Salt Lake City's RC Lounge claimed to be the oldest gay bar in the western United States — until it was torn down a few weeks ago.

The University of North Texas’s homecoming king and queen will remain a male and female pair after students on Monday voted down a measure to allow same-sex duos.

Theater and film actor Alan Cumming will receive one of the U.K.'s highest honors for his work as an entertainer and activist. Cumming will be inducted into the Order of the British Empire on Tuesday, along with fellow honorees including Anna Wintour and Pierce Brosnan.

A trio of movies that were being shipped to a gay film festival in Ottawa were seized by Canadian border guards over the weekend and are being held until they can be screened from start to finish.Organizers for Inside Out wound up having to show DVD or lower quality copies of the films I Can’t Think Straight, Clapham Junction, and Patrik 1.5 at the festival. This is the latest instance in which gay media has been stopped at the border for "questionable content."

Two dozen Lutheran congregations in Minnesota and Iowa have vowed to leave the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America because of the denomination's decision in Minneapolis this summer to allow gays and lesbians in committed relationships to serve as clergy.

Tom Ford held a private viewing Sunday night of his new film, A Single Man, and despite the gay love story, the renowned designer told his audience that he did not want it defined as a gay movie.

Entourage creator Doug Ellin has promised to address the homophobic and racial slurs that were allegedly made on the set of the hit HBO series after actor Rex Lee complained about bullying.

Lee, the gay Asian actor who plays Lloyd, said crew members "occasionally" made disparaging remarks about him.

The Middletown, Conn., board of education adopted a policy last week to address transgender athletes’ participation in school sports.



Based on Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference rules, the policy states that a student athlete will compete in the sex on his or her birth certificate unless he or she has undergone sex reassignment.

Just hours ahead of a planned antihomophobia march in the center of Liverpool, a 19-year-old student describes being battered by eight people in a gang, according to The Liverpool Echo.