THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

Gay-rights activist and former Bill Clinton advisor David Mixner has been hospitalized, according to an On Top Magazine item. An Aug. 1 post on Mixner's blog at DavidMixner.com read, "Mr. Mixner is sick and in the hospital. He will not be able to write his blog and is looking forward to being back and sassy in a week or so." Mixner helped raise money for Clinton's presidential bid, but parted ways with him when the chief executive proposed "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" after he said he'd try to end discrimination in the military.

The Western Athletic Conference has reprimanded University of Hawaii football coach Greg McMackin, 64, for comments he recently made during a press conference, USA Today reported. McMackin's comments included anti-gay slurs he made in reference to the University of Notre Dame football team. The university has suspended McMackin for 30 days without pay, and the coach has voluntarily taken an additional 7-percent pay cut from his $1.1 million salary.

In Florida, news anchor Charles Perez has filed a complaint with Miami-Dade's Equal Opportunity Board against his employer, WPLG, according to the Miami Herald. Perez, 46, is claiming that the station demoted him because of the "increasingly high profile of [ his ] sexual orientation." Station officials are saying that the economy forced them to ask Perez to give up his weeknight-anchor spot for a weekend position. News director Bill Pohovey—who is also gay—said that WPLG does not discriminate.

In San Francisco, Calif., Joshua Barry said that he and his boyfriend, Sebastian Schilbe, were asked to leave the Internos Wine Cafe after they kissed each other, according to the Bay Area Reporter. Barry claimed that after they kissed, the bar owner called them "faggots" and "perverts," and dragged him out of the bar. An entry on the bar's Web site stated that customers claimed that a male same-sex couple had engaged in "inappropriate behavior" in a restroom.