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Buffalo, New York across the Niagara River from Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada Copyright © Gordon L Wolford Buffalo on the new list of recession-proof metro areas, with six of 21 spots, according to MetroMonitor, a quarterly report released by Brookings Institute’s Metropolitan Policy Program. Buffalo in fact took the number 5 spot ahead of [...] getty images The champions of the National Hockey League are proving to be champions of open-mindedness. They have accepted an invitation from the Chicago Gay Hockey Association to be part of the city’s Gay Pride Parade on Sunday. Sopel, a Blackhawks defenseman, is bringing his family and the Stanley Cup. “I’m honored to do it,” Sopel [...] In this French commercial, an adorable gay school boy has lunch at McDonald’s with his father, who doesn’t realize he’s gay. And McDonald’s isn’t passing any judgment. Come as you are, the ad says. Vive la France, Vive la difference! Last month B.C. Douglas, the man who was the voice of the announcer in Geico ads, had a couple drinks too many and called FreedomWorks Tea Party members and left a rather sarcastic voice mail about their strident rhetoric on health care reform legislation. Now, Douglas has made a very funny (and somewhat hot) public [...] Active duty U.S, soldiers in Iraq dramatize what it will be like with the end of ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’. Apparently, things will be both fun and hot, all set to the beat of Ke$ha. In a PSA produced for Cyndi Lauper’s True Colors’ Give a Damn campaign Elton John, Clay Aiken, Wanda Sykes and more talk about hate crime awareness. In the first part of the video, True Blood star Anna Paquin comes out as bisexual. Paquin won an Oscar at the age of 11 for supporting actress [...] Lt. Dan Choi, a gay Arab linguist whose case for possible discharge from the New York national guard is still under review, has long opposed this policy. A second soldier, James Pietrangelo II, a plaintiff in the case turned down in the Supreme Court last year, also chained himself with Choi to the White House [...] A Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Rally that was arranged for the filming of a Kathy Griffin’s My Life on the D-List, appears to have been hijacked by Iraq vet, Army officer, Arab linguist, and openly gay Dan Choi. Choi disrupted the Washington, DC event and has chained himself to the White House fence to [...] The National Marriage Equality advocacy group-Freedom to Marry offers some advice for lgbt people when completing the 2010 census forms. This year same-sex couples have an important opportunity to stand up and be counted. The Rev. Robert Carter, who in the early 1970s was one of the first Roman Catholic priests in the country to declare publicly that he was gay and who helped found the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, died on Feb. 22 in the Bronx. He was 82. His death, at a Jesuit health care facility, [...] |
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