Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum says he opposes same-sex couples as parents, but he would wait until a challenge to Florida’s ban on gay adoption makes its way to the state’s highest court before deciding whether to try to stop gay couples from being foster parents.
Olympian Greg Louganis is considered one of the greatest divers in history and an icon in the LGBT community. Decades after Louganis’ run in the Olympics, Tom Daley took over as the latest gay aquatic athlete to inspire young queer kids around the world. But there’s a new kid in town, and luckily for us, he’s not camera shy.
Thousands of revelers attended Jerusalem’s Gay Pride parade under police protection on Thursday, bringing the rainbow flag to the traditionally conservative city. More than 10,000 people attended the parade through central Jerusalem, police said, with dozens of roads closed off by security two years after a 16-year-old girl was stabbed to death by an ultra-Orthodox Jew during the event.
Check It, the festival-fave documentary about a gang of LGBT youth of color in Washington, D.C., is coming to a video platform near you. The film tells the story of a group of young LGBT people, mostly African-American, who responded to bullying by forming a gang called Check It in 2009.
The Haitian Senate has approved a law that would make it a crime to “publicly demonstrate support” for gay rights. The bill still has to head over to the lower house, but if greenlit, the law would make it a crime to take part in or even to witness to same-sex unions. People who even attempt to take part in any same-sex marriage would face criminal charges with up to three years in prison for “the parties, co-parties and accomplices” to a same-sex marriage.
The world has changed a great deal in the nearly 20 years since “Will & Grace” first premiered. The show, revolutionary for his portrayal of gay characters in 1998, returns this fall with the understanding that there are still more barriers to break. “When we started it was revolutionary to have two gay characters,” said star Debra Messing. “We were ‘LGB,’ but we stopped at B. My hope is we can now finish the alphabet.”
Video chat company VS Media has given Gay.com, a domain valued at millions of dollars, to a charity that will use it to assist the LGBT community. Gay.com was one of the top online gay personals sites in the world when it debuted in 1997 — and good domain names were so plentiful that companies didn’t need to invent new words for them, like “Google.” But it has lost ground to sites like Manhunt and apps like Grindr.
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