Thursday, October 08, 2009

Wednesday's News and Pop Culture Round-Up

  • President Obama's approval ratings are on the rise
  • Right wing doesn’t care about the abuse of gay kids
  • Meet Evis Presley's look-a-like grandson
  • HIV prevalence among African Americans is ten times greater than among whites: study
  • Gay ex-soldier: Coming out ended his military career, distressed father
  • French Culture Minister confessed to paying for sex with "young boys" in his 2005 autobiography; now facing calls for his resignation
  • Lance Bass photographed by Braden Summers
  • Same sex partners don't get COBRA health insurance benefits
  • Renowned Canadian actor, Douglas Campbell, a pioneer of Canadian theatre dies at 87
  • Harry Connick Jr. and the blackface controversy
  • Obama nominates gay lawyer, David Huebner, as U.S. ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa
  • How to turn your kid into a bully
  • Mr. Sub fires agency after complaints of homophobia in television commercial
  • U.S. Supreme Court refuses two LGBT cases
  • New York City takes new action for gay youth
  • The big gay speech we wish Obama would give at the Human Rights Campaign fundraiser