News: Kelly Slater, Firefighters, Fort Worth, Amy Winehouse

Fort Worth Star-Telegram endorses city council candidate Joel Burns, who may become Tarrant County's first openly gay elected official.

Stuck: Someone should have warned Celine Dion that super glue bonds instantly with skin.

Jake Gyllenhaal may not be gay, but he has apparently spent a lot of time on the floor of a men's bathroom.

50 protest at Saudi embassy in London over public gay lashings.

Variety anoints Craig Zadan and Neil Meron monarchs of the movie musical: "If they make movies long enough, it's a good bet they'll dethrone the big one: 'Grease,' the top-grossing movie musical of all time. At present, Meron and Zadan have produced 'Chicago' and 'Hairspray,' No. 2 and No. 3, respectively, on the box office tuner chart."

Panic! at the Disco says the fact that they're "dapper" doesn't mean that they're gay.

Whatever happened to Ace of Base?

Gay Iraqi group to close two of five safe houses for lack of funds.

Mysterious piece of metal falls from the sky in Delaware, slices through the roof of a parked car "like butter": "The object was turned over to FAA personnel from the Philadelphia office. The agency was doing procedural work Tuesday, but spokesman Jim Peters said he was confident the object did not come from a plane."

U.S. Coast Guard opens first-ever base in thawed Arctic.

British fire chief defends decision to discipline firefighters who interrupted men having sex in the bushes: "The firefighters were suspended on full pay during a six-week investigation and later fined and transferred to other stations after being found guilty of bringing the service into disrepute.Mr Pearson said he hoped members of those communities had not been frightened off from applying to the service for a job, but accepted some of his officers could be homophobic. 'My view is homophobia exists in society and I would be naive to think it didn't in my organisation. I hope we can now draw a line under this and move on.'"

Amy Winehouse jailed for marijuana possession: "The embattled singer -- whose unapologetic lyrics often reference her decadent alcohol and drug indulgences -- was carrying a small quantity (seven grams) of pot when she, her husband Blake Fielder-Civil and the person who is responsible for crafting Amy's beehives were caught in their hotel room Thursday night."

Surfer Kelly Slater detained after scuffle with paparazzi in Tel Aviv.

Men Receive Public Lashing for Sodomy in Saudi Arabia

Sharia law carried out in Saudi Arabia, as two men receive the first set of 7,000 lashings for sodomy:

"The men, who were not identified, were meted out an unspecified number of lashes in public in the the southwestern city of Al-Bahah on Tuesday evening, the Al-Okaz daily reported. They were then returned to prison where they are to be held until the full punishment is completed, the newspaper added, without saying how many sessions this would involve."

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Georgia Tech University repeals its policy prohibiting "verbal attacks on individuals because of racial, ethnic or sexual identity."

AIDS doctors want to know why some with HIV never develop the disease: "What in the heck is going on in people that successfully control this virus? If we can figure out how people are doing that, we can try to replicate it."

"Hybrid mutant" creature found dead in Maine raises questions, fears: "It was evil, evil looking. And it had a horrible stench I will never forget. We locked eyes for a few seconds and then it took off. I've lived in Maine my whole life and I've never seen anything like it."

Paris Hilton's old goat to be buried next to screen legend Marilyn Monroe?

A 39-year-old policeman in Britain has settled a lawsuit alleging that his bosses banned him from wearing an ear stud because he was gay. He claimed other officers wore earrings and suffered no repercussions.

Based on new classifications of objects orbiting the sun, astronomers may raise number of planets from 9 to 12.

Plans for Manchester, England's gay village divide community.

REPORT: 20 Saudi men arrested after "gay wedding" raid. "The detainees, who were among some 400 men attending 'the wedding party of two men' on Tuesday, had been 'emulating women,' the Al-Watan paper said. In all, some 250 people were detained in the police raid on the party but the rest were later released. Police had 'arrested the wanted people and released those who have nothing to do with the matter,' the paper quoted a police commander as saying. Some guests were also seen chewing qat, an illegal narcotic widely used in neighbouring Yemen, on a hill above the square where the party was being held, Al-Watan said."