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      <title><![CDATA[Today show decision to open wedding contest to gay couples spurs heated debate]]></title>
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      <createdate unixtime="1279306291" delta="6 weeks ago"><![CDATA[7/16/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[NBC's decision to allow gay couples to enter the "Today" show's annual wedding contest triggered a passionate online debate Friday, opening a new front in the fiercely waged battle over same-sex marriage. The move came the same day as a federal judge in Boston ruled part of the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional, ratcheting up the legal fight over the rights of gays to marry. Activists on both sides are ...]]></text>
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      <title><![CDATA[Doubts About Cuomo's Support of Gay Rights]]></title>
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      <createdate unixtime="1278707261" delta="7 weeks ago"><![CDATA[7/9/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[As a landmark gay marriage bill hurtled toward an uncertain vote last year, New York's Democratic leaders scrambled to corral support. Gov. David A. Paterson delivered impassioned speeches, Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand headlined a giant rally and City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn shuttled back and forth to Albany to lobby lawmakers. But the state's most popular Democrat, Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo, was all but invisible. He was asked ...]]></text>
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    <article id="12791">
      <title><![CDATA[Cameroon denies homosexuals face persecution]]></title>
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      <createdate unixtime="1278707121" delta="7 weeks ago"><![CDATA[7/9/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[Cameroon's government has rejected the claim by a gay asylum seeker in the UK that he would face persecution if he returned home. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court in London ruled in favour of the man, and a similar claimant from Iran. Homosexuality in Cameroon is punishable by up to three years in jail. However, Cameroon's communications minister told the BBC homosexuals were free to behave as they wished in ...]]></text>
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    <article id="11706">
      <title><![CDATA[Playgirl Goes Gay, and the Straight Guys Love It]]></title>
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      <createdate unixtime="1272910910" delta="17 weeks ago"><![CDATA[5/3/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[Daniel Nardicio has served as the director of marketing for Playgirl magazine since August of 2009. Since then, Nardicio has introduced three crucial developments to the long-time beefcake mag: (a) Acknowledgment of the magazine's gay readership; (b) a nude Levi Johnston; and (c) 'The Shaggin' Wagon.'Yesterday, Nardicio circled his magenta, man-centric wagon outside of the Georgetown University campus in search of hunks for the magazine's annual “Campus Hunks” issue. I ...]]></text>
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    <article id="11705">
      <title><![CDATA[Complete Casting Announced for My Big Gay Italian Wedding, Starring Reichen Lehmkuhl]]></title>
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      <createdate unixtime="1272910827" delta="17 weeks ago"><![CDATA[5/3/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[Complete casting has been announced for Anthony J. Wilkinson's My Big Gay Italian Wedding, which will play an open-ended engagement at St. Luke's Theatre, beginning performances on May 5 in anticipation of a May 22 opening. Teresa A. Cicala will direct the production, which will feature wedding dances staged by Austin Eyer. The play focuses on two gay men as they plan their wedding and the people around them, including ...]]></text>
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    <article id="11704">
      <title><![CDATA[Gay Is Good]]></title>
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      <createdate unixtime="1272910627" delta="17 weeks ago"><![CDATA[5/3/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[In 1968, the pioneer gay rights activist Frank Kameny coined the phrase 'Gay is Good,' a slogan that was used with some frequency by gay rights proponents in the years following the Stonewall riots. The slogan, like the phrase 'Black is Beautiful' of the same era, was meant to respond to the widely held view that being gay was somehow shameful or debasing.That the slogan ceased to be used after ...]]></text>
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    <article id="11703">
      <title><![CDATA[iPhone's Gay Social Networking App Leads to Murder of Phoenix Man, Police Claim]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Gay Mens Connection Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1272910503" delta="17 weeks ago"><![CDATA[5/3/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[Murder? Apparently there's an app for that, too. That's according to Phoenix police who say a local guy was murdered by a 19-year-old fellow he met using a social networking iPhone app often used by gay men to hook up. Mark G. Woodland, 54, was found dead at his apartment in the 3800 block of East Greenway Road.Police say Woodland's roommate returned home to the apartment the men shared about ...]]></text>
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    <article id="11702">
      <title><![CDATA[Gates's 'don't ask' letter angers gay rights groups]]></title>
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      <createdate unixtime="1272910332" delta="17 weeks ago"><![CDATA[5/3/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[Gay rights groups and supportive Democratic lawmakers spent the weekend striking back at Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen and their request that Congress not vote to repeal the military's 'don't ask, don't tell' policy until after the Pentagon finishes a review of a potential repeal.Activists want Congress to freeze the dismissals of gay service members in this year's Defense Authorization ...]]></text>
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    <article id="11037">
      <title><![CDATA[Gay Polo Tourney Debuts in Palm Beach]]></title>
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      <createdate unixtime="1269293411" delta="23 weeks ago"><![CDATA[3/22/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[The 1st Annual International Gay Polo Tournament Presented by Credit Suisse will take place at the Grand Champions Polo Club in Wellington, FL, on April 3, 2010, from noon to 5 p.m. GPL is the sole international polo league to be primarily comprised of lesbian and gay players. Founded to enable gay men and wo­men to share their interest in this unique sport, GPL has created a community of passionate, ...]]></text>
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    <article id="11036">
      <title><![CDATA[Atlanta Gay Men's Chorus performs in Columbia County]]></title>
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      <createdate unixtime="1269293303" delta="23 weeks ago"><![CDATA[3/22/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[AUGUSTA, GA – Back in 1981, when the gay right's movement was underway, the Atlanta Gay Men's Chorus was formed, 45 members strong. Their first performance, 40 people attended. These days the chorus, whose members are all volunteers, has grown to 120 strong and has seen audiences numbering 6,000.“I think the great thing about the Men's Chorus is the… make-up of our chorus in ages and racial and economic diversity, ...]]></text>
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    <article id="11035">
      <title><![CDATA[HIV-AIDS Office Opens in Oakland]]></title>
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      <createdate unixtime="1269290532" delta="23 weeks ago"><![CDATA[3/22/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[OAKLAND, Calif. - An international organization dedicated to preventing the spread of HIV and AIDS has opened an office in downtown Oakland. The office at 14th Street and Broadway marks a milestone for Global Forum, as the organization is trying to draw attention to the plight of MSM, men who have sex with men."The HIV-AIDS epidemic have disproportionately impacted gay men and other men who have sex with men around ...]]></text>
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    <article id="11034">
      <title><![CDATA[He Asked. They Told.]]></title>
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      <createdate unixtime="1269290308" delta="23 weeks ago"><![CDATA[3/22/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[AFTER he posted the first seven pictures on his Web site, Jeff Sheng could not sleep.  “I kept getting up and checking my e-mail,” he said. “I was expecting to hear from someone in the military. What if they demanded information from me? Some of the people I photographed have been serving for 20 years. They could lose their pensions.” Mr. Sheng, a photographer, had finished the first phase ...]]></text>
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