• An AIDS pill already on the market has stopped monkeys from being infected with HIV. Humans tests will be underway soon. [AP]

• Morrissey loves baby seals too much to play a concert in Canada. [Pitchfork]

• Young straight couple kills old gay couple in Louisville. The mystery is the motive. [365 Gay]

• Former Canadian hostage James Loney was rescued from his Iraqi captors last Thursday, having been kept alive for months along with two other members of his Christian Peacemaker team. Loney decided it was better not to tell the religious extremists about his preference for penis, which was a smart move by everyone's estimation. [CBC]

• Taiwan legislators voted to include gays in their domestic violence protection law, citing the rough sex in Brokeback Mountain as evidence that gays are capable of causing each other physical pain. [Taipei Times]

• Don't ever try to predict what the people of New Hampshire will do. They Live Free or Die, for goodness sake, and that's what matters. Which means… Well, they are quite unpredictable, having voted for George W. Bush in 2000 and John Kerry in 2004. All we know right now is they most definitely do not want to change their constitution to ban gay marriage, and we're okay with that. [CBS 4 Boston]

• HIV infection rates are rising in Asia-Pacific countries, often because safe sex is less of a concern than the ten years in jail a man might have to serve if caught with a penis inside of him. In the savvier country of Thailand, HIV is also on the rise, but is reportedly the result of increased confidence based on the level of acceptance in that country (i.e., it's okay to be gay, so let's bareback!). We are puzzled by the new data. Is it just a cycle? Does a country first have to be educated and then die in huge numbers before smartening up about safe sex? [MSN]

• Down in Connecticut they already have civil unions that grant the two parties involved every right of marriage, but that's not good enough. Eight couples are suing for the right to "marry" in a "church" and eat "wedding cake" before arranging throwing the "bouquet." No more should these words be reserved for the straights. [365 Gay]

• Next week the International Lesbian and Gay Association will bring attention to gay issues at a conference that coincides with a meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Commission. The goal is to encourage the U.N. to add "freedom of sexual orientation" to the list of rights defendable by the Commission. Some countries, however, hate their gays and strongly oppose such an addition. Is it okay for us to hate them too? Why, in the words of Brandon from Showdog Moms and Dads, do we always have to be the bigger person? [Reuters]

HIV continues to be an overwhelming problem for the gay community and the rest of the world, but researchers at the Center for Disease Prevention have made a possible stride in preventing infection. The test, involving monkeys, continued the trend of using AIDS drugs for prevention.

Dr. Walid Heneine of the Centers for Disease and Prevention studied rhesus monkeys that were injected with a version of Truvada — Gilead Sciences Inc.'s once-a-day pill that includes its drugs Viread, or tenofovir, and Emtriva, or emtracitibine.

The six monkeys that received the drug combination were all completely protected from infection. By comparison, nine monkeys that took part in a previous experiment all eventually became infected with the SHIV virus.

We have our fingers crossed for this one, but we do wonder if a “morning before” pill would really be all that valuable. Still, any progress is good progress, but we gays need to keep an eye on ethical considerations as well.

Drug combination prevents HIV infection in monkeys [Reuters]

• We finally learn the identity of that Julius McMahon-raping, Bruno Campos-cutting Carver in tonight's Nip/Tuck season finale. We've endured a very drawn out storyline and we better not be disappointed. [Zap2it]

• A Taiwanese singer seems more upset about the gay rumors besieging him than Kenny Chesney and his "fraud." [CRI Online]

• Civil Unions finally reach the rest of the UK tomorrow. That means Elton John and David Furnish's big day is finally here. We can't wait. [Breitbart]

• Indianapolis finally gets around to banning discrimination based on sexual orientation. Go Hoosiers! [Indy Star]

• We're not advocating taking any drug before having unsafe sex no matter what. Not until further testing. Use a rubber, people. [Advocate]

2008 Republican hopeful Bill Frist (you remember him best as the guy who diagnosed Terri Schiavo from a monitor on the senate floor) has gotten into more hot water, this time because of his AIDS "Charity.” Basically, The World of Hope (yeah, the title kinda’ says it all) raised 4.4 million worth of cash from only 18 donors (read: 18 large corporations) and spent only 3 million on AIDS charities. The rest (SHOCK!) went to his top political consultants for his 2008 campaign.

"These tax deductible gifts were earmarked through Senator Frist," Cooper said. "They were raised in the political arena at the 2004 Republican Convention and the natural question is were they given to the Senate majority leader to gain favor or were they given for true charitable purposes?" Cooper said the consulting fees were "excessively high" and the fact that they were "paid to primarily political consultants also raises questions about the long-range strategic benefits for the 2008 presidential race."

We were going to applaud Frist for even having an AIDS charity, even if most of the cash goes to evangelical AIDS groups. But using an AIDS charity that’s designed to help children and adults living with a life-threatening disease as a cash cow for your friends is, to put it mildly, in poor taste.

As is killing cute kitties.

Frist AIDS Charity Paid Consultants [AP Via Yahoo]

• Warner Bros. wants to reduce the size of new Superman Brandon Routh's oversized package, giving gays everywhere a little less reason to see the film next summer. [The Sun]

• We would never have guessed it but Bill Gates and his wife make time to hang out with Indian trannies. [The Washington Post]

• The so-called "king of (hetero) strip clubs" is gay. Queerty's two degrees of separation to the man now makes complete sense. [St. Petersburg Times]

• You can now walk for a good cause and never have to get out of bed. [The Advocate]

• The World Wide Web turns 15, which was about the age we were when we first accessed gay porn online. [CNN]

We were barely out of our diapers when disco balls and bell bottoms closed out the seventies. So what did we miss out on as little gay babies?

Apparently lots of carefree sex for everyone.

Gay Sex in the 70s (for once an unabashedly honest title-we like that) is here to show us what free love in New York City was all about. The documentary includes lots of hot grainy footage and porn films with mustached bike-riding leather daddies. Everyone was doing everyone just about everywhere. That is until AIDS walked in the door and ruined all the fun. That bitch.

The movie is now playing in New York and LA. As if those cities need any more sex films showing in their theaters.

• The musical The Gay Life has been renamed The High Life and is being revived in NYC. The word “gay” apparently means something entirely different now then it did when the play originally appeared in 1961. Loving show tunes however means the same thing: you are a big, nelly, homo.

• London’s founder of the gay alternative scene has died. Simon Hobart was responsible for Popstarz, Ghetto, and Trash Palace.

• The HRC’s "Tom, the Token Gay Friend" ads are very gay. And as Rob Thurman points outs “gay (as in jolly, handsome and attractive) rather than gay (as in judgmental, humorlessly and sour).”

• The NO/AIDS Walk was cancelled due to Hurricane Katrina this year. The NO/AIDS Task Force is now doing a Virtual Walk, with all the fun of fundraising without the sweat and blisters. Help them out if you can.

• Gay characters are emerging on film as cops, athletes, and cowboys. And no, it’s not a film about the Village People.

•We know you used to sit in your bedroom and sing "People Are People" dreaming of the day you could act out your adolecent lust for other boys. Well take a stroll down memory lane this fall. Depeche Mode are going on tour.

•In a post from last week we suggested supporting the Children's AIDS Fund. Well don't. A reader alerts us to the fact that the organization is run by Anita and Shephard Smith, who are abstinence-only fundamentalists. See? Give here instead.

•An "ex-gay" goes on Howard Stern and and Howard plays clips of gay porn. Classic.

•Champagne for Hilary! We mean Lulu! Hillary Clinton and British pop tart/AbFab alum Lulu, seperated at birth?

•City Rag shows us that Hellbent is not the 1st gay horror film. Anyone remember A Nightmare On Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge? Well, duh. We don't either but this is funny nonetheless.