Cyndi Lauper, nominated for a Tony Award for writing the songs for the current Broadway musical Kinky Boots, warns people who weren't around during the AIDS crisis that HIV is still not something you want to have.

Neil Patrick Harris and the Tony Awards have become such a winning combination that the multi-talented star has just been signed to host the show for the fourth time.

He said in a tongue in cheek statement: 'I’m very excited to be back hosting the Tony Awards at the legendary Radio City Music Hall. It’ll be more impressive than ever—if my math is correct, it will be 267 times bigger than last year. Oh, wait. No, that can’t… hold on… carry the one… I’m awful at math. But rest assured, the show will rock!'

Sean Hayes, an Emmy winning sensation on NBC's Will & Grace for eight years, is returning to the network in a new comedy series this fall, it was announced Thursday (9 May).

'We are thrilled and can't wait,' Hayes wrote on Twitter.

Sean Saves the World has Hayes playing the father of a 14-year-opd girl who moves in with her dad. His character is adjusting to that change as well as having a new boss at work who is quite temperamental.

Hayes came out publicly as a gay man in 2010. It's not yet known if his character on the sitcom will also be gay.

Friends of the disgraced Cardinal Keith O’Brien say he’s been ordered by the Vatican into exile and ditch his plans for retirement in Scotland.

The Herald commented that: ‘It is the clearest indication yet of the Vatican's unwillingness to let the matter drift’ of the Cardinal’s sexual assault on male priests when he run seminaries in the 1980s and during a drinks party in Rome.

Openly gay star John Barrowman can think of worse things that having to act in scenes on The CW series Arrow with hunky leading man Stephen Amell.

'I’m required in my contract at some point, during the whole season, that Stephen be naked around me on camera,' Barrowman jokes to The Backlot.com.

On the show the Torchwood star plays Malcolm Merlyn , the nemesis of Oliver Queen (Amell).

Openly gay pop star Ricky Martin has taken to Twitter to celebrate the legalization of same-sex marriage in New Zealand and says that marriage equality in Australia is inevitable.

Martin is in Australia to star as one of the celebrity coaches on the Australian version of The Voice and used his Twitter account to post a YouTube video of the aftermath of the passing of New Zealand’s same-sex marriage bill in which MPs burst into applause and then rose to sing a traditional Maori love song.

Jennifer Lopez has said her new show about lesbian moms is a homage to her late gay aunt.

In a tearful interview with Entertainment Tonight, she explored the personal reasons why she wanted to create the new ABC Family drama The Fosters.

Asked whether she thought the show would be controversial, Lopez said: ‘I think it might be. But I think that’s ok.

‘I had an aunt who was gay. I lived with her and I loved her. She just passed away from cancer. 

The Perks of Being a Wallflower  won best film and Raising Hope, American Horror Story and Days of Our Lives took home television prizes at the GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles Saturday (20 April)..

Wallflower writer-director Stephen Chbosky told the star-studded crowd, which included Leonardo DiCaprio, Charlize Theron, Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Evans, that he wanted to make a movie that would make kids who felt different feel less alone.

New Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby admits gay relationships have value but won’t shift on same-sex marriage, activist Peter Tatchell has said after meeting with him.

Tatchell urged Welby to reconsider gay marriage equality, apologize for past church persecution of LGBT people and engage with activists in Africa where parts of the Anglican church are leading a wave of homophobic hate.

But Tatchell emerged from meeting Archbishop Welby this afternoon (18 April) with an agreement to further dialogue as the biggest concession he could secure.

Former First Lady Nancy Reagan is 91 and not about to make any kind of public statement about marriage equality herself.

So her daughter, author Patti Davis, took it upon herself in an interview this week to say that her mother is in favor of gay marriage.

'She does,' Davis replied to Huffington Post's Michelangelo Signorile when asked if her mother favored gay marriage.

Portia de Rossi has made the decision that she and wife Ellen DeGeneres are not going to have children.

'There comes some pressure in your mid-30s, and you think, Am I going to have kids so I don’t miss out on something that other people really seem to love? Or is it that I really genuinely want to do this with my whole heart? I didn’t feel that my response was "yes" to the latter,' the 40-year-old DeRossi tellsOUT magazine.

In all of the publicity so far leading up to the May 26 premiere of Behind the Candelbra on HBO, straight stars Michael Douglas and Matt Damon have insisted they did not hold back in portraying gay couple Liberace and Scott Thorson.

A new trailer - the first full-length one released so far - was unveiled on Monday (8 April) and indicates that viewers will see the two actors in bed together in intimate scenes and also show Damon emerging slowly from a swimming pool in a speedo.