Gay view has Booker in the bag
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LONDON: British author Alan Hollinghurst has won the Â£50,000 ($124,000) Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty, a satire on Thatcherism that is full of explicit gay sex and drug abuse.
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"The Line of Beauty," Alan Hollinghurst's novel about a young gay man in Thatcherite Britain in the mid-1980's, won the Man Booker Prize.
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Rising UK hip-hop star MC Shystie has criticised rappers who write homophobic lyrics in their songs. The anti-gay content of a number of songs has come under the spotlight recently with protests by groups such as Outrage!
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Gay-killer reggae lyrics spark outrage
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Every October the British publishing world celebrates the Man Booker Prize. For many, the main action is in Soho, where publishing houses take over exclusive social clubs.
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Le Cafe de Flore, the famous Paris hangout once frequented by the likes of Jean-Paul Sartre and Ernest Hemingway, has awarded its annual literary prize to a gay US novelist for his story about a homosexual tryst in Romania.
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A lethal new form of MRSA is reported to be more prevalent among the gay community in the US.
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First came word that the running mate picked by GOP gubernatorial candidate Bob Beauprez had compared same-sex marriage to bestiality. Then Beauprez apologized for overstating the abortion rate among blacks.
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Comment is free: Simon Fanshawe: Forty years after the 1967 bill, homophobic abuse still goes on. Let's ditch the sexual stereotypes.
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TRENTON, NJ - The Governor of New Jersey, James E. McGreevey, stepped before the cameras of the hastily called news conference on the afternoon of Aug. 12 to announce, &quot;I am a gay American.&quot; ...
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LONDON (Billboard) - A prominent gay rights group in  Britain is stepping up its campaign against what it views as  homophobic lyrics by a number of reggae acts.
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For disgraced Americans, memoirs   can offer a path to rehabilitation, but for the New Jersey   governor who announced he was gay when he resigned on national   television, his book has led to even more polemics.
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In the international party atmosphere of the Olympic Games, the Greek gay scene is finally coming out of the closet. After decades in the shadows of a macho society, the
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&quot;Lynn and I have a gay daughter so it&#39;s an issue our family is very familiar with. With respect to the question of relationships my general view is freedom means freedom for everyone.
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LONDON -- In the early morning hours of Oct. 31, David Morley, a 37-year-old gay bartender, was walking home along London's South Bank with a male friend when he was allegedly beaten to death by several teenagers. Morley suffered 40 bruises, his ribs were smashed, his spleen ruptured.
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From liberal Massachusetts to conservative Arizona, gay politicians have gone public and survived. New Jersey Gov. James E. McGreevey's decision to come out on live television could have made him the most prominent among them &#151; the nation's first openly gay governor.
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One of Marc Jacobs&#8217; takes on contemporary sexy. (Richard Termine for The New York Times) I see people were up before the birds to have a whack at the Marc Jacobs show. Such a delicious debate, I might add. (And ârulesâ about length and quality of comment on the blog? Horrors! Letâs build another prison.) About [...].