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ALP Considers Same-Sex Relationship Recognition

At their 2007 National Conference the Australian Labor Party has voted to take the first step towards same-sex relationship equality.

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Tory MEP Supports Gay Youth On Mental Health Issues

A British Conservative MEP has today told a meeting of European gay youth that discrimination against gays is both “anti-Christian and anti-European”.

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Youth seen as key in gay-rights vote

Jocelyn Barrett's job this fall is to get college students to the polls to vote for a state law that protects gay men and lesbians from discrimination.

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Why we switch off to politics

In the UK there’s a general election, all the main parties are seeking re-election. What are the issues affecting us as gay citizens, are we asking the right questions and do we know what gay issues affects us through politics.

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Blair singing in tune on gay issues

"Anybody who's an adult will learn from their own experience that there are people with a different sexuality. There are heterosexual people and homosexual people and that is just a fact." Says the prime minister of the UK

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First the grey vote, now the gay vote

Tony Blair predicts Britain will have an openly gay prime minister, Michael Howard admits he was wrong to push Section 28 through Parliament and Charles Kennedy has dismissed the Tory leader's conversion to gay rights as skin-deep.

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Pro-gay Arnie

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says the Republican Party should move "a little to the left," according to a German newspaper interview published Saturday.

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Why being gay has nothing to do with it

"My truth is that I am a gay American" is the line New Jersey Gov. James E. McGreevey used to hide from the facts about his years of deception, abuse of public office and unfolding corruption scandals.

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Kerry wants the gay vote

One local high school teacher asked what hope could Kerry give to lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender youth concerned about their future.

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Federal Marriage ammendment

The Federal Marriage Amendment is expected to come to a vote in the US Senate in early July.

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Why Are We Treated Differently?

My former school did not have any support for gay pupils. There was no one to talk to or who understood me, when i was going through rough periods. I'm just glad i have now left and with a college that cares.

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USA Progress in Gay Rights 2003

USA gay rights stands out as a year of unprecedented forward progress, visibility, dialogue and equality.

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School Gay Dance

Two girls from a Wyoming High School homecoming dance were removed by Police.
As same sex couples were not allowed. Now
the school has changed its policy.

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Jim in Bold

A gay teenager in a small town just a handful of years too soon. The cruelty he suffered at the hands of his peers, the isolation he thought would never lift, led him to commit suicide five months after graduating from Cedar Crest High School in Lebanon

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Father Sues School for Son's Gay Harassment

The father of a 12-year-old California student filed a $100,000 claim against Pacifica School District on Sept. 15, alleging administrators failed to protect his son against classmates' anti-gay remarks and death threats.

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Another Ex-gay leader confirms you cannot change your sexual identity

The Ex- gay movement continues to crumble and mess with the minds of gay individuals who think they can change their sexuality. Johnston is accused of exposing male sex partners to HIV, others faulted for concealing scandals.

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BIG BROTHER GOES CAMP

A gay version of Big Brother has been launched in America. The Boy Meets Boy reality show will see 15 men compete to win the heart of a gay leading man and a luxury holiday with him.

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Gayteen Sues School for $25,000

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A teenager disciplined by his school district for talking about being gay will get $25,000, an apology from school officials and his disciplinary record cleared.

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Gay teenagers often cope with an extra burden

What are these burdens writes Rod Thomson column. Sarasota, Manatee and Charlotte counties gets support for your youth through Soulforce.

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Gay in the USA

Gay sex is now legal in Texas, in Massachusetts they are considering single-sex marriages, and in New Hampshire they've even got a gay bishop. Could it be that America is waking up to homosexuality.

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No new trial for Teena's killer

LINCOLN, Neb. -- A man condemned to die for the murder that inspired the movie "Boys Don't Cry" will not get a new trial or reduction of his death sentence, the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled Friday.

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Anti-gay violence may have led to teen's death

Grand Rapids, June 25th, Justin Bogdanik was walking on South Division near Fulton, where he told police he was picked up by a man driving a white or off white tractor trailer rig.

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Kansas Teen 17 year prison sentence

A three-judge panel of the Kansas Court of Appeals has upheld a criminal sodomy conviction, and a 17-year prison sentence, for a teen-age boy who had consensual oral sex with another boy of nearly 15.

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Ringo Star's daughter gay wedding

The wedding of de Rossi, 30, and the 34-year-old singer- songwriter daughter of the former Bond girl Barbara Bach, is expected to take place in the next few months.

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Manhattan Teen Takes School Authorities To Court

A 14-year-old girl who was suspended from a Queens middle school for wearing a "Barbie is a Lesbian" T-shirt filed a federal bias suit against the city Department of Education.

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A human-sexuality expert creates controversy

When the majority of those in the Stanford University lecture hall decide that a man with hissy s's and precise articulation is gay, the professor pronounces them correct. The lesson: You can determine a man's sexual orientation after simply listening to him talk for 20 seconds.

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Gay Boy Scout ousted by Hypocritical Scout Council

Philadelphia's Boy Scout council, which defied the national organization last month by promising not to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation, has ousted a Scout for publicly announcing he is gay.
Gregory Lattera, 18, said he learned of the decision on Saturday when he got a letter from the Cradle of Liberty Council, which runs the Boy Scout programs in Philadelphia and two suburban counties.

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Out at the Proms - Signs of the times

More gay teens than ever are taking same-sex dates to prom. And instead of sparking controversy, schools are saying, what’s the big deal?

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NJ teen killed after revealing her affectional orientation

A teenager waiting at a bus stop in Newark, N.J., early Sunday morning was fatally stabbed after telling two men who were making sexual advances toward her that she was a lesbian, according to police.

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Washington: Sunny Day - Out in the Park with Youth Pride

At one point during Youth Pride Day last Saturday, a sudden updraft caught the tent that was covering the YPD Command Center and sent it crashing into the booth of the Metro P.D. Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit.

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Homophobic right-wing state senator blocks school based gay rights protections

A bill that would ban harassment of LGBT students in Florida schools has been tied up by dozens of amendments that gay activists say threatens its passage.

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U.S. daytime TV to get "first" lesbian kiss

Daytime television viewers -- considered to be among America's most conservative audiences -- will see their first on-screen lesbian kiss next week, ABC television said on Monday.

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Girl Beaten Unconscious After Day Of Silence Confrontation

Police are investigating the vicious beating of a 16 year old Concord, Massachusetts girl. The attack on Caitlin Meuse followed a heated tirade from a schoolmate who shouted antigay epithets as the girl participated in the National Day of Silence at Concord-Carlisle High School.

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Federal Court backs California Gay Students

Public school officials who fail to take effective steps to counter anti-gay harassment may violate the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection of the law, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.

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ACLU WARNS ARKANSAS SCHOOL TO STOP PERSECUTING GAY STUDENT

The American Civil Liberties Union is challenging officials at Jacksonville Junior High School over repeated punishment of a 14-year-old student for being openly gay.

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Houston school settles over gay club

A Houston-area high school student won her battle with the local school district over her right to start a gay-straight alliance (GSA) club, after the district reached a settlement with the local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.

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Murdered Gay Teen Araujo's last night

In a pre-trial hearing that continued this week to determine if four men suspected of killing Gwen Araujo should stand trial for murder, a witness recounted violent details of the October night the transgender teen was killed in Newark, Calif.

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Nicholas West's Murderer Excecuted

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) -- An apologetic Henry Dunn Jr. was executed for participating in the fatal shooting of Nicholas West who was abducted and targeted for robbery because he was gay.

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