I don’t want to go on them or read about them, but if you have any interest: Bad Lesbian Dates.

(Heel click: Lusty Lady)

Yury Luzhkov, the mayor of Moscow, says that gay parades, “which can be described in no other way than as Satanic,” will never take place in Moscow.

Bilerico (which is quickly becoming one of my favorite blogs) reports that Tony Dungy, head coach of the Super Bowl bound Indianapolis Colts, will be the guest of honor at the Indiana Family Institute’s special event dinner happening in March.

Under the guise of protecting traditional family values, [the Indiana Family Institute] helps spread misinformation that fosters bigitory toward our community and our own families.

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…Tony’s prominent appearance before this group, as a representative of a major sports institution in Indianapolis, sends a chilling message.

From the Indiana Family Institute’s policy statement:

Throughout its 16 year history, the Indiana Family Institute has sought to bring Biblical values and Biblical ethics to the public policy making process in Indiana. To this end, we have opposed all efforts to create or advance special civil or legal rights for homosexuals. During Governor Daniels’ campaign and then in the first months of his Administration, we made our opposition to his desire to have an explicit, non-discrimination policy for one group of citizens – homosexuals – quite clear.

Violet Blue posted her top five sexy SF date restaurants at Metroblogging San Francisco earlier this month.

The four non-sushi restaurants (because I’m a sushi hater): Absinthe, Ajanta, Millennium and El Mansour.

This woman should just give up heterosexuality.

According to San Diego police, a motorist attacked and bit part of an ear off of a 43-year-old man on Friday night after screaming “faggots” at him and two other men. The victim was able to drive away from the scene after the attack.

In late December 2006, a military appeals court reduced the penalty given to an HIV+ male Coast Guard officer who had unprotected vaginal intercourse with a woman who did not know his HIV status.

Lt. Christopher Upham was found to be HIV+ in 1998. He has been receiving antiretroviral therapy, resulting in a very low but not undetectable viral load count. He was counseled about the need to use condoms to avoid transmitting HIV. In the early morning hours of October 7, 2003, he twice engaged in intercourse with a woman without using a condom or disclosing his HIV status.

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Upham pled guilty to one count of conduct unbecoming an officer in violation of Art. 133, but refused to plead guilty to the count of committing an aggravated assault in violation of Art. 128. His position was that the sex was consensual and that the risk of transmission was small enough that he need not have used a condom or disclosed his HIV status.

The appeals court disagreed with an earlier ruling from a military judge stating that “a person who willfully and deliberately exposes a person to seminal fluid containing HIV without informing that person of his HIV positive status and without using a condom has acted in a manner likely to produce death or grievous bodily injury” after hearing testimony on the likelihood of Upham transmitting HIV via unprotected, non-violent vaginal intercourse.

Read more details of U.S. v. Upham in “Military Appeals Court Reduces Penalty for Unprotected Vaginal Intercourse” on page 16 of the January edition of the Lesbian/Gay Law Notes.

It’s been a busy week and I’m sure I’ve missed a ton of stuff out in the blogosphere I should have shared with you. The weekend is awaiting, and I need a rest, but before I go until Monday, if you haven’t seen it yet, head over to bilerico for Bil Browning’s post calling for gossip on hypocritical Indiana lawmakers (thanks for sending the link, Viviane!).

I’ve banged my head on the gay rights wall for years - as have several others around the state and country.

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Looking at last year’s news cycle, one option had a high degree of success at influencing voters’ behavior, setting back a large segment of the conservative movement, and generally providing a modicum of entertainment value for the masses. What was it? “Outing” the hypocrite.

Think Ted Haggard or Mark Foley.

I’m sick and tired of these hypocritical Hoosier legislators who think that my sex life or relationship status is any of their business. Do I intrude on who they’re sleeping with? I didn’t, but I’m going to start now. I think we need to shame them into doing the right thing and voting against discrimination. We need to show them that unnecessary intrusion into someone else’s sex life is not only unwelcome but unwarranted unless it involves children or animals. We need to burn their hand so they won’t touch the stove again.

Consider this a call to arms gossip. (We’re gay, we can do this tastefully and without violence! *grins*) I want to know the scoop. Tell me the stories that will embarrass those conservative bigots that are backing a constitutional ban on our formalized relationships. Send me gossip about who’s a philanderer, a kink fiend, a drug addict, a porn addict, or had a divorce, an abortion or even a stay in rehab. Ask your friends and family for the dirt. Look it up on the internet. Sniff out a lead and send it my way.

tips@bilerico.com

I specifically want to learn more about the alleged blowjob one of our married legislators got caught receiving in the Statehouse parking lot. I also want to know more about the single legislator (with the biggest “gay face” in the Statehouse!) who supposedly got all of his money after a rich non-related older man died and left it all to him. Rumor has it that there’s a northern Indiana legislator who’s in the closet and a female lawmaker who allegedly had an abortion or two but still ranks as a Super Christian with the Right to Life. I’ve heard that a couple out-of-town legislators have been spotted visiting the Unicorn Club and the gay baths and that several have a fondness for blow. Do you know who they are? Will you tell me?

I know. Outing people isn’t nice. And yet, if you have any tips for Bil, I’ll find a way to sleep at night knowing this post encouraged you to send them along.

Enter to win a copy of Brokeback Mountain: The Collector’s Edition from The Raw Story here.

On April 21, 2004, some students at Poway High held a “Day of Silence” designed to draw attention to harassment of gay and lesbian students.

[Chase] Harper put masking tape on a T-shirt and wrote “I Will Not Accept What God Has Condemned” on the front and “Homosexuality Is Shameful, Romans 1:27” on the back.

The sophomore wore the shirt again the next day, changing the word on the front to “Be Ashamed, Our School Embraced What God Condemned.”

A teacher said the shirt was in violation of the school’s dress code and asked him to take it off. When Harper refused, he was sent to the office, where he spent the rest of the day.

Harper sued Poway school officials claiming his right to free speech was violated. The Union-Tribune reports U.S. District Judge John A. Houston ruled yesterday that “the school’s actions didn’t infringe on students’ rights of free speech, free exercise of religion, nor were they hostile to a particular religious viewpoint.” Harper’s attorney promises to appeal.