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Source: Los Angeles Times , Advocate Renowned gay writers and artists will gather today in Los Angeles to honor Stuart Timmons, a longtime community organizer and author of the best-selling book Gay L.A . Timmons suffered a debilitating stroke in January that has left him unable to speak or move. Timmons...

Source: MTV , indieWire , Hollywood Reporter More than a week after California narrowly passed Proposition 8, which effectively bans gay marriage, protests have erupted all over the Golden State and elsewhere in the country. In many ways, the demonstrations mirror the efforts of '70s gay-rights pioneer...

      ::    Ads that will soon appear on New York City subways and buses aim to give a face to New York's aging gay and lesbian population. The $350,000 campaign sponsored by SAGE (Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders) features portraits of seniors along with the...

      ::    Jack Gilbert , the executive director of Proud Heritage , hopes to open England's first LGBT museum three years from now in London 's King's Cross. Gilbert is now negotiating a lease and gathering the collection and the funding for the museum...

Source: Reuters SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - They were playing in a movie, but marchers who gathered in San Francisco last week to recreate a 1970s gay rights protest were not just acting. Hundreds of people came to the Castro district, long favored by homosexual residents, to be extras in a movie that...

Source: Los Angeles Times , with additional material Kennith H. Burns, an early leader of the Mattachine Society, one of the country's first gay rights organizations, died Dec. 16 at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank. He was 81. The cause was lung failure, according to a friend, Dale...

Source: The Advocate Gay historian Allan Berube, award-winning author of Coming Out Under Fire, died Tuesday of complications from two stomach ulcers. He was 61. Berube was an independent historian and community activist. After coming out in 1969, he joined a gay liberation collective household. He later...

Source: Associated Press via Mercury News LOS ANGELES (AP) Dr. R. Scott Hitt, an AIDS specialist and the first openly gay person to head a presidential advisory board, has died. He was 49. Hitt died Thursday of colon cancer at his home in West Hollywood, according to John Duran, the city's mayor...

Source: San Francisco Chronicle The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence started in 1979 as one of the first charities supporting San Francisco's gay community and has since spread to more than 600 sisters in eight countries. Mixing street theater, drag-queen elegance and community fundraising, the men...

Source: SF Chronicle There is a photo of Felipe Elizondo as a smiling 5-year-old boy, and a photo of him as a young man on his way to serve in Vietnam. Then there are the photos of Elizondo after he became a she. "I'm a transsexual woman who had surgery in 1974 to go from male to female,"...