MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM FOR SALE
The Milwaukee Public Museum, which has been plagued with a surplus of debt, now might be available to the highest bidder. Dan Finley, President of the Milwaukee Public Museum, has recently announced a plan that might help to diminish the $40 million debt. The plan will include selling the naming rights of the museum to a private entity.

OHIO LGBT WORKERS GET EQUAL PROTECTIONS….FINALLY!
Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland signed an executive order Thursday that bans discrimination against LGBT state government employees.
In signing the protections, which cover about 60,000 workers, the governor is actually restoring provisions for state workers that existed for 15 years, but were struck down by Gov. Bob Taft in 2000. The Governor’s order doesn’t need any further approval but will expire when Strickland leaves office.

FACING VIOLENCE & HOMOPHOBIA 87 IRANIANS ARE ARRESTED IN RAID
The Iranian Queer Organisation (IRQO), based in Toronto, recently announced that a private house party was raided in Iran on May 10th which resulted in the arrests of eighty seven gay men.

AN IRQO contact, identified as Kia, reported: “Guests had come from Shiraz, Tehran, Shahin Shahr to Isfahan for Farhad’s birthday. When they were coming out of the house followed by the police, their clothes were ripped, their faces and bodies were covered in blood. They were beaten up badly.”

This latest raid marks the largest single attack on Iran’s gay community, further confirming a disturbing trend of sexual cleansing in the Islamic Republic, made legal through Sharia law. Sodomy is a crime for which both partners can be punished by death, while all types of sexual activity outside a heterosexual marriage are also illegal.