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Nature Vs. Nurture, Left Or Right, written 11 hours ago, As a child I was atypical. I didn't begin speaking until months after other kids my age had said their first words - but when I did finally talk, it was in complete sentences. What no doubt appeared at first to be a developmental problem turne...

Camp for children of gay parents offers acceptance and refuge, written 2 days ago, At Mountain Meadow summer camp, kids' parents come in pairs. Pairs of moms and pairs of dads. Isabel Rieser, 16, a junior at Penn Charter school in Philadelphia into soccer and instant messaging, has two dads. So does...

Looking for a bit more diversity, written 14 hours ago, Within a couple of weeks, all the building work on boyfriend S's house should be complete, so he'll be moving into his new home. However a few weeks ago, a week or two after I met M, boyfriend S left me alone for the night when he went to visit...

Hurricane Ends Southern Decadence, Party Goes on at Last Splash 2008, written 2 days ago, Just like in 2005, there were lots of people partying in Austin this year who would have been in New Orleans but they may have had a big dissapointment when they arrived at the main circuit party.  Hurricane G...

Hanna Makes Landfall, written 13 hours ago, Weather Alert Hanna has come on shore at the South and North Carolina Border. Winds are blowing at 70MPH and it is moving at a clip of about 21MPH moving in a North/NorthEast direction. A large band of rain stretches from Winston-Salem, NC and just about t...

I am adopted, written 1 day ago, When I was born, my biological mother was too young to be able to care for me and finish growing up herself. Her older sister took me to live with her new husband when I was a toddler and they eventually adopted me. My circumstances were explained to me at a young ag...

Matthew Mitcham: Golden Juicy, written 2 weeks ago, In what could be considered an upset over the Chinese, Australia's out gay diving hottie, Matthew Mitcham, won the gold medal in men's 10 meter platform diving. In addition to him being the best diver in the world, he came out to the Australian pre...

A single gay guy in his twenties; from Egypt who is taking his life experiences and dates to a whole new dimension.

Rediscovering a lesbian pioneer, written 1 week ago, Lillian Faderman, lesbian scholar and author of Gay L.A. and Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America, recalls her first exposure to the work of Jeannette Howard Foster. It was 1962, and she was a grad ...

Flipping Freaks, written 1 week ago, Jeff Lewis. What can I say? I don't know whether to love the man, worship him or be scared shitless of him. It's so bizaare that we share so many common traits. I watch Flipping Out with my mother and I can't say how many times Jeff does or says something that ma...

Arkansas Makes a Mockery of Foster Care, written 1 week ago, The Arkansas Family Council's "Gold Standard" The Associated Press reported today that Arkansas Secretary of State Charlie Daniels certified a proposal that would place a measure prohibiting unmarried couples from adopting or fos...

Editorials on gay issues from newspapers and gay publications along with an occasional column by the editor of the Gay News Blog.

"Obama Ist Best! Very Good OK!", written 1 day ago, Pretty much every person we've met here immediately wants to talk about Sarah Palin thanks to my Obama cap, which only a hour finally elicted the above quote from a shopper at Checkpoint Charlie. The consensus on Palin is completely horri...

Self-Employment Taxes - Things You Must Know, written 8 hours ago, If you are already self-employed or just launching out on your own, taxes can be one of the most intimidating items, especially if all you've previously known is a simply W-2 from an employer.  If you leave a cushy corporate job for...

Question of the Day: Ever/Never, written 1 day ago, This week's question is another double-header.
 1) Who's the most famous person you ever met?2) Who's the most famous person you never met (but wish you had)?

Knoxville Riverwalk Development, written 5 days ago, By Jeff Adolf Residential Real Estate Knoxville, Tennessee - a high-profiled development team have disclosed their plans to redevelop the southern shore of the Knoxville river, in what is being referred to as 'riverwalk landing'. The redevelopment...

think pink, written 5 days ago, I think we should all be finding ways to get dick on public transportation because not only will you be saving time, you?ll be leaving behind a smaller carbon footprint. — Margaret Choi?ve been obsessed with this little slushie place right by my house. it?s ...

We made it into 9rules!, written 2 days ago, Well we got the news today. Bitheway.co.uk made it into 9rules. Naturally we're honoured and chuffed that the site was one of the few picked from thousands of submissions. For those of you that don't know, 9rules is like Mensa for blogs. Its a highly sele...

yOUThere!, written 3 days ago, tags: gay, lesbian, singapore, youth