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Milan offers Italy’s 1st gay studies course

Jennifer Vanasco — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 22:00:34 +0000

(Milan) Giacomo Moro wasn’t going to retreat in the face of a stranger’s piercing threats because he’s gay.

The 23-year-old biology major was hanging a flyer for a gay association event at(...)

Thursday Watercooler: Troops OK with DADT repeal

James Withers — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 15:55:56 +0000

Troops expect no issues if DADT is removed. As we get closer to the deadline for the Defense Department DADT report (December 1), there will be leaks. According to an unnamed source, it seems(...)

Monday Watercooler: Choi and Sherrod ask us to be better than we are

James Withers — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:01:02 +0000

Dan Choi at Netroots. The quibbles with Lt. Dan Choi are minor at best. Don’t protest in uniform. Trying to subpoena the President Obamais a tactic best left to birthers or Rod Blagojevich,(...)

Italian court rebuffs gay marriage bid

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:02:48 +0000

(Rome) Italy’s constitutional court has rejected bids to have gay marriages recognized in two Italian cities.

Couples in the northern cities of Venice and Trento had sought to have their city(...)

Wednesday Watercooler: Lady Gaga Celibate?

logointern1 — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:40:57 +0000

* Homeless people in New York City who have jobs are going to have to start paying rent to stay in shelters. The Deputy Mayor said the change was motivated both by principles as well as a(...)

Monday Watercooler: Older gay men are against condoms and straight men are better at gay porn

James Withers — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:48:53 +0000

O Sarah. Read a newspaper. Sure her phrase” lame-stream media” is witty (if you like the quips of middle school children), but Sarah Palin needs to read a newspaper or two.Or three. Or four.(...)

Analysis: Soccer tarnished by cold-shoulder to gays

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:50:57 +0000

(Paris) Marcello Lippi, Italy’s World Cup-winning soccer manager who seems to have both feet planted in the 19th century, says he’s never come across a gay player in his 40-odd years in the(...)

Uproar after Italian TV edits ‘Brokeback Mountain’

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:58:33 +0000

(Rome) Gay rights groups charged Wednesday that Italy’s state television censored Ang Lee’s “Brokeback Mountain” when it aired the Oscar-winning movie by cutting scenes of gay sex.

Activists(...)

Italy refuses to prosecute comic for Pope gay joke

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:18:19 +0000

(Rome) Italy’s Justice Minister has rejected a call to prosecute stand-up comic Sabina Guzzanti for telling an audience that Benedict XVI would “go to hell and be pursued by two big, gay and(...)

Italian gay cops to stage mass coming out

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:44:26 +0000

(Rome) Gay police officers throughout Italy who publicly have remained closeted are planning a mass coming out after the Milan force announced it was investigating a cop who had won a gay beauty(...)