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Doctors in Germany claim they have cured a man who was infected with HIV. Three years after undergoing a blood stem cell transplant, Timothy Ray Brown, 44, an American patient living in Berlin,44, who was both HIV positive and stricken with Leukemia, now shows no sign of either affliction.

General James Amos, Commandant of the U. S. Marine Corps., underscored his opposition to repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” telling reporters Tuesday afternoon that Marines fighting in combat units in Afghanistan are extremely concerned that permitting gays to serve openly could disrupt “unit cohesion.”

A majority of West Australians support gay marriage, according to a recent poll.

The U.S. House of Representatives is poised to take a vote Wednesday on a stand alone repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” introduced earlier today by Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) and Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-Pa.).

California state Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), introduced a bill Tuesday that would require public schools to include the historical contributions of LGBT people as a way to combat bullying.

On Monday morning we reported that dozens of books dealing with LGBT subject matter, were vandalized at a Harvard library with what appeared to be urine. But now the college has announced the damaged books were the result of an “accident,” and not a suspected hate crime as University police originally suspected.

The Gay Men’s Health Crisis, an HIV/AIDS prevention and advocacy group, and the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), say the latest ad by the NYC Heatlth Department creates a grim portrait of being an HIV patient, which could further stigmatize victims.

Activists pushing for repeal of “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” delivered on a threat Monday and filed a third lawsuit aimed at having the courts strike the military’s ban on openly gay service members.

At least 40 books at a Harvard University library dealing with LGBT subject matter have been vandalized with what appeared to be urine, and University police are investigating the incident as a hate crime.

The Atlanta City Council last week voted 14-0 to award the Atlanta Eagle bar $1 million in response to a federal lawsuit filed by a private attorney on behalf of 19 clients unjustly arrested in a botched police raid last September.