HIV/AIDS will be the topic of discussion across the globe today.

Dec. 1 is the annual recognition of World AIDS Day, one that remains highly relevant, as HIV/AIDS is still an epidemic 22 years after the first commemoration in 1988. With much stigma still attached to the disease, many people receive sub-par care for the illness, which is treatable even though no cure is yet available.

A lesbian couple have made history in Botswana by becoming the first to publicly reveal their relationship despite homosexuality being illegal in the country.

Onkemetse Pule, 26, and Lawrence Kwataka, 24, met through the dating pages of their local newspaper, The Voice, ten months ago, and they have since informed family members of their relationship.

Homosexuality is currently illegal in Botswana, but they felt the time was right for them to show the way for other gay and lesbian couples even though those found having been engaged in gay acts can face imprisonment.

SAN DIEGO – Leslie Jordan calls a time-out from his hectic life to chat about his new tour-de-force as star and author of “Deck Them Halls Y’all!”

“San Diego, you are going to get to see the world premiere of my new show,” Jordan says in that familiar Southern drawl from his hometown of Chattanooga, Tenn., where he is spending Thanksgiving helping his mother and twin sisters decorate the new home he recently bought them.

In light of widespread attacks against homosexuals in African states, and the criminalization of sexual orientation in some countries, gay and lesbian rights activists are outraged by the African Commission on Human and People's Rights' (ACHPR) recent refusal to award observer status to the Coalition of African Lesbians (CAL). CAL, an umbrella body affiliated to the University of Pretoria's law faculty, submitted their application to the African Union's commission in May 2008.