Hundreds of Sacramento-area students rallied to support four students suspended for wearing anti-gay shirts. One participant said: "It's only going to get worse against Christians. We're going to get persecuted more and more. But those who stand to the end: God is going to save them." Um, right...
Sony's banking on Spider Man 3. Literally. Some insiders claim the flick cost $300 million to produce. No doubt, however, it'll make it back. And then some.
The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission will honor Nepal's Blue Diamond Society for all their hard activist work. Unfortunately, they will not be honored with actual blue diamonds.
We've never quite understood Kate Moss and Pete Doherty's relationship. Now we do. And they're kind of cute. Still total nutters, but cute...
The fuzz may have been investigating theft at Atlanta's airport, but they found a bunch of horny gay men, instead. Now they're looking for more.
Regional lawyers have ruled that Latvia's City Council acted unjustly in barring last year's gay pride parade. Hoorah!
Maryland's House has passed a bill requiring health insurance companies to extend benefits to same-sex partners and children. The bill now needs to be signed by the governor to become a law. (We totally just had a School House Rock flashback.)
GLAAD's celebrating the tenth anniversary of Ellen Degeneres' coming out with a month full of flag-waving faggotry.
Sri Lanka may forbid homosexuality, but that's not stopping gay activists from planning a pride event. Trouble is, they don't have any money. Do you?
In an effort to make a more single friendly album, Madonna has joined forces with Justin Timberlake and uber-producer Timbaland. If they can't help her sales, no one can...
The House Judiciary Committee isn't fucking around with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. They've just issued a subpoena for more documents regarding the allegedly illegal firing of federal prosecutors. Nail him to the wall, kids!
New York has agreed to extend benefits to employee's same-sex partners. About fucking time, no?
Mario Vasquez still claims he's not gay. But, of course, the interview took place before that whole sexual harassment lawsuit, so who knows...
Don Imus may have called them "nappy-headed hos", but the Rutgers Women's basketball team has agreed to have a little sit-down. We hope they give it to him good.
Robbie Williams may have ditched Take That! to embrace his bad boy image, but some are saying the recently rehabbed singer's mulling a musical reunion. Um, is that supposed to be a career booster or a death rattle?
21-year old Akino George has been sentenced to eight years in prison for his role in the beating of gay singer, Kevin Aviance. Like his violent cohorts, George copped a plea. Smart fucker...



We've been a little wary of this story, as we've heard these "cure for HIV" promises before. But scientists believe that drugs already used to treat HIV can actually be taken to prevent HIV infection.
Taking the pill called Truvada, which is a mix of two drugs (tenofovir and emtricitabine), has been shown to prevent HIV infections in monkeys, when the pill was taken before exposure to the virus.
HIV causes illness by infecting white blood cells, where it replicates thousands of times before bursting out of the cell, destroying it. Then all those strains of the virus attack other white blood cells, until your body has no immune defense system left. Modern drugs combinations (including the medicines in Truvada, as well as "protease inhibitors") block HIV from replicating--which saves your white blood cells from damage.
While these drugs are not a "cure," they certainly elongate the lifespan of many people with the disease. If caught early enough, the drugs can obliterate enough of the virus to make it "undetectable" in your bloodstream (even though there's usually a little bit hiding somewhere). So conventional logic leads scientists to believe that if the drugs are already in the blood, they would stop the virus before it has a chance to get started. Sounds simple enough, right? Perhaps. In lab tests on animals, it seems to work great so far.
But that's not the whole story.