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.

Sports Illustrated may have landed Jason Collins for his coming out story but it is Oprah Winfrey who managed to get his family together for a joint interview.

Winfrey's chat with the first openly gay active player in NBA history, his parents, twin brother, sister-in-law and aunt for Oprah's Next Chapter which will air Sunday (5 May) on the Oprah Winfrey Network.

Winfrey asked parents Paul and Portia Collins if when their son came out to them last summer if there was 'a releasing of the dream ... of who he would be walking down the aisle with.'

Chandler Massey and Freddie Smith, who play a young gay couple on the NBC soap Days of Our Lives were both nominated for Daytime Emmy Awards on Wednesday (1 May).

Massey, who plays the role of Will Horton, was nominated for the third consecutive year in the category of Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama Series. He won last year.

AJ Clemente has gone from anchoring at a tiny station in North Dakota to appearing on NBC's The Today Show in a matter of days.

But he didn't get a promotion - he got fired.

Clemente, unaware he was on the air, appeared to say 'gay fucking shit' at the start of his very first newscast as weekend anchor at the Bismarck station KFYR-TV.

He told Today's Matt Lauer and Savannah Gutherie he was struggling to practice the name of London Marathon winner Tsegaye Kebede, mangled it, then said the expletive.

As a kid growing up in the 1970s, Ryan Murphy didn't see very many gay people on television - except maybe Paul Lynde.

Campy and snarky, Lynde held court on TV's Hollywood Squares for more than a decade and often poked fun at his barely concealed homosexuality.

If Anderson Cooper had to do it all over again, his foray into daytime talk shows would have been more Live With Kelly and Michael from the start than a pale imitation of The Oprah Winfrey Show.

Cooper's show, Anderson Live! was canceled last fall during the early weeks of its second season. But since that time, it has found its groove with a live format and a rotating array of guest co-hosts including Andy Cohen, Kathy Griffin and Kristin Chenoweth.

Anderson Cooper has not yet commented on reports that NBC News has approached him about taking over Matt Lauer's job as host of The Today Show.

But his CNN colleague Howard Kurtz, host of the show Reliable Sources, reported on Sunday (31 March) that Cooper is not interested in the gig.

Kurtz said Cooper, who hosts a nightly show Anderson Cooper 360 on CNN, prefers to stay with the cable network.

Jenna Wolfe and Stephanie Gosk are both well-known faces to viewers on NBC various news programs.

What viewers did not know until Wednesday (27 March) morning is that the two star network news journalists are a couple and are expecting a baby this summer.

Wolfe appeared on The Today Show (she co-hosts the weekend edition of the show) to share the news that she is pregnant and went public about her relationship with Gosk, a foreign correspondent.

Pop star Madonna presented CNN’s anchorman Anderson Cooper with a US gay media watchdog's top award in recognition of his standing and accomplishment as an openly gay journalist.

Presenting the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) watchdog’s award to Cooper, Madonna up dressed yesterday (16 March) as a Boy Scout Of America, complete with a brimmed hat and sporting a blonde locks hairdo.

She called upon the organization to ‘change their stupid rules’ and end the ban on gay youth.

Anderson Cooper may be a major celebrity himself, but the daytime talk show host and CNN anchor can still get a bit starstruck.

On today's episode of Anderson Live! show, Cooper talked with guest co-host Lisa Rinna about receiving the Vito Russo Award later this month at the GLAAD Media Awards.

'I'm incredibly excited,' Cooper said. 'Madonna? Are you kidding me? I sort of don't believe it's true.'

Madonna will be presenting the award on 16 March at GLAAD's award ceremony in New York City.

A transgender woman was sexually assaulted by at least three men at gunpoint in a New York hotel last Thursday (28 February).

The attack occurred 2.15am after a fight allegedly erupted over money in a hotel on 57^th street, in the Midtown North Precinct, DNAInfo reports.

One of the men had been in the room with the woman earlier. After she kicked him out, he returned with two other men and a gun.