Gallery | Jamie Grace's WIG ministry holds first meeting at The Manor in Wilton Manors

• Female impersonator-turned-minister flips over WIG, a new spiritual group to meet Wednesdays

Jamie Grace and friends held their first meeting of WIG, a nonprofit gay spirituality ministry, Wednesday night at The Manor in Wilton Manors.

The 90-minute meeting, featuring performances by The GaYngsta Choir, Joan Rivers impersonator Joe Posa and life coach David Salih, was attended by more than 100 men, women and children.

Click the photos to view a gallery. All photos by STEVE ROTHAUS / Miami Herald Staff.

UPDATE (July 8, 2012):

WIG has moved to Thursdays at Boom Nightclub, 2234 Wilton Dr. in Wilton Manors, from 8 to 9:30 p.m. $10 donation at door.

The one that he wants? John Travolta tried to perform oral sex on sleeping 'Grease' pal Jeff Conaway

The New York Post reports Thursday that Jeff Conaway ended his friendship with Grease co-star John Travolta after he awakened one morning to find Travolta trying to perform oral sex on him:

Travolta’s steamy Early Morning Fever session happened in the 1990s at Conaway’s home, Conaway’s former fiancée, Vikki Lizzi, told the National Enquirer.

The late Conaway allegedly said he was so dismayed to wake up and find his friend giving him oral sex that it ended his long relationship with Travolta.

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Disco queen Donna Summer ('Last Dance,' 'Love to Love You Baby,' 'Bad Girls') dies in Florida at 63

BY MESFIN FEKADU, ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK -- Disco queen Donna Summer, whose pulsing anthems such as "Last Dance," "Love to Love You Baby" and "Bad Girls" became the soundtrack for a glittery age of sex, drugs, dance and flashy clothes, has died. She was 63.

Her family released a statement Thursday saying Summer died and that they "are at peace celebrating her extraordinary life and her continue legacy."

Summer gained prominence during the disco era of the 1970s, and released a number of albums that have reach gold or platinum status, including the multiplatinum "Bad Girls" and "On the Radio, Volume I & II." Her No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 hits include "Hot Stuff" and "MacArthur Park."

Her sound was a mix of genres, and helped her earn Grammy Awards in the dance, rock, R&B and inspirational categories.

She released her last album, "Crayons," in 2008. She also performed on "American Idol" that year with its top female contestants.

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Boxer, politician Manny Pacquiao denounces anti-gay allegations made on examiner.com

BY GREG BEACHAM, AP SPORTS WRITER

LOS ANGELES -- Manny Pacquiao says he loves and supports gays and lesbians, even though he does not approve of gay marriage.

The world champion boxer and Filipino congressman has been criticized ever since he was quoted in an interview on the examiner.com website saying he opposed President Barack Obama's support for gay marriage.

Pacquiao said Wednesday in an interview with The Associated Press that he doesn't support gay marriage because of his Roman Catholic beliefs. But he said he has gay friends and relatives, and supports their rights.

The examiner.com story contained a Bible passage from Leviticus calling for the death of "a man (who) lies with a man," and Pacquiao said many readers erroneously believed he had quoted that verse.

He said he had not, and the writer later clarified in a follow-up post that he had included the verse himself.

"My favorite verse in the Bible is 'Love one another,' and 'Love your neighbor as you love yourself,'" Pacquiao said. "It's in the Bible: Do not judge. I'm not judging."

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House passes Violence Against Women Act critics say doesn’t protect gays, Native Americans, immigrants

BY WILLIAM DOUGLAS, MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS

WASHINGTON -- Unfazed by a White House veto threat, the House of Representatives on Wednesday approved anti-domestic violence legislation that opponents charge doesn’t sufficiently protect gay, lesbian, transgender people, Native Americans and immigrants.

On a 222-205 vote, the House passed a GOP-sponsored bill to renew the Violence Against Women Act, an 18-year-old law written by then-Sen. Joe Biden that dedicates federal resources to assist victims of domestic violence.

Wednesday’s vote puts the House at odds once again with the Democratic-controlled Senate, which approved its version of the bill last month on a bipartisan 68-31 vote. The Senate bill renews the act for five years, authorizes $659.3 million in annual spending and contains measures to help victims of sexual assault, improve emergency housing services for victims and consolidate some grant programs to make them more efficient.

It also contains provisions intended to: encourage undocumented immigrants to help law enforcement identify domestic abuse victims; assure protections for gays, lesbians and transgender people, among others; and give tribal courts increased authority to prosecute incidents of domestic violence committed by non-Native Americans in Native American territories.

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