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Utopia is canceled, Neil Gaiman didn't like librarians, was a gay sex scene cut from The Imitation Game?

If you were one of the three people actually watching Utopia on Fox, well, sorry about your luck, because it's canceled, and the live feeds online will be gone by the time you read this. Fox's risky $50 million experiment was supposed to run for a year, but nobody was interested.

A total of six magistrates have resigned in North Carolina since they've been told that they can't refuse to conduct same-sex weddings and still collect a paycheck from taxpayers. A North Carolina lawmaker plans to introduce a bill that would make it legal for them to do so, which following the standard slippery slope arguments that opponents of marriage equality use, will eventually lead to police and firemen demanding the right to not respond to calls at gay homes. Look, you're not a minister performing a rite, you're a public employee. You don't get the special right to pick and choose which citizens you serve.

The New York Times talked to other out executives about Tim Cook coming out the way he did this week, and they all agree, because it's Tim Cook of Tim CookApple, this will have a ripple effect across business, in the best way. Trevor Burgess of C1 Financial, the first openly gay CEO of a publicly traded company says the the brick metaphor was more apt than Cook let on. This is more like 600 million bricks. He has the most influential voice in global business.”

The eight Egyptian men who were arrested for participating in a "gay wedding" video have been sentenced to eight years in prison, with three years of probation following that. This follows a medical examination that concluded that they had never had sex with other men.

The latest studies show that with good access to treatment, men living with HIV will likely have the same lifespan as those who are not, easily reaching the 75 year average. For those who got treatment before their CD4 count dropped below 350, they can expect to live to 77, beyond the U.S. average, largely because they tend to live healthier lifestyles and be more in touch with their health. This is something I've discovered about myself - I eat better, I exercise like a madman, and when I found a new family doctor (I still have an infectious disease specialist), he was stunned by how I took care of myself, understood my lab results and how to manage around them, and had questions about my Neil Gaimangeneral health. I researched the devil out of local doctors to choose him, and I'm his first HIV+ patient. Between my first and second visits, he'd had to go and do research to keep up with my knowledge of my health to be a better partner. Which means he's a keeper.

For such a love of books, Neil Gaiman reveals that when he was a child, he didn't like librarians. “I was terrified of them at first. They were the people who wanted their books back.”

This whole interview with Sir Ian McKellen about LGBT rights is worth a read, but his incredulity about how sport, and this being England, football, fails gay players is great. "What is going to make the FA face up to the responsibilities of the people it's looking after? Premiership clubs: what is their problem? They're living in the past. They're so old-fashioned. They come out on the fields as if they are somehow champions of the world. They're not. They are way back in the 19th century."

Idris Elba has let slip that he and Tom Hiddleston are in Avengers: Age of Ultron, even though Joss Whedon and Chris Hemsworth have said that they are not. This being a Marvel film, it could just be a post credits sequence, but we'll have to wait until May to find out.

First up, you really need to watch Gareth Thomas on The Jonathan Ross Show. It's one of the purest, most honest interviews I've ever seen on a late night show, deeply personal, funny, and real. With Wossy helping him along, Gareth talks about his coming out, telling his wife, considering suicide, and most interestingly when he knew he was gay, which he points out isn't always some epiphany, but a process.

Dan and Miki are real, Australian gay cowboys, with a 155 acre ranch they manage, cow shit and all. Dan talks about growing up on a farm but feeling he needed to conform to what he understood a gay man to be, and moving to the city for a decade until he met Miki, and realized maybe he could have the life he loved with the man he loved. There aren't any boxes we have to live in these days if we don't want to live in them.

Finally, John Oliver sits down with Dr. Jane Goodall to talk with her about her life with chimpanzees, what she's learned, and more importantly, what he's never bothered to learn about her work. I think what surprised me most about this was just how amused Goodall was capable of being. We don't tend to think of scientists as being able to joke about their life's work, but she's quite sly when dealing with Oliver's deliberate ignorance.

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