Tis the season: For some, it’s about the turkey. For others, family. And for a precious few, it’s all about getting tanked. So I’m taking bets on how Courtney Love is planning to spend the holiday season. Yes, the messy rock goddess is out of rehab and, reportedly, is sporting a baby bump, reviving rumours she is expecting Steve Coogan's lovechild. The wild star was photographed looking

When Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill first came out, I was 16 years old, but I sewar to you, I remember it like it was yesterday. It was the angst ridden collection of anthems every girl in our school swore “spoke” to her. And, since I hung out with just about every angst ridden girl in our high-school, I too, by association, connected with Alanis. Then, she turned around, grew up and got

(Indianapolis, IN) – Seven months after a proposal to ban discrimination against gays and lesbians in the workplace and housing market failed to pass, the Indianapolis City-County Council, supporters reintroduced the measure this week. The proposal could put the council back in the spotlight by addressing a divisive issue just a week after efforts to merge city and county police forces failed in

(San Francisco, CA) – Planet Out, the nation’s leading LGBT media and entertainment company, has partnered with Q Television to develop and deliver original programming to be distributed on PlanetOut Video. QTN is a 24 hour a day premium television network organized to create, develop and feature television programming for the LGBT community. Its lineup includes a packed Monday-through-Friday

Pictures of the brutal murder of David Morley and the beating of his friend Alistair Whiteside, were played to a courtroom at the Old Bailey in London earlier this week. The pictures, believed to contain video images, were taken by a 15 year old girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, on her mobile phone. She is on trial with six others in the London court. The video shows her asking

A third of people who have HIV in the UK remain undiagnosed, a report by the Health Protection Agency has found. Despite over seven thousand new cases being diagnosed in the UK over 2005, almost twenty thousand people with the disease do not know that they are infected. Deborah Jack, the Chief Executive of the National AIDS trust says the results should be a wake up call to gay men to get

(Burlington, VT) – Openly gay Vermont State Senator Edward Flanagan is in serious condition after his car ran off the road amid treacherous weather conditions Friday. Flanagan, a Democrat, drove off Interstate 89 and down an embankment in Burlington early Friday morning where his car overturned, police officials said. The car was not discovered for several hours. Flanagan, 54, suffered head

"Love is a verb," my partner is fond of saying. It is a lovely thing to hear, but exactly does “love is a verb” actually mean? When my partner says it, she means that love is not a static thing; it changes, grows, evolves and require constant action to keep it alive. But what if love is something even more than a verb, perhaps it is a language in which the verb 'love' is just a punctuation, an

Fourteen tales of mystery and murder—from the best known lesbian mystery writers! Settle down. Make yourself comfortable. Then pick up a gripping book that’ll keep you up all night! Harrington Park Press presents Women of Mystery, an anthology of short lesbian suspense fiction from the best known lesbian mystery writers in the business. Edited by Katherine V. Forrest, author of the two-time

(Muskogee, OK) – ABC’s Wife Swap has gone too far this time, according to an Oklahoma man who is suing the show for sending a gay man to live with him and his family as his half of the swap. Jeffrey Bedford, who lives with his wife and kids outside Muskogee, is seeking $10 million in damages from Walt Disney – the parent company of ABC – the network, and the show’s production company RDF Media.

(Tacoma, WA) – School officials at University Place have removed a book about gay teens from the Tacoma school district's library shelves after receiving what they say was a “number” of parent complaints. Superintendent Patti Banks said she was alarmed by the “romanticized” portrayal of sex in Geography Club, written by Tacoma resident Brent Hartzinger. In the book, a teen meets a stranger at

(Houston, TX ) – The attitude of American 'religious right' leaders toward gays and lesbians is akin to the anti-gay policies promoted by Adolf Hitler, according to the president of the Union for Reform Judaism, Rabbi Eric Yoffie. Yoffie made the controversial comments Saturday during the movement's national biennial conference in Houston. ”We cannot forget that when Hitler came to power in

(Poznan, Poland) – Dozens of gay rights activists are looking at potential fines or prison sentences of up to a month for rallying in the Polish city of Poznan over the weekend, defying a city wide ban on their 'Equality March', authorities said. In the latest standoff between an increasingly active gay rights movement and authorities in the staunch Roman Catholic nation, a few hundred activists

Rent's Poster Lesbians Tracie Thoms and Indina Menzel The highly anticipated film version of the Broadway hit musical Rent opens in theaters nationwide this week. Although the movie has so far received mixed reviews from critics, lesbian viewers will most likely give it a thumbs-up for two very good reasons - Tracie Thoms and Indina Menzel. The two women play Rent's poster lesbian couple

(San Francisco, CA) - PlanetOut Inc., a leading global media and entertainment company serving the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, and Q Television, have announced that QTN original programming will be distributed on PlanetOut Video. QTN is a groundbreaking 24/7 premium television network organized to create, develop and feature television programming for the LGBT community. Its

A councillor for the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) in Northern Ireland, led by Dr. Ian Paisley, has branded gays as “abominable and filthy” and to blame for Hurricane Katrina and the spread of AIDs in Africa. Maurice Mills, councillor in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, claimed that Hurricane Katrina was a judgement from God: “the media failed to report that the hurricane occurred just two days

When this CD came in the mail, I have to say I was shocked. Reba McEntire has 31 number one hits? I mean, I’ve always held her in high regard. Reba recorded one of the first songs to ever touch on the issue of AIDS (“She Thinks His Name Was John”). Her benefit song for the Salvation Army (“What If”) showed an assured if baby step toward commercial pop. And her stint on Broadway (Annie Get Your

(Spokane, WA) – A Washington judge granted a newspaper's request to make public the gay-themed contents of Spokane Mayor James West's city-owned laptop computer, but stopped at releasing some 3,300 pictures from Gay.com. Adams County Superior Court Judge Richard Miller ordered the release of an index of the dates and times West used the computer to access Gay.com and other similar Web sites, but

(Vancouver, Canada) – One of Vancouver’s largest gay bookstores has been given the go-ahead to argue in front of Canada’s Supreme Court that the government should fund its legal dispute with Canada Customs. Yesterday, the top court granted Little Sisters Book and Art Emporium the right to appeal a lower-court decision that cut its funding lifeline for the legal fight. Jim Deva, one of the

“It’s going to be a slutty summer,” one of the five struggling New York City waiters at the focus of Casper Andreas’ debut film Slutty Summer says midway through the screwball comedy’s first act. Talk about hitting the nail on the head. From blowjobs in bathrooms to orgies in bars, this group of sex obsessed men will try and do anything to feel needed and wanted, and while Slutty Summer may

(London, UK) - Home Secretary Charles Clarke has made the strongest hints yet that Crystal Meth (methylamphetamine) could be reclassified as a class-A drug. His comments follow a report from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD), which examined toxicity, risk, manufacture and prevalence of the drug and considered whether the current classification is appropriate. The ACMD did not

(San Francisco, CA) - PlanetOut Inc. (Nasdaq: LGBT), a leading global media and entertainment company serving the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community, has announced that media and publishing industry veteran Bob Cohen has joined PlanetOut's senior leadership team as the interim president for LPI Media. Cohen will oversee the newly-acquired national magazines and web sites of

(Little Rock, AK) – The Arkansas Department of Human Services has announced it will appeal a judge's ruling that the state had improperly banned gay men and lesbians from serving as foster parents. The agency filed papers with the Arkansas Court of Appeals on Thursday to contend a ruling last year by Pulaski County Circuit Judge Tim Fox that the state ban on gay foster parents was

(Washington, D.C.) - Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese made the following statement today in honor of the seventh annual Transgender Day of Remembrance, Nov. 20, 2005. "The Day of Remembrance is a powerful reminder of anti-transgender hate crimes and the need for full protections under law. More than a dozen transgender Americans were killed this year alone, and, sadly, that's almost

There are gay blogs, and there are political blogs, but until now there hasn't been much in the way of exclusively gay political blogs. That changes with the arrival of The Big Gay Picture (www.biggaypicture.com), a new blog from Erosion Media, creator of the popular websites, AfterEllen.com, AfterElton.com, AllGayNews.com, and FakeGayNews.com. "Most blogs are all over the place," says author and

(Vancouver, CA) - Plans for the 2nd World Outgames in Copenhagen to be held in 2009 continue to remain right on track. From the outset, Copenhagen has enjoyed strong local support, with the City Council granting the 2nd World Outgames significant financial funding on top of giving the Outgames the use of all sport facilities for free. The formation of a working committee involving local tourism,