Gay News

Because Matthew Roche was terminally ill and was not expected to live long enough to complete the standard two week waiting period that the UK civil partnership law requires, Roche and his partner Chris Cramp became the first gay couple to be joined legally. The couple from Brighton, pictured, had been together for seven years and were given special… <a href="http://www.queerday.com/2005/dec/07/matthew_roche_first_in_uk_to_wed_gay_partner_dies_of_cancer.html">Read complete entry at Queer Day Magazine</a>
View more…. [Date: 08-Dec-05 ]

Spokane Mayor Jim West was recalled from office yesterday in a special election prompted by a gay sex scandal and accounts that he\\\’d offered positions at City Hall jobs and perks to young men he met while cruising gay chatrooms online. In the city\\\’s first all-mail election, 38,718, or 65 percent, voted "yes" to recall, while 20,681, or 35… <a href="http://www.queerday.com/2005/dec/07/voters_oust_jim_west_spokanes_gay_sex_scandal_mayor.html">Read complete entry at Queer Day Magazine</a>
View more…. [Date: 07-Dec-05 ]

Pop music star Robbie Williams won his libel lawsuit yesterday in London over an allegation that he was secretly gay. The People newspaper article, headlined "Robbie\\\’s secret gay lover," alleged that Williams was "pretending" to be straight when "in reality he was a homosexual who had engaged in casual and sordid homosexual encounters with strangers," including enticing a stranger… <a href="http://www.queerday.com/2005/dec/07/robbie_williams_wins_gay_libel_suit.html">Read complete entry at Queer Day Magazine</a>
View more…. [Date: 07-Dec-05 ]

Page Six reminds us all that the word "fan" is actually just short for "fanatic." At Monday night\\\’s benefit concert for Peter Gabriel\\\’s charity, Witness, the beautiful and bisexual Angelina Jolie stopped to pose for a photo with a striking young female guest. What Jolie missed moments later was the woman flashing her backside to revelers, revealing an 8-inch… <a href="http://www.queerday.com/2005/dec/07/angelina_jolie_tattoo_gives_new_meaning_to_butt_worship.html">Read complete entry at Queer Day Magazine</a>
View more…. [Date: 07-Dec-05 ]

Awhile back I received an email from a young gay man named Viktor. He was living in Krasnoyarsk, a Siberian city in Russia, and given that the only family who knew that he was gay had disowned him, he\\\’d kept the secret to himself and wanted to correspond with someone who would understand. Thus I became a cautious online… <a href="http://www.queerday.com/2005/dec/07/my_russian_gay_pen_pal_the_internet_scam.html">Read complete entry at Queer Day Magazine</a>
View more…. [Date: 07-Dec-05 ]

USA: The Ford Motor Company confirmed they\\\’re pulling advertising for their Land Rover and Jaguar brands from gay media just days after the anti-gay American Family Association said it had reached an agreement with the automaker to avoid a boycott by the group. The AFA had demanded the company stop supporting gay causes…. <a href="http://www.queerday.com/2005/dec/06/ford_pulls_gay_advertising_due_after_afa_threats.html">Read complete entry at Queer Day Magazine</a>
View more…. [Date: 07-Dec-05 ]

Rumor has it that Elton John has scheduled his civil partnership ceremony with his longtime partner, David Furnish, for December 21 at the baroque Konstantinovsky Palace outside St. Petersburg. For those of you that are geographically challenged, that\\\’s in Russia, not the UK. Russian Nationalists like Nikolai Kuryanovich aren\\\’t the least bit happy about it either. Kuryanovich addressed the… <a href="http://www.queerday.com/2005/dec/06/elton_johns_gay_union_opposed_by_russian_nationalists.html">Read complete entry at Queer Day Magazine</a>
View more…. [Date: 07-Dec-05 ]

UK same-sex civil partnerships officially passed into law yesterday, thus the long expected first ceremonies that received royal assent over a year ago will begin later this month. The unions kick off in Northern Ireland on the 19th, in Scotland on the 20th and in England and Wales on the 21st - which is when Elton John and David… <a href="http://www.queerday.com/2005/dec/06/gay_civil_unions_officially_become_law_in_the_uk.html">Read complete entry at Queer Day Magazine</a>
View more…. [Date: 07-Dec-05 ]

The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments today in FAIR v. Rumsfeld, a case challenging the federal Solomon Amendment. The Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR) coalition of law schools is challenging the constitutionality of the amendment, passed in 1996, which requires universities to grant military recruiters full access to students despite university non-discrimination policies which bar recruiters… <a href="http://www.queerday.com/2005/dec/06/supreme_court_hears_solomon_amendment_challenge_today.html">Read complete entry at Queer Day Magazine</a>
View more…. [Date: 07-Dec-05 ]