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March 11, 2013
James Franco says gay films have lost him three advertising campaigns

'The companies say they don't like my image'

Oz the Great and Powerful star James Franco is king of the box office right now but says his gay-themed films are costing him advertising campaigns.

The films Kink and Leather Bar premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this year and caused much buzz. Now at the South by Southwest Film Festival with Spring Breakers, Franco talked about the fallout.

July 30, 2012
Australia says farewell to exhausted campaigner

Director of campaign group GetUP! resigns after fainting on live TV earlier this month

The director of Australian campaign group GetUp! has resigned after fainting on a live TV discussion show earlier this month.

Simon Sheik, who has fought tirelessly for gay rights and other causes for four years, said that he had already decided to resign before fainting on political discussion show Q&A.

June 29, 2012
Stephen K Amos on gay comedy and Sandi Toksvig

Joining Danish lesbian joker Sandi Toksvig on stage at the Hackney Empire, British black gay comic Stephen K Amos will be celebrating half a century of gay comedy

Gay comedy is nothing new to the Brits, for decades the have had the likes of Kenny Everett, Danny La Rue and John Imran gracing their screens. They are the queens of innuendo and double entendre but the jokes and double-entendres went over most peoples' heads and, in doing so, gave that the gay community a secret culture and slang language.

June 19, 2012
Comedians honor Britain's gay TV history

UK gay comedy stars Sandi Toksvig and Stephen K Amos have a Haha in Hackney to celebrate 50 years of British camp comic performances

British comedians are paying tribute the country's most iconic gay TV performers.

Haha Hackney will honor the gay actors and comedians of the past 50 years who had a pivotal role in changing public attitudes toward homosexuality.

Hosted by lesbian Danish comedienne Sandi Toksvig and British gay comedian Stephen K Amos, the 8 July show commemorates gay entertainers including John Inman, Danny La Rue, Kenneth Williams and Kenny Everett.

May 29, 2012
Gareth Thomas takes it all off for Attitude

Retired rugby stud featured on magazine's annual 'Naked Issue'

Welsh rugby star Gareth Thomas quickly become a hero to so many  because of the openness and courage he displayed when coming out publicly as a gay man in 2009.

It also didn't hurt that he has one of the best physiques in all of sport.

That chiseled body is on full display on in the upcoming 'Naked Issue" of the UK magazine Attitude. Thomas is on the cover wearing only his hands which strategically cover his private parts.

March 22, 2012
Men arrested in Dominica for having sex on gay cruise ship plead guilty

They apologize, are called 'rogues and vagabonds,' and ordered to pay $900

Two men arrested for having sex aboard a cruise ship that had docked on the Caribbean island of Dominica pleaded guilty Thursday (22 March) to indecent exposure.

John Robert Hart, 41, and Dennis Jay Mayer, 43, both of Palm Springs, CA, were on a Celebrity Summit cruise ship when they were arrested by an officer on board after people on the dock saw them having intimate relations. Sex between two men is illegal on the island.

January 13, 2012
Rick Santorum's extreme anti-gay views inspire humor

Bill Maher jokes that politician 'thinks about gay sex more than any gay man in America.'

As Rick Santorum campaigns in South Carolina in advance of next week's Republican presidential primary in that state, the candidate's extreme anti-gay views are generating comedy material.

Comedian Bill Maher appeared on the E! Entertainment show Chelsea Lately on Thursday (12 January) to plug his latest book called The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass.

December 7, 2011
Actor relishes gay role on US soap opera

Chandler Massey's soap character coming out in dramatic fashion on NBC's Days of Our Lives

Fans of the US daytime soap opera Days of Our Lives are watching 18-year-old Will Horton begin to fall apart at the seams.

Will is reeling after seeing his mother, now married to someone else, in the throes of passion with his former stepfather. He's also just been dumped by his girlfriend largely because he refuses to sleep with her.

Yes, Will is gay - but he's not near ready to deal with it.