Sarah Pettit, 36, lesbian activist,
Helped found Out, nation's largest gay magazine, in 1992
NEW YORK--Sarah Pettit, a lesbian journalist who helped found the nation's largest gay magazine, Out, died Wednesday. She was 36. Ms. Pettit died at a New York hospital from complications related to lymphoma, said a spokesman at Newsweek, where she worked after leaving Out. She had been on leave from Newsweek since last March, battling the illness. Ms. Pettit co-founded Out magazine in 1992, four years after she graduated from Yale. Out reports on culture, travel and...
Gay magazine honors new Episcopal bishop
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A national gay magazine has named as its person of the year New Hampshire's new Episcopal bishop, the denomination's first openly gay prelate.The Advocate says Bishop Gene Robinson is a symbol in the battle to move religion away from hatred and exclusion and toward love and equality. His consecration has opened a conservative-liberal rift that threatens to split the Episcopal Church and the worldwide Anglican Communion, but the bishop...
Gay Magazine: League star in gay mag
CANTERBURY rugby league ace Steve Price has shocked team-mates and exposed himself to the jibes of rival players by posing nude for a gay magazine. The bare-all Bulldog is pictured in Blue -- a publication celebrating the male body -- wearing a dog collar and flaunting his buttocks.Canterbury coach Steve Folkes disapproves and his team-mates have already begun baiting Price, 25, over the photo spread.But the Australian and Queensland rep can't fathom what all the fuss is...
Gay Magazine: Return Commentary Will Focus on Suspension
Humorist Andy Rooney Reinstated on CBS' `60 Minutes'
NEW YORK (AP) - Humorist Andy Rooney was reinstated Thursday on CBS' "60 Minutes." He said he'll be on Sunday's show with a commentary on the issues involved in his suspension on Feb. 8."I'm very pleased," said Rooney, whom CBS News president David Burke had suspended without pay after a gay magazine quoted him as saying blacks had "watered down their genes," a comment...