Did anyone go this year?

What were your favourite moments?

NEW HOLLYWOOD INTERNATIONAL CELEBRITY COUPLE ALERT! Lance Bass of NSYNC & pro US figure skater/fashion designer Michael Kuluva are officially a couple! We have heard it though our sources in Hollywood just moments ago that they are OFFICIALLY the new "Power Couple" of Los Angeles and HOLLYWOOD. Watch out Ellen and Portia there's some new RUDE kids in town!!! CHEERS MATES!!!

Seem to have missed this from two weeks ago! Got sent it in an email today...

BBC News - 'Artificial life' breakthrough announced by scientists

Did you hear about it?

Now this is much better news to come out of Africa.

Quote:Kenya is embarking on a new strategy to combat the spread of HIV/Aids among the gay community.

The government will establish special round the clock clinics, facilitate the importation of protective gear such as condoms and lubricants, train health workers on how to handle those seeking healthcare and roll out a vigorous sex education campaign among the youth. ... more

Can someone explain what this photograph is about?



It looks like President Ahmadinajad kissing another man. Don't people in Iran find themselves swinging from a rope for less?

Oil reaches Louisiana shores - The Big Picture - Boston.com

The US Congress is on track for taking a landmark vote over the issue of LGBT people serving in the military, according to the Associated Press.

The House may well vote today on the "don't ask, don't tell" law that was established under President Bill Clinton in 1993. The proposal to repeal the law was put forward by Rep. Patrick Murphy, a Pennsylvania Democrat who served in the Iraq war.

The legislation was struck as a compromise between the White House and the Defense Department and President Obama, Defence Secretary Robert Gates and Joint Chiefs of Staff have agreed to provide considerable evidence that the lifing of the ban will not impede the US military's abilities or damage morale. The Senate Armed Services Committee is also expected to take up an identical measure which would be tucked in to a broader billl, authorising a sum of hundreds of billions of dollars for the US military.

Supporters of the movement suggested that the Senate had enough votes to pass the bill. Senator Bill Nelson, himself a supporter, said: "In a military which values honesty and integrity, this policy encourages deceit." However, some conservative Democrats including Rep. Gene Taylor of Mississippi have threatened to oppose the spending bill if it includes a repeal of the ban.

It is likely that the Senate will not vote until the Pentagon have completed their survey of military personnel. Speaking to Air Force cadets on Wednesday, Admiral Mike Mullen, the top uniformed officer in the US and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said service members should question conventional ideas. He said: "Few things are more important to an organisation than people who have the moral courage to question the direction in which the organisation is headed and then the strength of character to support whatever final decisions are made."

Apple shot past Microsoft Corp as the world's biggest tech company based on market value on Wednesday, the latest milestone in the resurgence of the maker of the iPhone, which nearly went out of business in the 1990s.

Apple's shares rose as much 2.8 percent on Wednesday, as Microsoft shares floundered, briefly pushing its market value above $229 billion, ahead of its longtime rival.

Shares of Apple are worth more than 10 times what they were 10 years ago, as it has profited from revolutionizing consumer electronics with its stylish, easy to use products such as the iPod, iPhone and MacBook laptops.

The last time Apple had a higher market value than Microsoft was December 19, 1989, according to Thomson Reuters Datastream.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64P5PE20100527

Wow what a turnaround for Apple. All credit must surely go to Steve Jobs who has created lucrative new revenue streams in iTunes, iPod and the iPhone.

Microsoft has lots of similar ideas in their consumer / entertainment division but apart from Xbox has largely struggled to produce anything to rival Apple or the earnings of their own Windows and Office products.

This stock price swap may just be a blip that will be corrected when the global recession ends and big businesses start investing in new hardware / software upgrades again.

But if not, what can MS do to turn things around?

a) I'm delighted to see that not a single BNP candidate was elected to Parliament. I know we had this discussion a while ago, but I was dismayed at the time of that discussion that some of our younger members here were actually considering voting BNP. The BNP prospective parliamentary candidate for Lincoln, Reverend West, gave a fair assessment of what we could have been in for :mad:

[URL="http://gayspeak.com/forum/redirector.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.pinkpaper.com%2FNewsStory.aspx%3Fid%3D2901"]BNP candidate sends abusive email to LGBT group - PinkPaper
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b) Philippa Stroud, the Tory candidate who didn't win the Sutton and Cheam seat is (maybe was now?) head of the Centre for Social Justice, the thinktank set up by the former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith, has heavily influenced David Cameron's beliefs on subjects such as the family. She founded a church (an unusual thing to do in itself) in Bedford that tried to "cure" homosexuals by driving out our "demons" through prayer! The sensible people of Sutton and Cheam decided to stick with the sitting Liberal Democrat.

Sutton and Cheam: Constituency | Politics | guardian.co.uk

Rising Tory star Philippa Stroud ran prayer sessions to 'cure' gay people | Politics | The Observer

i'm going in the hospital to get a scope done on my stomache. The doxctors say if they dont act soon i will only have a week to live they believe that i have stomach cancer as well as stomach ulcers. they also believe my acid reflux is eating away at my asophogus. they told me there is a 49 precent chance of me dying when they do this scope. they also told me i have a 75% chance i will die if they try to romove the ulcers. Im soooooo worried! im too young to die. But i know this is all a part of life. well hopefully i will tlk to you all soon bye.......... :frown: