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Friday, September 19
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Source: TC Palm , Reuters Florida investigators announced Friday that they won't pursue criminal charges against former US Rep. Mark Foley who resigned in disgrace two years ago after reports that he sent sexually charged online messages to teenage congressional pages. At a Friday press conference, Foley's attorney read a statement from the former congressman that declared Foley is "deeply ashamed" by the inappropriate, sexually explicit electronic messages he sent to the pages. "I accept full responsibility for my inappropriate conduct, and continue to pray for forgiveness...
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Thursday, June 26
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Source: Colorado Springs Gazette Ted Haggard, the disgraced founder of New Life Church, is back at his $715,000 home in Colorado Springs, but he's not saying why -- at least not to a reporter from the Colorado Springs Gazette . "I can't talk to you. I am forbidden from talking to the media," Haggard said Saturday evening after answering the doorbell at his home on Old Ranch Road in north Colorado Springs. He declined to elaborate. Haggard was named one of the 25 most influential evangelicals in the nation by Time magazine in 2005. But, in late 2006, he was asked to leave the Colorado...
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Tuesday, June 17
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Source: KXLY-TV , Spokesman Review WA sex/extortion scandal SPOKANE -- All charges have been dropped against Cody Castagna, the man accused of attempted extortion against a disgraced former state lawmaker. "I'm stoked," Castagna said Monday, according to Spokesman Review . "But, you know, I would have hoped this would have happened a long time ago because they had nothing against me." Cody Castagna photo: Fleshbot (which has many more -- and much more flesh -- for a fee after a preview) Castagna, a 27-year old waiter and part-time porn model, was charged with six felony...
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Monday, June 02
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Source: Canadian Press , CBC News , The Hill Times REGINA, Sask. -- A Conservative member of Parliament, who promised earlier this year to spend his life promoting tolerance after a video surfaced of him making anti-gay remarks in 1991, was a no-show Saturday at Regina's gay pride parade. Gay groups said they were disappointed that Regina-Lumsden MP Tom Lukiwski didn't even respond to an invitation to attend the parade. A coalition of groups said they sent Lukiwski a written invitation to attend the Saturday event, but he didn't respond. It was the first event of its kind in Regina...
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Friday, May 23
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Source: Los Angeles Times , GLAAD blog STOCKTON -- After enduring criticism for weeks, John McCain broke Thursday with two controversial televangelists whose endorsements he once trumpeted in a bid to win support from religious conservatives. At a late-afternoon rally in Stockton, McCain said he rejected the endorsement of John Hagee after learning of a recording in which the San Antonio pastor portrayed Adolf Hitler as being sent by God to force Jews "to come back to the land of Israel." McCain said he had not been aware of the comments -- which were made in a sermon in the late 1990s...
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Monday, May 12
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Source: Staten Island Advance , New York Daily News , New York Times "Family values" Congressman Vito Fossella is embroiled in controversy that started with a DWI-arrest in Virginia last week. photo: Staten Island Advance On May 1, a five-term Staten Island congressman was arrested in Alexandria, Va. for drunken driving. His blood-alcohol level was twice the legal limit, according to police. That's never a good news for any politician, but many have survived similar arrests. What is threatening the political future of GOP Rep. Vito Fossella isn't the arrest itself, but his ride...
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Tuesday, May 06
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Source: WLMT-TV ABC24 , WMC-TV , AP via Tenneseean , NBC News via WCSH Memphis, TN - At Monday night's Memphis School Board meeting, a small but vocal group of parents and community members gathered in the back of the auditorium waiting to speak their minds about a high school principal who outed two gay students at her school. "I'm disgusted," Memphis parent Natasha Burnett told WLMT's Eyewitness News Everywhere . "I'm disgusted by it." A letter from the American Civil Liberties Union that was made public last week accuses the principal of Hollis F. Price Middle...
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Monday, May 05
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Source: WLMT-TV ABC24 Memphis, TN -- One of the gay honor students allegedly outed against his will by his high-school principal told WLMT TV that he thinks the principal, Daphne Beasley, should get some education of her own. The ACLU says Beasley made a list of couples in her school so she could cut down on inappropriate displays of public affection on the college campus where the high school is located. On the list that was visible to anyone entering Beasley's office were Nicholas and Andrew, two young men who had recently started dating. Nicholas, who says getting an apology is the most...
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Sunday, May 04
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Source: New York Daily News , (Newark) Star-Ledger On Tuesday, after three years of failed negotiations, insults, and nonstop bickering over everything from Barnes & Noble parking lots to pony rides, the McGreevey divorce finally goes to trial. Legal analysts expect New Jersey's former first couple will approach new lows, even for divorce court. "I'm not going to tell you this is going to be the worst case ever in the history of New Jersey divorces," said Charles Abut, a matrimonial lawyer who operates the New Jersey Family Law blog. "But I think if you asked longtime...
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Tuesday, April 08
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Source: Niagra Falls Review , CJME Radio , Canadian Press (post updated at 1:17 (PT) with information about Regina protest) If the Canada's ruling Conservative party and Prime Minister Stephen Harper had hoped to put the Tom Lukiwski issue behind them, they won't be able to because of pressure from within their own caucus and from lesbian and gay activists in Lukiwski's home district. Senator Nancy Ruth, the only openly gay member of the Conservative caucus, said she plans to raise the issue when caucus meets Wednesday. "Apologies are never enough," Ruth said. "There...
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Monday, April 07
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Source: CBC , Liberal.ca , Canadian Press via Winnipeg Free Press Prime Minister Stephen Harper said a Conservative MP has apoloized for "completely unacceptable" anti-gay comments he made almost two decades ago and will not be disciplined. Saskatchewan MP Tom Lukiwski came under fire last week when a 1991 videotape was discovered in which Lukiwski made homophobic slurs. He apologized twice for comments, saying they were "thoughtless" and "insensitive." In the House of Commons on Monday, Harper said the MP has given an "unqualified" apology and demonstrated...
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Sunday, April 06
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Source: Xtra.ca , Globe and Mail , CTV News , Saskatchewan Star Phoenix A tape made 17 years ago that shows several Canadian politicians making homophobic, sexist, and racist remarks and innuendoes continues to rile politics in Canada with several newspapers running editorials and columns about the incident. A poll taken for a TV network indicates that the incident could erode support for Canada's ruling party, the Conservatives. Xtra , a national gay newspaper in Canada, noted that the incident highlights some of the differences between politics in Canada and the United States. While homophobic...
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Wednesday, March 12
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Source: PinkNews , Associated Press , New York Times The resignation of Eliot Spitzer as Governor of New York today, after he was linked to a prostitution ring, has pushed David Paterson into the limelight. When he's sworn in Monday as governor, Paterson will become the first African-American to be governor of the state and the first blind governor in US history. He has also been actively fighting for gay rights for more than two decades. "David Paterson is a terrific, progressive guy, extremely LGBT-friendly," Ethan Geto, a Democratic analyst and LGBT activist, told The Advocate...
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Monday, February 18
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Source: Billings Gazette , AP via Great Falls Tribune , and Montana's News Station WASHINGTON -- Montana's gay and lesbian community is calling on Rep. Denny Rehberg, R-Mont., to apologize for a gag he recently played on one of his colleagues. According to a Capitol Hill newspaper, Congressman Rehberg played a joke on Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson as the two were traveling on a Middle East congressional delegation trip last month. Rehberg gave Simpson what he called an "Idaho Travel Package." Contents of the travel package included a stuffed sheep, a Village People CD, and a...
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Wednesday, February 13
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Source: Anchorage Daily News Cleveland Browns quarterback Brady Quinn denied that he was involved in an altercation on New Year's Day in which a man claimed on an emergency phone call that Quinn made an anti-gay slur at him. In a statement released Wednesday through the Browns, Quinn said he had dinner on New Year's Eve with his girlfriend and other couples but that nothing else happened. See summary of original charge "At no time that night was I involved in a verbal or physical altercation, nor did I have any interaction with the police," Quinn said in the statement. "I...
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Wednesday, February 13
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Source: Cleveland Plain Dealer and UPI Cleveland Browns quarterback Brady Quinn photo via Flickr Columbus, Ohio -- Cleveland Browns quarterback Brady Quinn, a Columbus native, was part of a group of men shouting insults at gay passers-by outside a Columbus bar early on New Year's Day, according to a 9-1-1 call made to police. An emergency call to police was placed by Seth Harris at 2:35 a.m. Jan. 1 who reported that he encountered the group near a restaurant next door to one of Columbus' most popular gay bars. Update: Quinn denies the charges On the 9-1-1 call, Harris said that "Brady...
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Friday, February 08
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Source: Rocky Mountain News , Christian Post , and TruthWinsOut press release A team appointed to oversee Ted Haggard's "spiritual restoration" after scandal forced him to end his ministry at New Life Church has agreed to his request to end their oversight of his recovery program. New Life Church issued a statement Tuesday saying it believes that the termination of the relationship is premature, but would not say why. Earlier in the process, church leaders had said they assumed that Haggard's recovery could take several years. The Colorado Springs evangelical congregation that...
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Tuesday, February 05
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Source: Associated Press via Google WA sex/extortion Collections of amateur porn shots of alleged hustler, Cody Castagna, like these (edited) images, were widely posted after news of the Curtis affair broke. photos: Fleshbot (not safe for work) SPOKANE, Wash. -- A spotlight is once again shined on what is called the "seamy underside of this ostensibly staid city" in a story by reporter Nicholas K. Geranios published this week by the Associated Press. The AP story recounts the resignation of a conservative politician from southwest Washington who claims he was shaken down by a gay hustler...
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Wednesday, January 16
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Source: Associated Press via Washington Blade and New York Times People who have sex in public bathrooms have an expectation of privacy, the American Civil Liberties Union argues in a brief filed Tuesday on behalf of Sen. Larry Craig. Craig, of Idaho, is asking the Minnesota Court of Appeals to let him withdraw his guilty plea to disorderly conduct stemming from a bathroom sex sting at the Minneapolis airport. The Republican senator was arrested June 11 by an undercover officer who said Craig tapped his feet and swiped his hand under a stall divider in a way that signaled he wanted sex. Craig has...
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Tuesday, January 15
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Source: Spokesman Review and Associated Press WA sex/extortion Cody Castagna (c. 2004 photo via Fleshbot ) The attorney for a 27-year-old waiter and part-time porn model called Spokane County’s case “laughable” as his client pleaded not guilty Monday to a list of charges that followed a sexual encounter in October that ended the career of a Washington state representative. Cody Michael Castagna answered “innocent” as each of the six felonies levied against him were read by Superior Court Judge Jerome Leveque. Qnews update: Prosecutors drop all charges against Castagna in Curtis sex/'extortion'...
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Thursday, January 10
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Source: St. Paul Pioneer-Press The undercover police officer who busted U.S. Sen. Larry Craig in a gay-sex sting in an airport bathroom stall couldn't have been offended by the senator's notorious foot-tapping -- after all, the officer invited the action by tapping his own foot, lawyers for the congressman said in a brief filed Tuesday. Those lawyers also contend the Idaho Republican should have his guilty plea to a disorderly conduct charge thrown out because what he did last June wasn't a crime. The reason: The state's disorderly conduct statute says the conduct in question has...
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Wednesday, December 19
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Source: Seattle Post Intelligencer Cody Castagna (c. 2004 photo via Fleshbot ) A man accused of blackmailing a state legislator over a sexual encounter in a Spokane hotel room may have targeted other victims in extortion attempts, including Seattle business people, Spokane police said this week. Cody M. Castagna, 27, of Medical Lake is charged in Spokane County Superior Court with, among other things, extortion of former state Rep. Richard Curtis. Qnews update: Prosecutors drop all charges against Castagna in Curtis sex/'extortion' scandal (17-June-08) Police said Curtis, a Republican from...
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Thursday, December 13
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Source: KREM TV News and Associated Press WA sex/extortion SPOKANE -- One of four men accused of extorting money from a former Washington state lawmaker turned himself into Spokane Police Wednesday evening shortly before 5:30 p.m. "I'm not going to run, I have nothing to hide," Castagna told KREM 2 News. Castagna arrived at the Spokane County Courthouse with his attorney and a bailbondsman. Castagna told KREM 2 News he has not heard from the three other suspects also accused of extorting money from former Washington state lawmaker, Richard Curtis. Castagna said he heard about the...
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Monday, December 10
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Source: Seattle Times and AP via TheColumbian SEATAC, Wash. -- Clark County Superior Court Judge John Wulle has been censured for "demeaning, offensive and shocking" behavior at a training conference last year. Wulle, 57, appeared before the state Commission on Judicial Conduct on Friday in SeaTac. The judge and seven other people from Clark County, including a deputy prosecuting attorney, a juvenile probation officer and a defense attorney, attended "Planning Your Juvenile Drug Court," July 24 to 28, 2006, in Los Angeles. According to a nine-page document posted on the commission's...
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Monday, December 03
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Source: ABC News and Salon.com Craig's list of accusers is lengthening. Two men, including a former male escort, have confirmed to ABC News allegations that they had sexual encounters with Idaho's embattled Sen. Larry Craig. Mike Jones, 50, told ABC News, Craig paid him $200 for sex during the winter of 2004-2005. A second man, a 50-year old former Army captain, also told ABC News, that Craig made sexual advances towards him in the men's room of a Republican gathering in Washington state in 1981. The men were two of eight new people who claimed encounters with Craig in an article published...
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Sunday, December 02
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Source: Idaho Statesman by Dan Popkey David Phillips. Mike Jones. Greg Ruth. Tom Russell. Four gay men, willing to put their names in print and whose allegations can't be disproved, have come forward since news of U.S. Sen. Larry Craig's guilty plea. They say they had sex with Craig or that he made a sexual advance or that he paid them unusual attention. They are telling their stories now because they are offended by Craig's denials, including his famous statement, "I am not gay, I never have been gay." Those words, spoken on live national TV on Aug. 28, are now memorialized...
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Friday, November 23
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Source: compiled by seaQwa's Qnews from reports in Sophia Echo The billboard that caused a stir in Bulgaria Photo: news.bg In Sofia, Bulgaria, 14 billboards with photos of pop artists Azis and his partner Kitaetsa were taken down on Wednesday because they were "scandalous". Similar billboards were also removed in Plovdiv, Kyustendil and Pernik, Dnevnik daily said. Kitaetsa is the nick-name of the partner of pop-folk singer Azis. The two have been open about their homosexual relationship. On the billboard, the two were shown in, what has been said to be a homo-erotic pose. Removal...
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Tuesday, November 20
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Source: Baltimore Sun Anthony W. McCarthy, a top aide and spokesman in Mayor Sheila Dixon's administration, is being investigated by Baltimore County police for "inappropriate behavior" and was placed on indefinite leave from his position, the mayor's office confirmed yesterday. A Baltimore County police spokesman said the department received a complaint about McCarthy's behavior last week, but the spokesman declined to make the report public or offer details about the complaint. No charges have been filed, and McCarthy has not been questioned, police said. Dixon learned of...
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Saturday, November 17
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Source: Tallahassee Democrat and Orlando Sentinel via TCPalm Bob Allen resigned his seat in the Florida House on Friday, a day after he was sentenced to probation and assessed a fine for solicitation. The Merritt Island Republican had already been stripped of his committee chairmanship and assignments. During October's special session of the Legislature, he was relegated to a seat in the back of the House chamber, among out-of-power Democrats. And Allen was threatened with creation of a commission that would seek his forcible ouster if he didn't resign. "Due to the requirements of...
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Thursday, November 15
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Source: Spokane Spokesman-Review Cody Castagna in a c. 2004 photo shoot. photo: Fleshbot [nsfw] OLYMPIA -- An awful lot is known about then-state-lawmaker Richard Curtis’ recent trysts with men at a Spokane Valley adult bookstore and downtown hotel last month. But here’s something you probably didn’t know: You paid for the trip. Curtis’ travel records, obtained Thursday by The Spokesman-Review through a public records request, show that Curtis’ three-day trip to Spokane cost taxpayers nearly $800. They also show that during his three years as a legislator, Curtis was a prolific traveler, racking...
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