Mayor Boris Johnson channeled Brokeback at this weekend’s gay pride march in London. While most politicians garner praise for their pride appearances, Johnson suffered some mixed reviews: Johnson sported a pink cowboy hat as he led a Gay Pride parade through London, drawing boos along the way from some who remembered his past doubts about civil partnerships. But others at Saturday’s annual march say they are reserving judgment, to see what Johnson does as mayor. Johnson’s dubious gay politics included comments worrying that gay unions would lead to polygamy and bestial nuptials. Wrote Johnson, ‘I saw no reason in principle why ...

Budapest’s gays are going to have a complicated pride. Not only are they currently fearing for their lives after two bomb attacks, but revelers will now have to contend with anti-gay activists, who have been given a permit to march alongside the pride parade. Far-right activists György Budaházy and László Toroczkai made an online appeal on kuruc.info for “Hungarian patriots” to go to Oktogon in Budapest on 5 July to demonstrate against this year’s gay pride event. “We will not tolerate foreign perverts of whatever colour forcing their alien and sick world onto Hungary,” they wrote on the website. The Rendszerváltó ...

As anti-gay Anglicans threaten to seize the international movement, activists are raising their voices - and fists - against the conservative sect. But, of course, that same sect’s not about to stand by silently: Gay rights activists have been thrown out of a summit of rebel Anglicans opposed to liberalisation of church teaching on issues such as homosexuality. Campaigner Peter Tatchell and fellow protesters attempted to storm the meeting in central London which follows the setting up of a break-away group threatening the union of the world-wide communion. … Mr Tatchell said: “this breakaway faction of the Anglican Church is based on ...

Bulgaria’s bent boys and girls came out to show their pride this weekend. Unfortunately for them, however, a group of anti-gay activists, most of them skinheads, also took to the streets, but with an entirely different mission: destruction. Eighty-eight people have been arrested for trying to attack participants in Bulgaria’s first-ever gay pride march, the interior ministry said Sunday. They include Nationalist Union leader Boyan Rasate, who faces legal proceedings for hooliganism, the ministry said, after he launched a campaign against Saturday’s march and urged people to openly resist it. … The march came under attack from nationalists and skinheads who were seen ...

India’s gays made quite a statement this weekend. Though homos have previously put on pride parades in New Delhi, the festivities stretched across the nation in the biggest gay outing in India’s history this weekend: Waving rainbow flags and chanting “Gay India does exist,” nearly 1,000 gay activists and their supporters marched in coordinated parades in three Indian cities Sunday, demonstrating their growing confidence and hope for change on a subcontinent where homosexuality is illegal. Activists in New Delhi, Bangalore and Kolkata called the parades the largest display of gay pride in India’s modern history. They said the public rallies ...

Pink News is reporting that a gay bar in Budapest was fire-bombed last night after its address appeared on a hate group’s website. It’s unclear how heavily the bar, called Action, was damaged. Gay rights groups have voiced concerns about extreme right-wing violence. They accuse a hate group using a website called kuruc.info for last night’s bombing. The website, a Hungarian site hosted in the United States, is known for posting addresses, phone numbers and other personal information about gay activists. Yesterday, the site post an address list of all the gay bars in Budapest, with Action being the first on the list. Budapest’s ...

Some additional information out of Havana on what went down before yesterday's planned gay rights march there. The Miami Herald, reports on a conference call from gay Cuban activists in Havana to Miami: "'The march was not able to take place because the government stopped our leaders,' said Ron Brenesky, a Miami Cuban who heads the Unity Coalition, South Florida's largest Latin gay rights group. 'Our brothers and sisters in Cuba, they are not alone,' said Brenesky, who spoke with gay activists in Cuba by cellphone Wednesday evening. Unity Coalition members gathered for the phone call at Club Azucar ...

An estimated 2,000 police officers will be on hand for Jerusalem’s gay pride march later today. And they’re already hard at work: “Police on Thursday afternoon detained a haredi man in Jerusalem for holding an insulting sign against the gay pride parade, some two hours before the scheduled start of the event in the capital.” Last year’s pride sparked riots and other forms of violence, but virulent anti-gay activists recently vowed to avoid protesting lest they bring the gays more press. [Jerusalem Post] ...

After the jump you will find a webcomic created by OurLittleCornfield.com. When viewing it, just ask yourself: If the celebration in question was a day honoring the country of Niger, would Mr. Riffle and Mr. Williams have been so willing to make the wordplay? Alright, so there will surely be some who defend this as a joke. And trust us: Nobody loves a good laugh more than one (even ones that good-naturedly rib LGBT people). We also see ways in which similar wordplay could be done in good taste. But what we have here is a punchline setup up entirely around ...

Gay activists celebrated yesterday afternoon after Arizona’s Senate failed to pass an anti-gay marriage measure. With the failure, many assumed that the proposed ban wouldn’t make November’s ballot. Unfortunately, they may have spoken too soon: The thirty-member chamber voted 14-11 to place a proposed constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage onto the ballot. But since the Arizona constitution requires that a majority of the members elected must approve the measure, sixteen votes are needed for passage. When supporters of the ban realized that they didn’t have enough votes — Sen. Karen Johnson (R-Mesa) had gone on vacation — Sen. Linda Gray (R-Phoenix) ...

The gay media watchdogs over at GLAAD have been watching an upcoming episode of FX’s 30 Days - and they don’t like what they see. A forthcoming episode of the series, which transplants people into new lives for a month, features an anti-gay woman who trade places with a child-rearing lesbian. Cue dramatic music… In an effort to highlight opposing views, 30 Days‘ producers include an interview with right wing activist Peter Sprigg of the Family Research Council, who asserts “Homosexuality is associated with higher rates of sexual promiscuity, sexually transmitted diseases, mental illness, substance abuse, domestic violence, and child sexual ...

This is how Ron Prentice of ProtectMarriage.com refers to the pro-equality side for calling the legality of the California anti-gay ballot initiative into question: “This is an act of desperation,”...“The voters deserve a chance to vote on this important issue, but our extremist opponents want to silence the voters." We, in the most drippingly sarcastic tone we can possibly muster, reply: "Well, if those who are staunchly against marriage equality are moderates... ...then extremists we'll just have to be. After all, we would never be 'sensible' and 'non-extremist' enough to put personal faith conviction above legality, or to dedicate our ...

California’s gay marriage drama took a new twist Friday. Pro-gay activists filed a legal brief to block a proposed amendment banning gay marriage. The activists insist that the amendment counts as a “revision” of the constitution, which requires legislative - not electoral - action. The Supreme Court will rule on the petition later this summer. [LA Times] ...