35 years after Britain's first ever Gay Pride march, Pride London has confirmed today that the 2007 parade will return to Oxford Street again after the success of last year's event.

France's highest court Tuesday rejected as unlawful the first marriage by a gay couple in France, annulling the union of the two men.

The Catholic Church's obsessive homophobia is becoming a threat to democracy, says the Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association (GALHA).

The Pentagon's top general expressed regret Tuesday that he called homosexuality "immoral," a remark that drew a harsh condemnation from members of Congress and gay advocacy groups.

CNN American news reporter Thomas Roberts, who came out in September 2006, has revealed that he was sexually abused by a Catholic priest .

The following letter was delivered by gay rights group OutRage! to President Kufuor of Ghana when he arrived in London on Monday.

Malaysian authorities are seeking to annul the marriage of a Muslim couple, claiming the husband was born a woman and the wedding was an illegal same-sex union, a court official said Tuesday.

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said on Monday he considers homosexuality to be immoral and the military should not condone it by allowing gay soldiers to serve openly, the Chicago Tribune reported.

Former NBA player John Amaechi became the first openly gay male athlete in a major U.S. sport to sign an endorsement deal with a mainstream company.

In response to Ken Livingstone's support of London's gay pride and the fact that Pride London have 'twinned' with Riga, Latvia's No Pride organisation have written to the Mayor and the PM protesting at what they see as foreign interference.

After 28 years of trading, Gay's The Word bookshop is facing possible closure in the next few months.

Jerusalem's gay pride organisers made an official request to the police on Sunday to hold a pride parade on June 21st, 2007.

Books which introduce gay relationships to children aged 4-11 are being launched in a selection of UK schools.

Thousands of supporters of legislation that would grant legal rights to unmarried couples including gays rallied Saturday to urge Italian lawmakers to resist Vatican pressure against the measure.

A rare gathering of openly gay Arab activists is slated to be held in Israel this month, drawing the ire of religious conservatives.

A bronze bust of the first openly gay man to hold a prominent elected office in the United States is going up in San Francisco City Hall, more than 28 years after he was assassinated.

As investigators pursued an Air Force officer they suspected of drugging and raping other servicemen, the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy hung over their case.

In Texas Monthly, libertarian pundit Virginia Postrel writes of  the residents of Plano, Texas, that:

These solidly conservative, mostly Christian families are not about to launch a pogrom against their gay neighbors. "I have yet to know somebody on finding out that an educator or volunteer was gay in to say, 'Oh, gosh, I can't have them working with my child,'" Kelly Hunter says. "I have known them to say that about the mom who drinks before she goes some place." By the standards of twenty years ago, and certainly by those of Peoria, Planoites are positively accepting....Plano residents aren't "wildly exercised about sodomy," notes a gay friend who last year moved from Dallas to Los Angeles, "but most anti-gay people aren't. They are wildly concerned with making sure their kids never hear the word 'sodomy'; never ask, 'Mommy, what's a drag queen?'; and never have to deal with anything even remotely related to sex....He exaggerates, of course. But Plano parents want to determine when and where they talk to their kids about sex, and they assume that explaining that some men fall in love with other men is "about sex.""We don't have control over a whole lot in the world, but hopefully the education of our children is part of it," Hunter says.

Hat tip to Kausfiles, wherein Mickey Kaus uses the above to snipe (again) at Andrew Sullivan and argues:

Even in a highly Republican town like Plano, in other words, the religious objection to gay marriage isn't the crucial objection. Fear that moral entropy will envelop your family's children is the crucial objection. I don't see how that fear is addressed theologically. I would think it has to be addressed practically, over time, by repeat demonstration. But time is one thing a rights-oriented, judicial route to gay marriage doesn't allow.

And another hat tip to Instapundit (Glenn Reynolds), who adds: "As I've said before, I support gay marriage, but I think the move to accomplish gay marriage via judicial action is politically unwise and likely to be counterproductive."

These fears of "moral entropy" and even sexual anarchy may be without merit, yet they're heartfelt and must be addressed, not simply dismissed with disdain. That's why I generally concur that the judicial strategy is misguided. In fact, it wouldn't seem like such a bad idea if the Massachusetts legislature would follow the procedure set forth (as argued here) in that state's constitution and allow the voters to weigh in on keeping gay marriage. A  "pro" vote could do wonders to actually advance the cause of marriage equality.

Perhaps a decade from now, when gay unions are accepted by a nation that has witnessed that they strengthen rather than weaken the moral norms that bind families and societies together, a future Supreme Court will rule that the remaining state amendments that deny gays the benefits of marriage (and especially those that ban civil unions and other partnerships) are unconstitutional. And in that future era, the reactionaries won't be able to mobilize an effective backlash, for as with earlier civil rights movements they will no longer have a majoirty of the folks in places like Plano on their side.

More. B. Daniel Blatt (GayPatriotWest) writes that gay activists have missed the boat by demanding marriage equality in terms of rights denied, instead of (with few exceptions, mainly linked to this site)  making a positive case for why marriage for gays is good in and of itself, for gay people and for society. He encourages activists to "make clear to the world at large that gay people who choose marriage are willing to live up to the obligations of this ancient institution. And to our own community, they need show the benefits that arise from meeting those obligations."

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