Modern Family star Jesse Tyler Ferguson wants to do everything fellow out actor Neil Patrick Harris does, including hosting the Tony Awards.

Sports legend Martina Navratilova surprised guests at a charity auction
in Maryland on Wednesday by standing up and offering a one-on-one
tennis lesson with herself, raising $15,000 for cystic fibrosis.

In the midst of a federal lawsuit from transgender golfer Lana Lawless
(pictured), and on the eve of the Transgender Day of Remembrance, the
Ladies Professional Golf Association is preparing to admit women not
born biologically female.

Some Cal State Long Beach students weren’t happy with the theater
department’s decision to ax the word “tribades” from the marquee
advertising the play The Night of the Tribades. So 24 of them
lay down in front of the school’s Brotman Hall earlier this week in
protest — and showed passersby how to “scissor.”

Forget feeling like a plastic bag. Katy Perry’s “Firework” may be
the “It Gets Better” song of the moment, but TheNewGay.net’s Zack Rosen
has 19 antisuicide anthems you may not have heard of that he thinks are
just as worthy of attention.

An online petition from the Courage Campaign, a California-based gay
rights organization, has gathered over 12,000 signatures from veterans
and families of service members supporting repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell.”

A mom who loves boxed wine, a dad obsessed with Larry the Cable Guy, a
sister who modeled for Barbizon, and a young gay named
Michael Anthony who is obsessed with Reba make for one of the more original “It Gets Better” videos. 

Two German undertakers are offering coffins designed with nude male
images and in rainbow colors to appeal specifically to the gay market.

If prisoners can get married, why not same-sex couples? says Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn.

Phyllis Frye was appointed by Houston mayor Annise Parker this week as the city’s first transgender judge and one of the few transgender
judges in the country.