This week Conan O'Brien returned to his home turf, New York City, to host his TBS talk show from the Beacon Theatre. O'Brien capped off the week by doing something that, for now at least, he can do in New York but not California: He officiated a gay wedding.

What do gay marriage and Proposition 8 have to do with Kim Kardashian? Not a whole lot on the face of it, yet somehow the news of the celebrity's divorce so soon after her wedding has led to a new chorus of anger over the passage of Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in California.

Same sex marriage was legalized in New York as of June 23rd, 2011, and one gay wedding in New York city is making headlines. Late night television host Conan O'Brien says he will officiate the gay wedding of two men, and it will all be televised on his show.

Responding to critics who have accused the UFC of being an anti-gay organization, Dana White said on Thursday that if there were a gay fighter in the UFC he would prefer that he come forward and share that with everyone. The Culinary Union and other groups have sent letters to Fox and started petitions urging Fox to back out of their recently-signed agreement with the UFC. The union, along with another group that started a UFC website called “Unfit for Children,” are urging sponsors not to back the UFC. Those organizations believe White and the UFC have a “history of tolerating homophobic conduct,” which White insists is not the case.

An Early Frost ( 1985 )
Director: John Erman.
Teleplay by Daniel Lipman and Ron Cowen, based on a story by Sherman Yellen.
100 minutes. DVD distributor: Wolfe Video

The AIDS epidemic was raging in 1985. People were dying at rates that were unimaginable. When they looked back years later, survivors spoke of losing friends, sometime every single one of them, in the space of a few years. In the "gay ghettos" of major cities, it was not unusual to see scores of emaciated young people preparing for death. President Ronald Reagan wouldn't even say the word—AIDS. Televangelists screamed of "God's wrath." ACT UP—the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power—took to the streets and demanded proper care for the sick, among other things.

Members of an opposition Islamic party have called on Muslim-majority Malaysia to ban next month's concert by Elton John, saying Tuesday that the gay singer promotes "hedonism".

Shahril Azman Abdul Halim Al-Hafiz, an official with the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS), said the concert at the Genting Highlands resort on Nov. 22 would corrupt young Muslims because of John's homosexuality.

Question 1, the documentary that looks at the 2009 fight to repeal a gay marriage law in Maine, opens on Friday.

A Hollywood actress and Iowa native hopes to help revitalize Iowa’s film industry after the state’s film office was shut down by a scandal two years ago.

Tanna Frederick, originally from Mason City, has founded “Project Cornlight,” which aims to develop Iowa-based films showcasing in-state talent. The goal is to produce at least one independent film in Iowa each year.

Richard Brown shares personal stories about the hardships he faces as a poor, gay Christian and how he hopes to change the anti-gay view of modern Christianity in "Sunday Morning: A Testimony of Life"

In his book "Sunday Morning: A Testimony of Life" (ISBN 1463700768) Richard Brown shares his personal testimony on life as a gay African-American Christian. Brown hopes to shed light on the world of gay Christians and the struggles they face from the organizations and churches that have challenged the idea of who is worthy to serve the Lord. "Sunday Morning" attempts to stand as a contrast to the developed practices of today's churches and asks for a change to solidarity at all costs.

Fox’s Audience Strategy division, the successor of the network’s diversity department, is launching a new writers program, the Fox Writer’s Intensive. Unlike existing diversity writers programs at TV networks and studios designed to help young minority writers get an entry into the industry, Fox’s initiative targets more experienced writers and is not limited to minorities but open to any scribes with diverse backgrounds — LGBT, foreign-born, etc. (For newcomers, there will be a separate, entry-level Fox writers program in the fall of 2012).