"A federal appeals court has overturned the sentence of a man who has spent the past 23 years on death row for the killing of gay man. Robert Van Hook never denied strangling, stabbing and mutilating the body of David Self in Self’s Cincinnati apartment in 1985. The two had met in a local gay bar earlier on the day of the killing. At the time Van Hook claimed temporary insanity." [365 Gay]

"Openly gay journalist and broadcaster David Self - who famously wrote the questions for ITV's Sale of the Century and who took part in one of the country's first civil ceremonies for gay couples- has died at his Fenland home. Mr Self, 67, had been battling liver disease and cancer for sometime: his partner Majid Jawad described it as 'not a nice death.'" Sheesh! Doesn't this guy know you're supposed to sugar coat it? [Wisbech Standard]