QC World Headlines

FEATURED STORIES (from left to right): Key West, Florida – Massive gay New Year’s gathering lets gay men share a midnight kiss. United States – Openly gay soldier stayed out in army for six months. Las Vegas, Nevada – Vegas teens kill, rob gay teacher; claim ‘gay panic.’ Vatican City – Vatican defends homophobic pope. [2]
ASIA AND MIDDLE EAST
Tel Aviv, Israel – Hochner opens doors for gay cinema.
EUROPE
London, England – Top gay venue Astoria to hold ‘last ever party.’
United Kingdom – HIV charity boss recieves knighthood. [2]
United Kingdom – Gay youth radio station hit by credit crunch.
United Kingdom – Gay man suffers homophobic attack in club.
United Kingdom – Top players to speak out against homophobia in Football Association video.
Vatican City – Vatican breaks with Italian law after refusing to sign UN sexuality declaration. [2]
Vatican City – Vatican defends homophobic pope. [2]
NORTH AMERICA
Alabama – Soldier charged with sexually assaulting another male soldier.
Arkansas – ACLU sues over anti-gay adoption law passed. [2]
California – Young murderer of gay teen denied access to DA files.
California – Prop 8 backlash spurs calls to end donation disclosure laws.
Chicago, Illinois – Blue Man Group denies member arrest for gay public sex.
Ft. Wayne, Indiana – Suspect arrested in transgender murder case.
Indianapolis, Indiana – Media, legislature and police all guilty of ignorant speech about transgender murder victim.
Key West, Florida – Massive gay New Year’s gathering lets gay men share a midnight kiss.
Las Vegas, Nevada – Vegas teens kill, rob gay teacher; claim ‘gay panic.’
Memphis, Tennessee – Transgendered woman shot as violence is blamed on lack of jobs.
Minneapolis, Minnesota – Radio talk host, Mike Signorile, goes inside cruisy Larry Craig bathroom stall – so you don’t have to.
Minnesota – Antigay teen boot camp seeks half-million tax dollars. [2]
New Jersey – Church group discrimination against New Jersey lesbians ruled unlawful.
New Orleans, Louisiana – Three black gay men gunned down. [2]
New York – Anti-gay New York Senator Ruben Diaz mails anti-gay flyer.
Palm Springs, Florida – Long drive women’s golf champ a MTF transgender, raises fairness questions.
Park City, Utah – Despite threatened Utah/Cinemark boycotts, Sundance 2009, still a springboard for LGBT filmmakers.
Pennsylvania – Officials cave to anti-gays on pro-LGBT legislation.
Phoenix, Arizona – Donors of gay marriage ban did not properly fill out campaign donor list.
Salt Lake City, Utah – Local paper refuses anti-church ad refused from anti-Prop 8 gay man.
Salt Lake City, Utah – Latter Day Saints Movement President Thomas S. Monson declared Queerty’s 2008 Homophobe of the Year.
United States – ABC’s drama, Eli Stone features FTM transgender priest.
United States – AIDS denier, Christine Maggiore, dies of AIDS.
United States – Feature: Latter day protest? Proposition 8 and sports.
United States – Health: Gay and bisexual black men have lowest rate of prostate testing, research finds.
United States – Journalist sued by shock-jock, Howard Stern, says “Gay is OK” as libel defense.
United States – LGBT Latino year in review.
United States – Openly gay soldier stayed out in army for six months.
United States – Time Warner cable to temporarily drop lesbian and gay cable channel.
United States – Gay rights and Drug War neck-and-neck at Change.gov.
United States – Writer criticizes Milk for clean, mainstream version of gay life that avoid realistic, unsettling portrayals.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nancy-goldstein/harvey-milk-deserved-a-be_b_153950.html
Washington D.C. – President Bush signs gay rights bill.
Washington D.C. – Campaign: Don’t let Obama forget his LGBT promises
Washington D.C. – Lawsuit filed to stop homophobic preacher Warren from speaking at inauguration.
Washington D.C. – President-Elect Obama won’t attend Mid-Atlantic Leather event.
West Hollywood, California – Couple who hung Palin effigy decorate home for holidays and Prop 8 injustice.
OCEANIA
Alice Springs, Australia – The continent’s lesbian capital.
Australia – Equality act inquiry could be delayed until 2011.
Melbourne, Australia – Gold Olympic Diver, Matthew Mitcham, puzzled by lack of endorsements.
Sydney, Australia – Transgender author revisits her story
WORLDWIDE
Community – Gay marriage facts: Low divorce/abortion rates follow gay marriage. [2] Community – Top legal website predicts gay marriage as 2009 hot topic.
http://www.queerty.com/what-threat-to-family-countries-and-states-with-gay-marriage-have-low-divorce-rates-20081230/
Travel – The world’s gayest dive spots.