MONDAY KICKSTARTER: San Diego Gets Gay Mayor, the Gayest VMA Highlights and More
We trolled the web for LGBT headlines all weekend so you wouldn't have to.
PROGRESS REPORT:
- Eric Holder: MLK’s dream now includes lesbians and gays
- U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer pens letter opposing Russia’s anti-gay ban
- Same-sex couples marry in Santa Fe, N.M.
- White House to host meeting on bisexual issues
HEADLINE MAKERS:
- New York TImes endorses NYC lesbian mayoral candidate Christine Quinn
- Queer Nation plans protest of Coca Cola Olympic sponsorship
- HIV-positive man may avoid deportation on persecution claims
- Former Exodus International leader says he’s haunted by harm he’s caused gay people
- Ben & Jerry’s speaks out against Russia’s anti-gay laws
- San Diego gets a gay mayor
- Billionaire philanthropist Col. James Pritzker comes out as transgender
BIGOT WATCH:
- Conservative groups file lawsuit contesting New Jersey’s gay-conversion-therapy ban
- Tennessee school board removes LGBT safe space posters because they are too “sexual”
- Tennessee church exiles family for supporting lesbian daughter
INTERNATIONAL:
- Gay couples begin marrying in Uruguay
- Israel plans monument to gays persecuted by Nazis
- Philippine gay group criticizes government for ignoring HIV crisis
- Zimbabwe’s President Mugabe calls gays “filthy” in inauguration address
ENTERTAINMENT:
- George Takei to receive leadership award for LGBT advocacy
- Honey Boo Boo goes to her first drag show
- 50 things you didn’t know about the Wizard of Oz
GAY VMA HIGHLIGHTS:
- Fashion at the VMA’s
- Lady Gaga opens the VMA with “Applause,” changes costumes five times
- Miley did an oversexed performance of “We Can’t Stop” that segued into a duet with Robin Thicke
- Jennifer Hudson joins Macklemore on stage to perform “Same Love”
- Macklemore accepts VMA for “Same Love” and gives touching speech
- Katy Perry performs “Roar” (aka “the biggest hit of her career”) under the Brooklyn Bridge
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