A fight broke out at a convention minority journalists here in Chicago. The topic: Senegal President Abdoulaye Wade, who was speaking at the convention. The brief brouhaha broke out Friday at the Unity '08 convention, prompting the arrival of dozens of police vehicles, Editor & Publisher reported. Officers separated the two dozen or so people involved in the sparring. The fight seemed to erupt when Wade backers were irritated by a protester being questioned by......

Who’s your daddy? Gary Iriza, Mr. Palm Springs Leather 2008, is your daddy, sir. Iriza took the leather sash at the XXX International Mr. Leather (IML) Competition Sunday night. (The XXX stands for 30th anniversary, people.) IML is a beauty pageant of sorts, celebrating masculinity and a lifestyle of leather. IML has its roots in the Mr. Gold Coast contest, held in the historic Gold Coast Leather Bar. It expanded to a larger venue in......

Aside from small-scale studies linking sexual-minority youth with high suicide attempt rates, there isn't a ton of concrete information about the higher risk of suicide among GLBT youth — U.S. data does not track sexual orientation as a factor in suicides. Still, there was a study in New Zealand that showed that they were six times more likely to commit suicide than their heterosexual peers, and it seems generally agreed upon that the risk is......