Juan Antonio Martínez Matos, the 26-year-old accused of killing 19-year-old Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado in Puerto Rico, claims his actions were the result of “gay panic” and self-defense, and that he initially thought the young man was a female prostitute.
18 November 2009
Killer Uses “Gay Panic” Defense In Puerto Rican Hate Crime. Now, Where Have We Seen This Before?
By Alex Alvarez at 9:00 AM.
15 November 2009
Buenos Aires Judge Approves Gay Marriage In Argentina
By Alex Alvarez at 11:15 AM.
Buenos Aires-based Judge Gabriela Seijus granted a same-sex couple the right to marry, which was many calling this union is the first gay marriage in Latin America. Time to buy a toaster!
28 October 2009
Niurka Marcos Is So Gay For The Gays
By Alex Alvarez at 11:05 AM.
Niurka Marcos, person who has sex, has participated in yet another salacious photoshoot - ¡con otra mujer! The performer says she did the photoshoot as an homage to The Gays.™
21 October 2009
TVyNovelas Devotes Full Spread To Dudes In Dresses
By Alex Alvarez at 5:00 PM.
TVyNovelas has devoted five pages of this week’s issue to highlighting the stories of several men who, as they put it, “Wanted to be Women. And Didn’t Die in the Attempt!”
20 October 2009
Escandalo TV Weighs In On Jaime Camil’s Big Gay Kiss
By Alex Alvarez at 4:41 PM.
The brilliant social anthropologists over at Escándalo TV have taken a little break from their usual research to weigh in on the impact Jaime Camil’s same-sex kiss on Los Exitosos Pérez would have on society.
18 October 2009
Spanish Calendar Causes Stir For Using Transgender Models As The Virgin Mary
By Alex Alvarez at 1:26 PM.
A calendar released in Spain is stirring up controversy for featuring transgender models in the role of the Virgin Mary.
16 October 2009
Spanish Court Orders New Trial In Jacobo Piñeiro Rial Gay Murder Case
By Alex Alvarez at 2:31 PM.
Outrage prompted by the acquittal of Jacobo Piñeiro Rial has prompted the Superior Justice Tribunal of Galicia to revisit his case, in which a jury believed he butchered a gay couple and set their apartment on fire due to “gay panic.”
12 October 2009
Poncho De Nigris Would Like You To Know He Did Not Have Sex With A Transvestite, Has A Large Penis
By Alex Alvarez at 1:22 PM.
Homophobic Mexican model and TV personality Poncho De Nigris was recently rumored to have hooked up with a transvestite named Denisse. Try not to let the shock ruin your entire day.
5 October 2009
Argentina Opens Recreation Center For GLBT Retirees
By Alex Alvarez at 5:01 PM.
Last week, Puerta Abierta a la Diversidad opened its doors to gay retirees in Argentina, making it the first retirement center specifically for queer people in their golden years to exist in all of Latin America.
23 September 2009
Luchadora Martha Villalobos Announces She Has A Girlfriend
By Alex Alvarez at 4:31 PM.
Speak of the devil! Earlier today, we bemoaned the lack of out Latina lesbians, and along comes a story about Mexican luchadora Martha Villalobos announcement that she’s with a ladyperson. Surprise (?), fathermuckers!
Telemundo To Air SuperLatina Episode On GLBT Latinos
By Alex Alvarez at 10:09 AM.
Telemundo series SuperLatina is set to air an episode today focusing on “a minority within a minority” - GLBT Latinos and the TV hosts with powerful lungs who love ‘em.
15 September 2009
Latinos Are All Up In AfterElton’s List Of 50 Best Gay Movies Ever
By Alex Alvarez at 9:27 AM.
AfterElton.com has compiled a list of the 50 Best Gay Movies. And many of them are great not because, well. They’re good movies (HEDWIG!), but also because they show that white Anglos (and men) aren’t the only people who happen to ever be queer. Check out their list and ours.
4 September 2009
Brazilian Gay Magazine DOM Folds, Makes Us Question Our Perception Of Brazil
By Alex Alvarez at 11:30 AM.
The folding of DOM magazine has us wondering what’s up with gay visibility in Brazil.
27 August 2009
Hey Ladies! Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez Overshares AGAIN About Eating Pussy.
By Alex Alvarez at 5:10 PM.
Remember when literary scribe Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez was bi, and then she wasn’t, but maybe she was, but don’t you dare tell anyone? Well, now she’s definitely, totally bi. Let her tell you about it in great detail, won’t you?
14 August 2009
Fired Miami Anchor Charles Perez Keeps Fighting The Good Fight Against Gay Nazis, Lesbians
By Alex Alvarez at 3:45 PM.
Oh, Charles Perez. Now you’re saying your former News Director Boll Pohovey is less of a gay person because he fired you? The only way this could be more awkward would be if you, haha, we don’t know, brought up the Holocaust…
13 August 2009
Spanish Teen To Undergo Gender Reassignment… If Spanish Court Allows It
By Alex Alvarez at 3:25 PM.
A 16-year-old Spaniard is set to undergo a surgery so that she can become female - that is, if she gets an ok from a Spanish judge.
12 August 2009
Pablo Montero’s Brother Javier Shows Off His Boyfriend, Chaps
By Alex Alvarez at 10:48 AM.
While singer and actor Pablo Montero is busy birthing babies and getting photographed by moody prostitutes, his brother, Javier, is dating cowboys with sexy mustaches and changing the content of Spanish-language tabloids.
10 August 2009
Charles Perez Alleges Station Told Him Not To Have Kids, Report On WMDs, Or Exist
By Alex Alvarez at 2:03 PM.
Charles Perez - former news anchor and talk show host, current gay - was demoted and eventually fired from his position at WPLG in Miami because, he says, his producers weren’t down with his issues of the gender identity variety. He’s since added that the station did not want him procreating.
7 August 2009
Charles Perez Has Been Fired, Bring On The Strippers
By Alex Alvarez at 12:41 PM.
Miami news anchor Charles Perez has been fired from WPLG days after issuing a discrimination complaint against the news station. Time to go back to talk shows!
