The Tverskoi District Court of Moscow has refused to consider a complaint lodged with the court by the organizers of Moscow Gay Pride against the inaction of the Russian President, Dmitriy Medvedev, following the request to stage their Pride march on May 31 at Alexandrovskiy Sad within the Kremlin.
Supermodel Christie Brinkley testified that she would have never gone through with her marriage to ex-husband Peter Cook if he had told her the truth about his drug arrest when he was in his 20s. Brinkley took the stand and said Cook greatly minimized the details of his arrest, adding that she later found out the arrest hadn’t taken place in New York City, but rather in 'a gay truck stop.'
Beginning on Wednesday, Howard Wolfson, Sen. Hillary Clinton’s tenacious communications director and top campaign strategist since her very first senate race, is headed to the Fox News Channel. Wolfson joins former Clinton surrogate Lanny Davis and former Bush advisor, Karl Rove, on the network which was perceived by many of Clinton’s supporters to offer the most fair coverage of the former first lady’s 2008 campaign for the White House.
A teacher who resigned from her position at the Thalberg School in Connecticut after pictures of her in a bikini showed up on the Internet is suing school officials for pressuring her to resign. Former second grade teacher Marie Jarry, who popped up on Howard Stern's web site in a bikini as the winner of the 'Ugliest Man, Hottest Wife' competition, is seeking back pay and damages after she says school officials forced her to resign under duress. [more]
Perpetual beach bum Matthew McConaughey and Brazilian model girlfriend Camila Alves welcomed a new baby boy into the family on Monday evening. It was the second celebrity birth for the day. Actress Nicole Kidman and country singer Keith Urban also welcomed a new baby on Monday, daughter Sunday Rose. [more]
The Charlie’s Angels star and the 'Mac' guy have called it quits. Drew Barrymore and her beau Justin Long have broken up two months shy of their one year anniversary. The Hollywood couple was first spotted spending Labor Day weekend 2007 together and by Thanksgiving, they were a full-on pair of lovebirds. [more]
Forget the alleged affair with Madonna. A former stripper has come forward claiming she had a brief affair with New York Yankee Alex Rodriguez and is lending her support to his soon-to-be ex wife CynthiaRodriguez as she files for divorce. Candace Houlihan claims she had sex with A-Rod twice back in 2004 while Cynthia was pregnant with their first child. [more]
A new study released this week by a team of retired senior flag and general officers from the U.S. military has concluded that the ban on openly gay service members is counterproductive and should end. The nonpartisan study group has a combined century and a half of military service from all four branches of the military, and it marks the first time a Marine Corps general has ever called publicly for an end to the gay ban. [more]
Human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell is calling a new breakaway faction of the Anglican church 'fundamentalist, homophobic and sexist.' Tatchell, along with Christian and Ugandan gay rights activist, Kizza Musinguzi, picketed a meeting at All Soul’s Church in London on July 1 of the newly-formed Anglican fundamentalist sect, the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (FOCA). [more]
Back in 2007, one of New York’s oldest gay nightclubs—The Roxy—went dark to make way for what, at the time, was a rumored condo co-op. According to TowleRoad.com, those reports might have been premature. The new owners have applied for a liquor license and a Facebook group has formed to counter a group of Chelsea residents looking to block the new owners from resurrecting the gay landmark. [more]
A Georgia man of Pakistani descent allegedly killed his 25-year-old daughter over the weekend when she objected to an arranged marriage to a man she hadn’t seen in months. According to ABC News, 56-year-old Chaudhry Rashid was scheduled to be arraigned today on charges of strangling his daughter Sandeela Kanwal. Police responded to a domestic disturbance call at Radhid’s home Sunday and found Kanwal dead upstairs. [more]
Recovering alcoholic and long rumored lesbian Lindsay Lohan may not quite have come out of the closet yet, but she seems to be edging closer to the door every day. Lohan spent her 22nd birthday enjoying a cozy trip to Disneyland with DJ Samantha Ronson and told friends she hopes to spend the next year being 'with the person I care about.' [more]
Hancock, the Will Smith tale of a seriously messed up superhero, took home the top spot at theaters this weekend, earning an estimated $66 million. But GLAAD seems to think some gay fans are going to be spitting mad at an exchange they say once again makes the gay community a punchline. [more]
