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May 30:  Sports - Fog Rocks London as ‘Frisco Retain the Bingham Cup, by Andy Harley.  San Francisco Fog retained the Bingham Cup, the competition for gay and bisexual rugby clubs worldwide, when they ran-in four tries to defeat the UK Manchester Spartans 26-7 at Esher Rugby Club in Surrey this evening.
May 29:  Sports:  Unseeded Sydney Takes Cup By Storm, by Andy Harley.  Unseeded Sydney Convicts emerged as a potential finalist in the 2004 Bingham Cup today (Saturday) when they emerged unbeaten in Pool B in the first day of the competition being held at the Esher Rugby Club in Surrey, England.
May 29:  USA-related:  Log Cabin Republicans Expand National Advertising Campaign to Washington State.  Washington State is pivotal in effort to defend the Constitution and help build a more inclusive Republican Party
May 27:  USA-releated:   PFLAG Announces National Gay Rights Scholarship Winners.  Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) today announced the winners of the first annual PFLAG National Scholarships. Students were honored for academic achievement as well as athletics, advocacy, leadership and involvement with gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) community.
May 26:  Sports:   Bingham Cup: Eagle Eye Bukowski, by Allison Livingstone-Whitton.  Lois Bukowski spent 15 happy years playing rugby at No 8 for the Berkeley All Blues, UCLA, Coast and the University of Pennsylvania. Her playing career included winning the National Championships six times in a row with the All Blues and playing for the United States Eagles.  She is also the only female referee for the Bingham Cup.
May 21:  UK-related:  British Airways Boycott by Gays and Lesbians Urged.  Gays and lesbians worldwide are being asked to take part in a little “ethical consumerism” by trying to find and alternative to flying by British Airways.
May 21:  USA-related:   National Gay Newspaper Guild Elects Officers.  The National Gay Newspaper Guild has elected a new slate of officers for 2004, including the first women to its board of directors.
May 20:  UK Sports related:   Bingham Rugby Cup - Steelers Strip, If Price Is Right.  Whatever the French can do, the Brits can do better.  That has been the philosophy for hundreds of years on the north side of, err, La Manche.
May 20:  USA-related:  HRC Launches Animation Highlighting President Bush’s Discriminatory Agenda.  The Human Rights Campaign has launched an animation by political cartoonist Mark Fiore that highlights President Bush’s discriminatory effort to amend the U.S. Constitution to permanently deny marriage rights to same-sex couples.
May 20:  USA-related:  Log Cabin Republicans Condemn NC State GOP Chairman For Dividing Party.  Just days before the start of the North Carolina Republican State Convention, Chairman Ferrell Blount has written a letter reversing position and informing Log Cabin North Carolina that it will not be allowed a table at the state convention.
May 16:  USA-related:  The Alternatives to Marriage Project Welcomes Same-Sex Marriage in Massachusetts - and Looks Ahead.  Monday May 17 is seen as “a joyous day” by the Alternatives to Marriage Project.  It is the day when the Commonwealth of Massachusetts allows same sex partners to marry – the first state in the US to do so.
May 14:  Polish Politicians Face Legal Action Following Violence at Gay March, by Andy Harley.  Four Polish local politicians from the Liga Polskich Rodzin (Polish Families League) party – and the leader of the Craków branch of Mlodziez Wszechpolska (Great Polish Youth) – face legal action following physical attacks on gays at the recent “Culture of Tolerance” event in Craków.
May 14:  USA-related:  Shock and Awe has Become Terrorize and Disgust.  Perspective by Faisal Alam.  To Iraqis, Arabs, and Muslims around the world, the few photographs that we have seen reveal the dark side of the American psyche.
May 12:  USA-related:  Gays Lead Non-Gays In Internet Use for Access to Political Use.  Gay, lesbians and bisexuals in the USA (GLB) are more likely to use the internet to access political news and updates than heterosexuals, a new online survey has found.
May 12:  Travel - Canada.  Gay Tourism in Toronto Gets a Provincial Boost.  The Gay Toronto Tourism Guild (GTTG) is serious about Gay Marketing. They have been, ever since their inception in 2002. And now, with a little help from the province of Ontario, the GTTG is putting its hat into the Gay Marketing ring in a big way.
May 11:  UK/Rugby related:  Much 'Respect' For Bingham Cup.  A holiday for two worth over £1,000 is to be raffled on Thursday at a fundraiser in London to benefit the Bingham Cup, the rugby competition for world-wide amateur gay clubs that is being staged in London at the end of the month.
May 11:  International/Canada Sports:  Rendez-Vous  Montréal 2006 Becomes 1^st World Outgames by Andy Harley.  The Rendez-Vous Montréal 2006 gay and lesbian games is to become the 1^st Word Outgames following an agreement between the Rendez-Vous organising committee and the Gay and Lesbian International Sport Association (GLISA), it was announced in Montréal this morning.
May 10:  International/Canada Sports:  Montreal Set To Announce Future of 2006 Gay Games, by Andy Harley.  Organisers of the Rendez-Vous Montréal 2006 gay and lesbian games are expected to announce at a press conference tomorrow morning (Tuesday) that their event will definitely be going ahead.
May 10.  USA-related: Al-Fatiha Condemns Sexual Humiliation of Iraqi Detainees.  Al-Fatiha Foundation, a US-based organization dedicated to Muslims who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, questioning (LGBTIQ), has condemned the sexual humiliation and abuse of Iraqi detainees by the US occupied forces in Iraq.
May 10.  USA-related:  Sullivan, Bradley Discuss Religion/Gay Marriage at Pew Forum Event.  Next week, the state of Massachusetts will begin granting marriage licences to same-sex couples. As part of the national debate that has been raging around this issue ...
May 9.  UK-related: QEH Date For London Gay Men's Chorus, by Andy Harley.  The London Gay Men’s Chorus – the UK’s largest and best-know gay choir – are  to return to the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London’s South Bank Centre next month.
May 4:  Veteran Demonstrator Fails to Sway Methodist Vote.  The Rev. Gilbert Caldwell once stood outside the Methodist General Conference in Pittsburgh as part of a peaceful demonstration.  Today, forty years later – and now retired – he was again peacefully demonstrating outside the United Methodist Church’s General Conference.
May 3:  Commentary:  Respect for Jarred Gamwell Who Lost, Yet Won.  Two weeks ago, Jarred Gamwell was a normal young and “out” gay guy at high school in USA.  Like many others, he was taunted – something he got used to.
May 1:  Commentary:  For The Sake of Unity, by Rev. A. William "Bill" Martin.  Talk of schism in the United Methodist Church has increased, following the recent trial of the Rev. Karen Dammann in the Pacific Northwest Annual Conference.
May 1:  New Web Site Takes Aim at Same-Sex Resolution in Anglican Church of Canada.  Integrity Canada, a national support group for gay and lesbian Canadian Anglicans, has launched a national Web site “to better communicate the perspective of many of the church's lesbian and gay members” and to support the blessing of same-sex unions.