Besides Clay Aiken and Lindsay Lohan finally admitting their obvious gayness, there were a couple more newsworthy stories floating out there this week:
A teenage boy has been condemned to die in Iran because he is a homosexual.
The gay marriage fight in DC is nearing its end, as the City Council is almost ready to pass a bill making it legal.
Ian McKellen will tour British schools to teach kids about tolerance. And elves.
I’ve been busy at quite a few schools recently. I went to a wonderful co-ed faith school in Harpenden.
'They were Christians and absolutely determined that their pupils did not discriminate.
They invited me to come and give prizes to 13-year-olds in front of the parents and to talk, partly, about being gay.
'I
said that we are all part of a minority group – be it for being short,
or tall or fat or thin, or having red hair or whatever. I said hands up
who thinks they are part of a minority group and all the hands went up.
A Queensland city agency has ruled a pro-gun, anti-gay nutjob is guilty of inciting hatred for a sticker he displayed that read: "Gay Rights? Under God's law the only rights gays have is the right to die."
A Lousville, Kentucky McDonald's employee is being investigated by
the state's Human Rights Commission after the following incident:
Ryan Marlatt, Teddy Eggers, and three other friends had stopped for
lunch at the McDonald's restaurant on July 26, 2008, while visiting
Louisville for the weekend. While they waited for their food to be
prepared, an employee behind the counter referred to them as "faggots"
to another employee. Marlatt and Eggers asked to speak with a manager.
As they waited for the supervisor on duty to appear, the employee who
had called them "faggots" started arguing with them, repeatedly calling
them "faggots" in front of other customers and calling one of them a
"cocksucker" and "bitch."
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