Earlier today I published this post about the murder of Zoliswa Nkonyana. 365gay.com reports that six men have now been arrested in connection with Zoliswa’s murder.

“Queer Femmes Loving FTMs” is listed as one of Dr. Susan Driver’s future publications on her Wilfrid Laurier University faculty page. The piece will appear in the forthcoming book Trans and Feminisms (ed. Krista Scott, Sumach Press).

A federal judge has refused to review Russell Henderson’s case.

Russell Henderson is serving two life sentences for killing 21-year-old Matthew Shepard, a University of Wyoming student who was found severely beaten and tied to a fence near Laramie on Oct. 7, 1998.

He died five days later at a hospital in Fort Collins.

Attorney Tim Newcomb says Henderson was never told of his right to appeal, effectively denying Henderson’s right to appellate counsel.

But US District Judge Clarence Brimmer rejected the motion for a writ of habeas corpus last week.

Prosecutors argued Henderson and a friend, Aaron McKinney, beat Shepard at least partly because he was gay.

The convicted killers later told ABC News they were motivated only by robbery in order to fuel a methamphetamine binge.

A Wyoming district court and that state’s Supreme Court previously rejected Henderson’s motion.

McKinney was also sentenced to two consecutive life terms.

News 24 reports that Triangle Project, the largest LGBT organization in South Africa, has slammed the Sunday Times for publishing a picture revealing the identity of three lesbians who were friends of 19-year-old Zoliswa Nkonyana, who was stoned to death by a gang of men, because of her sexual orientation, three weeks ago.

Despite warnings from Triangle Project of hate crimes against gay and lesbian people in the traditional township areas, the Sunday Times published the picture of Nkonyana along with three members of her lesbian football club.

The Triangle Project added that no consent was gained from the three for the photograph to be used.

“Publishing a photo of three lesbians, without their consent, accompanying an article on hate crimes against lesbians is highly irresponsible - especially considering that one of their friends was killed by a mob in their community,” said Glenn de Swaart, Triangle Project spokesperson.

If the picture appeared with the Times online article about Zoliswa Nkonyana’s death, it has now been removed.

Lily Mcbeth taught at Eagleswood Township Elementary School for five years as Mr. Mcbeth before taking some time off this year. She’s now ready to return to the classroom, but Mark Schnepp, a parent of an Eagleswood student who says Mcbeth’s transition to female is against his religion, and the school board allowing her teach would be a violation of his rights, isn’t going to let that happen without a fight.

“The fact that (she) taught there as a man first, and now coming back as a woman is just a huge distraction,” said Mark Schnepp, a parent of an Eagleswood student.

Schnepp appears to be leading the way to try and prevent Macbeth from returning to the classroom.

“I just wanted to let everyone know what’s going on and so I took out an ad,” Schnepp said.

The ad urged parents to show up at next Monday’s school board meeting.

Watch a video of Lily Mcbeth speaking to NBC 10 News here.

The Empire State Pride Agenda is encouraging the queer community to stop giving financial support to Hillary Clinton’s re-election campaign because of her opposition to same-sex marriage.

In a memorandum to board members, Alan Van Capelle, the executive director of the group, the Empire State Pride Agenda, said Mrs. Clinton was “a complete disappointment,” taking issue with her opposition to same-sex marriage and her support for the Defense of Marriage Act.

Mrs. Clinton supports civil unions between members of the same sex but opposes gay marriage. She also opposes a proposed consitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage.

In his memo, which was reported on Tuesday on the Politicker Web site of The New York Observer, Mr. Van Capelle said that he refused to “lend my name and sell tickets” to any fund-raiser sponsored by a gay group for Mrs. Clinton’s re-election campaign. He said supporting such fund-raisers for Mrs. Clinton would “actually hurt” the gay and lesbian community.

“It will send a message to other elected officials that you can be working against us during this critical time and not suffer a negative pushback from the gay community,” he said. “We have become a community that throws money at politicians, and we demand nothing in return. And that’s what we get: nothing. It’s the wrong message to send.”

Clinton’s advisers respond: But gay people are coming to our party next month. Isn’t that enough?

Mrs. Clinton’s advisers countered that her support within the gay community runs deep, noting that a fund-raising event planned for next month will have prominent gay politicians and activists as hosts, including Christine C. Quinn, the New York City Council speaker, and Ethan Geto, a well-known lobbyist.

Joel Dorius, one of three professors who were suspended from Smith College in 1960 for possession of gay pornography, died last week at 87 from bone marrow cancer in his home in San Francisco.

Raymond Joel Dorius, who never used his first name, was born in Salt Lake City on Jan. 4, 1919, and graduated from the University of Utah. He taught English literature at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard and Yale before going to Smith. He then spent 20 years at San Francisco State University, where he retired in 1984.

But his career nearly crashed after state troopers and local police in Northampton, Mass., searched his home as part of raids on obscenity in the mail ordered by President Eisenhower’s postmaster general.

He and another untenured professor, Edward Spofford, had been turned in by Newton Arvin, a tenured literature professor whose home was raided first. What they found - pictures of men in their underwear and diaries of the closeted gay life - were mild by today’s standards but considered illegal pornography then.

The three men were charged with possession of pornography. Arvin agreed to testify against the others, but he later suffered a breakdown and committed himself to a mental hospital.

The three professors were suspended from Smith. Arvin was able to retire at half pay, but the school’s contracts with Dorius and Spofford were not renewed.

Dorius and Spofford accepted a guilty verdict so they could appeal under Massachusetts law. In 1963, the state’s Supreme Court overturned all three convictions.

This is the second death caused by cancer I am posting about this week.

The results of a study performed by researchers at Utrecht University show that “penis size is paramount to the way gay men see themselves.”

The study was undertaken by Liesbeth Woertman, a senior lecturer in clinical psychology, and colleague who specializes in social and organizational psychology.

Using a broad survey on a number of topics to mask the nature of the research they questioned 251 gay men. The average age of the sujects was 29 Woertman said.

“Our study reveals that how gay men see their penis has considerable influence on how they value themselves in general,” she said.

The larger their organ the more confident gay men were both in lovemaking and in life in general the study found.

Most important to gay men after penis size: their stomachs and their skin.

Paper Dolls wins three awards at the Berlin Film Festival.

It’s rumored that Kate Moss will play Dusty Springfield’s first lover in an Ang Lee movie.

The Post Chronicle reports Paris Hilton “made the ‘horniest videotape of all time’ with Playboy beauty Nicole Lenz.”

Jen is hosting the next edition of the Carnival of Bent Attractions on March 10th. Submissions are due by 12:01AM on March 2nd.