Sheryl Swoopes of the WNBA's Houston Comets, opens up to ESPN The Magazine about being a lesbian because she's "tired of having to hide my feelings about the person I care about. " Swoopes, honored last month as the WNBA's Most Valuable Player, adds that she didn't always know she was gay and fears that coming out could jeopardize her status as a role model, "Do I think I was born this way? No. And that's probably confusing to some, because I know a lot of people believe that you are. "

Keith Griffith, founder of CFS. com, LLC, the New Orleans-based parent company of free gay Web site Cruising for Sex, announced today that his collection of Web sites has successfully switched back to servers in New Orleans -- just a little over a month after Hurricane Katrina devastated the entire region. For Griffith and his employees at Cruising for Sex, the ability to operate from the city they call home is an important step towards normalcy and self-dependence. For fans of the award-winning free gay cruising Web site, now celebrating its tenth anniversary, it's an assurance that a beloved resource will remain available for years to come.

A British cleric and top-selling author of children's books is expelled from a school, after accusing Harry Potter of being "gay" during a discussion with 12-year-old students. Reverend Graham Taylor, author of a novel called "Shadowmancer," which is based on witchcraft and battling evil, was asked to leave after teachers accused him of homophobia.

The animal kingdom's most popular gay couple no longer exists, now that Silo and Roy, the cohabiting penguins of Central Park Zoo, have called it quits. The pair rose to recognition six years ago when they "came out" with their same-sex relationship. Since then, they successfully hatched and raised an adoptive chick, after unsuccessfully trying to incubate a rock.

Dining contractor, Aramark, removes coffee cups with a gay author's quote from a Starbucks at Baylor University, saying it is inappropriate for the Baptist school. Baylor spokesman Larry Brumley says, "I think they were trying to be sensitive. Obviously, Baylor is a Baptist-affiliated institution, and Baptists as a denomination have been pretty outspoken on the record about the denomination's views about the homosexual lifestyle. "