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  • August 2008

    • Religion No Excuse for Not Treating Gays: Calif. Court

      San Francisco Chronicle  |  Aug 18, 08 4:29 PM CDT

      Religion No Excuse for Not Treating Gays: Calif. Court

      (Newser) - California doctors must provide services to gays and lesbians in line with all other patients, even if it conflicts with their religious beliefs, the state’s supreme court ruled today. The justices unanimously shot down an effort by a San Diego County fertility clinic's physicians to use religion as grounds for refusing artificial insemination to a lesbian couple, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. More »

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      lesbians  • gays  • doctors

    • Gay Candidate Wins Shot at US House Seat

      New York Times  |  Aug 14, 08 11:42 AM CDT

      Gay Candidate Wins Shot at US House Seat

      (Newser) - Entrepreneur Jared Polis, who is openly gay, won a Colorado congressional primary Tuesday, and says his victory should send “a signal to young gays and lesbians across the country that they can consider a career in public service,” the New York Times reports . Polis is favored to win in November. And if he does, the 33-year-old founder of bluemountain.com will become the third openly gay member of Congress. More »

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      Congress  • House of Representatives  • Colorado  • gays  • Mark Udall

  • June 2008

    • I, (Gay) Robot? Radar Rates the Androids

      Radar  |  Jun 29, 08 2:44 PM CDT

      I, (Gay) Robot? Radar Rates the Androids

      (Newser) - Gay marriage in California and Brokeback Mountain's emergence on the opera scene all point to an America that’s "getting its gay on," writes Evan Mulvihill in Radar —including its androids. Using a 'Homometer' (0: asexual; 1: beer and steak; 5: bisexual; 10: flaming), he takes a look at cinema’s most fabulous robots. R2-D2, C-3P0, Star Wars : 9 Hal, 2001: A Space Odyssey : 7   More »

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      robots  • Star Wars  • science fiction  • gays

    • LiLo KOs $1M Lesbian Confession

      New York Post  |  Jun 2, 08 11:01 AM CDT

      LiLo KOs $1M Lesbian Confession

      (Newser) - Lindsay Lohan turned down a $1 million offer from OK! to come out on the magazine's cover, the New York Post reports. Lohan and the gossip weekly were negotiating a story about her relationship with celebrity DJ Samantha Ronson. "Lindsay really wants this to happen and she needs the money," said a source, but the starlet's flak says there's nothing in the works.  More »

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      Lindsay Lohan  • homosexuality  • lesbians  • Samantha Ronson  • gays  • OK! magazine

  • May 2008

    • Grandma, Grandpa, Please Back Gay Marriage

      Los Angeles Times  |  May 30, 08 9:03 PM CDT

      Grandma, Grandpa, Please Back Gay Marriage

      (Newser) - If old folks in California would come out to support gay marriage in November, a proposed amendment banning it would keel over and die, Joel Stein writes in the Los Angeles Times . The majority of Californians under 50 support it, but only 36% of senior citizens. Which leads Stein to urge oldsters to "take a leap of faith and trust the younger generations on this one." Sometimes social change requires "uncomfortable lurches toward improvement." More »

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      California  • gay marriage  • voting  • senior citizens  • California Supreme Court  • gays

    • Scouts Dig In for Philly Fight Over Gays

      Philadelphia Inquirer  |  May 28, 08 9:09 AM CDT

      Scouts Dig In for Philly Fight Over Gays

      (Newser) - The Philadelphia chapter of the Boy Scouts of America is locked in a legal battle with the city over the group's refusal to enroll gays. Philadelphia gave the Scouts an ultimatum to quit their historic city-owned headquarters—or pay a new fair-market annual rent of $200,000. The Scouts have responded with a federal civil rights lawsuit and are digging in for a long battle, reports the Philadelphia Inquirer. More »

    • Gay Paris Mayor Sets Sights on Presidency

      Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  May 22, 08 12:44 PM CDT

      Gay Paris Mayor Sets Sights on Presidency

      (Newser) - The battle is on for the leadership of France's opposition Socialist Party, and a man who says the nation is ready for a gay president is the surprise leader, the Telegraph reports. Bertrand Delanoë, the popular mayor of Paris, is the early favorite, outpolling Ségolène Royal, who lost last year's election to Nicolas Sarkozy.  More »

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      France  • Nicolas Sarkozy  • Paris  • homosexuality  • Socialist Party  • Segolene Royal  • gays  • Bertrand Delanoe

    • The 'Gayby' Boom

      Details  |  May 18, 08 4:47 AM CDT

      The 'Gayby' Boom

      (Newser) - What’s the latest in the gay lifestyle? Babies—lots of them. Smashing the old cliché of wild and fabulous freedom, more gay men are settling down with kids, in some cases partnering with surrogates to forge a genetic link. And it’s not just for couples. Singles are also opting for parenthood—without sacrificing their dating prospects. Unlike in the heterosexual scene, parenthood for gay singles tends to increase their hottie quotient, reports Details. More »

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      baby  • mothers  • in vitro fertilization  • gays  • surrogates  • gay parent

    • Gays Jubilant Over Calif. Ruling

      San Francisco Chronicle  |  May 15, 08 5:10 PM CDT

      Gays Jubilant Over Calif. Ruling

      (Newser) - California gays are ecstatic about the state's supreme court striking down a ban on same-sex marriage, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. “I'm feeling the joy all over,” one gay man, and father, said. In Fresno, a gay couple applied for a marriage license from a somewhat bewildered county clerk who wondered about the “exact language” of the decision, the Bee observed. More »

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