Nearly a month after
The View co-host Sherri Shepherd and guest-host D.L. Hughley engaged in an erroneous discussion regarding the transmission of newly reported HIV infections among African-American women was the result of African-American men who engage in man to man sex, Hughley telling an audience nationally that “it’s primarily young women who are getting it from men who are the down low.”
GLAAD, along with the
Black AIDS Institute and the
National Black Justice Coalition, demanded that
ABC and
The View retract the statements offered as fact, authoring an open letter that appeared in Monday’s
Variety.
Late Wednesday, ABC released a statement to CNN that reads “on June 22nd, during a discussion about blood donation and the transmission of HIV/AIDS, a guest moderator on the show expressed his interpretation of data about the one way the virus can be transmitted. The topic of HIV/AIDS has been raised many times over the show’s 13 years, with many voices and opinions contributing to a conversation that we expect to continue as long as The View is on the air.”
GLAAD has since rightly responded that the statement made to CNN was evasive and said nothing, and the show still refuses to correct the information it presented as accurate, and the
Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation continues to demand
ABC and
The View issue an on-air apology.
Ricky Martin
congratulates Argentina on the passage of legislation Thursday legalizing gay marriage.
Jamie Bell
featured in Italian Vogue.
Cristiano Ronaldo
spotted in a teeny, tiny, tight, green Speedo on his in villa in Villamoura, Portugal.
Kellan Lutz, his two adorable rescue dogs, and his considerable bulge take a walk in Los Angeles Wednesday morning,
Lutz luckily wearing a pair of Calvin Klein X-Range underwear.
Wednesday evening, Kellan was spotted leaving
BOA Steakhouse.
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