Corporate America Treating Gay,
Bisexual Individuals Better

More of the nation's major corporations are becoming friendlier to homosexual, bisexual and "transgender" employees and consumers, according to a new report.

The annual Corporate Equality Index found that 195 companies earned a perfect rating of 100, up from 138 companies last year -- a 41 percent increase.

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Gaining in Acceptance

Believe it or not, he missed the winters.

A few years of living in San Francisco during the early 1980s, and Ron Muckway felt the pull back to the Midwest. He missed the small things: The holiday bazaars, restaurants offering artery-clogging plates of gravy-smothered gravy (with a little meat and potato thrown in for color), that quiet moment after the first snowfall when your footsteps are accompanied by a satisfying crunch.

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Suspected Georgetown Gay-Basher
Has Bush Administration Ties

A Georgetown University sophomore, implicated in a gay-bashing by a fellow student, has ties to the Bush Administration, PageOneQ has learned.

19-year-old Philip Anderton Cooney, pictured here in the spring of 2005, is the son of fallen Bush aide and American Petroleum Institute oil lobbyist Phil Cooney.

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Children Of Lesbian Couples
Are Doing Well, Study Finds

A study of families in the Netherlands indicates that children raised by lesbian couples “do not differ in well being or child adjustment compared with their counterparts in heterosexual-parent families.”

“The findings in the Dutch study are identical to those in a very large number of U.S. studies,” said Robert-Jay Green PhD, director of Rockway Institute, a national center for research and public policy on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues. “Children do well in loving families, regardless of whether there are two moms or a mom and a dad involved.

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