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In New York City: The LGBT Community Center Celebrates its 25th Year

Founded back in 1983, the Center celebrates its 25th anniversary next month. And will celebrate this silver milestone with its annual garden party held on the Monday before the big parade down Fifth Avenue on June 29. Gourmet Magazine editor-in-chief Ruth Reichel, helped the Center secure 30 different restaurants for what its executive director, Richard D. Burns, called "the only queer tasting event"

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New York City Gay bloggers make their mark :: EDGE New York City

"The mainstream media is so full of lies and distortions that we need the unfiltered information which comes from some of these blogs" she said. "Unfortunately too many gay men have the body of Gods and the brains of 15-year-old school girls. So I try to mix in some politics with more entertainment-oriented posts to trick them into caring about issues other than Jennifer Aniston's new hair style."

EDGE New York City ::NYC Forum on Rising HIV Rates Among Young Gay Men, MRSA, Media and Bathhouses

The intersecting issues of a new strain of staph, rising HIV infections among young gay men, and the potential to shut down sex venues in New York packed a meeting at the Center, where health officials were grilled on policy regarding gay men having sex.

Refco's delinquent community

Usually when there's corporate malfeasance, it involves a stack of people. Auditors look the other way, managers help themselves to the spoils and directors pretend nothing is happening. It s a delinquent community. And now the evidence suggests Refco was a delinquent community.

Online Anonymity Lets Users Get Nasty

"The Internet really amplifies everything," says Jeffrey Cole, of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. "We have a lot of opinions out there. All of a sudden there's a place we can go to share them." Add to that the freedom that anonymity provides, he says, and it "can lead to a rowdy Wild West situation, with no one to filter it."

Veterans cooperating to help Veterans recover

Veteran's Haven in the town of Wayne., Michigan offers help to young man sufferering from all that he did and saw in combat in Iraq.

Online community reacts to hikers' deaths

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