The Daily Record: HUGHES SORRY NOW
LIB DEM leadership candidate Simon Hughes admitted gay affairs with men yesterday - after years of denial.Hughes, who became an MP after running what was labelled the "straight campaign" against openly gay Labour candidate Peter Tatchell, was outed after being found calling a gay chat line. And as the race to succeed Charles Kennedy descended further into farce, insiders said hypocrisy, not homosexuality, would cost Hughes votes.Bachelor Hughes, 54, continued...
Beeb to screen lesbian sitcom
THE BBC is to screen a new sitcom featuring a lesbian as its main character.Gay chat show host Rhona Cameron has been commissioned by Beeb bosses to write and star in a comedy series provisionally entitled Rhona.The 32-year-old, who made her name fronting BBC2's Gaytime TV, will play a woman living in London's Notting Hill - and will have a love interest in the show.A BBC spokeswoman said: "It is based around the idea of a young, rather neurotic...
TRIAL STARTS IN 2001 STABBING,
* ANTIOCH RESIDENT BRIAN MISQUEZ PANICKED WHEN MEETING A MAN AFTER AN EROTIC ONLINE CHAT, A DEFENSE ATTORNEY SAYS
MARTINEZ - An Antioch man accused of stabbing to death an El Cerrito resident he met in an online gay chat room committed the crime in a fit of rage and should not be convicted of murder, his lawyer told a jury Wednesday.Attorneys opened the murder trial of 25-year-old Brian Misquez by giving their own accounts of the death of Rogelio DeChavez, 22, who was stabbed 27 times with a butcher knife and another knife on July 6, 2001. Misquez, who lived with his girlfriend and two young children,...
JURY CONVICTS ANTIOCH MAN OF MURDER,
BRIAN MISQUEZ STABBED A 22-YEAR-OLD MAN HE MET IN A GAY ONLINE CHAT ROOM
An Antioch man was convicted Thursday of murdering an El Cerrito resident he met in an online gay chat room.A jury found Brian Misquez, 25, guilty of second degree murder in the July 6, 2001, stabbing death of 22-year-old Rogelio DeChavez. DeChavez was stabbed 27 times with a butcher knife and another knife in his El Cerrito apartment.Misquez, who lived with his girlfriend and their two children, led a double life on the Internet as a homosexual known as...