(Spokane, Washington) An unknown number of gay men could be outed if correspondence, including pictures, found on Spokane mayor James West's computer is made public.

West is in court trying to block the release of 1800 files found on his computer. West, who has a long history of fighting LGBT civil rights was himself outed earlier this year in a series of articles by the Spokesman-Review newspaper. It was claimed that West had offered city hall jobs to gay men he met in chat rooms in return for dates.

"You haven't much of a claim to privacy when you voluntarily send an email to someone," Paul Cates, a spokesperson for the American Civil Liberties Union told 365Gay.com.

"We're obviously concerned," said Cates, "but when you send an email with personal information you run the risk the information could fall into the wrong hands and end up being subpoenaed."

A new study by evolutionary scientist Gregory S. Paul says that, "… the most religious democracies exhibited substantially higher degrees of social dysfunction than societies with larger percentages of atheists and agnostics."

In his veto message, Schwarzenegger said the ultimate decision on same-sex marriage would probably be made by the state Supreme Court.

(Tempe, Arizona) A new poll shows that nearly two-thirds of likely voters would reject amending the Arizona constitution to ban same-sex marriage and civil unions.

The statewide poll, by KAET-TV, the Phoenix area PBS affiliate, and the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University was conducted last week. It shows that of 390 registered voters only 33 percent would vote for the proposed amendment, while 60 percent would oppose it. Seven percent of the voters who were surveyed were undecided.

Harvard Law School will no longer ban military recruiters from its campus following a threat from the Pentagon that funding would be cut if it continued its opposition to 'don't ask, don't tell, the ban on gays serving openly in the armed forces.

Yesterday afternoon, we were able to secure House passage of the Hate Crimes Prevention Act. This historic event marks the first criminal law-based civil rights measure to pass in decades. I introduced this bipartisan bill in May, 2005 with my colleagues Barney Frank, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Tammy Baldwin and Christopher Shays. Our bill passed as an amendment to the Child Safety Act by a vote of 223-199. To view the video of my floor speech on the Human Rights Campaign website, click here.