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If you love ceramic elephants and famous people, and you'd like to help fight Africa's AIDS epidemic, then get out your checkbook. A number of high-profile celebrities, including George Clooney, Glenn Close, Hugh Jackman and Denzel Washington, have agreed to scribble their names on ceramic elephants to raise funds for Project Zambi, a charity dedicated to raising awareness and funding programs that care for African children orphaned by AIDS.

The organization was started by Hasbro employees, who were inspired by the Chikumbuso Women and Orphans Project in Zambia. They created "Zambi the Elephant," sending a textile artist to Zambia to teach art workshops and get input from the children there on the design of the Zambi stuffed toy, which wiggles its ears, raises its trunk and makes happy sounds when you tickle its chest. The toy retails for $49.99 and Hasbro has committed 50 percent of the toy's net profits, with a minimum of $500,000, to Project Zambi.

Ah, the 1970s - a decade of psychedelic polyester fashions, freakishly large moustaches, drugs, and free love. The Pill brought sexual liberation to women for the first time and, free from the fear of unwanted pregnancies, a generation of young women embarked on exploring lustily the sexual freedom men had always known. Likewise, the dawning of the gay rights movement following the infamous Stonewall Riots in New York in 1969 liberated gays - lesbians as well, but gay men in particular - to come roaring out of the closet, spawning a decade of sexual exploration and freedom unknown to the repressed gay population since Roman times. For many gay men in that idyllic, albeit temporary, nirvana, it was the first time in their lives they had friends, community, and sense of acceptance - and sex. Lots of sex.

Gay Sex in the 70s, a documentary by Joseph Lovett, is billed as a "steamy romp", but really, beneath the mirth at its surface, it is a very serious film. The film explores gay sex from sociological and historical standpoints in the decade between Stonewall in 1969 and the beginning of the AIDS epidemic in 1981, when Dr. Lawrence Altman first published an article about an unusual cancer that seemed to be affecting primarily gay men.