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New data from the Palm Center shows that the military continued to discharge openly gay mission-critical troops under the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy in 2009, while a disproportionately high number of women and minorities were discharged under the policy.

Female knuckleballer Eri Yoshida, 18, was signed to a minor league baseball contract with the Chico (Calif.) Outlaws late last week. The 5' 2' phenom features a sidearm delivery and credits Tim Wakefield of the Boston Red Sox with inspiring her to master the art of the knuckleball.  Wakefield met with Yoshida last month during the team's Spring Training in Florida and even offered the aspiring big leaguer a few pointers.

Only a few weeks after she started Tia Kolasa was forcibly removed from her seat as a student minority representative. Valparaiso University claimed under its bylaws, “sexual orientation did not qualifying as a minority status.”

A conservative running for a seat in the Virginia House of Delegates admitted that she had an affair with a female student back when she was a junior high school gym teacher in the 1970s. Linda Wall told the Associated Press that she was a different person 40 years ago when she had sexual relations with the unidentified student, who was a minor at the time. In 2006, she admitted under oath that she had been involved with a minor during a defamation hearing.

Is it part of a trend, or just a minor set back?

Stories about hardship shouldn't be the only stories in which minorities are taken seriously.

Massachusetts may join the growing list of states that will outlaw gay "conversion therapy" being practiced among minors.

I feel sorry for Kaitlyn Hunt, the Florida high-school senior who was arrested February 16, charged with sexual battery of a minor and later expelled from her school for having a sexual relationship with a younger girl.

In a move hailed by advocates for its impact on the lives of vulnerable gay youths, California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Thursday signed a bill allowing minors ages 12 to 17 to access mental health services without parental consent.

Out actress Amber Heard leads a cast of gorgeous actresses in the 60s-set drama. And while that other mod series 'Mad Men' has only featured a minor lesbian character, one of the Bunnies as already been outed as a lez!

I’ve always enjoyed the company of gay men, and my vacations are no exception. Although women are decidedly in the minority at this event, a self-selecting group of leather lovers, fetishists, academics, and garden-variety sexuality educators seem to congregate every year to party with their brothers and friends.