TV skittish about letting lesbians out of the closet

The number of well-known Hollywood actresses who are openly gay is so small you could fit them, pardon the expression, in a closet.
This month, comic Wanda Sykes boldly added herself to the list - motivated, she said at a rally in Las Vegas, by the passage of Proposition 8, which outlawed gay marriage in California.
Among [...]

Celebration Church opens new LGBT counseling center

FORT WORTH — For years those seeking spiritual guidance and solace have rushed to churches for support. Now one church is taking another approach to help its congregation.
Celebration Community Church in Fort Worth dedicated Barron House, a new counseling center with an outreach to the LGBT community, on Oct. 26. Barron House is managed by [...]

Adventures of Clara and Fritz

The annual Nutcracker sweepstakes gets off to an early start this year, with Tucson Regional Ballet’s A Southwest Nutcracker opening two days after Thanksgiving.
“It was a scheduling thing that was out of our control,” company artistic director Linda Walker says. “Next year, we’ll be back at the usual time.”
Tucson Regional dances its charming Old Pueblo [...]

Criticism mounts among gays over California ban

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – California’s gay-rights movement has been beset by infighting and finger-pointing since the defeat of same-sex marriage at the ballot box, with some activists questioning the campaign’s mild tactics, including the decision not to show same-sex couples in ads.

The movement’s leaders “were very timid. They were too soft,” said Robin Tyler, a [...]

Episcopal Church diocese to meet in Riverside amid same-sex marriage debate

The leader of the Episcopal Church arrives Friday in Riverside amid a debate on homosexuality that continues to tear the denomination apart.
The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, presiding bishop of the 2.4 million-member denomination, will attend the annual meeting of the Diocese of Los Angeles on Friday and Saturday at the Riverside Convention Center. On [...]

Great expectations

FOUR YEARS ago, a shroud of despair and fear descended after George W. Bush’s re-election.
Bush’s victory–legitimate this time, as opposed to the stolen election of 2000–was seen by many as a popular endorsement of his administration’s right-wing agenda at home and abroad, and confirmation that the U.S. had become “red-state America,” with Republicans looking forward [...]

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