(SkyNewswire.com) --- An intimate glimpse into the lives of one of society’s most controversial sectors awaits readers as author Frank Holland spins Debut: Chicago 1952. His engrossing book, released through Xlibris, follows the unconventional relationship of two men who, along with other homosexuals, struggle to find their rights in a prejudicial world.

It is 1950’s Chicago. Louie, a reserved young man debuts into homosexual life. Influenced by his lover, Joey, he migrates to another state to start a new life with him. It is with his lover that Louie has his first sexual experience. Unable to completely come out of the closet, Louie restricts his homosexual life to nighttime and weekends, appearing straight around his family, at work, or with straight friends. In his transition, he is introduced to a different side of Chicago. With several illegal jam-packed gay bars, Chicago in the 1950s is the world of liberals, where some people patronize homosexuals instead of despising them. Soon, he meets new gay friends, giving him a feeling of genuine acceptance and belonging.

(SkyNewswire.com) --- Five states and the District of Columbia currently permit homosexual marriage. These jurisdictions logically also grant divorces to homosexual couples who are legally married. However, the legal status of married same-sex couples is not recognized in many other states that define marriage as a union existing solely between a man and a woman.


Texas, one of the states that define marriage in this way, is currently grappling with the reality that some homosexual couples legally married in Connecticut, Vermont, Massachusetts, Iowa, New Hampshire or Washington, D.C., are moving to Texas and may seek to divorce there. Two lower courts have ruled that these couples may obtain divorces in Texas because of its constitutional obligations of equal protection under the law, and full-faith-and-credit recognition of other states' legal acts. However, the Texas Attorney General is attempting to halt the divorces, insisting that homosexual marriages legally recognized in other states should be voided under Texas law.

(SkyNewswire.com) --- Mykonos Accommodation Center the well established Mykonos Island gay friendly reservation & travel agency and official partner of the festival XLSior is ready to welcome the thousand gay visitors. Visitors and tourists are recommended to book now their hotel rooms as the Festival will happen in the peak of the summer. M.A.C. will offer now a 5 to 10% discount for many gay friendly guesthouses, hotels and apartments depending on period of stay (minimum five nights).


This year, the Festival expects thousands of gay visitors to gather on Mykonos Island for 9 days from August 20 till 28. The XLSior festival will host European superstars of the most successful party groups in the world like Supermatxe, We Party, Super Size Pool Party, Delice and more.

(SkyNewswire.com) --- Humorist Jade Esteban Estrada received a standing ovation for his portrayal of Harvey Milk and other gay figureheads in the solo musical comedy "ICONS: The Lesbian and Gay History of the World, Vol. 2" Thursday, June 17, 2010 at The Rose Theatre in San Antonio, Texas. The one-person show which features such characters as Alexander the Great, Queen Christina of Sweden, Susan B. Anthony, Billie Jean King, Harvey Milk and 9/11 hero Mark Bingham won the award for Best Solo Performance at the 2004 Columbus National Gay and Lesbian Theatre Festival in Columbus, Ohio. Estrada recently performed the show at Colorado State University at Pueblo in observance of National Coming Out Week.


"It was a beautiful performance," raved audience member Mayra Alexandra. "It was very moving. Jade is a wonder," stated Marc Wendell, who also attended the show. "Jade has brought so many icons back to life, but none surpass the legacy of Mark Bingham. Seeing Jade re-create the day of a true American hero brought me to tears," said Anissa Lloyd, who attended the show with her teenage daughter.

(AP) --- Rehoboth Beach in Delaware isn't a topless beach — but a few transgender men caused a stir by treating it like one. Police say passers-by complained after the men removed their tops and revealed their surgically enhanced breasts over Memorial Day weekend. A lifeguard asked them to put their tops back on. The men initially refused, but covered up before police arrived.


Even if they hadn't, though, Police Chief Keith Banks notes the men were doing nothing illegal. Since they have male genitalia, they can't be charged with indecent exposure for showing their breasts. Banks says there's no need for a specific law to address the issue.

(SkyNewswire.com)--- The Sony Ericsson Yari is an inventive slider phone that is carving its niche in the world class mobile scenario. This innovative mobile hand set is full of many surprise feature that capture the fancy of users just as they lay their hands and eyes over it. One of the striking features of this handset is its practical and sensible automatic camera that has the focus strength of 5 mega pixel. The remarkable thing about this camera is that it allows the gesture-gaming with great expertise. This handset is technologically advanced that makes use of its auto focused camera for detecting the movements of its user and then transform them into gaming movements. The Sony Ericsson Yari is also capable of playing the music in a wireless mode.


The dimension of Sony Ericsson Yari is 100 by 48 by 15.7 mm and weighs around 115 g. It has a sliding fascia with 2.4 inches display screen. It has a TFT display with a color capability of 256K. Its pixel resolution is 240 by 320. The most important feature of this device is its incorporated memory that is of 60 mega byte. There is also an exchangeable SD card-slot that can be of upto 16 gigabyte.

(SkyNewswire.com)--- While the U.S. Congress considers repealing the ban on lesbians and gays in the military, a policy known as ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’, twenty-five of our nation’s allies already allow open gay military service. On Wednesday, May 19, during a public forum at the Brookings Institution, military commanders and scholars from Australia, Canada, Israel, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom will discuss their experiences with the service of gays in their militaries. Co-sponsored by the Palm Center, Lessons Learned from the Service of Gays and Lesbians in Allied Militaries will evaluate for media, policymakers and military leaders the effects of gay military service on policy, unit cohesion, military readiness and morale.


“The U.S. has always applied the lessons of our military allies, and it should be no different in this matter,” said Peter Singer, Director of Brookings Institution's 21st Century Defense Initiative. “This conference is a tremendous opportunity for Congressional and DoD policy makers to review our allies’ experiences and develop smart solutions for how to best mitigate any impacts and manage implementation should ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ be over turned. In short, this conference is part of doing it 'smart, and not stupid,' as Secretary Gates has emphasized.”

(SkyNewswire.com)--- The British actor involved in a controversial onscreen same-sex relationship with a Muslim is to marry his real-life partner. EastEnders star John Partridge, who plays Christian Clarke, has revealed that he plans to tie the knot with Jon Tsouras. He said: “My lovely Jon’s Canadian and it’s all about when his family can come over, which might be this autumn. We’ve been together for seven years and it’s about time I made an honest man of him.


“There might be some Irish dancing, though. We’ve both got Irish roots, so there could be a bit of the old Riverdance!” In recent months, Christian’s steamy relationship with Syed Masood, played by Marc Elliot, has dominated the BBC1 soap’s storyline. It reached a climax this week when Syed’s wife finally found out the whole truth, his father disowned him and Syed disappeared, causing anguish for his family and Christian. When Christian and Sayed were about to have their first onscreen kiss there was criticism from the Muslim community. But the kiss went ahead.
Mother devastated


The relationship between Sayed and Christian has devastated Sayed’s mother Zainab Masood, played by Nina Wadia, who has just starred in The Eleventh Hour, the first episode of the new series of Doctor Who, which aired a week and a half ago in the United States, Canada and Australia, and two weeks before that in the UK.
Wadia has said of her Who role: “It was brilliant to be let out [of EastEnders] for a couple of days to do something else and it was great working with Matt Smith [the eleventh Doctor]

(SkyNewswire.com)--- Glee star Chris Colfer has revealed that he is going through one of the most meaningful times in his life, thanks to his role in the knockout American series. “I’ve had so many young boys and girls write to me and explain their situation where they live in environments that don’t accept who they are,” he said.
Then, fighting back tears, he continued: “Just knowing that . . . being on a television show that is awarded and praised so much, but having material like that that affects so many people in such a sensitive and emotional way is the greatest award any of us could have.”


Colfer was speaking to fans at an event – the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Presents an Evening with Glee – held this week at the Leonard H. Goldenson Theatre in North Hollywood, California. In the popular musical drama, Colfer plays cute Kurt Hummel, a gay teen who is bullied at school and secretly in love with a fellow student, the football-playing hunk Finn (Cory Montieth). The most recent episode, “Home” – which aired in the US this week, and will be broadcast in the UK next week – deals with Kurt’s unrequited love for Finn and the inner struggle he’s having as to whether his dad, Burt (Mike O’Malley), is really accepting of him. “It’s very emotional – probably the most emotional [yet] for Kurt,” Colfer said in an interview with E! Online. “Kurt is so strong. He’s more concerned with being OK in his dad’s eyes than with anyone else. And that relationship definitely gets stronger. Some of the best stuff is coming up for it.”


Colfer believes that it’s the offscreen relationship that’s developed between him and O’Malley that’s made their onscreen relationship so convincing. “It’s amazing how much we just connected just right off the bat,” he told E! Online. “And really, we’ve only actually been around each other for seven calendar days, so it’s pretty cool that we can have that much chemistry onscreen. Burt is just a cool dad. He’s just a great dad. Probably the best on TV. [The onscreen bond] just gets stronger and stronger.”

(SkyNewswire.com)--- Another free speech battle has begun in White House, Tennessee, after Cole Goforth, a 15-year-old student at Greenbrier High School, was sent home for wearing a t-shirt that said "I 'heart' Lady Gay Gay" which, of course, refers to Lady Gaga.

Goforth 6 News reports: "Administrators told him to go home and change because the shirt 'was going to cause disruption in the school,' Goforth said. His mother said the school is violating her son's free speech rights. Administrators have not sent home students who wear religious shirts and those bearing the rebel flag, she said. Julie Gordon said her son has worn shirts that say 'gay' to school in the past with no problems and feels the conflict is less about the shirt and more about her son's look and orientation. 'I think they are singling him out, I really do, and they've made statements that if he wore this in California, he'd fit in just fine,' she said. The Robertson County School Board dress code does not specifically ban shirts with the word 'gay.' But it does state that each principal can interpret the dress code and take action if a student's dress causes a disruption."

(SkyNewswire.com)--- Autostraddle.com, the new go-to website for lesbian, bisexual and otherwise-inclined women, announces the launch of Technostraddle (www.autostraddle.com/technostraddle), a technology, gadgetry, gaming and design blog targeting a female market previously underserved by mainstream media.

Autostraddle.com, a subsidiary of The Excitant Group LLC, has experienced unprecedented evolution and growth, with a stylish and multi-faceted redesign that was introduced only seven months after a March 2009 launch. Technostraddle advances Autostraddle�s reputation as a forward-thinking media movement armed & ready to challenge cybercultural norms, reinvent how women use the web and facilitate �outsider� discourse in order to shatter pre-existing stereotypes.

(SkyNewswire.com)--- Reproductive Medicine Associates of New York (RMA of New York) is partnering with The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center (The Center) to host an informative panel discussion on building a family as a single or partnered lesbian. A professional panel of leaders in the areas of reproductive medicine, law, and psychology will answer individual questions and share their knowledge from years of experience helping lesbians become parents.

The panelists include RMA of New York�s Dr. Jane Ruman, a board certified reproductive endocrinologist, and Lisa Schuman, LCSW, as well as Melissa Brisman, Esq. Representatives from California Cryobank, a leading sperm bank, will also be available to answer questions.

(SkyNewswire.com)---Gay sports have received a huge boost this year, with triumphant sports men and woman doing them-selves proud!

The Beijing Olympics are rumoured to have doubled up as a grand coming out party for many gay athletes. Many gay sports stars from all over the globe competed in a variety of events ranging from volleyball to archery, and Robert Dover of the US provided no exception, partaking in the major equestrian events.

However, hero of the hour was in fact Matthew Mitcham, a 20 year old gay man from Australia who succeeded to win the 10 meter platform, swiping the Gold Medal from China, with the most highly rated dive in Olympic History.

Gay Athletes

A number of gay athletes have made the head lines in recent years, most often due to the abuse they face at the hands of sports fans. Football has certainly been no exception to the rule, with the famous case of tragic star Justin Fashinu, who committed suicide months after coming out as gay, prior to facing barbaric abuse at the hands of fans. In relation, Portsmouth defender Sol Campbell has been in and out of the headlines for the same reason for a number of years, facing homo-phobic abuse form rival fans on a weekly basis.

(SkyNewswire.com)--- Gay dating is slowly becoming a very common term in the world today. It is attributed to the many gays in the globe in the modern world. Many have estimated around 600,000 gay people coming forth and pronouncing their resolve to be gays each passing year. Gay support and London dating for them has increased forthwith, with many coming into the support of many of the gay relationships. You can come across online gay finders as well as for Lesbians in the world and anywhere within the globe. You can use it to reach the people you are interested in meeting, anywhere in the London, and arguably in major cities of the world.

London dating for gays has been widely supported by the internet, which offers you the best chance to meet the gay friends you are looking for. Web camera, live chats, voice chatting and instant messaging aids you in finding the most suitable person. There are also many services offered to gay individuals in London, and people are getting paid for it. You can also get the tips from online sites and magazines as you perfect your gay dating and relationship building. For any of the online counselors and websites, you can use any search engine and you will be surprised by the immensity of the resources.

(SkyNewswire.com)--- Los Angeles, CA -- The boys are back! The L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center's online soap opera, In the Moment, returns with four new "webisodes" following the lives of several young gay men living in West Hollywood as they face difficult decisions about relationships, politics, drugs and sex. This season, which features a cameo by Darryl Stephens of Noah's Arc, includes up-to-the-moment topics such as Prop 8.

Episode three opens right after the election, as each of the guys reacts differently to the passage of Prop 8. Carlos and Ricky join Shawn at a massive protest rally. How will losing the right to marry affect their lives? Edgar looks to the Internet for guys to hook up with. Is his partying going to catch up with him? Mike wonders if he made a mistake breaking up with his boyfriend. Is it time to move on?