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Bob Hattoy, a prominent American activist who also fought hard for LGBT and HIV causes, died Saturday in Sacramento, California. Hattoy arrived on the US national scene in 1992, when he spoke at the Democratic National Convention and became the first out gay person to address the national convention of a political party.
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ROME (Reuters) - Paola Binetti says homosexuality is "deviant". Franco Grillini is openly and proudly gay. The problem for Prime Minister Romano Prodi is that both are parliamentarians in his centre-left coalition.
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA - The mayor's office in San Francisco is taking heat for issuing a laudatory proclamation in honor of a gay porn studio that's been in business for 40 years.
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Association Has Donated $1M to Social Service Groups. Despite the brutal attacks on several men following Hillcrest’s 2006 Gay Pride Festival parade and a recent crime spike in the area, including the random shooting death of a man dining with his wife at a local cafe, this year’s festival is expected to be the most successful ever.
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Only contributing to my theory that 2007 is the year of the gay, homos in Syndney flocked to the streets this weekend for their gay Mardi Gras celebration.
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MEXICO CITY: A 22-year-old pop star's announcement that he is gay, making him the first high-profile member of Mexico's show-business elite to "come out" in public, has caused a stir in the deeply conservative Catholic country.
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NEW YORK (AP) _ City Council Speaker Christine Quinn plans to march in Dublin, Ireland's St. Patrick's Day parade this year, again snubbing the New York City parade because of its organizers' refusal to allow gay and lesbian groups to march.
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SANTA ROSA, Calif. - When a few classmates razzed Rebekah Rice about her Mormon upbringing with questions such as, "Do you have 10 moms?" she shot back: "That's so gay."
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Barbary Lane residential community to offer building with 46 units in the Lake Merritt Hotel. Inspired by Armistead Maupin's landmark series "Tales of the City," Oakland's Barbary Lane will become the first of its kind in the country to offer an urban residential community for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered senior individuals and couples.
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A military jury ignored an Air Force captain's plea for leniency Wednesday, sentencing him to 50 years in prison for raping four men and attempting to rape two others.
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Staff Sergeant Eric Alva, lost his leg nearly four years ago when he stepped on a land mine in the desert in Kuwait. He was the first U.S. Marine to seriously wounded in the Iraq conflict.
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WASHINGTON -- Marine Staff Sgt. Eric Alva was the first American to be wounded in the Iraq war nearly four years ago.
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A proposed Nigerian law banning same-sex marriages is a threat to democracy, says Human Rights Watch. Writing to the Nigerian Senate, they said the legislation, "contravenes the basic rights to freedom of expression, conscience, association, and assembly".
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Appearing on a live webcast, the Episcopal Church's presiding bishop began the painful task Wednesday of persuading members to roll back their support for gays—at least for now—so the denomination can keep its place in the world Anglican fellowship.
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NEW YORK (AP) - The first openly gay Episcopal bishop, whose consecration has brought the world's Anglicans to the brink of schism, said Tuesday that the Episcopal Church in the U.S. should not give in to demands that it roll back its acceptance of gays.
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An Air Force officer accused of drugging and kidnapping servicemen he met in bars was found guilty Tuesday of raping four men and attempting to rape two others.
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(Washington) Legislation to repeal 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' the ban on gays serving openly in the military, was reintroduced in Congress Wednesday.
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LOS ANGELES -- A gay couple who hope to marry one day has donated more than $1 million to the University of California, Los Angeles, to fund research on legal topics involving same-sex relationships.
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Antigay bias has flared up in Hollywood and pro basketball recently, and soon the topic will be thrust dramatically into a new forum: a reshaped Congress likely to pass the first major federal gay rights bills.
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Social scientists who have done research on gay and lesbian families say religious fundamentalists are deliberately distorting their work to make the case that heterosexual married couples provide the best environment for rearing children.
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Measures on workplace discrimination and hate crimes expected to prevail with Democrats in control. NEW YORK - Anti-gay bias has recently flared up in Hollywood and pro basketball, and soon the topic will be thrust dramatically into a new forum -- a reshaped Congress likely to pass the first major federal gay rights bills.
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It is Saturday afternoon in a half-empty restaurant on the fourth floor of a modern shopping mall in Beijing. Two young women kiss slowly and continuously, one permed head of hair poised above another, arms entwined, as other customers ignore them completely.
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NEW YORK | Anti-gay bias has flared up in Hollywood and pro basketball recently, and soon the topic will be thrust dramatically into a new forum -- a reshaped Congress likely to pass the first major federal gay-rights bills.
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BOSTON - A federal judge yesterday threw out a lawsuit filed by parents who objected to discussions of gay families in their children's classrooms, ruling the parents do not have the right to dictate curriculum in public schools.
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The Episcopal Church's presiding bishop asks for patience as the church -- and the denomination -- tries to forge a compromise. Top Anglicans at a crucial meeting in Tanzania this week sternly rebuked their communion's American branch on issues involving sexuality and biblical interpretation. The decisions now facing the U.S. Episcopal Church and the global Anglican Communion may push them further down the road toward schism.
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