A selection of stories making the headlines (or not, as the case may be) over the last week or so. Put the kettle on and grab some M&S chocolate cornflake minibites. *drool*

Westboro Baptist Church announce their first anti-gay picket in the UK where they will protest at a 6th Form College. Why? The college is staging a production of The Laramie Project, a play which depicts gay teenager Matthew Shepard who was tortured and murdered in America in 1998.
http://tinyurl.com/brqvjql

A hot redhead who can save you, kick your ass and then hang upside-down, probably. Oh yeah, and she’s a lesbian too. DC Comics announce the arrival of Kathy Kane, the first gay superhero.
http://tinyurl.com/dd5l3t

American daytime soap “All My Children” features the first ever lesbian wedding on, er…American daytime tv.
http://tinyurl.com/bc9mwml

Watch it here:

Blub Blub.

Margaret Atwood decides to pull out of the Dubai International Festival of Literature in a show of support after another author is disinvited to the event. Geraldine Bedell’s book “The Gulf Between Us” contains a minor character who happens to be gay, a gay Sheikh to be exact. “”I do not want our festival remembered for the launch of a controversial book”.
http://tinyurl.com/brqmh5l

LGBT Noise organised a protest against the Civil Partnership Bill outside Central Bank in Dublin on Valentine’s Day. I would post an online newspaper article on the event but I can’t find one. What does that say?! Instead I’ll link you to Panti’s call to arms.
http://tinyurl.com/dju4se

‘Til next time, buy more teabags.

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