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U.S. Federal District Court Judge Virginia A. Phillips ruled today that the U.S. government must IMMEDIATELY cease all enforcement of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy and must "suspend and discontinue any investigation, or discharge, separation, or other proceeding" in connection with the policy.  [Read more]

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Carl Paladino, who's running for Governor of New York against Democrat Andrew Cuomo, has been digging himself deeper and deeper into a hole this weekend as he struggles to convince people that while he finds homosexuality disgusting, he doesn't have a thing against gays. In fact, he is "unequivocally" for gay rights, although he opposes gay marriage.  [Read more]

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Mayor Bertrand Delanoë of Paris has caused an international uproar with accusations of censorship by declaring that minors under the age of 18 will not be admitted to a retrospective of work by photographer and film director Larry Clark now showing in the Museum of Modern Art (MAM). The irony is that Clark's work focuses almost exclusively on teens, often doing things that are usually considered "adult"—like using drugs and having sex.  [Read more]

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Genderbending is very definitely becoming more and more a part of the mainstream. Where crossdressing was once solely an indicator of freakishness or a source of demeaning humor (for instance, Milton Berle or Flip Wilson), two different prominent magazines this month have shown mainstream celebrities in drag not as a form of ridicule, but of style.  [Read more]

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A court in Hong Kong yesterday denied the right to marry to a transgender woman who had filed a legal challenge against Hong Kong's marriage laws. The plaintiff, who underwent sex reassignment surgery in 2008 and can legally be referred to only as "W," argued that her rights under the Constitution and the Bill of Rights were violated because Hong Kong's Marriage Registry allows only cisgendered men and women to marry.  [Read more]

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We wade through an awful lot of bad news every day, including every variety of homophobia, transphobia, misogyny, and puritanism you can think of, so when we come across news this good, we have to report it: according to a new report published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine, youth under the age of 18 are using condoms at a rate four times that of adults over 40. In asking 3,457 people aged 14 to 94 whether they had used condoms in their last ten acts of intercourse, the study found that:  [Read more]

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The Arse Elektronika Conference, in which geeks assemble from all over the world to talk about futuristic meldings of sex with technology, kicked off its fourth annual meeting at Chez Poulet in San Francisco last night by first taking a look into the past. In the keynote address, titled "All Along the SexTower: Sex on Stage in America," noted sex writer Susie Bright talked about many of the different spaces where she's watched or performed sex in public during her life.  [Read more]