Readers Top Best 15 Gay/Lesbian Movies Results

  When you have thousands of Gay, Lesbian, Classic, Indie and Foreign Films, you get to know the best movies by customers, studios themselves and the number of times they are taken out for rent or purchased. Come on Hollywood movie producers, we need more positive gay hits. We had all our readers send your favorites gay films to us over the last couple of weeks. Here are the top vote getters.

    Here are the  “Dishing with Mark & Carrie “  Reader’s  Results.
    1.    Latter Days 
    2.    Brokeback Mountain
    3.    Birdcage
    4.    Sordid Lives
    5.    Eating Out, 1
    6.    Boy’s in the Band
    7.    Shelter
    8.    Torch Song Trilogy
    9.    Rocky Horror Picture Show
    10.   A Single Man
    11.   Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
    12.   Pink Flamingo’s
    13.   Shortbus –  When Night is Falling  (tie)
    14.   Love! Valour! Compassion!
    15.   Tales of the City – Better Than Chocolate  (tie)
 
Some of the ones I thought that are classics, Maurice, Angel’s In America, La Cage Aux Folles and TRICK didn’t make this years readers lineup!

Illinois College Becomes First to Ask Undergrads if They’re Gay

Elmhurst College, a private liberal arts school in suburban Chicago affiliated with the United Church of Christ, has become the first collegeSordid Lives in the country to ask an optional question about a student’s sexual orientation and gender identity on an undergraduate admission form, according to the school and a gay rights advocacy group.
“Would you consider yourself a member of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) community?” the new application asks prospective enrollees.
Students can answer “Yes,” “No,” or “Prefer not to say.”

Taxpayer Money Used In Same-Sex Marriage Fight

Federal government grant money awarded to a social conservative group to provide marriage counseling in Iowa also helped pay some of its operational expenses while it was leading an anti-same-sex marriage campaign, newly released documents show.
The documents reviewed by The Associated Press show the $2.2 million received by the Iowa Family Policy Center between 2006 and 2010 helped hundreds of Iowans get marriage education and counseling. www.BigGayNews.com