Taking yet another opportunity to speak out against homophobia, Lady Gaga talked with Fuse TV about gay hate speech in hip-hop and throughout the music industry.

"When I hear one of the most famous rappers in the world say something homophobic on the radio, I want people to yell at him," Lady Gaga says.

Houston mayoral hopeful Annise Parker has picked up a major newspaper endorsement. The Houston Chronicle has thrown its support behind Parker who, if elected, would become the first lesbian mayor of a major U.S. city.

Martha Stewart had some harsh words to say about Sarah Palin while talking to the press outside a charity event earlier this week in New York City.

"She's dangerous," Stewart said. "She speaks... she's so confused, and anyone like that in government is a real problem."

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has Democrats united behind him -- for now.All 60 members of the party’s caucus have publicly pledged to support him in a key vote on the Senate floor Saturday night to allow debate to proceed on Reid’s health care reform bill. 

Six months ago, while on the set of his forthcoming movie Piranha 3-D, the paparazzi snapped pictures of Jerry O’Connell wandering around in a red speedo. For their sexiest men alive issue, People Magazine wanted O’Connell to recreate the picture… in a library, while mowing the lawn and while playing golf.

The first photos of a not quite completely nude Levi Johnston have been posted on Playgirl.com... but to see them, you have to become a member.

Though South African track star Caster Semenya will keep her world championship games gold medal, many questions about gender testing still remain.

The annual commemoration began in 1998 when founder and writer Gwendolyn Ann Smith marked the November 28, 1998, murder of Rita Hester, a trans woman, in Allston, Mass., near Boston.

Pop star Boy George, recently released from jail for imprisoning a rent boy in his London apartment, is to be locked up again, but this time in the Celebrity Big Brother house.

 The following statement was issued by Judy Shepard, the president of the Matthew Shepard Foundation, on the murder of 19-year-old Jorge Steven López Mercado.