Keyontyli Goffney, one half of a pair of gay porn stars who happened to also be twins, has pled guilty to burglary and criminal conspiracy—but will not spend time in prison, according to the Philadelphia Gay News.Goffney was sentenced to two days, but has already served that time; he also received four years' probation. His brother, Taleon, pled guilty in July but received three to eight years in prison.
It's been revealed that Mass. State Senator Scott Brown—who is running for the late Ted Kennedy's U.S. Senate seat on an anti-gay platform—posed nude for Cosmopolitan magazine back in 1982, according to an Advocate.com item. Brown, whose daughter is American Idol contestant Ayla Brown, posed when he was a law student at Boston College; he was subsequently voted the magazine's "America's Sexiest Man."
The NYC Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center of New York's Board of Directors has unanimously selected Glennda Testone to be the center's new executive director, according to 365Gay.com . Testone is the first woman to helm the facility, which is the second-largest LGBT community center in the world. Previously, Testone worked for the Women's Media Center, where she served as the vice president for three years.
The New York-based AIDS organization Gay Men's Health Crisis ( GMHC ) has released a statement commending Gov. David Paterson for signing a bill that allows the state's health department to oversee HIV-related programs and policies in prisons and jails. GMHC's Sean Cahill said that " [ w ] ith high rates of HIV and Hepatitis C among New York State prisoners, it is essential that the Department of Health overseas HIV prevention and care in our prisons. The Prison Health Bill increases our ability to stop the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases in New York."
Lesbian Chai R. Feldblum is among the most recent group of people President Barack Obama has nominated to key administration posts, according to a White House press release. Feldblum, a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, has been nominated as commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. She has also worked on advancing LGBT rights and is a leading expert on the Employment Nondiscrimination Act.
The Tennessee Court of Appeals has unanimously ordered a lower court to reconsider a ban that stops Angel Chandler, a divorced mom, from having her partner of 10 years and her own children stay overnight at her home at the same time, according to a press release from the ACLU. The lower court invoked the "paramour clause," which is "a legal restriction in child-custody agreements that bars a divorcee's lover from staying in the house overnight while [ s/he ] has custody of children from a previous marriage," according to Encyclopedia.com . Heterosexual couples can bypass this clause by getting married.
