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According to new interview with Fidel Castro’s niece, Cuba is continuing to move towards marriage equality for gays. The Cuban Communist Party is considering granting legal recognition to same-sex unions, as health officials prepare to authorise sex-change operations, the director of the Cenesex sex education centre in Cuba has said. The proposed change to Cuban family law would put members …

UCSF has apologized for the interpretation of their just-released MRSA study, saying that the study’s “medical jargon” caused the press and general public to misinterpret their findings. Right-wing and Christianist groups lept on the UCSF study, issuing statements about the “inherent unhealthiness” of gay sex. “We deplore negative targeting of specific populations in association with MRSA infections or other public …

Johnson & Johnson’s HIV drug, entravine, was approved by the FDA on Friday. As mentioned here in July, the medication has proven to be very effective against advanced multi-drug resistant HIV. Entravine is an NNRTI (non-nucleoside reverse transriptase inhibitor) and must be taken in combination with other anti-HIV medications. The drug was approved under the fast-track or “priority review” status …

Suzanne Pleshette died yesterday at age 70. While you may most fondly remember her from The Bob Newhart Show, my favorite Pleshette role will always be her part as the icy yet fragile Bodega Bay schoolteacher Annie, Rod Taylor’s jilted lover in The Birds. I recall a quote from Pleshette saying, “I would have played one of the birds just …

I’ve been in DC for a few days for Mid-Atlantic Leather. The list of theme parties over the weekend is long and varied, but so far I’ve mostly been hanging out in the lobby of the host hotel and watching the shenanigans. Yesterday’s schedule featured a “puppy play party” in the hotel bar, where a dozen men in rubber body …

With the AIDS pandemic in the middle of its third decade, some AIDS experts are saying that resources spent to fight HIV/AIDS might be better spent elsewhere. [W]ith revised numbers downsizing the pandemic published last year along with an admission that AIDS peaked in the late 1990’s, some AIDS experts are now wondering if it might be wise to shift …

From LA sketch comedy duo Galadina.

Immediately on the heels of Apple’s unveiling of their new movie download program comes word that Time Warner Cable is planning to test a new pricing model that charges broadband users based on the amount of data they download in a given month. Under the experiment, TWC will offer customers four tiers of service starting with an introductory level that …

– AMFAR will honor Julian Schnabel, Carine Roitfeld (Editor in Chief, French Vogue) and Bobby Shriver (Chairman, PRODUCT (RED)) at its 10th Annual New York Gala on Thursday, January 31 at Cipriani.Appearing: Marc Jacobs, Lou Reed, Natasha Richardson, amfAR Chairman Kenneth Cole, Cheyenne Jackson, Maggie Rizer, Miss Universe Riyo Mori, Ben Gazzara plus a special performance by Barry Manilow. The …