It’s Friday and we’re heading into a Bank Holiday! After last night’s concert in the Helix with the always wonderful Mary Chapin Carpenter, I feel refreshed and ready for whatever the web has to throw my way. Let’s hope there’s some good news in there, don’t want to start the weekend off on a low.

And lo and behold there is!

Women’s boxing to be shown on BBC

Claire Stocks, BBC Olympic sports editor said: ”We hope that sports fans will enjoy the chance to watch live amateur boxing on the BBC and get behind our Olympic hopefuls.

RTÉ, take note.

Staying with BBC, they report Dancing With The Stars to feature same-sex couple

TV presenter Gili Shem Tov, who has a female partner in real life, said dancing with another woman felt “natural” to her.

Zappigan, as they are affectionately know, are back in the news!

A five judge Supreme Court will next February hear an appeal by a lesbian couple against a High Court ruling that they do not have the right to marry here under the Constitution.

Read more about our fav couple here

European court fines Russia for banning gay parades

The European Court of Human Rights has fined Russia for banning gay parades in Moscow, in an important victory for the country’s gay community.

A leading activist, Nikolai Alexeyev, brought the case after the city authorities repeatedly rejected his requests to organise marches.

Damn lesbians, breaking up marriages, well that’s what some media outlets would have you believe. Christina Aguilera dumped because of lesbian flings

Popstar Christina Aguilera’s marriage to Jordan Bratman ended because of her taste for lesbian flings, according to reports.

I wonder was A. Source behind the reports? He’s a divil for spreading rumours.

That’s why I like to talk about the fact that sometimes I am attracted to women. I appreciate their femininity and beauty.

I hear ya Christina

Oh and remember those gay penguins? Not so gay after all, say researchers.

However, researchers at the Centre for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology in Montpellier, France, say that the birds could be engaging in same-sex mating rituals because there were too many males or because the males have too much testosterone.

As if we needed another excuse to love P!nk

“I threw my best friend’s wedding in my back yard. She is gay and it was a beautiful ceremony. At the end of it her mum said: ‘Why can’t that be legal?’ And started crying. “It was the most heartbreaking thing I’ve ever seen and that’s why I’m doing it in my video.”

P!nk, we do love you

And just in case you missed the buzz for the last couple of weeks, Lip Service is shaking up the lesbians. Gaelick HQ is divided into various camps with some for Team Frankie, some for Team Sam and some who just don’t care

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