Facebook met this week with drag queens angered over its rule requiring users to go by their legal names. But despite a detente with Sister Rosa, Heklina and other performers—not to mention SF Board of Supervisors member Rudy Campos—the  social-media giant says it won't change its policy.

The queens' accounts will remain active for two weeks so they can decide whether to provide their real names, create fan pages or leave Facebook.

Of course it's not just drag queens affected by the crackdown on aliases. "This policy is discriminatory and potentially dangerous to a variety of Facebook users, including abused and battered women, bullied teens, political activists, sex workers, and especially members of the transgender community," said Sister Roma in a statement.

Lesbian cartoonist Alison Bechdel has been awarded a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant, as well as the $625,000 no-strings-attached cash prize that comes with the honor.

Bechdel rose to prominence in the 1980s with her strip Dykes to Watch Out For, which ran in alternative and LGBT newspapers through 2008.

Her 2006 graphic memoir, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, recounted Bechdel's unusual childhood as the daughter of a distant mother and funeral-home director father who eventually came out of the closet.

Fun Home was adapted into a critically acclaimed musical that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama and is now heading to Broadway.

“I’m finally figuring out what I’m doing, and sort of feeling like now, I have to start taking a responsibility,” Bechdel told the Washington Post of her status as an elder stateswoman. “I’m starting to learn to think of myself as the older generation I just finally got a purchase on things."

Lesbian civil-rights attorney Mary L. Bonauto, whose work with the Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders was integral in recent marriage-equality victories, also received a MacArthur grant.

Zhou Youping, 42, was arrested in November on suspicion of robbery and confessed to killing six men who had answered his ad looking for "slaves." Police found the victims naked and hanged to death in different hotels around Changsha in south-central China.

Zhou maintained he wasn't a murderer because he paid the men to engage in autoerotic asphyxiation and simply let them choke to death.

The Supreme People’s Court approved the death sentence in the case on August 29 and Zhou was executed later that day.

While it looks like the group of "clean-cut" assailants who brutally attacked a gay couple in Philadelphia will be brought to justice, they won't face hate-crime charges.

That's because sexual orientation isn't on the list of categories recognized under Pennsylvania's hate-crime laws.

Out State Representative Brian Sims hopes to change that, and wants to bring the victims to the State Legislature  to tell their story. "I want them speaking with victims' advocates right now, not with me over policy," says Sims. "But we'll find the time. I have to make sure that something comes of this, not just that I'm pissed off."

A proposed measure would add sexual orientation, gender identity and physical and mental disability to the state's existing criteria for hate crimes.