Our stomachs have been churning over the last few weeks over Uganda’s absolutely revolting proposed anti-homosexuality bill. If you still haven’t heard of it, you must be living in a cave somewhere. Under the new bill, anyone convicted of having gay sex will be subject to the minimum punishment of life imprisonment. If the accused [...]

Would you believe it? Houston, Texas — the fourth largest city in the US — is now the first major American city to have an out gay mayor. Annise Parker received 53% of the vote, edging out her opponent Gene Locke, who was pitching to become the city’s second black mayor. While Parker avoided making [...]

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It’s the end of an era in Salt Lake City, Utah:

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Would you believe it? Salt Lake City was home to the oldest gay bar in the western US and now that bar is gone

Today is the 11th annual Transgender Day of Remembrance, and as this video shows, there is an appalling number of transgendered individuals that have been killed in hate crimes around the world just for being who they are. We don’t have the figures to back this up, but while we were working on our IDAHO [...]

While the fight for gay marriage and full equality goes on in the United States and other more developed nations, the struggle for acceptance has only just begun for our brothers and sisters elsewhere. Watch the story of Dylan Chen from China, one of the key organisers of Shanghai Pride, mainland China’s first ever Pride [...]

We’ve put them all in one place so you won’t need to go around hunting for them!

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NEM speeches: Lady Gaga, Lt Dan Choi, Judy Shepard, Cynthia Nixon and Cleve Jones

Great collab from AriellelsHamming just in time for Coming Out Day:

And yet another classic from LizzytheLezzy:

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Happy Coming Out Day 2009!

Happy Coming Out Day everybody!!!
For those of you that missed it, here’s President Obama’s speech at the Human Rights Campaign’s national dinner last night.
Today is the National Equality March that we’ve all been waiting for. For those of you that aren’t able to make it to Washington DC, you can catch all the action live [...]

Listen up, people: Homosexuality is “not acceptable” to Ali Abdussalam Treki, of Libya, the new president of the 64th session of the United Nations General Assembly. And guess what, since most of the mainstream media are too preoccupied with other issues to tell you exactly what this guy said, we’ve decided to take it upon [...]

Here’s a quick shoutout for our friend, the inimitable Ruth Selwyn, who has just released a new book on her  character Lizzy the Lezzy, an animated lesbian standup comedy character with a cult following on Youtube. Since we got to know her through our video project for the International Day Against Homophobia, Ruth has become [...]

Here at Gays.com, Coming Out Day (held on Oct 11 every year) has a very special place in our hearts, and this year, it looks like it is going to be a very special day indeed.
In just another two weeks, thousands are expected to descend upon Washington, DC for the National Equality March to demand [...]

Inspired in part by the Great Nationwide Kiss-in that took place in the US earlier this year, activists in Paris have put together this kiss-in in an underground shopping mall. Yes, ALL of us should be able to kiss who we want, when we want — without getting bashed, or thrown out of property or [...]

I think I just found a good reason to forgive Madonna for cancelling her Drowned World Tour concerts in Cologne in 2001 after we queued up overnight and braved a stampede for her tickets. In her latest concert in Bucharest, Romania, Madonna was booed by the crowd for daring to tell them:
“I’ve never been to [...]

This 22 minute long late night speech by Tom Duane, the New York State Senate’s first openly-gay and first openly HIV-positive member, gave us the goosebumps and he totally deserved the standing ovation that he received at the end of his speech (apparently though, only the Democrats stood up and the Republicans did not). Senator [...]

We love this. A few days ago, a gay couple was detained by security guards working for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (otherwise known as the Mormon church) after an otherwise innocent kiss on the cheek, and then charged for trespassing (!!!). The result? Gay and lesbian couples in Utah decided [...]

Finally out: This video from the wonderful guys from Shanghai Pride contains some really nice, colourful footage. The first gay pride season ever to be hosted in mainland China was a huge success despite the clampdown by local authorities halfway through the week and the cancellations of several events.

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Gay pride with Chinese characteristics

Just one week after India’s much celebrated ruling decriminalising homosexuality in the capital New Delhi, the religious homophobes have begun to organise themselves. An astrologer has gone up to the nation’s Supreme Court and filed a petition asking for the 148-year-old Section 377 which governs “carnal intercourse against the order of nature” to be reinstated. [...]

At the Beijing Olympics last year, there were only 10 athletes (nine female and one male) that were out to the media about their sexuality. We need more athletes with the balls of Martina Navratilova to shatter those closet doors of the sports world.

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Martina Navratilova on coming out

We’re pretty excited about watching Bruno, the new movie by Sacha Baron Cohen of Borat fame, but some of our friends have mixed feelings about the show. In this video, gay celebrities Jack Plotnick, Peter Paige (Queer As Folk), fashion designer Nick Verreos, comedian Jennifer Elise Cox, and LOGO founder Brian Graden express their concern [...]