Country music singer Chely Wright and her wife, Lauren Blitzer-Wright, are the parents of identical twin boys born over the weekend.

The singer, whose hits include Single White Female and Shut Up and Drive, gave birth to the children on Saturday (18 May) in New York City.

The babies are named George Samuel and Everett Joseph after their great-grandfathers.

In announcing her pregnancy in March, Wright had said the babies were technically due in July but since they were identical twins, she had expected to deliver at least a month early.

British-Irish group The Wanted has said while they do not follow the ironclad rule a boy band must have a gay one - they might ‘dabble’.

The ‘Chasing The Sun’ boy band was talking at an Australian show and was asked to respond to *NSYNC’s Lance Bass recent comments.

The man whose book is the basis for the upcoming HBO film on entertainer Liberace will not be able to watch it. His prison doesn't have the channel.

Scott Thorson, Liberace's ex-lover, has been in a Nevada jail since this past February. He is charged with buying a computer and cell phone with a credit card that wasn't his. Last Wednesday (8 May) he pleaded guilty and asked to be placed in a rehabilitation program. Punishment could range from probation to 2 to 30 years in prison.

Nick Lachey, as famous for his marriage to Jessica Simpson as for being part of the band 98 Degrees, fanned the flames this week of widespread rumors that Simpson's father is gay.

Asked in the Bravo show Watch What Happens Live what he misses the least about being Joe Simpson's son-in-law Lachey said: 'I don’t have to play grab-ass under the table on Easter Sunday!'

The remark came during a segment called Plead the Fifth and host Andy Cohen was so taken aback by the response that he blushed.

Frank Ocean, one of the biggest LGBT names in rap, is being inspired by the past for the follow up to his critically acclaimed album Channel Orange.

While he won’t share any details about the project, he revealed classic bands such as The Beatles and the Beach Boys were inspiring him.

Speaking to MTV News, he said: ‘When I was making the first [album] there were a group of artists that I listened to, just for inspiration and to absorb the energies,’ he said.

Gimme, Gimme, Gimme odds on an ABBA comeback! Agnetha Fältskog has hinted at a band reunion and the bookies are already taking bets.

Fältskog, the blonde one, was asked by Die Zeit Magazine if she would join an ABBA reunion, and said she was open to it.

‘Maybe a charity concert? I would not say “No” right away,’ she said.

Speculation has grown given the opening of the ABBA Museum, scheduled for 7 May in Stockholm.

And some have suggested the band may reunite to open the Eurovision Song Contest show in Malmo, Sweden.

American singer-songwriter Cher is soon to release her 26th album.

On Sunday (21 April), the 66-year-old took to Twitter to report on her album’s progress, tweeting ‘I JUST FINISHED MY CD!’

The as yet untitled album was originally scheduled for release in March, but Warner Bros. Records say it will now be released in September.

It is the popular gay icon’s latest studio album since the release of Living Proof in 2001. 

A teaser track for the album, called ‘Woman’s World’, was released last November.

Legendary gay pop singer-songwriter Elton John’s stage outfits will be given their own dressing room at a festival this year.

The ‘I’m Still Standing’ singer was confirmed as a headline act at Bestival, a four-day annual festival held on the Isle of Wight, England.

Record producer and organizer Rob Da Bank has claimed the star has not made any ‘diva-like’ demands.

‘It wasn’t too complicated to get Elton booked – no diva-ish antics or crazy demands,’ he told the Daily Star.

The family of a West Hollywood attorney who died over the weekend from bacterial meningitis is blasting a city councilman for making what they say were 'sensationalist and erroneous public statements' about the victim.

Councilman John Duran tells Gay Star News he meant no disrespect to the victim or his family. He says his priority was public safety in a city with a large population of gay men.

Brett Shaad, 33, was taken off of life support on Saturday (13 April) and died later that day at Cedars-Sinai hospital in Beverly Hills.

Georganne LaPiere, the younger sister of Cher and onetime star of the daytime soap General Hospital, says she initially had trouble understanding Chaz Bono's desire to transition from female to male.

'I hate to admit it, but between my macho firefighter husband and myself, he was the one who never had any problem with Chaz’s transition,' LaPiere tells Gay Star News. 'He was always able to see that Chaz was just really unhappy as "Chas” and that it took Chaz transitioning for him to become truly himself and a genuinely comfortable in his own skin human being.'

The Wanted’s Tom Parker has called on One Direction’s Louis Tomlinson to come out as gay.

The two British boybands reignited their feud on Twitter in the early hours of this morning (8 April), when Parker questioned why One Direction kept making references to The Wanted on their tour.

After several low blows, with Tomlinson telling Parker to ‘enjoy the press’ from the argument, Parker responded by implying the 21-year-old heartthrob is gay.

It is 19 years to the day that Kurt Cobain, best known as the singer of Nirvana, committed suicide.

Since his death, he influenced several music artists not only by his music, but his passion for gay rights.

Cobain, who shot himself when he was 27 and would have been 46 today, told people to not buy his music if they were homophobic.

In one of his journals, he said: ‘I am not gay, although I wish I were, just to piss off homophobes.’