Recent Gay & Lesbian Issues- Va. gov counters state atty. gen.'s advice on gays
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 AP - Gov. Bob McDonnell directed state agencies not to discriminate against gay people in employment practices Wednesday, essentially overriding the Virginia attorney general's advice to public colleges.
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. - DC courthouse busy with same-sex applications
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AP - Hundreds of couples applied for marriage licenses in Washington during the first week they were available to same-sex couples.
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 AP - At least a dozen couples tied the knot in the District of Columbia on the first day same-sex ceremonies were legally allowed, and many more unions were on the way.
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 AFP - After waiting for years for the chance to legally wed, gay couples walked down church aisles and exchanged vows in civil ceremonies in Washington on the first day same-sex marriage was allowed in the US capital.
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. - As gay marriage begins in Washington, opponents vow to fight
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The Christian Science Monitor - Gay rights groups celebrated the start of same-sex weddings Tuesday in Washington, D.C., but gay marriage foes say the issue is not yet settled.
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. - Archbishop defends decision on lesbians' children
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AP - The archbishop of Denver on Tuesday defended a decision by a Catholic school not to allow two children to continue as students because their parents are a lesbian couple.
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. - Gay couples find surrogate mothers in India
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 AFP - For gay US businessman Brad Fister, experiencing the joy of fatherhood meant flying half way around the world to India where he first held his baby daughter, born to a woman who had signed away any right to her child.
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. - Latin America's 1st gay marriage law takes effect
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 AP - Throngs of Mexico City gay and lesbian couples registered for marriage licenses Thursday, the day Latin America's first gay-marriage law took effect.
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AP - Dutch gay rights groups have called for an end to protests against a Catholic church southwest of Amsterdam after it said it would no longer seek to bar homosexuals from taking communion.
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. - Court allows Washington, DC, same-sex marriages
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Reuters - Chief Justice John Roberts of the Supreme Court rejected on Tuesday a request from opponents of gay marriage to put on hold a new law that allows same-sex couples to wed in Washington, D.C.
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. - In DC, blacks were crucial to gay marriage debate
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 AP - Gay and lesbian couples will soon be able to marry in Washington, but the debate over same-sex marriage has sounded different here, with references to interracial marriage and Martin Luther King.
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. - Thousands celebrate Australia's Gay Mardi Gras
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 AP - Thousands of people in lavish costumes and various states of undress danced and partied their way through Sydney's streets on Saturday, in Australia's annual Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade.
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. - 10,000 to march for gay pride in Sydney
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 AFP - Almost 10,000 people shimmied, strutted and strode through the ages on Saturday as Sydney celebrated its 32nd gay and lesbian Mardi Gras parade.
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. - Beverly Hills disowns Miss California contestant
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AP - Less than a year after dethroned Miss California USA Carrie Prejean stirred up controversy with her remarks against gay marriage, a similar war of words is brewing in Beverly Hills.
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. - Ford Jr. gets tough reception by NY gay group
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AP - Former Tennessee congressman and potential U.S. Senate candidate Harold Ford Jr. got a tough reception while speaking to a gay advocacy group, and tried to explain he no longer opposes gay marriage.
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. - Clay Aiken takes NC stage for gay rights
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 AP - More than a year after disclosing he is gay, Clay Aiken is speaking before a gay-rights event in his hometown.
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. - Anglican clerics back gay marriages in church
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 AFP - Clerics from the Anglican church in England on Tuesday called for an end to rules that stop gay couples marrying in religious venues such as churches or synagogues.
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. - Mass. says federal marriage law unconstitutional
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 AP - Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley says a federal law that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman interferes with her state's right to regulate the institution.
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. - Ugandan anti-gay pastor airs gay porn in church
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AP - A Ugandan pastor is showing gay pornography at church to try to garner support for a proposed law that would impose the death penalty for some gays.
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. - Lesbian-led film wins cheers at Berlin Festival
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 AFP - Julianne Moore and Annette Bening star as a married lesbian couple whose two children go looking for their sperm donor in a movie met with cheers Wednesday at the 60th Berlin Film Festival.
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. - School dance off after lesbian request
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. - Gay Church Weddings Backed by Two Thirds in Denmark
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. - US school cancels prom to avoid lesbian student bringing a date
The Mississippi school district's policy requires that senior prom dates be of the opposite sex. The American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi had given the district until Wednesday to change that policy and allow 18-year-old Constance McMillen to
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