(San Francisco, California) Lesbian rights pioneer Del Martin died Wednesday. She was 87. Her wife, Phyllis Lyon was at her side when she passed away. Martin began working as an activist after receiving her degree in journalism from the University of California at Berkeley. While working on a newspaper in Seattle, Martin ... Full story...
(Edmonton, Alberta) Alberta Health says it has contacted more than 1,000 people who may have been infected by the re-use of single-use syringes in the High Prairie area.
(Santiago) Chile is scrambling to reach people who could be unknowingly spreading AIDS.
Health Minister Alvaro Erazo told legislators that public health services failed to tell 512 people that they had tested positive for HIV.
(Washington) Two years after the government urged making HIV tests as common as cholesterol checks, there are small gains but still one in five people infected with the AIDS virus doesn't know it, scientists say.
(Montpelier, Vermont) Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas says he will oppose legislation allowing same-sex marriages - a move likely to scuttle the bill expected to be introduced in January.
(London) The leader of the far-right British National party said he will ask police to investigate how his party's membership list was posted online, despite a court order.
(Washington) In the aftermath of Democrat Barack Obama's commanding election win two weeks ago, the Republican party and its usual cheerleaders are in the throes of an identity crisis.
(Washington) President-elect Barack Obama plans to nominate Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state after Thanksgiving, a new milestone for the former first lady and a convergence of two political forces who fought hard for the presidency.
(Amsterdam, Netherlands) Amsterdam faces an ingrained problem of violence against gay men, despite its reputation as a haven of tolerance, according to a new study released.
(Montpelier, Vermont) Police are investigating a death threat against Vermont Senate Majority Leader John Campbell, made a day after the Democrat announced he would introduce a marriage equality bill in the new session of the legislature.
(Liverpool, England) Two men pleaded not guilty Thursday to the brutal murder of a teenager whose slaying has been likened to that of Matthew Shepard in the US.
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