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Ted Kennedy rushed to hospital
Gay.com News Nov 02 08Sen. Edward Kennedy, who is in treatment for brain cancer, is taken by ambulance to a hospital near his Cape Cod home after complaining of feeling ill.
Frank sees bailout agreement by Sunday
Gay.com News Sep 26 08Democratic leaders say they won't force their rank and file to vote without GOP support on a bailout advanced by an unpopular president on an unwilling public.
Groups: Extend voter sign-up in Ike-hit counties
Gay.com News Sep 26 08"It's hard to do door-to-door registration when people don't have doors," says Equality Texas' Randall Terrell in urging an extension of the deadline.
South Africa's anti-HIV drug health minister sacked
Gay.com News Sep 26 08AIDS activists celebrate the removal of South Africa's health minister, who fostered countless unnecessary deaths by promoting vitamins instead of drugs for HIV.
Debate's on, and McCain will be there
Gay.com News Sep 26 08John McCain, reversing an earlier statement, agrees to attend the first presidential debate Friday night even though Congress doesn't have a bailout deal.
Bailout talks resume
Gay.com News Sep 26 08House Republicans say they'll send a top leader to the closed-door session after earlier boycotting bargaining on an emerging bipartisan consensus.
Ellen's on the line in anti-cancer campaign
Gay.com News Sep 25 08The messages, which can be delivered by online request, are intended to nudge women to check for breast cancer; Ellen's mom, Betty, is a survivor.
Palin, witchcraft-proofed, warns of Depression
Gay.com News Sep 25 08As Palin tours New York, a YouTube video surfaces showing her being blessed by a Kenyan pastor against "witchcraft" as she prepares to seek higher office.
Fans react to Clay Aiken's coming out
Gay.com News Sep 25 08One poor girl is so distraught she has to miss work, but almost everyone else, including Simon Cowell, thinks the popster/new papa did the right thing.
10 injured at Bosnia's first gay festival
Gay.com News Sep 25 08Hooligans yelling "Death to gays!" attack the opening of Bosnia's first gay festival, injuring 10 people, including two journalists and a policeman.
Financial bailout plan reached
Gay.com News Sep 25 08Under Dodd and Frank's plan, the U.S. would charge premiums to insure firms that buy frozen assets, not purchase the junk directly as Bush envisioned.
Pastors urge mass fasting, prayer for Prop. 8
Gay.com News Sep 24 08The collective act of piety starts Wednesday and culminates three days before the election in a revival for 100,000 people at the San Diego Chargers' stadium.
Male-on-male rapist/killer gets eight life terms
Gay.com News Sep 24 08Ronald Dominique is sentenced in the deaths of eight young men he solicited for sex, then raped and killed over a decade in Terrebonne Parish, La.
Church boots "happy porn-writing Sodomite"
Gay.com News Sep 24 08Scott Pomfret is amazed the friars of St. Anthony Shrine booted him as lector, because he interviewed many of them for his book, "Since My Last Confession.
It's official: Clay Aiken comes out
Gay.com News Sep 23 08People magazine shows him with his baby son, Parker Foster Aiken, and the headline: "Yes, I'm Gay: I cannot raise a child to lie or hide things.
Trans "Top Model" raises U.S. awareness
Gay.com News Sep 23 08The number of transgender representations on TV remains very small, so Isis King's presence on "America's Next Top Model" is important to activists.
Obama struggles to capture Clinton voters
Gay.com News Sep 23 08Among voters who backed his rival in the bitter primary campaign, only 58 percent now support Obama, a stunning lack of progress, an AP poll finds.
Spielberg gives $100K to Calif. marriage fight
Gay.com News Sep 23 08Steven Spielberg and his wife, Kate Capshaw, give $100,000 to fight Proposition 8, the Nov. 4 California ballot measure that would revoke marriage equality.
GLAAD: More gays in prime time
Gay.com News Sep 23 08Broadcast TV has 16 gay and bisexual regular characters in prime-time series this fall, GLAAD says, more than double the seven of a year ago.
Bush drags feet on end to HIV travel ban
Gay.com News Sep 22 08Two months after President Bush signed a law ending the ban on pos travelers, his administration has yet to take steps to put the law into practice.
