Openly Gay NCAA College Football Champion Brian Sims visits Charlotte, NC to speak at fundraiser for Campus Pride on Thursday, May 13.  The event is open to the public and will take place from 8:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. at The Bar at 316, 316 Rensselaer Ave, Charlotte, NC.

The Chicago Community Trust, metropolitan Chicago’s community foundation, is pleased to announce the establishment of The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Community Fund at The Chicago Community Trust. The new fund has been created with grants of $500,000 from the Trust and a $200,000 challenge and operating grant from The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust.

Together with some of the nation's leading voices from the faith, labor and equality communities, Courage Campaign Equality will launch an unprecedented national public education campaign for LGBT equality this Thursday at a press conference in San Francisco.

So how does a hush-hush subject like masturbation get a month of its own? It started in 1995 in San Francisco as a response to the forced resignation of U.S. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders. After a speech at the United Nations World AIDS Day in 1994, an audience member asked Elders about masturbation’s potential for discouraging early sexual activity. She answered, “I think it is something that is part of human sexuality and a part of something that perhaps should be taught.”

In THE LITTLE STRANGER (Riverhead Trade Paperbacks; May 4, 2010), Sarah Waters returns to 1940s Britain to present an unsettling and vibrantly told haunted house story in the tradition of Hawthorne’s The House of Seven Gables.

It’s possible that you may have been seeing more news items about HPV recently. That’s because doctors and scientists are learning more about how HPV affects men. It’s also likely that you’ve read about the new HPV vaccines and how these vaccines could be really important ways for us to prevent HPV. But many gay men don’t know much about HPV, and that may complicate efforts to prevent HPV disease in our communities. So here’s a little background about HPV and gay men.

The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, today hailed President Obama’s selection of United States Solicitor General Elena Kagan as the nominee for the opening on the United States Supreme Court created by the retirement of Justice John Paul Stevens.

Lady Gaga is currently prepping a video for her new single, "Alejandro," and tells Terri, "I'm shooting this video with Steven Klein. I'm so excited, but like all of my videos, I don't know what it's going to look like until it's finished."