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Today's Pin-Up comes from a reader in Boston and was taken during the Boston Pride parade.

Two of the UK's leading HIV and sexual health charities have joined forces to launch a new London health support service for people living with HIV. Terrence Higgins Trust and NAM have launched a new service which will offer one to one or group meetings with a health trainer. People will be able to learn more about HIV treatments and how to manage their condition. Adam Wilkinson, London Operations Manager at Terrence Higgins Trust, said: "In the pilot we found that many people who didn't even think they needed this service found it useful.

Workers this week were putting the finishing touches on the renovation of a three-story, eight-bedroom house in Northeast Washington that is scheduled to open on Monday as the area's first transitional housing facility for homeless gay and transgender youth.

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao By Junot Diaz It's been 11 years since Junot Diaz's critically acclaimed story collection, Drown, landed on bookshelves. His new book tells the story of a multi-generational family curse. This was the most dynamic, entertaining, and achingly heartfelt novel I've read in a long time. My head is still buzzing with the memory of dozens of killer passages that I dog-eared throughout the book. The rope-a-dope narrative is funny, hip, tragic, soulful, and bursting with desire. Make some room for Oscar Wao on your bookshelf--you won't be disappointed. More.

CHURCH of Ireland Primate Alan Harper has reignited a simmering controversy after suggesting that scientific breakthroughs may mean homosexual relationships are sanctioned by the Church. more