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Arkansas AG Rejects Bid For Gay Adoption Ban
2007-09-06 00:00:00 (Little Rock, Arkansas ) Arkansas’s attorney general said Wednesday he will reject a proposed voter-backed initiative aimed at barring unmarried couples from adopting or fostering children. A conservative group hoped to use the ban to keep gay couples from becoming foster parents. ... Read more! More About: Adoption , Adopt , Gay Adoption , Ansa
Jerry Lewis apologizes for anti-gay slur
2007-09-06 00:00:00 LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Comedian Jerry Lewis apologized on Tuesday for his use of an anti-gay slur during the weekend broadcast of his annual Labor Day Telethon for the Muscular Dystrophy Association.... Read more! More About: Anti , Jerry Lewis , Apologize
Sen. Craig Reconsiders Resignation
2007-09-06 00:00:00 (Boise, Idaho) Sen. Larry Craig is reconsidering his decision to resign after his arrest in a Minnesota airport sex sting and may still fight for his Senate seat, his spokesman said Tuesday night.... Read more! More About: Resignation , Consider
18 detained in Turkish morals sweep
2007-09-06 00:00:00 Eighteen members of an LGBT rights group in Bursa, Turkey, remain in custody since their arrest Saturday on racketeering and prostitution charges, and their lawyer has not been given access to their files, the Turkish Daily News reported Wednesday. ... Read more! More About: Detained , Morals , Oral , Moral
The netherlands launch site for gays under 16
2007-09-06 00:00:00 The Netherlands ’ faglings just got a new playground. Amsterdam-based activist group COC just launched an under-16 website to help the young pups come up in the gay world.... Read more! More About: The Netherlands , Site , Gays , Launch
New HIV Drug Merits Quick Approval
2007-09-06 00:00:00 (Washington) An experimental HIV drug from Merck & Co. Inc. should be quickly approved for use by patients running out of treatment options, federal advisers recommended Wednesday. ... Read more! More About: Quick , Drug
Looking for contributors
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Same-sex couples can wed in Iowa
2007-08-31 00:00:00 DES MOINES, Iowa —A county judge struck down Iowa’s decade-old gay marriage ban as unconstitutional Thursday and ordered local officials to process marriage licenses for six gay couples. ... Read more! More About: Couples
Israeli Same-Sex Couples May Be Denied Rights
2007-08-31 00:00:00 (Jerusalem) Under pressure from religious parties in the Knesset, Israel’s Justice Minister has reportedly revised a draft law on inheritance law for cohabitating unmarried couples to specifically exclude gay and lesbian couples. ... Read more! More About: Rights , Couples , Israeli
Line-Up Announced for 10th Annual Gay Days at Disneyland
2007-08-31 00:00:00 Following last year’s successful event, which attracted nearly 30,000 gays and lesbians from California and all over the country, fans of Mickey and Minnie Mouse are once again preparing for the popular “gay days” event at Disneyland , set for Oct. 5-7 in Anaheim, Calif. ... Read more! More About: Days , Line , Annual , Anno
Maine High Court OKs Same-Sex Couple Adoptions
2007-08-31 00:00:00 (Portland, Maine) Maine’s highest court, the Law Court , Thursday issued a ruling allowing a lesbian couple to jointly adopt two siblings currently in foster care. ... Read more! More About: Couple , High , Adopt , High Court
Gay history on view at the Smithsonian
2007-08-31 00:00:00 A collection of artifacts from renowned gay activist Frank Kameny is now on display in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. ... Read more! More About: View , Tory
McKellan tears out bible's 'anti-gay' pages
2007-08-30 00:00:00 Actor Ian McKell an is so offended by what he regards as the Bible’s anti-gay stance, he makes a point of ripping out the relevant page every time he stays in a hotel room.... Read more! More About: Anti , Pages , Ears , Ages
Duke Transgender Student Moved Out of Dorm
2007-08-30 00:00:00 Some students at Duke University and their parents say they were shocked by a decision to let a male student who plans to become a woman live in female dorm. ... Read more! More About: Student , Transgender , Tran
Chinese Police Launch Web Patrols
2007-08-30 00:00:00 (Beijing) Poli ce in China’s capital said Tuesday they will start patrolling the Web using animated beat officers that pop up on a user’s browser and walk, bike or drive across the screen warning them to stay away from illegal Internet content. ... Read more! More About: Chinese , Launch
African Nation Riled Over Appointment Of Ambassador Who Supports Gay Rights
2007-08-30 00:00:00 (London) Leading members of Malawi’s Parliament are demanding Britain recall its new ambassador, before he even sets foot in the African nation. ... Read more! More About: Rights , Nation , Gay Rights , Ambassador
Lesbian Priest Among Nominees For Bishop Of Chicago
2007-08-30 00:00:00 Chicago, Illinois) The Episcopal diocese of Chicago included an openly lesbian priest among five nominees for bishop Tuesday, as fellow Anglicans demand that the church bar gay bishops. ... Read more! More About: Chicago , Lesbian , Bish , Priest , Bishop
Vermont Takes First Steps Toward Marriage Equality
2007-08-28 00:00:00 The Vermont Legislature may soon take up the issue of ‘gay marriage’, if the formation of a recent commission is any indication. ... Read more! More About: Marriage , Marriage Equality , Equality , Ality
New wave of Gay ads hit TV
2007-08-28 00:00:00 If you’ve been watching network TV, you may have seen the Levi’s ad where a young man is pulling on a pair of jeans and as the trousers come up his legs, a street–complete with traffic and a phone booth–rises through his apartment floor. ... Read more! More About: New Wave , Wave
Anti-Gay Paramilitary Comes Out in Hungary
2007-08-28 00:00:00 Things may soon get hairy for Hungary ’s homos. ... Read more! More About: Anti
Spice Girl, the blonde and a sex-toy sales girl
2007-08-28 00:00:00 Spice Girl Mel B had a kinky two-year fling with TWO women lovers - who today reveal the singer’s bizarre sex life and say they fear for her fragile state of mind.... Read more! More About: Sales , Blonde , Spice , Spice Girl
Families Burying Alive People With AIDS
2007-08-28 00:00:00 (Sydney, Australia) An HIV/AIDS-care worker in Papua New Guinea says that people with HIV/AIDS are being buried alive in the remote highlands of the island country. ... Read more! More About: People , Families , Alive , Lies , Aids
Syphilis Outbreak in New Zealand
2007-08-26 00:00:00 There has been an outbreak of the medieval sexual disease syphilis in the New Zealand cities of Wellington and Auckland. Cases have tripled in the last three years, particularly among gay men, and health bosses are worried. ... Read more! More About: Brea , Hili , Syphilis
Mob Tries To Lynch Men Awaiting Sentencing For Homosexuality
2007-08-26 00:00:00 (Lagos) A mob attempted to break into a prison in northern Nigeria on Saturday and lynch 18 men awaiting sentencing on morals charges that state controlled NAN news agency reports. ... Read more! More About: Homosexuality , Wait , Ality , Trie
Polish gays create elections "enemies list"
2007-08-25 00:00:00 Gay activists in Poland have drawn up a proposed “enemies list” of politicians hostile to gay rights ahead of parliamentary elections this fall that could topple the Kaczynski brothers from power, the Web site Thenews.pl reported. ... Read more! More About: Elections , Enemies , List , Gays , Poli
Naked town to be naked again
2007-08-24 00:00:00 In a glorious victory for the forces of greater nakedness, Vermont’s clothing-optional capital is stripping off its short-lived ban on public nudity. ... Read more! More About: Town
Angry ex-wife in flaming penis vengeance
2007-08-24 00:00:00 A woman set fire to her ex-husband’s penis as he sat naked watching television and drinking vodka, Moscow police said on Wednesday. Asked if the man would make a full recovery, a police spokeswoman said it was ‘difficult to predict.’ The attack climaxed three years of acrimonious enforced co-habitation. More About: Wife , Angry , Flaming , Penis , Vengeance
Murdered man taken to morgue in taxi
2007-08-24 00:00:00 CARACAS (Reuters) - A Caracas family was forced to send a murdered son to the morgue in a taxi after waiting five hours for police who never arrived, Venezuelan media reported Wednesday.... Read more! More About: Taxi
British soap to see civil partnership
2007-08-24 00:00:00 The British soap opera Emmerdale is gearing up for its first gay marriage civil partnership, as Actor Mathew Bose’s character Paul is set to receive a proposal next week. Bose talks to The Sun about tackling the issue:... Read more! More About: Soap , Civil
Are civil unions a 600-year-old tradition?
More articles from this author:2007-08-24 00:00:00 A compelling new study from the September issue of the Journal of Modern History reviews historical evidence, including documents and gravesites, suggesting that homosexual civil unions may have existed six centuries ago in France. ... Read more! More About: Tradition , Unions , Civil , Year 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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