The Ring-A-Ding: Gay's Parents Drug and Commit Him, Alabama has First Lesbian, Latvia is no Gay Pride Friend

A Gay man from Taiwan said he was drugged, taken to Kong Wu Ho-su Memorial Hospital by his parents and held against his will in its psychiatric ward for 56 days after he came out to them. That's really harsh. But the Taiwanese are such complainers- it sounds like a free vacation with lots of drugs. Count operatorLA in. [via 365 gay]

Patricia Todd was voted in on Tuesday as Alabama's first openly Gay or Lesbian to be elected to the State's legislature. Southerners complained that they were misled when voting because the candidates las name was Todd and she didn't wear a dress, they assumed she was a he. [via towleroad]

Well there goes our vacation plans. We hope all you queers can exchange those plane tickets because the city government of the Latvian capital of Riga refused on Wednesday to grant a parade permit for a gay march this Saturday. Now what is operatorLA to do? [via 365 gay]