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All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/2179 topstories Gay & Lesbian Issues en-us Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:14:25 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/2179 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gayissues/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090703/wl_nm/us_india_gay_aids nm/20090703/us_india_gay_aids Reuters world Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:14:25 GMT Reuters - An Indian court ruling to decriminalize gay sex will boost the fight against AIDS, but a powerful stigma against homosexuality and uneven quality of healthcare will still hamper efforts, a top AIDS worker said. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gayissues/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/advocate/20090703/ts_advocate/palin_resigns_as_governor_of_alaska advocate/20090703/palin_resigns_as_governor_of_alaska The Advocate topstories Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:18:53 GMT The Advocate - In a shocking announcement on Friday, Alaska Gov. and former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin announced she is resigning from office. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gayissues/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/advocate/20090703/ts_advocate/report_shows_lgbt_health_disparities advocate/20090703/report_shows_lgbt_health_disparities The Advocate health Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:10:39 GMT The Advocate - A new report on the non-HIV health and human service needs of LGBT people in New York state shows significant disparities compared to non-LGBT people, reflecting national trends exacerbated by lack of adequate data and homophobia. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gayissues/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/advocate/20090703/ts_advocate/westboros_next_target_mjs_funeral advocate/20090703/westboros_next_target_mjs_funeral The Advocate topstories Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:24:32 GMT The Advocate - The Westboro Baptist Church clearly knows no boundaries. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gayissues/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/advocate/20090703/ts_advocate/roundup_news_from_around_the_web_ advocate/20090703/roundup_news_from_around_the_web_ The Advocate topstories Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:22:37 GMT The Advocate - New Whitney Houston: "The Voice" is back -- or is she -- with her big comeback track. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gayissues/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/advocate/20090703/ts_advocate/_rep_investigate_murder_of_sailor advocate/20090703/_rep_investigate_murder_of_sailor The Advocate topstories Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:17:02 GMT The Advocate - A Congressman for the Camp Pendleton area in Southern California is requesting that the Department of Defense investigate whether a gay sailor who was found dead on Tuesday was the target of a hate crime. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gayissues/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/advocate/20090703/ts_advocate/tila_tequila_to_obama_end_dadt advocate/20090703/tila_tequila_to_obama_end_dadt The Advocate topstories Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:01:10 GMT The Advocate - Bisexual reality TV star Tila Tequila -- who once dubbed herself the reason the California Supreme Court ruled to allow same-sex marriage throughout the state -- now has her sights set on overturning DADT. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gayissues/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/advocate/20090703/ts_advocate/gay_titles_back_on_summer_reading_list advocate/20090703/gay_titles_back_on_summer_reading_list The Advocate topstories Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:04:20 GMT The Advocate - The Washington, D.C. public school district restored nine LGBT-themed titles to its summer reading list for students after initially publishing a reading list that omitted the books, reports the School Library Journal. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gayissues/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_re_us/us_gay_marriage_federal ap/20090703/us_gay_marriage_federal AP us Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:08:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gayissues/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_re_us/us_gay_marriage_federal"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090702/capt.458c7ed122f3472b90aafdc7a51f807c.gay_marriage_federal_cajc102.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=KLZTrT8b.SWiZ5lbmS3Efg--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="Attorney Theodore Olson, center, speaks as clients Kristin Perry, from left, Sandra Stier, Jeff Farrillo, and Paul Katami listen at a news conference at the Federal Building in San Francisco, Thursday, July 2, 2009. Attorneys behind the federal court challenge to California's voter-approved gay marriage ban plan to argue during a pretrial hearing Thursday that by stripping gays of the right to wed, Proposition 8 runs afoul of the constitutional requirement that the government should treat its citizens equally absent a compelling reason not to do so. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)" border="0" /></a>AP - A federal judge in San Francisco said a lawsuit seeking to overturn California's same-sex marriage ban will likely one day reach the U.S. Supreme Court.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gayissues/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_re_us/us_gay_marriage_federal"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090702/capt.458c7ed122f3472b90aafdc7a51f807c.gay_marriage_federal_cajc102.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=KLZTrT8b.SWiZ5lbmS3Efg--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="photo" title="Attorney Theodore Olson, center, speaks as clients Kristin Perry, from left, Sandra Stier, Jeff Farrillo, and Paul Katami listen at a news conference at the Federal Building in San Francisco, Thursday, July 2, 2009. Attorneys behind the federal court challenge to California's voter-approved gay marriage ban plan to argue during a pretrial hearing Thursday that by stripping gays of the right to wed, Proposition 8 runs afoul of the constitutional requirement that the government should treat its citizens equally absent a compelling reason not to do so. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gayissues/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20090703/wl_time/08599190840600 time/20090703/08599190840600 Time.com world Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:20:00 GMT Time.com - India's High Court decriminalizes homosexuality, winning applause from activists, the ire of conservatives, and possibly opening the way for gay rights groups in neighboring countries http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gayissues/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090702/us_nm/us_gaymarriage_california nm/20090702/us_gaymarriage_california Reuters us Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:54:35 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gayissues/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090702/us_nm/us_gaymarriage_california"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090702/capt.b8aff60dccd049a4bf078500ac57411c.gay_marriage_federal_card101.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=7kkffdAKDYwQl3um6gSO0w--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="Attorney Theodore Olson, center, shakes hands with Prop. 8 opponents after a news conference at the Federal Building in San Francisco, Thursday, July 2, 2009. Attorneys behind the federal court challenge to California's voter-approved gay marriage ban plan to argue during a pretrial hearing Thursday that by stripping gays of the right to wed, Proposition 8 runs afoul of the constitutional requirement that the government should treat its citizens equally absent a compelling reason not to do so. (AP Photo/Russel A. Daniels)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - The attorney representing two same-sex couples who were denied a right to wed in California said on Thursday he expected the case to end up before the U.S. Supreme Court, which has yet to hear a case on the gay marriage issue.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gayissues/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090702/us_nm/us_gaymarriage_california"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090702/capt.b8aff60dccd049a4bf078500ac57411c.gay_marriage_federal_card101.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=7kkffdAKDYwQl3um6gSO0w--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="photo" title="Attorney Theodore Olson, center, shakes hands with Prop. 8 opponents after a news conference at the Federal Building in San Francisco, Thursday, July 2, 2009. Attorneys behind the federal court challenge to California's voter-approved gay marriage ban plan to argue during a pretrial hearing Thursday that by stripping gays of the right to wed, Proposition 8 runs afoul of the constitutional requirement that the government should treat its citizens equally absent a compelling reason not to do so. (AP Photo/Russel A. Daniels)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gayissues/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_us/ca_gay_marriage_federal ap/20090702/ca_gay_marriage_federal AP us Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:56:17 GMT AP - A federal judge in San Francisco says he wants to conduct a full trial on a lawsuit seeking to overturn California's same-sex marriage ban because he expects the case to one day reach the U.S. Supreme Court. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gayissues/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/advocate/20090702/ts_advocate/govt_funding_axed_for_kinkcom advocate/20090702/govt_funding_axed_for_kinkcom The Advocate topstories Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:34:21 GMT The Advocate - Adult fetish website Kink.com had been receiving government funding to the tune of nearly $47,000 for employee training up until April -- but the state of California yanked further financing when it discovered Kink.com was in the porn business. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gayissues/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/advocate/20090702/ts_advocate/memories_of69 advocate/20090702/memories_of69 The Advocate topstories Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:38:54 GMT The Advocate - The scourge of AIDS decimated an entire generation of men, including many who fought for gay rights back in the heady days that followed Stonewall in 1969. But one of those brave men, John Knoebel, is alive and well, and telling the story of the early days of gay liberation. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gayissues/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_as/as_india_gay_rights ap/20090702/as_india_gay_rights AP world Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:00:26 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gayissues/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_as/as_india_gay_rights"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090702/capt.afaa4280bd6b44fc9ab2d07ffac9d4a6.india_gay_rights_xsd102.jpg?x=130&y=82&q=85&sig=.aflnZvkaNlRRrrjUMwjPg--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="Honey Khan, left, and Hillol Datta cheer and celebrate after the Delhi High Court passed a ground breaking ruling Thursday decriminalizing homosexuality in New Delhi, India, Thursday, July 2, 2009. The court ruled that treating consensual gay sex as a crime is a violation of fundamental rights protected by India's constitution, a decision that could bring more freedom for gays in this deeply conservative country. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)" border="0" /></a>AP - New Delhi's gay community celebrated a landmark court ruling Thursday that decriminalizes homosexuality — a decision that could end widespread police harassment and be a harbinger for gradual acceptance for homosexuals across this deeply conservative country.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gayissues/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_as/as_india_gay_rights"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090702/capt.afaa4280bd6b44fc9ab2d07ffac9d4a6.india_gay_rights_xsd102.jpg?x=130&y=82&q=85&sig=.aflnZvkaNlRRrrjUMwjPg--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="photo" title="Honey Khan, left, and Hillol Datta cheer and celebrate after the Delhi High Court passed a ground breaking ruling Thursday decriminalizing homosexuality in New Delhi, India, Thursday, July 2, 2009. The court ruled that treating consensual gay sex as a crime is a violation of fundamental rights protected by India's constitution, a decision that could bring more freedom for gays in this deeply conservative country. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gayissues/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/advocate/20090702/ts_advocate/brit_comedy_legend_mollie_sugden_dies advocate/20090702/brit_comedy_legend_mollie_sugden_dies The Advocate topstories Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:07:44 GMT The Advocate - Mollie Sugden, best known stateside as Mrs. Slocombe on the long-running BBC sitcom Are You Being Served? passed away Wednesday after a long illness. She was 86. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gayissues/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/advocate/20090702/ts_advocate/nph_brings_hosting_chops_to_emmys advocate/20090702/nph_brings_hosting_chops_to_emmys The Advocate topstories Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:48:19 GMT The Advocate - Fresh off his stint as the host of the Tonys, Neil Patrick Harris is rumored to be closing a deal on the Emmy Awards. Harris, a previous Emmy nominee himself, would host the awards on September 20. The official announcement will be made when the deal is completed, according to Variety. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gayissues/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/advocate/20090702/ts_advocate/texas_agency_probes_role_in_bar_raid_ advocate/20090702/texas_agency_probes_role_in_bar_raid_ The Advocate topstories Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:43:38 GMT The Advocate - The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, the state agency that conducted a joint raid of a Fort Worth gay bar with local police on Sunday, said that it has launched an internal investigation into the action that left one patron hospitalized with a serious head injury. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gayissues/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/advocate/20090702/ts_advocate/school_district_billed_in_diversity_lawsuit advocate/20090702/school_district_billed_in_diversity_lawsuit The Advocate topstories Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:39:17 GMT The Advocate - As California grapples with a massive $24 billion budget deficit, a public school district finds itself served with a bill totaling almost $15,000 related to a lawsuit over a diversity presentation it allowed to take place in March, reports the Hayward Daily Review. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gayissues/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/advocate/20090702/ts_advocate/___new_york_blade_suspends_publication_ advocate/20090702/___new_york_blade_suspends_publication_ The Advocate topstories Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:32:27 GMT The Advocate - The New York Blade, one of two major LGBT newspapers in New York City, has suspended publication, reports The New York Times .