Women Win Council Seats in Saudi Arabia's Elections for the First Time Ever
In the first election in which Saudi women could both vote and campaign as candidates, women scooped up a total of seven municipal council seats.
Salt Lake City Just Elected Itself an Openly Gay Mayor
Meet Jackie Biskupski, the openly gay mayor of Salt Lake City who just won the election campaigning on municipal issues, of all things.
Great, Another Way For Airlines To Have Fewer Employees To Help You
For the past several years, the airline industry has been making spectacular profits by using a conscious strategy of making flying less pleasant for passengers. Next on the agenda: your luggage.
The New Year Is the Oldest Thing: Inside Philadelphia's Mummers Parade
The New Year, or South Philadelphia's share of it, was being assembled in a warehouse with a bright yellow Cottman Transmission sign at the entrance, right on the corner of 13th and Reed. "You don't want to get a screw in your foot," Jinks warned me. All around us were the raw materials and detritus of fun: brightly…
"Oooh, girl! You got she-mail!" is something you'll never hear again on RuPaul's Drag Race. Logo tells the Huffington Post that in response to accusations of transphobia, they've nixed that bit and have pulled from their platforms an episode featuring a "Female or Shemale" challenge. #socialjustice
High School Teacher Plans to Complete Sex Change Over Spring Break
What are you doing with your April vacation, Yosemite High students? Beach reading? Killing some brain cells? That's nice. Your veteran science teacher, the former Army officer, plans to finalize her gender transition and return to the classroom as her "authentic self."
A federal judge just struck down Kentucky's law banning the state from recognizing gay marriages performed out-of-state, saying: "No one has offered any evidence that recognizing same-sex marriages will harm opposite-sex marriages."
A Gay Undocumented Latino Could Become UNC's Student President Today
It's election day at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill! Who's your pick for student body president? You have a 25 percent chance of being represented by Emilio Vicente, a homosexual from Guatemala who clambered into America through a barbed-wire fence when he was six.
"Moscow city officials are now offering free rides on the subway to any passenger who does 30 squats before crossing the ticket barrier to enter the metro." Did America lose the Cold War after all?
Homeless people and Marilyn Monroe will have to find a new source of gusts of warm air, the New York Times reports, as the Second Avenue subway is being built without sidewalk grates.
On this day ten years ago, the Supreme Court held in Lawrence v. Texas that gay men and women have a constitutional right to have sex with one another.
West Point Alumni Group Proudly Posts Photos of Gay Cadet Taking Boyfriend to Winter Formal
Under "don't ask, don't tell," West Point cadets were forced to keep their sexuality a secret, or risk expulsion.
You're Now More Likely to Die From Swallowing Your Own Vomit than From Murder
Outstanding news, terrified Americans who watch too many fearmongering cable news crime stories: for the first time in nearly 50 years, homicide is not one of the top 15 causes of death in America. First a black president, and now this! Why, it's damn near impossible to get anyone to kill you these days. America is a…
Watching Video on Televisions Is Too Much Effort Now
In the beginning, humans had to physically rouse themselves from their couches to change the channel on the TV. Then, there were remotes. Now, our laziness has evolved to the point where we just stare at our phones.
Archie Comics' Gay Character Gets Full Series
When Archie Comics, beloved manufacturers of American easiness, first introduced Kevin Keller, their first openly gay character, he was only supposed to be there for a short time. But now he's been called up to the big leagues!
Weird Singing Show Features Gay Singers
NBC's singing competition show The Voice, a terrible blend of American Idol and In It To Win It, has somehow scoured the globe and found two gay singers, who are currently in the top four. So half the remaining singers are gay people. What the hell?
Southern Baptists ThisClose to Having a Black Leader
The Southern Baptist church is the second-biggest church in America (after Catholics), and the biggest church of all down South. Meaning that it also has thoroughly racist roots! And now, they're ready to put a black guy in charge. *Tear.*
Will the Navy Force Sailors to Get Gay-Married?
The Navy is getting a special reward for shooting Osama Bin Laden: Gay marriage! Navy chaplains will be, officially, allowed to officiate same-sex marriages after Don't Ask Don't Tell ends this summer. The news came in a memo, which also covered the possibility of using base facilities for the events:
