- An Orange County High School student said something so vile, so disgusting, that his vice principal had no choice but to pull him out of the Mr. Fullerton competition. What did he say? That "he hoped to find the love of his life, marry him and hoped gay marriage would be legal." So that's pretty messed up.
- While it's not a happy occasion, the Justice Department has issued it's first ever indictment under Federal Anti-Gay Hate Crimes statutes for a kidnapping and beating in Kentucky. If you're looking for a silver lining, at least they're getting charged.
- Showing once again that the Tea Party isn't just the right-wing of the Republican Party and totally only cares about fiscal policy, at a Tax Day protest they started screaming at counter-protestors "we will not be silenced by faggots." Speaking of taxes and gay people though, if you need a reminder of why civil unions aren't just as good as marriage equality, gay couples can be losing up to $6,000 a year in extra federal taxes because they aren't allowed to file joint returns.
- A Library of Congress employee has been fired after accidentally outing himself on Facebook to his supervisor. Before firing him, the supervisor sent totally appropriate emails including, "Jesus prohibited sexual immorality including homosexuality, adultery and pre-marital sex."
- And finally, a series of new studies performed in Britain shows that the central thesis of the Closeted Countdown is right: “Homophobia is more pronounced in individuals with an unacknowledged attraction to the same sex and who grew up with authoritarian parents who forbade such desires.” So not only are bigots secretly gay, but they had lousy parents too. Somehow that's not surprising.
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