As the Sept. 11 deadline to appeal a District Judge Vaughn Walker’s ruling overturning California’s Proposition 8 approaches, the chances that the measure banning same-sex measure will have a valid defendant seem increasingly slim. Both Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown have stated

It has been announced by Scandinavian airline SAS that they will host the first-ever in-flight gay ceremony. The question over who will tie the knot is still “up in the air,” reports New York Daily News, as SAS looks for the perfect couple to participate in the mile-high ceremony from Stockholm to New York. The

Portland has been popping out new queer nights like a randy rabbit lately but Mrs. — Mississippi Studios’ new costume-centric dance night — is a party we can really get behind. Mrs. taps into the performing spirit of Portland’s queers with monthly themes and titles awarded to the homo who best repres

The folks at Disko Warp Records will bring their refined palates’ worth of Euro-dance, happy hardcore and beat-happy jams to Ground Kontrol tomorrow night for the official pre-party for Kumoricon 2010! In celebration of Oregon’s largest anime convention, Disko Warp is inviting Oregon’s sexy, nerdy, anime-l

The monthly queer cabaret Homomentum is set to return from a summer hiatus with a new night and venue. Max Voltage of Pants Off Productions announced Thursday that Homomentum will run November-April, every first Friday at the Fez Ballroom. Also new in Homomentum’s second season is compensation for performers. Ea

“Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree” – a popular campfire and children’s song in Australia – has received a bit of an augmentation, at least in one school. Principal Garry Martin of Le Page Primary School in Melbourne said he instructed students to substitute the line “Fun your life mus

Yesterday, Vanity Fair’s scathing story on Sarah Palin started circulating the internet. Writer Michael David Gross followed Palin around the country (on her “road show,” as he calls it), documenting her every move, examining her every speech, and interviewing (or, rather, trying to) anyone who is or ever

Nikki Araguz, a transgender widow in Texas, is currently fighting a legal battle to maintain death benefits following her firefighter husband’s death. Her late husband’s ex-wife and parents are suing to prevent Araguz from receiving the benefits, arguing that her marriage was void because she was born male and T

Just a couple of weeks ago, Portland-by-way-of-Hawaii crooner Niki Villiarimo journeyed down to San Francisco to audition for American Idol for the second time in three years. Having come off of a stirring third place finish in Red Cap Garage’s first Portland Idol competition in late July (a competition won by the ver

Britain Foreign Secretary William Hague said a male special adviser with whom he shared a hotel room had resigned Wednesday over “malicious” claims that they had an “inappropriate relationship,” reports the Associated Free Press. Following days of newspaper and Internet chatter about Hague’s re

Ed. note: The following book review comes to us from Robert Geary. His look at Travels in a Gay Nation: Portraits of LGBTQ Americans (U. of Wisconsin Press), by Philip Gambone, follows. Mr. Gambone’s spare writing prompts me to wonder if he, an observer of our community, missed the riches of a Liberal Arts education.

Finally, the stalker-friendly Facebook application Foursquare is using its powers for good. The app, which awards “badges” for frequent “check-ins” to places like the bar or the gym, will allows you to announce to friends when you “check in” to the bar, the gym or the office, now offers a

The Dating Game returns this week with your benevolent host Poison Waters at Red Cap Garage! Every Thursday through November 11 for an admission of just $3, you can try your luck in the dating pool, or get your Lube Wrestling on immediately following intermission, or both – something like this: The swimming pool and s

Now’s the time to put up or shut up: put up the season and enjoy it all winter long, that is. Just Out’s resident Sassy Gardener, LeAnn Locher, loves food preserving almost as much as she loves gardening. If you’ve been wondering how to get started in home canning, now is the perfect time with peach [...]

This land is not the land of antigays, at least not if you ask Peter Yarrow and Noel Paul Stookey. The surviving members of folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary have asked the National Organization for Marriage to stop using their iconic song “This Land Is Your Land” during its antigay “Summer for Marriage”

The cover of the latest issue of Veronica, released in stores today, premieres Kevin Keller into the world of Archie Comics. Kevin is romantically pursued by Veronica, but… “It’s nothing against her,” he tells Jughead when he refuses her advances. “I’m gay.” The news was first annou

Nor, in all likelihood, the bottom two. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves. In what makes for the most apocalypse-signaling roster yet, the Powers That Be have announced the latest lineup of “celebs” set to hoof it on the coming season of Dancing With The Stars. Some are understandable — and immedi

No sooner have we recovered from last night’s ridiculously trashy and bat shit crazy Real Housewives of New Jersey reunion special are we, ahem, gifted, with this teaser of the upcoming A-List: New York — aka The Gay Housewives of New York City. The featured “boys who brunch” include Reichen Lehmkuhl

Fidel Castro has claimed responsibility for the persecution of gays in Cuba during the 1960s but says that the distraction of foreign affairs, rather than homophobia, is to blame, according to The Globe and Mail. While the former Cuban president was, as he told Mexican newspaper La Jornada, “immersed, principally, in

A Texas court of appeals has ruled that gay couples legally married in other states cannot get a divorce in Texas, where same-sex marriages are banned, reports AP. The 5th Texas Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that a Dallas judge did not have jurisdiction to grant a divorce to two Dallas men who wed in Massachusetts. The [..

Openly gay tennis star Martina Navratilova was honored Monday at the U.S. Open for her ability to inspire others, The Advocate reports. Navratilova credited a positive attitude and love of tennis with helping her handle life’s “nasty curveballs,” such as coming out and battling breast cancer. The 53-year-

Why didn’t she play it for us, goshdarnit? No matter. During a tour stop in St. Paul, Minn. last night, Lady Gaga debuted a new song, “the stripped-down, road-weary piano ballad ‘Living on the Radio,’” per an E! Online post. The story continues, If chosen for her as yet untitled new album—whi

The Tasmanian Parliament has approved laws recognizing same-sex marriages and civil unions registered in other states or countries, reports ABC News Online. The Relationships Act passed in Parliament with only three of the 25 Lower House MPs voting against the amendment. Attorney-General Lara Giddings says the changes will

Holy airbrush, Batman! The latest poster for the Cher/Christina Aguilera filmic fabulosity known as Burlesque has hit the web. Dare we say this poster is so pink, it’s paaaank. There’s also a plot or story or something. Per Just Jared, The film stars Christina as Ali, a girl from a small town who’s got a big

A policy change from an Omaha newspaper will allow gay and lesbian couples to share the news about their weddings — as long as they’re legally recognized, reports The Advocate. Jeff and Heidi Wilke had attempted to submit a wedding announcement for their daughter Kristin Wilke and her new wife, Jessica Kitzman, who

Fellow Swedes/gay icons Robyn and Bjork both appeared at Sweden’s Polar Prize Music Awards, where Bjork received the ceremony’s top prize. As part of the Bjork tribute, Robyn covered Bjork’s monster (and, arguably, greatest) hit “Hyperballad.” I cringed when I first read about the undertaking,

Between the Emmy Awards and Mr. International Latin Look, this weekend was one of pageantry far and near, to be sure. First-time Mr. Oregon Latin Look Fernando Avila took the latter title last night during the annual event, held at Darcelle XV Showplace. Check out pics of the eleganza extravaganza at our just-posted gallery

the Glee-ful opening of last night’s Emmy Awards, it really is worth a(nother) look, thanks to appearances by Jon Hamm, Jane Lynch, Tina Fey, Joel McHale, Jorge Garcia, Tim Gunn and (natch) Betty White. Critics argued it was all downhill from this early highlight of the Jimmy Fallon-hosted show. What’d you think

This video, from Sean Chopin’s “Make The Right Choice” series and posted at LezGetReal, attempts to highlight the difference between same-sex domestic partnerships/civil unions and full civil marriage by comparing the disparities to the inequality symbolized by racially segregated drinking fountains. While

Just in case anyone else out there found it a tad odd that David Shupe-Roderick and Ryan W. Dupree of Cheyenne – who filed a federal lawsuit last week challenging Wyoming’s gay marriage ban – would be representing themselves in a case with so much riding on it, reports are surfacing that the couple has [..