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Good news on the HIV front: a new investigational drug, Etravirine (a non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor) has been shown in combination with Prezista (a protease inhibitor) to be very effective against advanced multi-drug resistant HIV. The just-concluded study took place in 18 countries including at 30 sites in the United States. Prezista is already approved for use in the U.S. …

Target is running a neat music promotion in the subway with billboard-mounted listening stations that you can plug your headphones right into. There’s only a few record stores left in town, so aside from the listening stations in Virgin or Best Buy, there aren’t many places to sample music. I keep checking this one to see how long it takes …

San Francisco-based gay porn company Hot House revealed today (NSFW/sound) that top star Kent North, 33, died yesterday of an apparent drug overdose. North, a “lifetime exclusive” for Hot House, starred in 13 films for the company since joining in 2004. He recently won several industry awards and this year served as cohost at the Grabby Awards, a gay porn …

Iran has launched an English-language 24-hour news channel called Press TV, which with al-Jazeera should satisfy all your anti-American propaganda needs. I’ve watched a couple of hours of the programming late last night and some of it is fascinating stuff, with some apparently English and American-born reporters and commenters joining the male and (headscarfed) female anchors on screen. While much …

A friend of mine that works for Virgin Unite asked me to let you folks know about some free tickets available for Saturday’s massive Live Earth shows in New York City and London. Click on the banner and fill out the four questions, the answers to which can be found on the site. You must enter by tomorrow, winners receive …

I had a great time day tripping out to Fire Island for the Pines Invasion with Little David yesterday and I’ll post more photos of the insanity after I sort through the pile. We took the ferry into Cherry Grove where we watched the drag parade to the Pines-bound ferry, had lunch, then slogged the mile or so through the …

Jim Naugle, the anti-gay mayor of gay gay gay Fort Lauderdale is obsessed with gay sex. So much so, he’s installed a robotic motorized toilet on the gay beach to keep gay men from having sex in the beach’s public restrooms, despite that local police say there is no such problem. The $250,000 toilet, similar to those seen on the …

The strange saga of Trump Place began back in 1974 when Donald Trump optioned the old New York Central freight train yard on the Upper West Side between 59th and 72nd Streets. In ’87, Trump proposed a massive development to be called “Television City”, where NBC could relocate and where he’d build the world’s tallest building, a 157-story tower to …

A holding company that invests the wealth of Bill Gates has bought a 56% controlling stake in failing PlanetOut Partners, owner of Advocate and Out magazines, Gay.com, and RSVP Cruises. Cascade Investments LLC joined with several other private equity firms in the rescue of PlanetOut stock, more than doubling its stock value from its 52-week low of $0.86. Shortly after …

You’re on death row. What’s your final meal?.