New findings that one in 20 North Carolina men who have sex with men (MSM) reported using crystal methamphetamine during the previous month suggests increased risk for spreading HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases (STD), according to researchers from Wake Forest University School of Medicine and colleagues.

The American Psychological Association is starting the first review of its 10-year-old policy on counseling gays and lesbians, a step that gay-rights activists hope will end with a denunciation of attempts by therapists to change sexual orientation.

Russian police detained gay-rights activists, including two European lawmakers, as they gathered in central Moscow yesterday, while members of a hostile crowd shouted, "Death to homosexuals!" and punched and kicked the demonstrators and pelted them with eggs.

Poland's education minister called for a ban on the "propagation of homosexuality" in the country's schools. Amendments to the education law would require school directors to scrap or ban any activities that promote "homosexuality, pornography or other phenomena violating moral norms," said Education Minister Roman Giertych.