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Today In Gay: Pussy Riot Member Hospitalized, Countdown To Marriage In Illinois, More

  • France prepares for its first gay wedding, being held tomorrow in Montpellier.
  • Mariela Castro, director of Cuba's National Center for Sex Education and daughter of Cuban president Rafael Castro, has pulled her nation's athletes from the upcoming World Outgames in Antwerp.
  • Jailed  Pussy Riot member Maria Alekhina has been hospitalized a week into her hunger strike.
  • Two Pakistani lesbians became the first known couple in the United Kingdom to have a same-sex Muslim wedding.
  • The speaker of the Italian parliament, Laura Boldrini, has reached out to a gay 17-year-old who called the letter he wrote to La Repubblica  his "last alternative to suicide in a troglodyte society, in a world that does not accept me even though I’m born that way."
  • The Illinois House of Representatives has just four days to pass a marriage equality bill before the current session adjourns on May 31.
  • A 300,000-member evangelical Christian church in Kentucky is severing ties with the Boy Scouts after the group voted to accept openly gay scouts.
  • An 81-year-old Chinese man is appealing a rape conviction from 1969, claiming that the sex he had with his male roommate at the time was consensual. "Mr Li" served two years in jail on charges of molesting 11 men from 1958 to 1968, but only felt comfortable coming forward in the wake of a recent gay rights parade in Changsha. “We were not the only people who were doing this,” says Li, who insists he's not gay but was simply satisfying his “physical needs."
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