This Week in Gayness: The Vatican Has A Thing For Oscar Wilde

Silverton, Oregon's Mayor, whom we've discussed in the past, is transgender. That's not the "problem" this time. A non-profit group working with students was upset when he appeared at a lecture in "a bathing suit top, a mini skirt and high heels."

"Why are we even having this discussion?  I'm an adult.  I'll wear what I please," he said.

Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill is under fire for using some gay fearmongering to freak out her constituents about a proposed gun law.

When Craig's List and Manhunter become raging hellholes, where can gays go to get laid? (Besides a gay bar, of course.)

Here's how to gay test your Twitter-- we're pretty sure everyone gets a score of about 27% Hetero.

Oscar Wilde, who converted to Catholicism after a few punishing years in prison, was this week praised by the Church:

The playwright was, instead, "one of the personalities of the 19th century who most lucidly analysed the modern world in its disturbing as well as its positive aspects", the Vatican newspaper said in a review of a new book about Wilde by an Italian author. [Telegraph]