Jared Leto revealed that he almost attended the Oscars in drag last month as a tribute to Rayon, the HIV-positive trans woman he played in 2013's Dallas Buyers Club.

"I thought about dragging up for the Oscars, going as Rayon, because I knew that she would have loved to be there," Leto told The Evening Standard. "It’s so much work for girls to get ready. I was brought up by my mum, so I always had an appreciation of women. But now I have more respect for the process. It’s a lot, what women have to do to themselves. But in the end, when you put that final dash of lipstick on and your look all comes together, it really is a glorious reward."

Ugh, Jared, we love your work but you're not exactly furthering trans awareness with lines like that.

An Oregon woman is on trial for murdering her 4-year-old son because she thought he was gay.

Zachary Dutro was rushed to a Portland hospital in August 2012, where doctors determined he was dying from trauma to his abdomen that caused tears in his bowel. He was taken off life support two days later and died.

Prosecutors alleged Zachary's mother, Jessica, subjected him to daily beatings and enlisted her boyfriend in punishing the boy.

Judge Don Letourneau ruled that a Facebook message from Dutro, 25, to Brian Canady was admissible evidence. In it, Dutro wrote that she thought Zachary was going to grow up to be gay. “He walks and talks like it. Ugh,” she posted, before suggesting Canady, 24, "work" on the boy.

Canady has already pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter and second-degree assault in the child's death, reports The Oregonian.

The Tyler Clementi Higher Education Anti-Harassment Act, named for the Rutgers student who committed suicide after his roommate streamed a gay encounter online, was originally sponsored by Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), who died in 2013.

Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) has taken up the measure—which has yet to come to a vote—for a very personal reason: One of her interns, Kristopher Sharp, was the victim of a vicious bullying campaign in which his HIV-positive status was plastered on flyers around his college campus

Sharp was a junior running for student government at the University of Houston last year when posters surfaced showing his face with an X over it and the text: "Want AIDS? Don't support the Isaac and Kris homosexual agenda."

The back of the flyer showed Sharp's actual medical records, which confirmed he was HIV-positive. The dean notified Sharp about the flyers but said there was nothing the school could do.

"His story is so compelling, and it is so real that it's just made it real for me," says Murray. "This isn't just something that could happen, this is something that does happen."  a former teacher, Murray calls the school's inaction "horrendous." "When students go to a university, they expect to be treated compassionately—whoever they are, wherever they are, however they want to live."

"‘Parents must defend their children against gender ideology,"Archbishop of Genoa Angelo Bagnasco wrote in the Vatican newspaper Avvenire. "It is a grave duty of society - at all levels and forms - not to corrupt the youth with ideas and examples that no father and mother would want for their children."

Hey Angelo, maybe you can let people who actually are parents decide what they want for their children? Just a thought.