It appears that after weeks of controversy, largely fueled by the traditional and online LGBT media, Jarret Barrios of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation has resigned after questions surfaced regarding GLAAD’s relationship with AT&T and the company’s regulatory agenda before the Federal Communications Commission and its merger with T-Mobile. This easily could have [...]

There was a time that the word “fag” probably wouldn’t cause much of a stir. But Vanity Fair contributor Brett Berk has found himself in the middle of a weekend firestorm after dropping the f-bomb in a column about the recent episode of Glee in his Gay Guide to Glee on VF’s website.

Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) has made right with JoeMyGod blogger Joe Jervis by calling to apologize for a staffer who posted “All Faggots Must Die” on the popular gay blog and announcing that the staffer has been let go.

In a country club version of the Hatfields and McCoys, Tucker Carlson of the Daily Caller and Rich Lowry of the National Review stepped up their online feud over allegations made by the scrappy start-up that the folks at National Review were working with Republican lawmakers to promote the “Pledge to America” in a gushing editorial in the magazine.

Never one to shy away from publicity and attention, Ann Coulter headlined gay conservative fundraiser, Homocon, this weekend and everyone is reacting as planned in Coulter’s perfectly choreographed appearance. Progressives and gays and lesbians are appalled, conservatives are titillated, and GOProud has gotten tons of ink.

The last place you’d expect a healthy rumble between the media and a high profile critic is at a meeting of religion journalists. But a speech by high-profile Catholic Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Denver at the Religion Newswriters Association meeting on his home turf turned into an opportunity for Chaput to air his grievances with the press and journalists–especially the New York Times’ Laurie Goodstein–who challenge Chaput on how he treats the media.

A commenter who posted “All Faggots Must Die” on the popular gay blog JoeMyGod has been traced to the offices of Sen. Saxby Chambliss, a Republican from Georgia.

While his side may have won the day in preventing a vote on Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) appears to have lost the war with reporters after he loses his temper with two journalists from the gay press challenging him on the extent of investigations of gay servicemembers.

Despite the Lady GaGa’s best efforts, an attempt to get “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” to a vote in the Senate has failed, with moderate Republican supporters of repeal joining with the rest of their party to continue a fillibuster on a defense funding bill. The 56-43 vote to end debate means both the attempt to end the policy barring gay and lesbian servicemembers and a larger defense funding bill may not receive a vote again until after the November elections.

It’s a strange time in a news story when Lady GaGa’s views on the future of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell are more important and get more coverage than Bill Clinton’s and Colin Powell’s.

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow has been one of television’s most vocal critics of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and has featured almost every major figure in the battle to repeal the law. R. Clarke Cooper is a captain in the Army Reserves, the head of a national gay rights organization, and an outspoken advocate for repealing DADT whose organization just won the biggest legal battle so far in challenging the rule. But even though Maddow says she’s desperate to get Republicans on her show, why can’t the head of the gay Log Cabin Republicans get booked?

At first, it seemed like just a coincidence. The day after Lady GaGa took discharged service members with her on the red carpet to the Video Music Awards and gave a shout-out to repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell during an acceptance speech, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) scheduled a Senate vote on the rule that bars openly gay servicemembers. But now Reid’s campaign is tweeting GaGa that they are listening to her concerns about DADT.

Despite being front-page news that a federal judge found the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy barring gay and lesbian servicemembers was unconstitutional, President Obama was not asked a single question during today’s press conference about the administration again losing a gay rights case in federal court.

A federal judge in California has found that the government’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy violates the First and Fifth Amendment rights of gay and lesbian military members and issued an injunction halting enforcement of the law. The case, brought by the gay Log Cabin Republicans, puts the Obama administration again in the position of potentially taking an appeal to the liberal U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit defending a law that is opposed by its powerful (and increasingly skeptical) lesbian and gay base.

Sarah Palin is apparently unhappy with Michael Joseph Gross, the author of the much-talked-about Vanity Fair piece.

But when she appeared to refer to him as “impotent and limp and gutless” in an interview on Sean Hannity’s radio show, was she also doing a little gay-baiting?

In his first column as New York Times public editor, Arthur Brisbane says the faster pace of news coverage means the paper needs to respond to its many critics–and fans–more quickly and correct mistakes as quickly as it churns out news.

When Marc Ambinder went live on Wednesday with his story for The Atlantic that former Republican National Committee chair Ken Mehlman was coming out as a gay man–in one of the worst kept secrets in Washington, D.C.–the story may have appeared to come out of nowhere. Although the story reads as if Ambinder had been [...]

Former Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman tells The Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder that he is gay and that he decided to come out in order to endorse efforts to legalize gay marriage.

Dr. Laura Schlessinger went on CNN’s Larry King Live last night to announce she is quitting radio so she can “regain” her First Amendment rights to say offensive things without people complaining about it . . . or something like that.

A week after Robert Gibbs went after the “professional left,” another White House official is allegedly airing his frustration with bloggers and this time it’s the LGBT blogosphere and their constant complaining about the Obama administration that is raising concern.

It’s hard not to love Neil Patrick Harris. And it’s nice that he and his partner David Burtka are going to be daddies to twins. But if you want the media to respect your privacy, maybe Twitter isn’t the best place to announce the news.

Frank Rich loves the gays. On opinion pages that are pro-gay to begin with, Rich’s writing about gay rights and same-sex marriage sets him apart from his peers for his ability to capture the essence of the message on gay issues and concerns of the LGBT community.

Tweaking the White House from the “professional left,” MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow tonight encouraged the White House to stop enforcement of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell advsing President Obama that if he wants “history to look kindly on you” he should get liberals to cheer for him instead of bashing them and complaining about their criticism.

They found a goat’s head in my local park and it turns out the grocery stores are really crowded in D.C. I know this because the much-talked-about TBD.com debuted today and the hyperlocal coverage has zeroed in on a park near my house.

As Melissa Block interviewed Karen Grigsby Bates Wednesday on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, Bates made a startling statement that may have caused many listeners to drive off the road. In describing Judge Vaughn Walker, who had just found a ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional, she said “He’s gay and out. And it doesn’t seem to be an issue for anybody, including the supporters of Proposition 8.”