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Gay Times Readers Awards

Do you think GTR should be nominated? Maybe with your help we could get some positive press.

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Mark from Westlife pop boy band claims he's gay

Westlife star Mark Feehily has come out. After keeping his sexuality secret from fans for six years, the pop heartthrob has admitted he has a boyfriend.

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YGA Magazine Sells Out Premiere Issue

The first National glossy magazine for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered, Queer, and Straight-Friendly youth sold out in Boston, Seattle, Dallas, Philadelphia, Ann Arbor, and Baltimore, and Halifax. According to ADLBooks.com, YGA Magazine was the top-selling North American gay magazine for the month of December at A Different Light Books, the US’s premiere LGBT bookseller.

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ACLU Sues Missouri High School for Censoring Gay Student

WEBB CITY, MO - The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit in federal court today against a high school that twice punished a student for wearing t-shirts bearing gay pride messages and banned him from wearing the shirts to school again. Attorneys for 16-year-old Brad Mathewson also asked for a court order to stop the school from further censoring his speech.

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There is one gay in every class room

(New York City) A new poll shows that the number of LGBT young people coming out in high school is increasing but homophobia remains rampant.

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UK Pink Paper Closes after 17 years

The Pink Paper was launched in 1987. It was distributed free to gay bars and clubs around Britain, and once provided a connection to a wider community for gay people who would otherwise have felt alone and remote.

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Neighbours Soap First Gay Kiss

Sometimes, a kiss is just a kiss. But when a kiss is Neighbours' first lesbian kiss, the reaction is bound to be different.

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Prime time gay deluge

A "DELUGE" of gay characters and shows on television has prompted calls from family and church groups for censorship.

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Scotty Joe Weaver Alabama gayteen murder case

A state judge said on friday, he does not plan to seal the record or bar the public from court proceedings in the capital murder case against three young defendants in the killing of a gay teenager.

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Gay street youth stick to the shadows

When Washington’s only social service agency for gay adolescents shuts down at 7 p.m., D.C.’s gay homeless youth loiter on the streets outside Union Station before they seek temporary refuge at “friends’” apartments — some of which house 10-15 teenagers — camp out in city parks, or turn tricks at the corner of 5th and K streets for a quick $30.

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Traditionalvalues.org publishes lies against GTR

We received an email recently concerning a web site that had published an anti-gay article about GTR. We have published their article and maybe you would like to add your comments.

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Dayton's Gay Day

About 450 people attended "Gay Day in Rhea," an event held in Dayton, Tenn., May 8 in response to a resolution passed and later rescinded by Rhea County commissioners which offended homosexuals.

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Students to take vow of silence for gay awareness

A large group of Vanderbilt students will seal their lips from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday, joining in on a student-led National Day of Silence (NDOS) to amplify the daily oppression endured by gay, bisexual, lesbian and transgender individuals.

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AIDS health fair excludes local gay group

The church where civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. once preached turned away a gay youth organization from having a booth at an HIV/AIDS health fair last week.

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Gay Footballers Wives

ITV1 Footballers Wives attracted 7 million viewers and one gay sex scene was cut by the ITV1 company. But Later showed on ITV2.

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Ex-students win harrassment claim

It began nearly 10 years ago when an outgoing high school sophomore asked her fellow students to stop shouting the word faggot in her math class.

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Congresswoman at XXX-rated sex meeting

It's not every day a member of the United States Congress addresses an audience in a ballroom where every chair is covered with packets of sexual lubricants.

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Pop culture embracing what fest has embraced for years

As mainstream media gets saturated in all things gay, the Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival may be opening its latest celebration at the most opportune moment in its 16-year run.

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Brazil gays stage protest kiss-in

Couples kissed against discrimination and prejudice
More than 100 gay couples in Brazil have staged a kissing protest at a shopping centre, demanding the right to kiss freely in public.

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Cameron disapproves of gay marriages

The bookmakers favourite to win Big Brother says he doesn't think gay couples should be allowed to marry.

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Gay couples in Buenos Aires can form civil unions.

BUENOS AIRES – Emilia Korenberg and Maria Laura Olivier sit together on an oversized sofa, holding hands and smiling as they recall the day seven months ago when they say they finally felt accepted by their own society.

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Aids is a gay disease claims Gadhafi

Bonkers Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi told the closing session of the second annual African Union conference (12-07-03) that Africans who are "straight" need not fear the Aids virus.

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Wedding bells ring for Canada gays

One couple wasted no time in exchanging marriage vows A court ruling in British Columbia has made it the second province in Canada to allow same sex marriages.

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Canada to draft a law recognizing gay marriages

NEW LONDON, Prince Edward Island -- Bowing to a landmark court decision, Prime Minister Jean Chretien said yesterday that Canada would amend federal law to recognize homosexual marriages while protecting the rights of conservative churches to refuse to perform weddings for same-sex couples.

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Gay Wedding Announcements a Growing Trend

Newspapers from New York City to Missoula, Montana have started running engagement and wedding announcements for same-sex couples--to surprisingly little backlash.

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Ontario legalizes same sex unions

Ontario will register the marriages of gay and lesbian couples following a controversial court ruling that legalizes same-sex unions in the province, the attorney general said.

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OTTAWA prepares for Gay Marriages

The federal government will overhaul the age-old definition of marriage and make Canada the world's third country to recognize same-sex matrimony, Prime Minister Jean Chretien announced .

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Mayor of Paris finds his homosexuality is suddenly an issue

The decision by Paris's gay Mayor to lead the city's annual Gay Pride parade later this month has provoked a political row - the first involving Bertrand Delanoe's sexuality since he was elected two years ago.

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Richard Chamberlain Comes Out at 68

More than four decades after he captured women's hearts on television's Dr. Kildare, Richard Chamberlain has decided to reveal his homosexuality. Because I'm not afraid anymore he said.

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ARE YOU IN LOVE OR LOOKING FOR LOVE?

Independent television company in the UK is making a documentary series about first
love with teenagers aged 14-19

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Egypt Internet Entrapment, Homosexual Prosecutions

A February 17 appeals court ruling in Egypt may signal an end to the increasingly harsh campaign of entrapment, arrest and conviction of
men solely on the basis of alleged consensual homosexual conduct.

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Court rules Scripture exposed homosexuals to ridicule

Certain passages of the Bible can be construed as hate literature if placed in a particular context, according to a Canadian provincial court.

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Homophobic Students Say Sorry

Six Sooke high-school students suspended for taunting a group of gay activists will meet with them to apologize for their actions.

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Gay Prime Minister of Canada

Gay Tory leadership hopeful says going public a big deal for others, not him. Can an openly gay, 35-year-old, outspoken investment banker from rural Nova Scotia take the reins of the party of Confederation?

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Canada - gayteens

With over one million turning up in this year pride in Toronto, Canada. This month we focus on the gayscene and youth groups in Canada.
(French and English)

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Openly gay children's TV host

BRIAN DOWLING becomes the first openly gay children's TV host as he presents SM:TV Live
every saturday morning on UK television

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Will Young Pop Idol Questions on Coming Out

I wonder if you can help me. I am a journalist writing for a London University magazine. I am doing a feature on Will Young making the
decision to admit to the nation that he is gay. I would very much appreciate if you could spare a few minutes to answer some of my questions
so that I can include your views in the article (pretty please?!):

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MEDIA NEWS

Planet 24 TV are looking for a group of 5 or 6 friends to take part in a new series for terrestrial television.

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