The Bilerico Project | Daily experiments in LGBTQ

Here are some of the stories you may have missed this week:

• Russia's new anti-gay law could have a chilling effect on gay tourists.


• With the initial rejoicing over DOMA fading, many LGBT activists are turning their attention to the issue of the voting rights rollback decided by SCOTUS the same week as DOMA.


• Veteran GOP Senator Orrin Hatch surprised many when he voted in favor of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act.


• Why can't Spiderman be gay?


• Kathleen Kane, the Attorney General of Pennsylvania, has announced that she will not defend that state's version of DOMA.


• Google will be hosting a fundraiser for notorious climate-change denialist and anti-equality senator Jim Inhofe.


• Scientists have used an incrediby powerful supercomputer to deconstruct a key component of the HIV virus, raising hope for new treatments.


• Lisa Bennett, writing in The Daily Beast, laid out an interesting model for how the environmental movement can learn valuable lessons from the successes of the marriage equality movement.


• Mia Macy, who was denied a job with the ATF because she's trans*, put a human face on the importance of ENDA in a new video from The Center for American Progress


• A judge's ruling in Columbia could confuse the legality or lack thereof of marriage equality in that nation.