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Gay marriage fans, foes expect Prop 8 appeal ruling today
USA TODAY
After Proposition 8 was challenged by gay couples seeking to marry, US District Judge Vaughn Walker ruled the ballot measure a violation of the Constitution's equality guarantee. That August 2010 decision is the focus of the appeal, ...
Gay marriage ruling Tuesday likely step toward U.S. Supreme CourtSan Jose Mercury News
Gay-marriage backers eagerly await appeals court's Prop. 8 rulingLos Angeles Times
Prop 8: California gay marriage ban nears rulingPolitico
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USA TODAY

Gay marriage opponents rally today at NH State House
The Union Leader
By TED SIEFER CONCORD ? Opponents of the state's gay marriage law plan to hold a rally at the steps of the State House today, as lawmakers await the scheduling of a vote on a bill that would repeal the law. The rally is being organized by Rep.
Washington state senate OKs bill to allow gay marriageUSA TODAY
Wash. House committee advances gay marriage billThe Seattle Times
Gay Marriage Gets Bump In WashingtonNeon Tommy
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Brisbane Times

Goldman Sachs CEO supports gay marriage
UPI.com
"Corporate America has long been a leading agent of change and progress for LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) equality," Joe Solomonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign, said in a statement. "Goldman Sachs and Lloyd Blankfein have ...
Blankfein to Speak Out for Same-Sex MarriageNew York Times
Goldman's Blankfein campaigns for gay marriageReuters
Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs, is the HRC's new spokesman for gay ...GlobalPost
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Boston Globe

Black church reaches out to gay, transgender teens
Boston Globe
The three - one gay, one transgender, one straight - sat around a table at a new youth drop-in center at Union United Methodist Church, a historically black congregation in the South End, the heart of Boston's gay community. Simply by being there, ...
Black LGBTQ Stories: Are Black Gay Men Just Special Guests in a White Gay ...Huffington Post (blog)

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AFP

Gay pageant sparks breakthrough, backlash in Namibia
AFP
WINDHOEK ? When Wendelinus Hamutenya told his father that he was gay, the then 18-year-old was packed off to the psychiatric ward of the Windhoek Central Hospital. Seven years later, he's the country's most visible gay man, after winning the inaugural ...

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Gay pageant sparks breakthrough, backlash in Namibia
When Wendelinus Hamutenya told his father that he was gay, the then 18-year-old was packed off to the psychiatric ward of the Windhoek Central Hospital.

NJ Assembly schedules gay marriage vote
The leader of the New Jersey Assembly announced Monday that a bill allowing gay marriage would be put to a vote next week, as Democratic leaders continued to wrangle the support needed to ensure passage.

Gay-marriage backers eagerly await appeals court's Prop. 8 ruling
Backers of gay marriage are eagerly anticipating an appeals court ruling Tuesday on the constitutionality of Proposition 8, the 2008 ballot measure that banned same-sex nuptials in California. The decision by a panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of...

Mayor Jacobs won't back registry, gay-rights activists say
Gay-rights advocates have lost hope that Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs will support a domestic-partner registry that would secure end-of-life and visitation protections for unmarried couples.

Gay group calls for CNN to fire Roland Martin
A gay advocacy group is enraged by comments CNN?s Roland Martin made on Super Bowl Sunday which they say are homophobic and which encourage gay bashing.

Goldman CEO Is Just the Latest Pro-Gay Marriage Capitalist
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Gay rights activist Dan Savage brings 'It Gets Better Project' to North Texas
Gay activist Dan Savage and Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum have wildly different beliefs, but on the Internet they appear forever tied in a cultural war in which words are? Click to Continue »

Did CNN commentator 'gay bash' Beckham ad?
Roland Martin sent out a controversial tweet during the Super Bowl that resulted in the Gay Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation demanding his removal from the news network.

Gay Rights Protestors Interrupt Gingrich
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. - Newt Gingrich's final event of the day on Monday was interrupted by two high school-aged protestors who stood up and accused the former House speaker of discriminating against gays and lesbians.

In D.C. schools, early lessons in gay tolerance
In the national push to prevent bullying, more elementary schools are introducing lessons about gay tolerance. Some lessons begin before the first day of kindergarten. One fall day at Oyster-Adams Bilingual School in Northwest Washington, Scarlette Garnier and her pre-kindergarten classmates drew pictures of their families and talked about their similarities and differences. Read full article >>