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First real estate development just for gays in Brazil
Agra Loteadora is taking a big chance by launching a real-estate development geared exclusively to the gay market in the state of São Paulo. Season in Sorocaba is located only 54 miles away from the city of São Paulo, and was designed to work as a country house with all...
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HIV-positive man sues Iowa McDonald's over firing
A former McDonald's employee has filed complaint with the Iowa Civil Rights Commission alleging he was unlawfully fired because he's a gay man with HIV. Daniel Carver is suing the Dryersville restaurant. He alleges that what began as fewer hours and a lack of promotions escalated to derogatory names, violence...
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'Sex Factor' winner helps gay Italian police join forces
In a country where masculine values hold sway, gay recruits to Italy's
police and armed forces have avoided going public about their sexuality
for fear of suffering ostracism and forced transfers. That is until
last week, when a group of openly gay men in uniform announced they
were planning to set up an organisation...
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Aussie gov't introduces bill to end gay discrimination
Legislation to end discrimination for same-sex couples under Australian law has been introduced in Federal Parliament by the government. The changes create equality for gay couples in the areas of social security, veterans affairs, medicare, tax and educational assistance. Laws ending discrimination in superannuation were tabled earlier this year. Attorney-General...
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Gay entertainment donors welcome Michelle Obama
Dressed in a purple tank top with a purple floral skirt and black
high heels, Michelle Obama addressed a largely gay and lesbian audience at
the home of Bryan Lourd, managing partner of Creative Artists Agency
(CAA), and Bruce Bozzi, Lourd's companion. The event was described by
the Obama campaign as an "LGBT Reception."...
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Many gay couples marrying before vote on Calif. ban
Longtime Santa Cruz resident Larry Friedman married in June, first and foremost to cement his 16-year relationship, but also out of concern that he might lose the opportunity. The state's most talked-about ballot measure this year, Proposition 8, proposes a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage that threatens the ceremony opened...
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LGBTQA public high school proposed for Chicago area
An LGBTQA public high school has been proposed in Chicago and, if given the green light, the school would join the likes of New York's Harvey Milk High School (pictured) in becoming a national model in providing a welcoming, safe education for queer and questioning youth and their allies. The...
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Trans woman sues over karaoke, bathroom dispute
An Enfield woman who used to be a man has filed a complaint with the state after she was not allowed to sing karaoke at a restaurant in Windsor Locks, she said. Michelle Merrill, who began sex change procedures 10 years ago, said a manager at the Skyline Restaurant would...
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Gay former gov's ex-wife to press on with fraud claim
The attorney for former governor James E. McGreevey confirmed yesterday that Dina Matos, the former first lady, is pursuing her fraud claim that she did not know her husband was gay. A hearing is scheduled for Monday at 1:30 p.m. in state Superior Court in Elizabeth, according to Stephen Haller,...
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Bashing left Salt Lake man with broken eye socket
Salt Lake police asked for the public's help Thursday in finding a man investigators say attacked another man, breaking his eye socket, apparently because the victim was gay. The incident, which is being labeled by police as a potential hate crime, happened Aug. 9, but details weren't released by police...
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Trans inmates sue Pa. jail over abuse and taunting
A transgender inmate at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility has filed two federal lawsuits against numerous guards and prison officials, alleging he was subjected to physical abuse and sexually explicit taunting. Shawn Shannon Quinnones filed the suits on behalf of himself and another inmate, Anthony Lee Gray, who also claims...
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Trial date set for nine set in mob killing of S.A. lesbian
A young woman who saw her friend being murdered by a mob more than two years ago is finally to get her day in court next month. Nine men are accused of kicking, beating and stabbing Zoliswa Nkonyana, 18, to death in February 2006 - apparently because she was living...
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Dubai court upholds jail term for lesbians kissing in public
The Dubai Court of Appeal has upheld one-month jail sentence for a lesbian couple for committing an indecent act in public. They will be deported after serving their jail terms. The women include a 30-year-old Lebanese resident and a 36-year-old Bulgarian visitor. The women had pleaded not guilty to charges...
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McCain VP Palin's church promotes 'converting' gays
Gov. Sarah Palin's church is promoting a conference that promises to
convert gays into heterosexuals through the power of prayer. "You'll
be encouraged by the power of God's love and His desire to transform
the lives of those impacted by homosexuality," according to the insert
in the bulletin of the Wasilla Bible Church, where...
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First trans 'Top Model' candidate a bruised bombshell
"America's Next Top Model" likes to be progressive. Black, white, Native American, Asian, straight, lesbian, omnisexual, rich, poor, rural, urban, all kinds of obstacles, any kind of political statement. Last season, cycle 10, gave us the first full-figured winner in Whitney Thompson, which is a big change for modeling, but...
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Subway said to fire worker for gay adult video past
Gay porn star Kurt Wild, 22, claims he was fired from is day job at a Subway restaurant outside of St. Louis when a customer recognized him and threatened to boycott the fast food joint if Wild wasn't fired. "A customer said they wouldn't even eat there at Subway anymore...
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Gay fears rise in London after gang's fatal bashing
London's East End gay community has declared 'enough is enough' after a young man was left fighting for his life following a brutal homophobic stabbing by a gang of youths. A 20-year-old, known as Olly, was stabbed seven times in the back and chest, outside a gay-friendly pub this week. ...
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France to call for E.U., U.N. action on gay civil rights
France is to call for a European Union drive to tackle violence against women worldwide and for the United Nations to step up action against homophobia, the French human rights minister said on Wednesday. Junior Human Rights Minister Rama Yade told the 61st annual conference of non-governmental organisations at UNESCO...
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More U.S. companies protecting transgender workers
Across the U.S., particularly at larger companies, transgender workers are being protected and assisted in ways that were hardly imaginable a few years ago. Currently, 125 of the Fortune 500 companies include "gender identity" in their nondiscrimination policies, compared with "close to zero" in 2002, according to Jillian T. Weiss,...
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Gay young time in Minneapolis for some Republicans
"Here's to John McCain and Sarah Palin!" This toast, common enough during the Republican National Convention, was less expected from a group of young gay men clanking cocktails at the Gay 90s earlier this week. A gay Republican might be an oxymoron to some. Don't tell that to Steve Majors,...
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