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Word from Down Under this morning is enlightening, but not the brightest bit of news to digest with breakfast. HIV rates are up on the continent, and officials in public health call it "alarming."

Read more after the jump.

A study by the American Cancer Society reveals a disparity in HIV death rates between white and minority Americans, specifically for those minority Americans that are less educated. 

More after the jump.

Kevin McClatchy, the former general managing partner and chief executive officer of the Pittsburgh Pirates, waited until five years after leaving his post in 2007 to come out as gay. With the timing coinciding with an ideal and historic moment in the MLB's transformation of acceptance, could his story be the spark the sports wolrd needs?

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President Obama has released a statement commemorating the first anniversary of the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." Check out what the president has to say after the jump!

Its infectiously in vogue these days to leave baby boys parts fully intact as the movement against circumcision spreads across the U.S. But a new study out of Johns Hopkins University reveals the high price tag the country will face when these boys are old enough to check off the "uncut" box on whatever futuristic location-based cruising app they'll come to use. 

We will dust off the closet doors that we swung wide open out of the womb and come out again if it means getting a personal poem and praise from Beyoncé. Guess we'd also have to collaborate with her like Frank Ocean, who helped her out with "I Miss You" and came out as gay last week.

In a message sent out today, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden celebrates Pride Month and honors the agency's LGBT employees.

Read NASA and Bolden's celebration of Pride after the jump!

As harbingers of trends that are often adopted by the mainstream, gays might really be onto something with the community-accepted but society-taboo practice of open relationships. At least according to a small scienc-y study by the University of Michigan. Details follow. 

Anti-gay violence declined in 2011, according to the annual report on hate crime statistics by the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, but anti-LGBT murders increased. What gives?

Separating the LGBT acronym in its analysis of FBI crime statistics for the first time has given the Williams Institute and the gay community a stark look at how gay men are disproportionately victimized by physically violent hate crimes.

Two men, one British and one a Seychelles national, will head to a United Arab Emirates prison for three years after being charged with having sex in public in Dubai.