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Two women were ousted from a Kentucky private park because a gatekeeper said same-sex couples were 'not welcomed.' Mrs Miller-Poole told the Richmond Register that she often does portrait sessions in the park and has never had an issue. . .'It was just a peck of a kiss,' Miss Chenault, who is expecting, said to WKYT. Moments after the intimate moment, a gatekeeper told them to leave. 'He said that we had to leave and that it was inappropriate,' Mrs Miller-Poole said. 'The man said,"Those type of people were not welcomed."' The shocked photographer was even told she would be...

A 21-year-old Russian cannibal brutally stabbed his gay date to death and then made him into meatballs and uploaded footage of him cooking onto the internet. Known as Ivan L, the chef allegedly lured his victim, aged 32, to his Murmansk flat where he killed him and then cut off his head and feet because he wanted to eat human flesh. "The defendant wanted to try eating at least ten people in the future," Investigator Fedor Bludenov said, the Daily Mail reports.

Now that his transformation from female to male is complete, Chaz Bono wants to focus on his future with his longtime partner, Jennifer Elia. Bono, son of pop icon Cher and the late Sonny Bono, revealed on Thursday's "Piers Morgan Tonight" that he and Elia would like to wed "within a year." "We've been engaged actually for two years," he said, but explained they "kind of had to put things on hold a little bit" as he underwent his gender transition. The couple, who will celebrate their sixth anniversary in August, are legally free to marry because Chaz is now...

More than 100 Northwestern University students watched as a naked 25-year-old woman was penetrated by a sex toy wielded by her fiancee during an after-class session of the school’s popular “Human Sexuality” class. The woman said she showed up at the Feb. 21 lecture in the Ryan Family Auditorium in Evanston expecting just to answer questions, but was game to demonstrate. The course’s professor on Wednesday acknowledged some initial hesitation, but said student feedback was “uniformly positive.” And Northwestern defended the class and its professor. “Northwestern University faculty members engage in teaching and research on a wide variety of topics,...

Northwestern University acknowledged today that an unusual demonstration was held on campus last week in which students observed a woman being penetrated by a sex toy. The university will pay the man who arranged for the demonstration, which was held in front of about 100 students attending psychology professor J. Michael Bailey’s human sexuality class. The demonstration occurred after class and was optional.

It looks like police in Zurich are subscribing to the "if you can't beat them, build them little huts to do the nasty in" theory of prostitution control. Only in Europe. Prostitution has become such a problem in Switzerland that Zurich officials have made proposals to add "sex boxes" to the city. The idea itself is adopted from German cities like Essen and Cologne, and will be a way for prostitution to continue on behind closed, uh, doors. The boxes will serve as quickie drive-throughs, so-to-speak, and will free up city streets from unsightly acts that haunt Zurich residents whose...

Madrid, Spain (AHN) -- Hundreds of bike riders shed their clothing and rode through the capital of Spain Saturday protesting the overuse of automobiles, and celebrating the simplicity of bicycles and the human body. According to the World Naked Bike Ride Website, the annual ride is held in cities all over the world "to celebrate cycling and the human body. The ride demonstrates the vulnerability of cyclists on the road and is a protest against oil dependency." The event is meant to be a peaceful and humorous. It has a "bare as you dare" policy, meaning it's okay to wear...

Breaking News: Cleavage on Display "There was cleavage on display Wednesday afternoon on C-SPAN2. It belonged to Sen. Hillary Clinton... There wasn't an unseemly amount of cleavage showing, but there it was. Undeniable," the Washington Post reported. NEWSFLASH: Hillary Clinton has breasts. And apparently that "news" merits coverage in the Washington Post. In a Style section cover story on Friday, fashion "reporter" Robin Givhan notes that Hillary Clinton has taken a brazen step for a woman politician by wearing a low neckline. "Showing cleavage," says Givhan, "is a request to be engaged in a particular way. It doesn't necessarily mean...

Former chief at Eglin hospital accused of attacks on four men EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE -- An Air Force officer's alleged victims lied about being raped and drugged to avoid being discovered as gay in the military, a defense attorney told a military jury Tuesday. Capt. Devery L. Taylor, former chief of patient administration at Eglin Regional Hospital, is gay...

Dallas, long known as a Baptist stronghold and home of Stetson-wearing business types, is touting a new image: gay travel destination. The city has joined other locations, such as Philadelphia and Fort Lauderdale, in actively reaching out to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender visitors. "Our secret is out," says a page at www.dallascvb.com, the city's official tourism Web site. The page lists venues of special appeal to gay travelers, including Oak Lawn, a neighborhood with a predominantly gay population, bars, museums and more than 20 gay-friendly hotels.