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'Glee' star Darren Criss looking forward to opening night on Broadway
"Glee" favorite Darren Criss will open his first show on Broadway on Tuesday night.
Amazon, Barnes & Noble selling homophobic calendar
Mary J Blige: "My Life II"
Rick Perry's anti-gay ad uses music from a gay composer
Republican candidate Rick Perry might want to look a little closer at the music credits the next time his campaign puts together a presidential ad.
Gay 'Archie' Comics character Kevin Keller to marry military boyfriend
"Archie Comics" character Kevin Keller will marry his military boyfriend Clay Walker in the January issue.
Publishing house owned by Catholic Church publishes porn
The Catholic Church is trying to crawl out of a scandal over its wholly-owned publishing house Weltbild, the home of pornographic novels like "Call Me Slut!", "Take Me Here, Take Me Now!" and "Lawyer's Whore."
'Shine' -- a novel about an anti-gay hate crime -- dumped by Book Award
"Shine," a book about a gay teenager who is the victim of a hate crime, was named a National Book Award finalist, taken off the list, put back on the list and then taken off again over the past week.
Actor Zachary Quinto: 'I am a gay man'
Actor Zachary Quinto -- who played "Spock" in the recent Star Trek movie and plays Slyar in "Heroes" -- said that the suicide death of Jamey Rodemeyer has motivated him to come out of the closet.
Glee star Jane Lynch visits Chicago
"We're Here, We're Queer"
Gay 'Archie' Comics character Kevin Keller marrying 'Mr. Right'
Early next year, the timeless comic book town of Riverdale will take a giant leap into the future when gay character Kevin Keller gets married to "Mr. Right."
Kristin Chenoweth shares "Some Lessons Learned" on her new CD this Tuesday
Born and raised in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, actress/songstress Kristin Chenoweth goes back to her country music roots with her new album "Some Lessons Learned"
'The Game': Closeted gay rappers are putting lives at risk
Rapper "The Game" said in an interview on VLADTV that he thinks there are lots of closeted gay rappers, and that people who are in the closet are putting lives at risk.
UNC's Christian a cappella group votes to kick out gay singer
The University of North Carolina's "Psalm 100" Christian a capella group is under investigation after members voted unanimously to kick out Will Thomason, who is gay.
New Spider-Man: bi-racial, and perhaps gay
There's a new Spider-Man in town: Michael Morales is half-black, half-Hispanic -- and he might be gay.
CBS racing away from anti-gay, anti-Albus Dumbledore rant from Big Brother contestant
CBS is trying to dodge controversy after "Big Brother" contestant Jeff Schroeder hauled off on J.K. Rowling's fictional Hogwarts headmaster, Albus Dumbledore, who she said is gay.
'Leatherman' book out just in time for IML Weekend
New York Times makes Frank Bruni the paper's first openly gay columnist
Food critic Frank Bruni is the New York Times' newest columnist, and the paper's first openly gay columnist.