ROSEVILLE, Calif. (KTXL – CNN) — Smooching and holding hands may not seem like a big deal, but two men were asked to leave the Westfield Galleria in Roseville, Calif. Saturday for doing just that. “I kissed him on the cheek. That’s how my boyfriend and I show affection,” said Daniel Chesmore. Sitting on the…
WARSAW, Poland (CNN) — Lech Walesa, the man who led Poland to freedom in its Cold War struggle with the Soviet Bloc, is refusing to apologize for suggesting gay Polish politicians should “sit behind a wall” in the country’s parliament. The former Polish president and Nobel Peace Prize winner provoked uproar in Poland when he…
(CNN) — “Call Me Maybe” singer Carly Rae Jepsen is the latest act to drop out of the Boy Scouts of America’s upcoming Jamboree because of the organization’s ban on openly gay members. The Canadian entertainer announced her decision on Tuesday, saying in a statement posted to her Twitter account that she’s pulled out of…
(CNN) — George Zimmerman’s attorneys say they’re abandoning their pretrial attempts to argue he’s immune from prosecution in the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin, contending they don’t have time to prepare for that and the trial. Zimmerman, charged with second-degree murder, says he shot the 17-year-old in self-defense after he saw the young man…
http://youtu.be/UGYa-IcphX0 HuffPost Gay Voices reports that Philadelphia drag queen Martha Graham Cracker, after being invited to read a children’s book to a New Jersey after-school kids program — and then disinvited for being an “inappropriate” choice, was warmly received by Philadelphia’s Christ Church Neighborhood House on Sunday. The drag cabaret legend read Dr. Seuss’s classic Green Eggs…
(CNN) — The number of American “patriot” extremist groups has reached a record level, according to a new study, and experts are warning of a wave of anti-government violence. A report released Tuesday by the Southern Poverty Law Center counted 1,360 “patriot” extremist groups in 2012 — up by 7% from 2011. The study defines…
(CNN) — The case of the first toddler ever to be “functionally cured” of HIV could have wide-ranging effects on the global fight to end the AIDS epidemic. “If we can replicate this in other infants … this has huge implications for the burden of infection that’s occurring globally,” said Dr. Deborah Persaud, a pediatrician…
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender investors are largely optimistic about their financial futures, but many don’t realize just how much extra money same-sex couples pay because the federal government doesn’t recognize gay marriage. Two-thirds, or 66%, of LGBT investors are optimistic about their financial futures, compared to just half of the…
(CNN) — Science has come a long way since HIV was identified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Here are some of the most memorable moments in AIDS history. 1981 June 5, the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report publishes the first mention of what later is determined to be HIV. The report…
