My congratulations to the New York State Assembly for passing an employment protection bill for LGBT people by a whopping majority of 102-33. This is, of course, the same sort of bill that the Democrat leadership felt had no chance of passing congress because it included protection for transgender people, and which President Bush said he would veto even if it only protected homosexuals.

Congratulations also to the British Embassy in Riga for lending their support to the beleaguered LGBT people of Latvia.

The less said about Turkey the better. They clearly have real problems (and not just over LGBT issues).