The Ring-A-Ding:Money Speeds Up Hunt For vaccine, Not All Latvians are Mean, Gay Games Attendance Looking Lean

Ah, the Gates. How we love you. Taking your excessive amounts of money and time and actually trying to do some good with it. If only every multi-billionaire were as gracious and well intended as you two. The Gates Foundation is donating $287 million US to create an international network of researchers aimed at accelerating the discovery of a vaccine to prevent the disease. [via 365 gay]

Well, Latvia is not the most progressive nation when it comes to gay rights. But their intolerance does not extend to every citizen or even their President, for that matter. The President of Latvia issued a very strong statement defending the civil and human rights of all citizens of Latvia. That's more than our President, and lets talk about which country is progressive and which is not. Latvia's President is a woman. [via Pink News UK]

So everyone who is attending says that the numbers of spectators at the Gay Games is low but the organization themselves say they are selling well. Is PR spin a sport? [via 365 gay]

And... File this under Deranged and Strange news. Andrea Yates drowned her five children in the bathtub because she thought she had ruined them so much that one would grow up to be a serial killer and another would become a mute gay prostitute. A Mute Gay Prostitute? Wow. That is one intense imagination. I feel like Ms. Yates should have gone the other way and been proud if her son turned out to be a Mute Gay Prostitute. He would have been the only one of his kind. It would be like being the mother to a leprechaun or a unicorn.