Put it this way, any opportunity to mention Glee, and I will take advantage of it. So when our regular poster told me she couldn’t post today, I jumped at the chance to share some Glee news with you. Don’t panic – no spoilers. Of course there will be more news than just Glee, but let’s start with the tv show that is changing the way we live today. Okay, slight exaggeration but seriously isn’t it fab? The music, the good looking people, the dancing and Jane Lynch, what’s not to love?

Already nominated for some Golden Globes, GLAAD announced that Glee were among the nominess

“Words and images matter,” GLAAD president Jarrett Barrios said.

“With these awards, we seek to recognise news coverage and entertainment programming that go beyond stock stereotypes with LGBT story lines that more fully reflect the challenges gay and transgender people face and the aspirations we hold for ourselves and our families.”

Check out the full list here.

It’s not ‘news’ per se, but how many women are there weren’t delighted to read this headline during the week:

Chloe has Amanda Seyfried and Julianne Moore in lesbian sex scandal

Well at least Amanda has moved on from Megan Fox, lordy Jennifer’s Body was a pile of hogwash.

According to The Daily Mail UK, it features 24-year-old Amanda Seyfried in a hot relationship with 49-year old Julianne Moore who’s character Catherine, hires the escort Chloe to seduce her husband, played by Liam Neeson, and who she suspects is cheating on her.

Ah the Daily Fail, we can always trust them to have their finger on the pulse of all things lesbian.

With nothing but bad news coming from Africa these days, with Uganda threatening to pass a law called the Anti-Homosexuality Bill and that poor couple in Malawi who were arrested after taking part in a traditional engagement ceremony, it was refreshing to read about a new art exhibition being organised by Artangel.

Now Artangel has decided that it’s the turn of lesbian asylum seekers to take their place in the spotlight. In the project Staying, the results of which will soon be available online, the women use vivid and dramatic stories and images that tell of the difficulties they faced coming to Britain. Along with the artist Oreet Ashery and several other leading figures from the lesbian art world — the poet Cherry Smyth, the performance artist Lois Weaver and the film-maker Campbell X — the women have written about the traumatising discrimination they have experienced because of their sexual orientation.

Staying: Dream, Bin, Soft Stud and Other Stories goes live on Jan 20 . Essays by immigration experts and text by the women will be printed in an edition of 500 copies to be given to individuals and groups. See www.artangel.org.uk

More ‘good’ news in California, Supreme Court bans broadcasting of California gay marriage trial

Supporters of the gay marriage ban had said they could be targeted if the case was broadcast and cited claims of death threats.

Off we head to China where some brave men are vying for the title of Mr Gay China.

The pageant has triggered heated debate among Chinese Internet users. In a survey conducted by sohu.com, 1,113 people supported the event while 325 opposed it.

It seems Sarah Carey over at the Irish Times has a problem with us. We hope to cover the article
in more depth at the weekend but for now, what do you think?

And I don’t understand for the life of me how Colm Tóibín got away with rewriting history and being bizarrely crude on the Marian Finucane Show on RTÉ Radio 1 on Sunday. He made a number of comments on the Iris Robinson scandal, one of which was unbelievably inappropriate and another that was outstandingly wrong. But the strangest thing was the reaction: none. I was staring at the radio in shock but it sounded like no one in the studio flinched.

From metafilter, When transphobia interferes with quality healthcare

“Melissa” (name changed for privacy) is a transwoman who was badly injured in a car accident and is in hospital in critical condition. While in treatment, some of the medical staff and her family decided that since she still had a “male” body, to make things “less confusing”, they will erase 4 years of her female identity by referring to her as a man and taking her off her hormone therapy.

I don’t actually have the words for what that poor woman went through, and I can’t even imagine her horror upon waking up and finding her body so changed.

And finally, no post would be complete with a completely rubbish non-story from the tabloids. The latest? Well it seems Katy Perry wants some sapphic action. But only if her fella does the dirt on her. Yes, folks you heard it here first

Singer Katy Perry has warned husband-to-be Russell Brand that she will become a lesbian if he cheats on her. “I have a soft spot for women. If any of my boyfriends ever fail me, I will turn to them,” dailystar.co.uk quoted Perry as saying.

Fail you? In what way Katy? Not bring you breakfast in bed? Refuse to go to an Indigo Girls concert? And turn to ‘them’, does she think we all stand around in a collective group waiting with our arms open as they fall off that heterosexual ladder? Oh, Katy, you really are a muppet.

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