A HOMOSEXUAL who slit the throat of a man he thought had raped him was yesterday found guilty but insane.Aidan Heneghan, 35, from Brosna Lawn, Mullingar, Co Westmeath, knifed 43-year-old Frank McCann to death in Dublin gay bar the Front Lounge, the Central Criminal Court was told. He believed Mr McCann had also posted naked pictures of him on the internet and people were laughing at him as a result.Two psychiatrists, Dr Henry Kennedy and Dr Paul O'Connell, told the court...
Alerts popped like flashbulbs all over the Web this weekend as news of a rare and potentially more aggressive form of H.I.V., first reported publicly in New York on Friday, spread through gay chat rooms, Web logs, dating sites and e-mail. Officials said the H.I.V. strain had been detected in an unidentified man who, while using crystal methamphetamine, had engaged in unprotected anal sex with multiple partners. Gay users of the Web, especially those who initiate sexual encounters...
Inevitably there was a sense in the Commons that the news was elsewhere. More than usual MPs must have felt that what they thought mattered hardly at all, like a parish meeting to discuss the siting of a new bus shelter held on the night of a general election.It's a time when in any case we look back to the past - 70 years into the past. Poppies were sprinkled pretty randomly on the Labour benches, but were almost universal among Lib Dems and Conservatives. But the most...
K-Y Jelly makers Johnson & Johnson have become worried that the lubricant is losing its lustre, not least because it is facing tough competition in the US from the likes of Astroglide. So it asked celebrities such as Debbie Harry and Sex and the City's Kim Cattrall (pictured right; I wonder why they asked her?) for new things to do with it.Their offerings - which include making body paint with crushed eyeshadow - will go on show in New York in June. But the...