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Washington Post
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Lesbian lawmaker in Utah carries baby for gay men
The Associated Press
Saturday, January 9, 2010; 3:28 PM
SALT LAKE CITY -- Rep. Christine Johnson will serve an additional role when the Utah Legislature convenes this month. The lesbian lawmaker announced she's a surrogate mother, carrying a baby for two gay men.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/09/AR2010010901538.html/
Justices asked to bar taping of gay marriage trial
The Associated Press
Gay marriage opponents are asking the Supreme Court to block the broadcast of the upcoming trial on California's same-sex marriage ban. At issue in the federal trial beginning Monday in San Francisco is whether the Proposition 8 gay marriage ban approved by California voters in November 2008 is legal.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/09/AR2010010901598.html/
Ugandan lawmaker refuses to drop anti-gay measure
By Associated Press
KAMPALA, UGANDA -- A Ugandan lawmaker refused Friday to withdraw proposed legislation that would impose the death penalty for some gay men and lesbians despite international condemnation and presidential opposition to a measure that some critics said could scare off foreign investors.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/08/AR2010010803673.html/
Hank Stuever previews 'Big Love': Season 4 is a tangle of story lines
By Hank Stuever
"Big Love" asks a lot -- too much -- as the polygamist family drama begins a fourth season Sunday night. It's one of those shows you always mean to catch up to, but Heavenly Father help you if you start now. Playful disorder is fine if you want a show that rapidly evolves and convolutes itself like some highbrow, irony-laced telenovela, with subplot piled upon subplot, deaf to all the story-line bombshells that relentlessly keep detonating around the characters. (And then what happens? And then this happened! And then what? And now what?) After all, we watch these boutique cable dramas not only for their alacrity but their power to confound. We admire their sharpness, their swift pace.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/07/AR2010010704553.html/
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Wall Street Journal
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Washington, Gay Marriage and the Catholic Church
D.C.'s same-sex marriage law has put the archdiocese in a bind.
By EMILY ESFAHANI SMITH
Washington: The push to legalize gay marriage is often billed as a civil-rights struggle—a successor to the movement that ended legalized racial discrimination decades ago. But there is another component to the fight that is now on display in the nation's capital: The drive for gay marriage is also forcing unwanted change within the Catholic Church.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703478704574612451567822852.html/
At a Law Firm and Gay? One Man’s Advice on Coming Out
By Ashby Jones
A hypo: You’re a BigLaw lawyer who’s gay. For years, you’ve been reticent to come out of the closet at work, but recently, as perhaps part of a new year’s resolution, you decide enough’s enough; it’s time to start letting people know. Okay. But how do you do it?
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2010/01/08/at-a-law-firm-and-gay-one-mans-advice-on-coming-out/
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Sun-Sentinel
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Gay marriage foes seek Supreme Court intervention to block broadcast of Proposition 8 trial
By Associated Press
Gay marriage opponents are asking the Supreme Court to block the broadcast of the upcoming trial on California's same-sex marriage ban. At issue in the federal trial beginning Monday in San Francisco is whether the Proposition 8 gay marriage ban approved by California voters in November 2008 is legal.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-us-gay-marriage-trial,0,4299426.story/
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Steve Rothaus
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Video | Neil Patrick Harris tells Jimmy Kimmel what it’s like to be Gay Man of the Decade
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Sex and the City’s Cynthia Nixon: Florida’s gay adoption ban hurts state’s foster children
Sex and the City’s Cynthia Nixon, Ros-Lehtinen, Rich and Brandenburg: End Florida’s gay adoption ban
BY CYNTHIA NIXON, www.aclufl.org/adoption
Florida is the only state in the union to have a law that specifically bars gay men and lesbians from adopting children. This not only discriminates against an entire class of citizens, but it hurts the more than 3,500 children in Florida's foster care system by diminishing the pool of eager, loving adults who could potentially adopt them. It also dictates that children born into gay families have only one legally recognized parent.
Aqua Girl 2010 early bird hotel deal
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http://miamiherald.typepad.com/gaysouthflorida/2010/01/aqua-girl-2010-early-bird-hotel-deal.html/
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The Advocate
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Jewish Group Creates Ugandan Fund
By Neal Broverman
The American Jewish World Service, an international development and human rights organization, announced Friday that it has established the Urgent LGBT Uganda Fund to support gay and lesbian grassroots groups in the African nation.
http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/01/08/Jewish_Group_Creates_Ugandan_Fund/
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Daily Queer News
http://www.dailyqueernews.com/
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Man who reported jail beating pleads guilty to reduced charge
By Lou Chibbaro Jr.
A gay man who says guards at the D.C. Jail beat him in a staircase last month pleaded guilty Thursday to a charge of misdemeanor sexual abuse as part of a plea bargain offered by the U.S. Attorney’s office.
http://dcagenda.com/2010/01/man-who-reported-jail-beating-pleads-guilty-to-reduced-charge/
Catholic Portugal Moves to Allow Gay Marriage
By Lauren Frayer
LISBON (Jan. 9) – When Manel Mira was born in 1970s Portugal, homosexuality was a crime. The Catholic Church held sway among the throngs of black-clad widows shuffling down his cobblestone alleyway. The country had a right-wing military dictatorship and a third of the population couldn't read. How much this little Atlantic country has changed since then.
http://www.sphere.com/article/gay-marriage-on-track-in-catholic-portugal/19310081/
Media Homosexuals Bash Uganda's Christians
Written by Cliff Kincaid
The Washington Post editorial page has now joined lesbian MSNBC commentator Rachel Maddow in blasting the government of Uganda for considering a law to protect children from homosexual predators and the dangerous public health impact of the homosexual lifestyle. Despite its moderate views on some foreign policy issues, the Post has always come down firmly on the side of making homosexuality into a special right that should be protected and even glorified by governmental institutions. Now it wants to impose that view on Uganda's mostly Christian population.
HIV rates jump in 2009, close to matching worst of early AIDS crisis
By James Sanna, The Colu.mn
Officials from the Minnesota Department of Health are comparing it to the "bad old days" of the early 1990's - rates of new HIV cases among young gay and bi men in 2009 are on track to match similar rates from 1992, when much of gay America was being ravaged by the worst of the HIV pandemic.
American Foundation For Equal Rights Names Advisory Board
by: Pam Spaulding
The press release just landed in the hopper... Ted Olson and David Boies to Open Trial Against Prop. 8 On Jan. 11; Civil Rights Leaders Julian Bond, Lt. Dan Choi, Margaret Hoover, Dolores Huerta, Cleve Jones, Stuart Milk, David Mixner, Hillary Rosen and Judy Shepard to Advise and Support Effort; visit equalrightsfoundation.com.
http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/14770/american-foundation-for-equal-rights-names-advisory-board/
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