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When Burton Merrifield and Fredric Berger embarked on a five-day cruise aboard Royal Caribbean International’s Enchantment of the Seas, the Oakland Park, Fla., gay couple thought a good way to meet other gay passengers on the ship would be to post a notice for a “Friends of Dorothy” meeting in the ship’s newsletter, Compass.
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FORT HUACHUCA, ARIZONA - The mother of a gay American teenage soldier has told a newspaper that she is afraid for his life, following a homophobic assault, allegedly by another soldier, in Arizona.
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Traditional leaders have warned that gay couples risk being treated as pariahs in rural communities in South Africa following last week's Constitutional Court ruling endorsing same-sex marriages.
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The lower house of the Czech parliament approved a law legalizing civil partnerships for same-sex couples on Friday, in spite of strong opposition inside Prime Minister Jiri Paroubek's coalition government.
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The first formal gay marriages in the UK are due to take place in the North today under new civil partnership legislation that came into force earlier this month.
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A GAY man beaten to a pulp in an horrific attack on Londonderry's walls said justice was done yesterday when his two young attackers were given jail sentences.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese police shut down the opening of a gay and lesbian culture festival on Friday, an action participants said highlighted deep-rooted intolerance toward homosexuality.
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Elton John and his longtime partner David Furnish are pleading with the press to let them exchange vows next week in peace but there is little sign the dogged British media is going to let that happen. The event already has been dubbed by the tabloids "Britain's gay royal wedding".
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LOS ANGELES The L-A. Gay and Lesbian Center has stopped using an oral HIV test after discovering that 13 people falsely tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS.
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Latvian lawmakers blocked same-sex marriages by changing the Baltic state's constitution on Thursday, infuriating gay rights activists who said they may take their case to the European Court of Human Rights.
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Four youths were convicted of manslaughter Wednesday for beating to death a man who had survived the fatal nail-bombing of a British gay pub six years ago. Barman David Morley, 37, was beaten to death by a gang of youths in central London in October 2004.
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Artefacts and documents that charted the history of lesbian and gay rights need to reassessed and reclassified so that LGBT people are made more visible, an organisation dedicated to gay history says.
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DETROIT (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co. on Wednesday said it will run advertisements in gay publications, reversing a decision last week to pull all advertising of its Jaguar and Land Rover luxury brands from that sector.
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A judge argues Korea should permit legal unions of gay couples. In a recently published paper, Judge Chung Jae-oh of Jeju District Court says Korea needs to discuss legislation for a framework for same-sex unions. Chung calls for a legal basis for the union of same-sex couples that protects their rights and contributes to ending discrimination.
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How many gays are there? It's a question that has roiled gays, homophobes and statisticians but now the British government says it has the answer.
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More than 170,000 people have signed an initiative petition to ban gay marriage in Massachusetts. Supporters needed only 65,825 certified signatures to qualify for the ballot. "We still believe that Massachusetts will one day be recognized and admired as the first state in the nation to allow gay couples to marry."
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Tonight Miss World competition was held and the winner was Ms. Unnur Birna Vilhjalmsdottir. We at GXR congratulate her and on behalf of our readers we wish her all the best and congratulations with your great victory. Read more for images and a short recap of the newly crowned Miss World 2005.
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The best definitions of “conservative” and liberal” I ever heard comes from….well…me. “Liberals” are about protecting freedoms of choice for individuals as long as those freedoms aren’t unlawful or hurt other people. Those who call themselves “conservative” today aren’t happy unless people abide by their choices.
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A gay scandal involving four players has hit an amateur football club from Varna, Bulgaria. The four were expelled from the MAX club after being caught in a sex foursome in the changing room, a newspaper report said Friday.
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An HIV-positive gay man who told a sexual partner he was negative and then infected him has been found guilty of deliberately transmitting the virus.
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NEW YORK — A state appeals court Thursday threw out a ruling that would have allowed gay couples to marry in New York City, saying it is not the role of judges to redefine the terms "husband" and "wife."
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(Santa Fe, New Mexico) A Santa Fe teen who took part in the beating of a gay man last February has shown no remorse the judge in the case says. David Trinidad, 17, has pleaded guilty in a deal with prosecutors for a reduced sentence.
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The state Senate, voting Wednesday along party lines, moved ahead a constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage and same-sex civil unions, leaving only an Assembly vote to go before the measure is cleared for a popular vote in November.
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Officer Darlene Harris has been named the Atlanta Police Department’s new gay liaison, a position left vacant since August. Harris, 32, a lesbian who lives with her partner and two children in DeKalb County, joined the department in 2003 and said she considers herself "one of Connie’s children," a reference to Sgt. Connie Locke, the department’s first gay liaison who retired in August.
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From audio tapes of the first day in which the US Supreme Court has heard the latest appeal by the Bush Administration to uphold the Solomon Amendment, it seems the court is leaning in favour of the US Military.
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