Roller Derby Is So Gay

Republican State Senator Mark J. Grisanti was among the legislators who voted in support of same sex marriage. His campaign coffers filled up with $50,000.00 from gay rights supporters immediately after.

Northampton's City Council tries to write a wrong in federal gay rights legislation.

True story: though there's a high media profile civil rights movement afoot, some gay people don't want to be married. Generational, or just different strokes for different folks?

Outsports.com has a great blog series called "100 most important moments in gay sports history." Moment #92 is the publishing of the book Strong Women, Deep Closets: Lesbians and Homophobia In Sport, by Pat Griffin. This book by one of sports best educators against homophobia is still deeply relevant today.

Hong Kong's LGBT community is strong, but still struggles against the ideas of "religious groups, academics, members of the government and the general public who hold deeply conservative views rooted in the city's colonial years" for what it insists are civil rights. Read more.

What say you, Southerners of Derby Nation? True or false?

Surprisingly, USA Today provides this relatively balanced look at a new trend in public workers' health coverage.