Bronx Sen. Pedro Espada's return gives Democrats a 32-30 majority for the first time since the June 8 coup. 14

The Bilerico Project points out that BET.com's otherwise laudable annual list of Who's Who in the black LGBT community includes no transgender people.19

Yet rather than recoil at British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's new spoof about a flamboyantly gay Austrian fashionista, most Viennese are taking Bruno's own advice: "Get ueber it!" 7

New York Gov. David Paterson shocked Albany and risked a constitutional fight Wednesday by picking a crisis manager with Democratic credentials dating to the 1960s to fill the vacant lieutenant governor's post and end a monthlong state Senate standoff. 6

India's Supreme Court agreed Thursday to hear a petition from a Hindu astrologer who is seeking to annul a recent landmark ruling that decriminalized gay sex.27

Gay marriage foes in Maine say they've collected enough signatures to stop a new law from going into effect and to force a statewide vote.51

The Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act would provide the same family benefits to lesbian and gay federal civilian employees as are already provided to employees with different-sex spouses. 18

Massachusetts, the first state to legalize gay marriage, sued the U.S. government Wednesday over a federal law that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman. 48