Due to a shooting at Sugar on Capitol Hill, it looks like the bar will be closing. When the club first opened, it was mostly a gay customers. For some reason, the bar changed it’s format (and clientèle) and then started it’s quick descent. There has been quite a bit of violence at the bar within the past year.

The thing that confuses me about this whole mess is, why would the owner take a mostly-gay bar in the second gayest neighborhood in the US and make it straight? The crowd this club attracts has been, sadly, not very gay-friendly. Is the owner simply an idiot? There has been a rise in gay bashings on CH within the last year. Not surprisingly, there has been an increase in yuppy straight clubs as well. I know correlation does not equal causation… but come on people!

Sugar when gay…

Sugar without the gays… noticeably more bland.

A Canadian hockey player had pictures surface of him being kissed by a man. His response, when asked if he is gay was: “I don’t know nothing about the homosexual.”

The homosexual? Are we some sort of conglomerate? Singular? Maybe he meant he didn’t know anything about the trick he picked up.

In anti-gay United Arab Emirates, this is how a male rape victim is treated.Yet, our country sends billions of dollars in foreign investments, not to mention that we tried to sell them our ports. Why not invest our money in developing countries who don’t treat glbt people so egregiously!?

Wow… there is a lot of gay news this week.

So, there is no evidence that Principal Schum is anti-glbt, so I will not lump him with the Republican idiots getting caught in gay sex scandals. But, he is the head of a Catholic school in the south… so I will go out on a limb and make the assumption that he isn’t overly glbt friendly.

This is just getting to be weird.

If I were a transgendered person, I would be pissed. Fundamentalist idiots always give the rest of us glbt folks a bad rap. The hypocrisy of their double lives (openly conservative and anti-glbt, closeted kinkster) pisses me off. The have the benefit of dictating our lives legally (as in the politicians) or administratively (as in the principal), yet get to have the gay/transgendered perks as well.

I am very torn about this. Yes, what the Westboro Baptist Church, and it’s leader Fred Phelps does at glbt and veteran funerals is despicable. But, what about free speech and freedom of assembly? The lawsuit says that Phelps & Co. intended to inflict emotional distress and invaded the families privacy. I agree. Of course they were trying to inflict emotional distress. What else could they be doing? I just wonder if this is, in some way, limiting people’s ability to voice their opinions and assemble - regardless of how disgusting their message may be.

In Washington State. And… he is… Republican. My goodness, these Republican men are out of control! Sadly, this story hasn’t received much attention.

• UPDATE PART I: This story is finally starting to get attention.
• UPDATE PART II: For the best, most complete story.
• UPDATE PART III: He resigned. That was quick. He could have pulled a Larry Craig and said he has a wide stance… or something.
• UPDATE PART IV: Guess what?! National attention (finally…).

This man claims that genetics prove people of African decent are intellectually inferior to whites, that gay fetuses should be aborted, and that there is a link between skin color and sexual prowess (darker the skin = higher the prowess).

He didn’t mention, ironically, the genetic link between light skin and sun damage. Just saying…