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Police: 7 Arrested in Brutal Anti-Gay Attacks in NYC
By Carl Franzen - AOL NewsNEW YORK (Oct. 8) -- Seven suspected members of a Bronx, N.Y., street gang have been arrested and charged with anti-gay hate crimes for sadistic sexual attacks on two 17-year-old boys, including one aspiring gang member, and a 30-year-old man, police say. The beatings -- which involved two episodes of sodomy, with a broom handle and bat, respectively -- were reportedly sparked after the suspects cornered the teen who wanted to join their gang (who they had already beat as a part of an initiation ritual) and tortured him further into revealing that he and the other teen had engaged in gay sex ...
Hitchens on Bishop Eddie Long: 'Black Pulpit Gets a Sort of Free Pass'
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Sept. 28) -- "The easiest way to gain instant acceptance as a black 'leader' these days is to shove the word Reverend in front of your name," Christopher Hitchens laments in Slate this week. He's weighing in on the allegations surrounding Bishop Eddie Long, and typically pulls no punches. "Bishop Eddie Long of the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Georgia preaches that Bayard Rustin [a secular civil rights pioneer] was a vile sinner who suffered from the curable 'disease' of homosexuality. I have a rule of thumb for such clerics and have never known it to fail: Set your watch and sit ...
Grindr iPhone App: GPS for the Sex Superhighway
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyRemember online dating? Gosh, that seems so last century. An iPhone application which allows cruising gay men to locate one another instantly using Global Positioning System technology is now spreading to the heterosexual market. This latest rage in online romance is called Grindr. Grindr is a free, downloadable iPhone app that lets you find "gay, bi, curious guys near you." It's sort of a sexual version of toptable -- an iPhone app that allows you to search for all the restaurants offering a certain cuisine in your immediate vicinity. Similarly, Grindr provides a grid of who else in your ...
Ted Haggard Is Back: Gay Sex, Drug Scandal Can't Keep Evangelical Leader Down
By David Gibson - Politics DailyChristianity is all about second acts, and disgraced evangelical leader Ted Haggard is the latest conservative Christian to exploit that role to the hilt. Haggard announced Wednesday that he is starting a new church in the same town -- Colorado Springs -- that he left in humiliation in 2006 following a gay sex and drugs scandal. And he says this church will be for people like himself, "a church for sinners -- for people who have hit rock bottom and people who want to help people who have hit rock bottom. ... It is not a gathering for the righteous, except those who are righteous by ...
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