Where will the hustlers go? Gay activists say San Francisco's once-notorious Polk Street is becoming home to more upscale restaurants and clubs, while that gentrification "is pushing out hookers, hustlers, drug addicts, homeless people, trannies, needle exchange services, working-class queers and other social deviants." A host of new bars have replaced Polk Street's historic hustler watering holes. The Polk Gulch Saloon was once renowned for drag queens and transsexuals; now, it's the chic Lush Lounge, which serves trendy cosmopolitans and caters to the happy hour crowd.

More than 1,200 Croatian lgbt publish their names in several newspapers in a bid for greater tolerance. The names appeared under the banner, ""I don't want to hide any more." Gays face strong bias and persecution in the predominately Roman Catholic nation.

Former star of HSBC's equity trading department sues the bank for £5m, or about $8.75m. The trader says that he was fired because he is gay; the bank says he groped and harassed male colleagues. We'll be hearing about this one for awhile ...