Larry Kramer schooled Mark Ruffalo: "He was testing me," the 46-year-old actor said with the sort of sheepish smile that hindsight affords. "And I remember just feeling a sense of fear in that moment."
Out in the Field: Bingham Cup launches study of discrimination in sports. "Andrew Purchas, president of the Bingham Cup Sydney 2014, said the study will look at the prevalence and forms of discrimination among athletes and fans. Experts from Brunel University in Britain, Pennsylvania State University and the University of Massachusetts in the United States, Laval University and the University of Winnipeg in Canada, and Victoria University in Australia will compare the data gathered across a range of countries."
Michael Urie and his real-life partner Ryan Spahn are doing a reading of Jonathan Tolins' comedy The Last Sunday in June.
Alan Turing public artwork commissioned by Buckinghamshire, UK nightclub: "The owners of the Watling Street lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) venue, near Bletchley Park, said they had spent several thousand pounds on the 'street tribute'."
Austria's schools to reissue grade transcripts to trans students with proper gender. "Gabriele Heinisch-Hosek said Wednesday the measure is meant to lessen the likelihood of discrimination when the transcripts are included in job applications. Such requests previously had to be approved by the education ministry, which slowed and complicated the process."
Israel changes laws for gender reassignment: "Israel has lowered the minimum age for gender reassignment surgery from 21 to 18, and candidates will only have to prove they have lived for one year as the requested gender identity, instead of two years, Haaretz, an Israeli newspaper, reports."
Clay Aiken on his candidacy: "You know, you've got to get people to see me in a different light. Getting the opportunity to talk to people about the issues that are affecting them and talk about how I want to help people, gets people to see me in a different light. It's a blessing in the fact that it gets me in the room, but I have to overcome the fact that people see me in one way and not the other."
Chinese court takes up case on gay conversion therapy for first time: "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights Advocacy China, an organization that operates without government supervision in the nation’s capital, said that a man is suing Xinyu Piaoxiang, a clinic in the southern metropolis of Chongqing that offers 'gay conversion' hypnosis, along with Baidu, a Google-like Web service where the procedure was advertised."