As part of our continuing series profiling the world’s LGBT sports clubs and organizations, in this issue we catch up with Richard Cavaler, co-chair of the Body Building Guild.

When was the BBG established?

Prior to Gay Games Three in 1990, the bodybuilding judges for the Gay Games were a group that knew one another from the mainstream competitions. Then this became more formalized by my predecessor as the bodybuilding and physique sports co-ordinator at the Gay Games.  

Paris Hilton, whose comments about gay men and AIDS have caused a backlash against the heiress in recent weeks, was seen heavily making out with another woman in Las Vegas early Monday (1 October).

Gay web series Husbands has officially premiered the long awaited season two.

The series, headed up by Buffy the Vampire Slayer writer Jane Espenson and actor Brad Bell, describes itself as the world’s first marriage equality comedy.

Set in a fictional America where every state has legalized gay marriage, two celebrities accidentally do a ‘Britney’ and get drunkenly hitched in Las Vegas.

One is an out-and-proud actor, and the other is a baseball player who has just come out as gay, and they have only been dating six weeks.

Elton John, who was forced to cancel four performances of his The Million Dollar Piano show in Las Vegas due to illness, is still planning to perform for Queen Elizabeth next Monday 4 June.

John had checked into Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles last week where he was treated for a serious respiratory infection that he had developed while performing at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace.

Las Vegas is opening what owners claim will be the United States' first bar and gaming venue staffed solely by drag queens tomorrow (5 May).

Glamour will be taking centre stage as the bar Drink & Drag opens in the Nevada gambling capital employing over 24 full-time drag artistes.

It is set to become the largest employer of drag queens in the US.

The 22,000-square-foot venue is the brainchild of leading US nightclub Krave.

It will feature 12 bowling lanes, billiards and a 100-inch projector HD console lit by jewel-encrusted chandeliers.

Carson Daly's speedy apologies for jokes he made about gay people this week seemed to have most people in a forgiving mood at a star-studded party Thursday (29 March) marking the 45th anniversary of The Advocate, the oldest LGBT magazine in the US.

'He's apologized multiple times and I believe it was sincere,' blogger Perez Hilton told Gay Star News. 'It's a teachable moment for him and other people. I love those teachable moments like Oprah says.'

Carson Daly, host of NBC's The Voice, said on his LA morning radio show Wednesday (28 March) that gay people could not have subdued a JetBlue pilot who went berserk on a flight from New York to Las Vegas this week.

Kate Moss and Rihanna aren't the only ones amazed by Dutch illusionist Hans Klok, as the flamboyant performer's London show receives standing ovations from gobsmacked audiences.

The out and proud magician made his London debut at the Peacock Theatre in the UK capital's West End last week.