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A new innovative website called the LGBT Collective has been launched that aims to promote the wide range of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans resources available across the South West peninsula. 

The website address is www.lgbtcollective.org.uk and has a directory of groups and projects across the peninsula, an events diary and local LGBT news.

This brand new resource is the first of its kind in the country and has been funded by the Big Lottery Fund.

As well as being a key new website resource, the Collective is also a physical body of LGBT groups and projects who come together to discuss issues that matter for them and work on campaigns that highlight issues important to LGBT people and communities.

The launch of this site is our first campaign and aims to raise the profile of the many resources available and to get information to rurally isolated people across the peninsula.

Read more: Gay Collective Up & Running

The new edition of computer game "Grand Theft Auto IV, The Ballad of Gay Tony" has received an 18 certificate from the UK censors , the BBFC, on the basis of the episode's sexual content.

Gay Tony is the latest 360-exclusive add-on for GTA IV, these slices of fresh content bundled under the Episodes from Liberty City name.

In addition to 'strong' sexual content, the game includes very strong language and hard drug use - according the ratings agency , BBFC.

The BBFC have commented, "The sex is quite strong, but always masked and the characters concerned are invariably fully clothed (no nudity),". It is unclear if the sex scenes described will involve the Gay Tony character or any other man on man pixel action.

This new episode will be launched on the 29th of October.

Ever wanted to locate unidentified gay men on Facebook? Now there's an application for that. It was created by two students at MIT in America. They discovered that gay men tend to have more male Facebook friends of their own orientation.

The students, Carter Jernigan and Behram Mistree, ran the program on 10 men who were gay, but didn't reveal that information on their profiles. The software predicted that all ten were gay.

The survey indicates that people who believe they are discreet online may still be making personal information about themselves public.

In total the MIT students ran the software on 947 people who did not disclose their sexual orientation on their profiles, but it failed to accurately identify lesbians or bisexuals of either gender.

Jernigan and Mistree say they are attempting to get their study, titled Gaydar, published in a scientific journal.

Rockstar Games have unveiled The Ballad of Gay Tony, the latest slice of downloadable content for the award-winning computer game Grand Theft Auto IV.

The official Rockstar Games site describes the game as placing the player into the role of Luis Lopez, a “part-time hoodlum and full-time assistant to nightclub impresario Tony Prince (a.k.a. Gay Tony).”

The Ballad of Gay Tony is still some months away and very little known about its core content, the underlying  controversy that seems to follow Rockstar from game to game could grow progressively more pungent as the detail get revelaed.

XBox 360 players will be able to download the episode using XBox Live or purchase it as a DVD disc that will also contain the first GTA IV episode, "The Lost and the Damned,".

The revamped Gay UK News (www.gayuknews.com) has been launched with a host of great new features and a new look.

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We have the most complete UK pride listings on the web. With over 30 Pride and Mardi Gras events going on in 2009 there is no reason not to party. We also have a fabulous new Pride Shop with rainbow t shirts, hats, badges and other stuff to get you in the mood.

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