The ad in question was not about sexuality. It featured a father holding his son and the words, "All I want for my son is for him to grow up knowing how to do the right thing." Like the Tebow ad, it included the address of Focus on the Family's Web site and the slogan, "Celebrate Family. Celebrate Life." Now nice, I would have thought after what Miller did to Jerkins, it would mean that many of us would see what signal fathers goes through in after divorce, no being able to see or be apart of their kids lives. ...

General Petraeus was asked about 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' on Meet the Press and said he supports Gates' plan for a study but is saving his opinion on the DADT repeal for testimony in front of Congress: "The U.S. commander overseeing troops in Iraq and Afghanistan says he's not sure that troops in the field care about the sexual orientation of fellow service members. Petraeus says he's served alongside gays and lesbians, and what matters are someone's skills and smarts...Advocates for a quick repeal have said the yearlong review is a stalling tactic. But Petraeus says it's a ...

Source: Eyewitness News - Feb 13 Gay and lesbian rights groups accused law enforcement officials of not taking hate crimes against homosexuals seriously. Rights campaigners held a demonstration outside Parliament on Friday February 12 to voice their concerns, chanting “Free Africa”. They have questioned why it has taken almost four years for lesbian activist Zoliswa Nkonyana’s murderers to be brought to book. Her murder trial is still on-going in the Khayelitsha Magistrate’s Court. Eight suspects have been arrested in connection with her murder, and the trial will resume in March. The Coalition to End Discrimination’s Koketso Makofane said Nkonyana’s drawn out trial is ...

Shameless hypocrites. Virginia Governor strips protections for gays and lesbians from anti-bias order. Scottish Terrier named Sadie is country's top dog. PETA protests. Pete Wentz wheeled out at fashion show in strait-jacket and Hannibal Lecter mask. Gardasil seen to prevent anal cancer in men. Inquest: Alexander McQueen died of asphyxiation, hanging.Whataya want from me? To turn off your damn phone. Study: Half a million Brits only wash their sheets three times a year. "One in six people also owned up to waiting at least four weeks ...

On Monday, I posted about another reported arrest of a 60-year-old gay man in Malawi. That's been confirmed:   "'Yes, we have arrested one Mr. Tony Chirwa after a complaint that he sodomised a young man,' police spokesman Dave Chingwalu confirmed to PANA on Monday. Chingwalu said Chirwa, an artisan at a weaving company in the city, has been staying alone and reportedly lured the 23-year-old man, whose identities police would not disclose, to his house. 'He asked the young man to undress and he sodomised him and the young man reported the incident to police,' said Chingwalu. A medical report, tendered ...

Okay, so check whatever opinions you might have about Dick, and watch this little clip: Regardless of your feelings, you probably find this to be a mostly fair assessment, right? It's essentially a summation of where we stand, what's been said, and how we're proceeding. And no matter how one feels about Cheney, he does have insider knowledge of the process. Well, leave it to the Family Research Council to mine a pro-gay agenda out of simple assessment. In a piece headed "Cheney Gets His Facts Wrong," FRC says of the former Veep: I think much of what he had to ...

Details are scarce but the AP is reporting that another man has been arrested in Malawi "in a sweep directed at homosexuals." More: "Police spokesman Dave Chingwalu said the 60-year-old man arrested Monday was charged with sodomy. The hunt, arrests and prosecution of homosexuals comes amid a growing local and international campaign for Malawi to 'go easy' on gays and lesbians."A 21-year-old gay activist named Peter Sawali was recently arrested for putting up gay rights posters. And Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga have been in jail for almost two months for holding an engagement ceremony.This morning I ...

Those progressive, gay-loving scribes over at Creative Loafing unloaded their pent up Valentine’s Day frustrations on us last week with their annual “Lust List.” And true to form, it was LGBT inclusive. So if you’re not still bitter from being single on Valentine’s Day, check out the blue collar hotties the Loaf presents in the eighth rendition of their list. You can also meet them in person Monday during the Loaf’s “Lust List Party” at Halo. Like the Loaf, Halo on occasion goes gay, too. Mostly on Thursdays for Blur, but you never know. This year, the token gay is ...

At its national convention in Washington this week, the 63,000-member association Reserve Officers Association (ROA) voted to drop its long-standing resolution supporting a ban on allowing gay men and lesbians to serve in the military, Military Times reports. The vote from the conservative military group comes in the same week that four different national polls show widespread support for repealing the military’s current “don’t ask, don’t tell” (DADT) policy,  which bans gay men and lesbians in the military from being open about their sexuality. Even former Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday on ABC’s This Week that ...

They haven't yet come out in favor of repeal. However, the 63,000-member Reserve Officers Association has decided to dedicate their proficiency with the concept of reserving toward their own opinions about gays in camo: WASHINGTON – Members of the Reserve Officers Association of the United States voted Wednesday to rescind its previous call for complete exclusion of gays and lesbians serving in the U.S. military. The association also rejected by a two-thirds vote a proposal to endorse the current Don't Ask, Don't Tell (DADT) law, which allows gays and lesbians to serve, provided they keep silent about their sexual orientation. “While our membership ...

Openly gay Lt. Dan Choi, on duty in the National Guard, this weekAs the debate over how and when to get rid of America's anachronistic policy of excluding openly gay men and lesbian from serving in the Armed Forces, lots of polling is being conducted to see how much public opinion has changed from 1993. The answer is, quite a lot.Nate Silver has analyzed the data and summarizes the results as:Four organizations -- FOX, Gallup, Quinnipiac, and CNN -- have released polls on Don't Ask Don't Tell since Obama's inauguration. They show an average of 58 ...

Orlando Performance artist Brian Feldman plans to marry Hannah Feldman (below), a stranger he chose from three women who showed up to his call for wives on February 8, as a demonstration of the inequalities faced by gays and lesbians who want to marry. Meet Brian and his three prospective brides, AFTER THE JUMP... Writes Feldman: "Is this entire project a mockery of marriage? Not at all! It’s completely within the legal rights of Brian and any other heterosexual couple with $123.50 (plus $6 for a standard marriage certificate). Sound absurd? Not nearly absurd as denying the equal ...

Lt. Dan Choi shows what an amazing spokesman he has become not only for gays and lesbians, but for those in the military, in this interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN.Choi, as you may have heard, was recently asked to return to drill by his commander in the National Guard. He is not, as some have reported, in "active duty". Hear his explanation here.Blitzer asks him if his return to drill has caused any of his fellow soldiers to become unncomfortable.Says Choi: "When you assume that people would be uncomfortable and quit you are insulting soldiers in ...

Source: Radio Netherlands Worldwide - 30 January As Uganda considers strengthening its already homophobic laws, this week we present a special edition of the programme looking at what it's like to be gay throughout Africa with voices from Namibia, Ghana, Uganda and South Africa. Life for gays? Africa is not a place to be out and proud right now. Homosexual acts are illegal in 37 countries on the continent and in recent years many African leaders have been increasing the anti-gay rhetoric. In Uganda a proposed law would make being gay punishable by life imprisonment. Jonathan is joined by Ian ...

  Source: Afrique en ligne - 3 Feb

Police in Malawi are hunting for a group of gay rights activists who are secretly mobilizing the public to warm up to homosexuals following the high profile arrest of Malawi's first openly gay couple in the commercial capital, Blantyre, over Christmas, PANA reported. This followed the arrest at the weekend of a 21-year-old man who was caught pasting pro-gay rights posters on the streets of Blantyre. "We arrested Peter Sawali last Saturday after we were tipped that there are people pasting posters promoting the so-called rights of gays and lesbians on the ...

Pentagon and Congress should act quickly to end gay military ban, says American Psychological Association — Cites large body of scientific research. WASHINGTON, D.C. — The American Psychological Association urged both the Pentagon and Congress this week to move swiftly to end the restrictions on gays and lesbians serving openly in the military, noting that there [...] ...

Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni, photo: AFP Despite pressure from some groups to skip the event, President Obama attended the National Prayer Breakfast Thursday morning. But he used his speech at the event to strongly condemn the kill-gays bill in Uganda, which was introduced into that country’s parliament by a member a shadowy political-religious group that sponsors the prayer breakfast. “We may disagree about gay marriage,” the president said, “but surely we can agree that it is unconscionable to target gays and lesbians for who they are, whether it is right here in the United States or as ...

This morning at the National Prayer Breakfast, both Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Obama directly addressed the insane Uganda legislation. Here are the president's thoughts: "Challenging each other's ideas can renew our democracy. But when we challenge each other's motives, it becomes harder to see what we hold in common. We forget that we share at some deep level the same dreams -- even when we don't share the same plans on how to fulfill them. We may disagree about the best way to reform our health care system, but surely we can agree that no one ought ...

Rep. Duncan Hunter Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) offered one of the more bizarre GOP arguments yesterday against repeal of the military’s ‘don’t ask, don’t tell policy’. In an interview with NPR’s Melissa Block [clip below] last night on All Things Considered, Hunter raised the specter of “hermaphrodites and transgenders” in uniform as a reason to maintain the policy: … I think the folks who have been in the military that have been in these very close situations with each other, there has to be a special bond there. And I think that bond is broken if you open ...

The TSA is conducting an internal investigation at an Orlando Field Office regarding a 'Jeopardy'-style board posted by employees that mocked various minorities including gays and lesbians, CNN reports:"The board, resembling the TV game show 'Jeopardy,' includes categories such as 'pickle smokers,' 'our gang' and 'creatures,' which sources said were names used by managers for gay men, African-Americans and lesbians."Lovely. Just think what fun they'll make of your naked body-scan photos. ...