’t think I know Sarah or Dolores. The clerk tries again, much slower and more distinctly. Clerk: Joo wann toh ey-separay dees coh-lors, jess? Oh.

Courtesy of the publisher, today we have a special swag giveaway, the new book from Joel Derfner, Swish: My Quest To Become The Gayest Person Ever, which goes on sale this Tuesday. Joel Derfner is gayer than you. Don’t feel too bad about it, though, because he has made being gayer than you his life’s work. At summer day camp, …

The 22-acre Central Park Lake is the second-largest body of water in the park after the Reservoir. Before the construction of the Wollman Rink in 1951, the lake was where you ice-skated in Central Park.