GLBT DIGEST - August 24, 2008

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New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/
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-Modern Love: We'll Marry Each Other as Often as Needed
"Come to California," I said. This was two days before I was leaving forLos Angeles for work, and a week after same-sex marriage had been legalizedthere, making it eciprocally legal in New York State, where we live.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/fashion/24love.html?_r=1&sq=gay&st=cse&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&scp=2&adxnnlx=1219584463-/zI1+Y81ZHy4OLlq01KBqA


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Sun-Sentinel
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/
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-Aussie swoops in to ruin Chinese sweep
Mitcham's last dive garners best score in Olympic history
Matthew Mitcham grabbed the moment and simply wouldn't let go Saturday nightto give Australia its first diving gold medal since 1924, preventing Chinafrom sweeping all eight Olympic diving gold medals.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/other/sfl-flspolydive24sbaug24,0,5424948.story

-Internet firms charging bandwidth hogs more
Three months ago, Guy Distaffen switched Internet providers, lured from hiscable company to his phone company by a year of free service on a two-yearcontract. But soon the company quietly updated its policies to say it wouldlimit his Internet activity each month. "We felt that we were suckered,"said Distaffen, who lives in the small village of Silver Springs in upstateNew York. The phone company, Frontier Communications Corp., is one ofseveral Internet service providers that are moving to curb the growth oftraffic on their networks, or at least make the subscribers who download themost pay more.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/sfl-flzinternetcaps0824sbaug24,0,7491033.story

-Measles at decade high as more parents fear vaccine
Number of cases so far more than triple last year's
Measles cases in the United States are at the highest level in more than adecade, with nearly half of those involving children whose parents rejectedvaccination, health officials reported Thursday. Worried doctors aretroubled by the trend fueled by unfounded fears that vaccines may causeautism. The number of cases is still small, just 131, but that's only forthe first seven months of the year. There were only 42 cases for all of lastyear.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/features/health/sfl-flameasles0822sbaug22,0,7260963.story


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Steve Rothaus
http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/steve_rothaus/
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-Gay journalists announce award winners Saturday at Washington conference
I've been blogging since Wednesday from Washington, D.C., where I'mattending the annual National Lesbian & Gay Journalists (NLGJA) conference.Here's today's news release about this year's award-winning journalists: NLGJA Announces Excellence in Journalism Awards & 2008 Hall of FameInductees
As the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA) kicked off"NLGJA Goes to Washington," its 2008 National Convention & 5th Annual LGBTMedia Summit, it presented the first of its Excellence in Journalism Awards.
http://miamiherald.typepad.com/gaysouthflorida/2008/08/gay-journalists.html


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365Gay.com
http://www.365gay.com/
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-Lesbians Bring Home the Medals at the 2008 Olympics
Six of the 13 out lesbian and bisexual women competing at the 2008 SummerOlympics in Beijing ended up winning gold, silver, or bronze medals. (TheGames' sole openly gay male athlete, Australian diver Matthew Mitcham, tookhome the gold in the men's 10m platform.)
http://www.365gay.com/features/lesbians-medal-at-the-olympics/

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The Advocate
http://advocate.com/
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-Out Olympian Matthew Mitcham Wins Gold
After narrowly missing out on qualifying for the three-meter springboardfinals earlier this week, out Australian diver Matthew Mitcham took home thegold in the 10-meter platform competition, preventing the Chinese fromtaking gold in all eight diving categories.
http://advocate.com/news_detail_ektid59894.asp


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Pink News - UK
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/
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-Concerned Women for America claim gay greeting cards are detrimental tochildren
Senior members of Concerned Women for America (CWA) have condemnedHallmark's marketing of greeting cards aimed at gays and lesbians.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-8783.html

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