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Melrose (Safe) Place: Five young gay guys living in the same apartment complex facing decisions about their sex lives may sound like the description of a television here! TV soap-opera. But it also describes the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center’s groundbreaking new Web-series HIV prevention/education campaign, "In the Moment." The first of 12 episodes is available to watch today (above), and online forums have been set up to help stimulate dialogue regarding safer sex.(WeHoLife.org)

It's a Boy! Big is a Big Daddy. (AP)

Adopted Son: Heath Ledger may have been an Australian, but you'd never know it from the scene outside his SoHo apartment last night. (NYT)

Puget Sound: Legislation was filed Tuesday to expand Washington state's domestic partner law to include more than 170 rights and responsibilities that currently are available only to married opposite-sex couples in the state. (365Gay)

Cold and Bored: Now that their lame caucus is over, Iowa Gov. Chet Culver apparently doesn't have anything better to do than pick on the gays. And he's one of them liberal Democrats. (365Gay)

An Early Lesbian Frost: A documentary film on the struggle by New Jersey police officer Laurel Hester's struggle to have her domestic partner recognized as her next of kin was nominated Tuesday for an Academy Award. "Freeheld: The Laurel Hester Story" was one of four films nominated for the Oscar for Best Documentary. The emotional film was produced by Cynthia Wade.(365Gay)