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Police have been ordered to close down Internet cafes frequented by gays as well as threatening to jail women who behave in an 'un-Islamic' manner, ie show their hair, wear make-up.

One person I knew drained his entire pool because a friend with hepatitis A went for a swim.

Ikram Khasim reviews Mariah Carey's latest album, Glitter. The album was released three weeks after its original August 21 date as the singer recovered from an emotional and physical breakdown she suffered in late July.

Philippine gay rights groups are asking Congress to consider three bills that would provide anti-discrimination protections as well as to protest a fourth bill that would deny marriage rights to transgender people.

A South African court has ordered changes to the law to allow gay and lesbian couples to adopt children while in Nigeria, an Islamic court has sentenced a man to death by stoning.

Gays and lesbians in Finland can now register as couples and obtain some but not all the rights accorded to married heterosexual couples.

October is National Coming Out month. We bring you the coming out stories of a few brave individuals, as told on the National Coming Out Project.

Canadian researchers have shown that an experimental heat-activated microbicide gel can act as a physical barrier to HIV and herpes infection.

Ikram Khasim reviews the late Aaliyah's third, latest, and last self-titled album.

Marilyn Manson has been charged with assaulting a male security guard by allegedly rubbing his genital area on the man's head during a concert in Michigan.