GLBT News From Around The World…

Each week, QC will be bringing you GLBT News from around the world. At QC, we strive to bring you the best in adult sites, pictures, and gayness. So now we are adding some news to help keep you informed of what’s going on in our world. This saves you the long searches of finding what is going on right now and the top headlines that effect our community. Please feel free to discuss the articles and or offer opinions or your views. QC is always interested in what you think and have to say. I was asked to start adding some commentary to each news item. I have done so with each as a “My Take On It.”
We Finally Have A Gay President Wanna Be
“Gay and lesbian people in our country are fighting a mean-spirited movement to harm them and to discriminate against them,” Feingold, D-Wis., said in a telephone interview. “I stand with them against that movement, and I’m proud to stand with them.”

My Take on it: Man, I hope this is serious and not just a diving board for the 2008 elections. If he is serious this could be an amazing turn of events.

Playboy Going Gay
LONDON: Playboy, the US-based adult publisher and broadcaster, is considering using Britain as a testing ground for moving into the gay market.

My Take on it: It’s not the first time the GLBT community has been discovered to be a gold mine.

Korea Wants Gay Soldiers
Korea will revise or repeal military laws that stipulate punishment and discharge of gay soldiers, Defense Minister Yoon Kwang-ung said Tuesday. The plan, which reflects a January recommendation by the National Human Rights Commission, is opposed by senior officers, who say it will cause problems maintaining discipline in military units.

My Take on it: Sounds to me like another country will be adopting a “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy soon.

Chicago’s Men Are Spreading The Syph
Newly diagnosed cases of primary and secondary syphilis are rising among gay and bisexual men in the Chicago area, reports the Windy City Times. The city’s health department reports that there were 412 cases of syphilis reported in the city in 2005, a 39% increase over 2004’s figure. Almost three quarters of the new cases were among gay and bisexual men, an increase of more than 50% from 2004’s level. More than half of the gay and bisexual men diagnosed with syphilis in 2005 were also co-infected with HIV.
William Wong, medical director of the city health department’s STD/HIV prevention and care program, told the Times that he recommends sexually active gay men be checked for syphilis infection every six months and sexually active HIV-positive gay men be screened for the STD every three months. (The Advocate)

My Take on it: The article is very clear and to the point.

Ireland Is Now Officially Gay
DUBLIN, April 4, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Ireland’s Prime Minister, Bertie Ahern, pledged to an audience of homosexual activists that Ireland would install gay “marriage” as in the UK. “Sexual orientation cannot, and must not, be the basis of a second-class citizenship. Our laws have changed, and will continue to change, to reflect this principle,” Ahern told Ireland’s leading homosexual political pressure group the Gay and Lesbian Equality Network on Monday.

My Take on it: After reading last week about the disgustingly-high rate of GLBT teen suicide in Ireland this is good news. Small steps are still steps in the right direction.

Gays Vs. The Immigrants
Immigration reform needs to get in line behind the gay civil rights movement. Discrimination and unequal treatment of gay Americans has not yet been resolved.

My Take on it: Both are very pressing issues.

Gay Disney World due in 2009
Mickey Mouse may no longer be the big cheese in the theme park world as animatronic gay emperors and Cinderfella look set to take centre stage in a gay amusement resort.

My Take on it: Wow, that is interesting. We complain constantly of being separated and yet we end up creating a separatist amusement park?

If You Are A Drama Queen, MTV and Rolling Stone Want You
Forget suffering through an MBA program — reality television is finally recruiting journalists. MTV and Rolling Stone are teaming up to offer summer internships in New York City. The chosen contestants will write full time for Rolling Stone, have the chance to interview celebrities and politicians, and have their entire life taped for three months.