The LGBT Film Festival started with a bang of movies and hors d'oeuvres  at the University Of Louisville last night. The evening had a healthy turnout including LGBT Film Fest jurors like Angie Fenton and Dawn Josephine Wilson and actors like Jacob Newton (pictured).

The amendment to a Pentagon appropriations bill Ben Chandler [D-KY] voted for on July 7th reaffirming the Defense of Marriage Act served no legal purpose. It did not change the law of the land. It did not change Pentagon policy. It was not required in order for the Pentagon to get the money it needs from the larger appropriations bill. The only thing it did was allow a homophobic majority in the U.S. House of Representatives to, as if it was necessary to do so yet again, put their bigotry on record.

   Most Louisvillians have heard of the murder of 18-year-old Sullivan student Andrew Compton who was allegedly killed in the Highlands by a man he met online. The alleged culprit has confessed, facts have been revealed, but at the end of the day the Compton family still hasn’t found their son’s body as LMPD ended their search for Andrew’s body at a Medora, Ind. landfill last week after an exhaustive search (this is where the dumpster that allegedly contained Andrew’s body was taken).