Gay contracts for school dance partners
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
New Zealand students are being prevented from taking same-sex partners to school balls unless they sign contracts confirming they are homosexual, a gay ...
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Court again backs Osseo gay-rights club
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Minneapolis,MN,USA
The school district's fight to restrict a student gay-rights group was dealt another blow by the US Court of Appeals. By JAMES WALSH, Star Tribune For the ...
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California prisons prepare for gay weddings
International Herald Tribune - France
AP SAN FRANCISCO: Now that same-sex couples can get married in California, state prison officials are trying to figure out what that means for gay inmates. ...
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Man Accused Of Beating 3 Gay Men In South End
WBZ - Boston,MA,USA
BOSTON (AP) ― Boston police have arrested a 28-year-old Framingham man accused of beating three gay men and their female friend in a suspected hate attack. ...
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Queenstown set for Gay Ski Week
TVNZ - New Zealand
The annual Gay Ski Week has hit the Southland party town for another year, with a number of enthusiasts travelling down from Australia. ...
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McCain's running-mate mixed on gay issues
Gay NZ - New Zealand
The mother of five opposes same-sex marriage, but has often sympathised with the concerns of gay community about discrimination and has implemented ...
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California jails to allow gay weddings - just not between 2 inmates
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA
By NANCY DILLON LOS ANGELES - Gay inmates will soon have the right to marry under new guidelines expected to take effect in California next month. ...
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AP Misrepresents Obama, McCain Gay Positions
On Top Magazine - Cleveland,OH,USA
The story leads the reader to believe that both candidates share a similar outlook with regard to gay & lesbian rights due to the fact that they both oppose ...
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Gay Republicans support nominee for Vice President, Sarah Palin ...
Metro Weekly - USA
(365 Gay) ''Alaska Governor Sarah Palin can help Sen. McCain win this election by appealing to independent and young voters. She's a mainstream Republican ...
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The Gay Issue
Atlantic Online - USA
McCain's pick was the most pro-gay move any Republican has made since George HW Bush added hate crimes against gays to the national statistical base. ...
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Obama's definition of marriage costs him gay media king's support
Newspost Online - Baroda,India
Gay media king Paul Colichman has decided not to support Barack Obama for president because he is not impressed with the Democratic Party's presumptive ...
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Gay inmates soon to be able to marry
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
By Matthias Gafni Gay inmates in state prisons and county jails will soon be able to marry their partners, as long as their spouse is not also incarcerated, ...
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Gay jibes prove costly for employer
New Zealand Herald - New Zealand
An investigation found his boss, Sean Mitchell, had taunted Mr Cunningham about being gay. On one occasion Mr Cunningham's partner left a voice message at ...
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Calif. prisons prepare for gay weddings
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
What they have determined so far is that would mean allowing gay inmates to marry someone on the outside, but not a fellow prisoner—the same rules that ...
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GoogleTube cheers online gay porn ruling
Register - London,England,UK
By Cade Metz in San Francisco → More by this author Much to Google's delight, a federal judge has dismissed a porn infringement suit brought against online ...
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Orthodox Join Fight Against Gay Nuptuals
Forward - New York,NY,USA
Since mid-June, when the ruling took effect, hundreds of gay couples here — many of them Jewish — have tied the knot. The question of gay marriage has long ...
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Likely voters weigh in on gay marriage, abortion, redistricting
Inland Empire News - Riverside,CA,USA
A majority of those polled oppose Proposition 8 that would eliminate gay marriage. Only 40 percent favor it. Proposition 4 would require that a parent be ...
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SD Gay Pride Death Toxicology Report In
WeHo News - West Hollywood,CA,USA
The family contends that the discrepancy shows a desire to cover up what they call an unjustified use of force because of alleged anti-gay bias on the part ...
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Gay festival during Ramadan angers Bosnia Muslims
Reuters India - Mumbai,India
By Maja Zuvela SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Plans to hold Bosnia's first gay festival during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan were denounced by the Muslim ...
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McBama agenda: Common ground between candidates
The Associated Press -
It favors ending the ban on federal money for embryonic stem cell research and embodies only shades of difference over key questions about gay marriage. ...
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Sydney plans homophobia-free zones
Reuters - USA
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's gay capital Sydney is set to try and enforce homophobia-free zones which may see clubs and hotels lose their licence if ...
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The Gay Slant: It's Barack & Joe
On Top Magazine - Cleveland,OH,USA
While Joe "ready to be president" Biden is a fine choice, gay politicos were still hammering for Senator Hillary Clinton up to the last moment. ...
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Pink precincts to protect gays
NEWS.com.au - Australia
Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore said the move recognises the "essential gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) character of Oxford St". ...
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Gay protection zones a stunt
Daily Telegraph - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
ABUSE and violence directed at gay people because of their sexuality must always be strongly condemned. The Sunday Telegraph will always support ...
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Miley Cyrus To Celebrate Sweet 16 On Gay Days
eFluxMedia - USA
By Chris Georg Besides Miley Cyrus' hyped, huge Sweet 16 bash on October 5tht, Disneyland will also host the 11th annual Gay Days event between October 3rd ...
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Clover Moore plan for gay-friendly Sydney
Daily Telegraph - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
Now gay-friendly Sydney is set to introduce homophobia-free zones. In an Australian first, the City of Sydney is moving to single out parts of the city for ...
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US sprinter Gay vows to fight on
guardian.co.uk - UK
By Belinda Goldsmith BEIJING, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Top-ranked US sprinter Tyson Gay has vowed after a miserable performance in Beijing to fight on to compete ...
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Gay Pride Big Weekend kicks off
BBC News - UK
Thousands of revellers from across the globe are set to descend on Manchester later for the city's annual Gay Pride Big Weekend parade. ...
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County's first gay pride event
BBC News - UK
Devon and Cornwall Police are among the many local supporters of the event, and the Gay Police Association flag will be flying at Truro Police Station. ...
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Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
Spain's guard Jose Manuel Calderon reacts after hitting a three-point shot against Croatia during the first quarter of their men's quarterfinal basketball ...
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Call for change to Australian gay blood rule
Radio Australia - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
A HIV-Aids policy expert says a ban on gay blood donation in Australia should be lifted in favour of a new policy that doesn't discriminate. ...
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California doctors lose gay discrimination case
AFP -
LOS ANGELES (AFP) — Doctors in California may not discriminate against gay patients on the basis of their religious beliefs, the state's supreme court ruled ...
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A revolution in the boardroom: Why it pays to be gay
Independent - London,England,UK
By Jerome Taylor When Angela Mason began her 10-year directorship of the Stonewall gay lobby group in 1992, she had a friend in the corporate world who had ...
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Argentine gay couples may claim widow's pension
The Associated Press -
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina on Monday announced its first nationwide gay-rights measure: granting same-sex couples the right to claim their ...
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Obama and McCain Both Oppose Gay Marriage, Split on Abortion
Gay Wired - Los Angeles,CA,USA
Among the topics discussed at the event, which was broadcast on CNN, were abortion, adoption, American morality and gay marriage. ...
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State gay rights group endorses Allen
Politicker Maine - Augusta,ME,USA
By Jessica Alaimo Equality Maine, the state's largest advocacy group for the state's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, endorsed Tom Allen ...
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Vandals defile Berlin monument to Nazis' gay victims
Reuters India - Mumbai,India
Some 50000 gay men were convicted by Nazi courts during Adolf Hitler's 12-year dictatorship. Some gay men were castrated and thousands were sent to ...
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Rise in Gay Tourism Stirs Unease in Israel
ABC News - USA
Thousands of Israelis and foreigners gather on the beach in Tel Aviv as part of this year's Gay Pride Parade in this photo. The Hassidic beach, surrounded ...
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Responding To K-Lo
Atlantic Online - USA
And if K-Lo supports eual treatment for gay couples under the rubric of civil unions, I'd be happy to discover that. But that is the only way she can argue ...
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McCain and Obama discuss gay marriages
PinkNews.co.uk - UK
... at Pastor Rick Warren's mega-church in California, the presidential hopefuls hoped to score big on issues including abortion and gay marriage. ...
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No conjugal visits for gay inmates in Costa Rica: court
AFP -
The high court's ruling could also be affected if Congress votes and passes bill currently under debate that would legalize gay marriage. ...
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Bishop Joseph Devine anti-gay, say stars
Times Online - UK
Sir Ian McKellen and Simon Callow, Britain's most prominent gay film actors, have launched an outspoken attack on Bishop Joseph Devine, the second most ...
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Why gay web designer decided to 'out' himself
The Times - Johannesburg,Gauteng,South Africa
Naufal Khan, 27 of Sandton — the brains behind the Gay Desi section of the Indian lifestyle website www.indianspice.co.za — said his decision had been ...
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The Gay Slant: Misplaced Hopes
On Top Magazine - Cleveland,OH,USA
By Walter Weeks A week's worth of gay and lesbian news, that's what this column is about. And I work hard to deliver on that promise. ...
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This week's top stories from around the world
Times Online - UK
6 Spain Barcelona is increasingly being touted as the "gay capital of the Mediterranean", El Pais reported last week. The city has recently hosted a "gay ...
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Jason Gardener: I'm backing Tyson Gay to win one of the greatest ...
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
The 10-second barrier, once the benchmark of a great sprinter, is now barely an obstacle for Jamaica's Usain Bolt and Asafa Powell and American Tyson Gay, ...
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Global AIDS prevention gives short shrift to gays
The Associated Press -
The Mexican federal official paused, then said publicly for the first time that he was gay. As he held up a photo of himself with his partner, ...
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Married with children: an option for more gay men
International Herald Tribune - France
Yet despite complications, the idea of becoming a biological dad with help from a surrogate mother is gaining allure among gay men as the status of "married ...
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Gay walks before he runs
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
BEIJING -- Tyson Gay marched into the Bird's Nest with the US team for Friday's opening ceremony. While a slow walk doesn't seem like a big deal for a man ...
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AP: 'Gay Ex-Governor Owes Wife No Alimony'... But What Party?
NewsBusters - USA
By Warner Todd Huston (Bio | Archive) Many of you will remember New Jersey Governor James McGreevey who ended up having to admit he gave his gay lover an ...
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Gay marriage opponents challenge ballot wording
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
AP SACRAMENTO—A Sacramento judge is considering whether to order state officials to rewrite the ballot summary describing Proposition 8, the gay marriage ...
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Gay marriage opponents challenge ballot wording
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
A Sacramento judge is considering whether to order state officials to rewrite the ballot summary describing Proposition 8, the gay marriage ban on the ...
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Gay, Sweet win golf titles
MaineToday.com - Portland,ME,USA
By Kennebec Journal Staff August 07, 2008 08:39 PM CUMBERLAND $ Pittston's Ryan Gay successfully defended his title at the Maine Junior Golf Championship at ...
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Chart-topping lesbian love song divides gay community
guardian.co.uk - UK
She is frothy and catchy and fun or she is demeaning to gay people. Either way singer Katy Perry is expected to go to number one this weekend with a record ...
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Marmalade gay club in the worksMaking Jam not easy
Salt Lake Tribune - United States
Brian Morris, a 45-year-old Salt Lake City man, felt there was a lack of upscale, nonsmoking gay clubs. So he and a straight business partner, ...
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Clarification: Gay Marriage-Activism story
The Associated Press -
4 story, The Associated Press reported that gay couples in California are using their weddings to wage a ballot fight. The story identified a source in the ...
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Democrat is gay, for McCain, but can't get a sign to prove it
PageOneQ.com - USA
The McCain campaign store, for $250, will customize a 3-by-6 foot outdoor banner, but as gay Democrat Craig Brownstein of Washington's Edelman PR learned, ...
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Mr. T Tells Bill O'Reilly: 'I'm Not a Gay-Basher'
FOXNews - USA
"I am not homophobic, I am not a gay-basher I didn't say anything that was negative nor derogatory," Mr. T told Bill O'Reilly. ...
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Gay ties like marriage - Williams
BBC News - UK
Private letters have been published revealing Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams believed gay sexual bonds were "comparable to marriage". ...
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NY lawyers defend move to recognize gay marriages
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
David Paterson's move to recognize out-of-state gay marriages. They asked a Bronx judge Thursday to dismiss a Christian legal group's argument that the ...
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Alleged gay lover killer 'a coward'
Melbourne Herald Sun - Australia
THE father of a young man allegedly murdered by his gay lover has labelled the man accused of the killing a coward after he refused to appear in view of the ...
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LA's top cop riles LiLo
Chicago Sun-Times - United States
Reportedly, Lohan believes that times have changed enough that it doesn't really matter if an actor or actress is gay or bisexual ''as much as it did even ...
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Calif. AG: Post-Prop 8, Existing Gay Marriages Would Still be Legal
EDGE Boston - Boston,MA,USA
by Kilian Melloy Before lawmakers in Massachusetts took a principled stand against discrimination and turned back an anti-gay ballot initiative that would ...
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Tyson Gay vows to be fit for 100m as Britons target relay medal
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
World 100m champion Tyson Gay has vowed to be fit and healthy in time for the start of the heats in Beijing after recovering from the hamstring injury he ...
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Stonewall Democrats Report 27% Increase in Gay & Lesbian ...
MarketWatch - USA
"The Democratic Party is being positively shaped by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender advocates who believe in Democratic principles of fair play, ...
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Lindsay Lohan and Sam Ronson Gay Wedding Rumors
Gay Wired - Los Angeles,CA,USA
But Lindsay's outspoken father Michael Lohan said he won't be walking his daughter down the aisle for a gay wedding. "I haven't heard anything (about an ...
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California Attorney General: Gay Marriages Performed Before Nov ...
The Gay Financial Network -
In a statement seen as vital to gay couples married in California, the state's attorney general has said those marriages performed before the November ...
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Fight Over Gay Marriage Ban Heats Up
LAist - Los Angeles,CA,USA
We've been following Proposition 8, which seeks to eliminate gay marriage on the November ballot, for some time now. The trend, as of late, has been that ...
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SC Tourism Gave "So Gay" PR-Related Green Light
Queerty - New York,NY,USA
Recently released emails reveal that South Carolina's Tourism honcho, Chad Prosser, explicitly requested the controversial "So Gay" adverts stay up in ...
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Gay and Powell to go head-to-head at British GP
International Herald Tribune - France
AP NEWCASTLE, England: Tyson Gay and Asafa Powell will go head-to-head in the 100 meters at the British Grand Prix on Aug. 31, two weeks after their likely ...
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Gay says he'll be ready when 100 starts next week
CNN - USA
DALIAN, China (AP) -American sprinter Tyson Gay says his hamstring is feeling better and he'll be healthy and ready to go when the Olympic 100-meter races ...
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Cultures clash in church row over gay rights
Irish Times - Dublin,Ireland
These questions have been prompted by claims from some African Anglicans, bishops included, that acknowledgment of gay rights and of active homosexuals as ...
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Gay couples use weddings to wage ballot fight
The Associated Press -
Brown and her wife are one of many same-sex couples whose nuptials are made possible by the state Supreme Court's May 15 ruling that legalized gay marriage. ...
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Candidates Mum On Gay Marriage Debate
NPR - USA
by Tovia Smith McCain: McCain supports a state constitutional amendment banning gay marriage in California, but he opposes a federal ban. ...
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Philadelphia Draws National Celebrities for Local Mr. Gay ...
Yacht Vacations & Charters Magazine (press release) - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA
On the heels of a sold out event in 2007 that crowned Philadelphia's first official Mr. Gay titleholder, organizers are thrilled to invite all community ...
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Tyson Gay: The spoiler
CBC.ca - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
By Paul Gains CBC Sports Tyson Gay ran a wind-aided 9.68 in the 100m at the US Olympic trials. (Matthew Stockman/Getty Images) Seconds after claiming the ...
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Does McCain have an advantage on gay marriage issue?
Christian Science Monitor - Boston,MA,USA
On gay marriage, however, the advantage shifts to conservatives - fairly starkly. Most Americans oppose marriage between two men or two women. ...
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Anglicans delay decision on gay unions
Globe and Mail - Canada
In addition to moratoria on same-sex blessings and gay bishops, he said the bishops also favoured the creation of a covenant on Anglican theological belief ...
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Bolt officially world's fastest man
RTE.ie - Ireland
Bolt's time at the Reebok Grand Prix, where he beat reigning world champion Tyson Gay, was two hundredths of a second faster than Asafa Powell's time last ...
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Study: gay, bisexual men still at high risk for HIV
China Daily - China
The report from the American Foundation for AIDS Research or AMFAR suggests the group originally at most risk of the fatal and incurable virus -- gay and ...
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Gay debate
ABC Online - Australia
The leader of the Anglican Communion, the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, announced a moratorium on consecrating gay bishops and blessing same-sex ...
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Facebook the new tool to help prove gay refugee claimants' sexual ...
The Canadian Press - OTTAWA
OTTAWA — Gay and lesbian refugee claimants struggling to shed old-world views of their sexuality are turning to new-age technology to make their case. ...
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Gay bishop thanks Scottish Church for recognising 'all God's people'
Scotsman - United Kingdom
By MARTYN McLAUGHLIN GENE Robinson, the openly gay American bishop barred from attending the Lambeth Conference, yesterday praised the "inclusive" outlook ...
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Bolt from the blue
Independent - London,England,UK
After his defeat in the Icahn Stadium, Gay – a more normal-sized athlete at 5ft 11in – lamented that he had run the same rhythm as Bolt, ...
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Gay refugee claimants use Facebook to make case
CTV.ca - Canada
OTTAWA -- Gay and lesbian refugee claimants struggling to shed old-world views of their sexuality are turning to new-age technology to make their case. ...
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E-mails: "So Gay" ad surprised SC tourism leaders
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
By JIM DAVENPORT AP Writer COLUMBIA, SC—When an ad campaign appeared in the London Underground promoting South Carolina as a "So Gay" destination for gay ...
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Anglican leader seeks moratorium on gay bishops
The Associated Press -
The 77 million-member Anglican Communion has been splintering since 2003, when the US Episcopal Church consecrated the first openly gay bishop, ...
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Williams plea on gay bishops rules
The Press Association -
The Archbishop of Canterbury has called on North American churches to abide by agreements not to consecrate gay bishops or carry out blessings on same-sex ...
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Weather fails to rain on Gay Pride parade
Belfast Telegraph - United Kingdom
... 4000 people were dancing in the streets of Belfast yesterday with protesters and bad weather failing to dampen the enthusiasm of Gay Pride revellers. ...
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Anglican leader urges ban on gay bishops
The Associated Press -
NEW YORK (AP) — The spiritual leader of the world's Anglicans is urging an extended ban on consecrating another gay bishop until their troubled fellowship ...
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No agreement on church gay issue
BBC News - UK
"However, it seems that a number of the groups have voted for a ban on gay bishops and church blessings for homosexual couples, as part of a long-term plan ...
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Media digs, finds out agency was aware of 'so gay' ads
TheDigitel - Charleston,SC,USA
When the story of the gay-focussed ad campaign first broke Chad Prosser, Director of the South Carolina Department of Parks, seemed to play aloof hoping the ...
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Pride marchers mock anti-gay MP
guardian.co.uk - UK
Iris Robinson, the Democratic Unionist MP who believes homosexuality can be cured by psychiatry, made a 'guest' appearance at yesterday's annual Gay Pride ...
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Amsterdam turn into one big party for gay pride
AFP -
In a festive atmosphere the streets lining the canals and the bridges over them overflowed with members of the gay community, residents, tourists, ...
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Dutch cabinet joins Gay Pride Canal Parade
Radio Netherlands - Netherlands
"I'm joining the Gay Pride canal parade on behalf of the entire coalition," the minister stresses. The day before the parade he attended a conference on ...
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Thousands attend Belfast Gay Pride parade
Belfast Telegraph - United Kingdom
She reportedly claimed gay sex was an abomination. Today Alliance Party official Gerry Lynch reiterated demands for Mrs Robinson to resign as chair of the ...
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Amsterdam Gay Pride draws half a million
Radio Netherlands - Netherlands
Amsterdam is hosting its 13th annual Gay Pride canal parade. A record eighty boats will be carrying thousands of gays and lesbians clad in scanty or ...
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Sweden's gay pride parade draws tens of thousands
International Herald Tribune - France
AP STOCKHOLM, Sweden: Police say tens of thousands of people are marching in the annual gay pride parade in downtown Stockholm. The parade is expected to ...
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Row over Lindsay Lohan gay remark
BBC News - UK
Actress Lindsay Lohan has hit out at the Los Angeles police chief after he said the star had "gone gay". "Police chiefs shouldn't get involved in everyone ...
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Public asked to support NI Gay Pride event
Irish Times - Dublin,Ireland
People have been urged to turn out in force to support today's Gay Pride event and send out the message that Northern Ireland is gay-friendly. ...
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