GAY NEWS! 09.18.08

:: Brad Pitt, who once said he won't get married until the right extends to everyone, has donated $100,000 to help fight Prop 8. A November ballot initiative that would eliminate same-sex couples' right to marry."Because no one has the right to deny another their life, even though they disagree with it, because everyone has the right to live the life they so desire if it doesn't harm another and because discrimination has no place in America, my vote will be for equality and against Proposition 8". E! Online

:: John Burnside, the inventor of a kaleidoscope-like device called the teleidoscope and an early gay movement activist who was the longtime partner of the late gay rights pioneer Harry Hay, has died. He was 91 at his home in San Francisco. Bay Area Reporter

:: Gay men who take the erection drug Viagra or the stimulant ice to enhance sex are at greater risk of contracting HIV, a new Australian study has confirmed, but researchers say the drugs themselves are not to blame. The Age

:: Obama "blessed with many openly gay and lesbian friends" Pink News

:: A 16-year-old broke into the home of another student and beat him up, after learning the alleged victim was gay KSN

:: A gay Jamaican man, one of the longest-held detainees in Tacoma has won a second chance to remain in the United States after a federal appeals court in a ruling this week pointed to a "pattern and practice of persecution" of gays in his Caribbean homeland. Seattle Times