QC World Headlines

FEATURED STORIES (left to right): California – Four arrested in brutal gang rape of lesbian, to be charged with hate crime. [2] [3] (EDITOR: Throw away the key.) Darlaston, United Kingdom – Gay club clashes with local council over ‘kinky’ sign. London, England – Gay housing association association hits quarter of a century. Sydney, Australia – Gay Australian man first to receive late partner’s military pension. [2]
AFRICA
South Africa – President of African nation appoints gay judge to highest court.
EUROPE
Britain – Activist Peter Tatchell condemns homophobic BBC program using slurs against bisexual star, Lindsay Lohan.
Darlaston, United Kingdom – Gay club clashes with local council over ‘kinky’ sign.
London, England – Gay housing association association hits quarter of a century.
United Kingdom – Graham Norton plans ‘risqué’ jokes for Eurovision.
NORTH AMERICA
Atlanta, Georgia – Black gay activists say Ebenezer Baptist should dump Warren as speaker for MLK Day service.
California – Four arrested in brutal gang rape of lesbian, to be charged with hate crime. [2] [3] (EDITOR: Throw away the key.)
Canada – Murder charges are now on the table for knowingly spreading HIV.
Dallas, Texas – Court to consider ban on distribution of free condoms by county health workers.
Detroit, Michigan – LGBT community center, Affirmations in Detroit, cuts back staff, hours in struggle to survive.
Las Vegas, Nevada – State complaint alleges barroom sex in gay bar. (EDITOR: Talk about “playing the slots”)
Los Angeles, California – Anti-gay, anti-marriage equality pop-star, Prince, didn’t vote for Prop 8, Obama, or at all.
Louisiana – Governor Jindal’s “family commission” looks to Arkansas gay-adoption ban as model for future battle.
New Hampshire – Push for gay marriage bill.
Northampton, Massachusetts – Longstanding gay-themed shop, Pride & Joy, to close. [2]
Portland, Oregon – Newly sworn-in Sam Adams makes city nation’s largest with openly gay mayor.
San Francisco, California – Openly transgender minister ordained in Lutheran church.
Tampa, Florida – Tampa-area couple with two foster daughters profiled as state waits on adoption laws.
United States – Arguments against same-sex marriage citing incest and pedophilia gradually losing rhetorical steam.
United States – Episcopal Church is splitting over gay equality.
United States – Satire: Americans For Truth about Sinistrality (AFTAS) ask for funds in fight against supposedly natural “wrong-handedness.”
Vancouver, Canada – Anti-gay hate church a no-show at planned protest against The Laramie Project
Washington D.C. – Was Bush all that bad for the gays?
OCEANIA
Sydney, Australia – Gay Australian man first to receive late partner’s military pension. [2]
WORLDWIDE
Community – Feature: Reflections on use of “that’s so gay” by straights and gays.
Community – Feature: Should I be so offended by the term “tranny”?