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Mariela Castro To Meet San Francisco LGBT Leaders
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
A Conversation With Mariela Castro: Same-Sex Marriage, HIV/AIDS, and LGBT Rights in Cuba San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) May 21, 2012 LGBT human rights activist, Mariela Castro Espín, daughter of current President Raul Castro and the niece of former ...
Being Gay in CubaHuffington Post (blog)
Cuban president's daughter gets US visaSeattle Post Intelligencer

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LGBT people's rights in Ukraine under threat after Kiev's first-ever pride ...
Amnesty International UK
A senior Kiev police official had previously told pride organisers that he was not prepared to put his officers in harm's way for the LGBT community. “It has been clear from the start that the Kiev police department did not want this march to go ahead.
First gay pride parade to take place in secrecy on May 20Kyiv Post

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Gay pride parade in Kyiv canceled
Kyiv Post
The gay pride parade which was due to take place in Kyiv on Sunday has been canceled over fears for the safety of its participants, according to the organizing committee of the international KyivPride 2012 forum and festival.
Gay Pride in Kiev CancelledRIA Novosti

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Gay pride parade in Kiev canceled
Interfax-Religion
Kiev, May 21, Interfax - The gay pride parade which was due to take place in Kiev on Sunday has been canceled over fears for the safety of its participants, according to the organizing committee of the international KievPride 2012 forum and festival.
Gay Pride in Kiev CancelledRIA Novosti

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Los Angeles Times
Gay Rights In America: Gays May Have Fastest Of All Civil Rights Movements
Huffington Post
It took nearly 40 years until a majority of those surveyed said marriage between people of different skin colors was acceptable. By contrast, attitudes toward gays and lesbians have changed so much in just the last 10 years that, as Gallup reported ...
Gays may have the fastest of all civil rights movementsLos Angeles Times
Seeing red: why Pilger is wrong on gay marriageABC Online

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Gay marriage spawns big spike in online videos
TODAYonline
Gay marriage was also the most popular topic on YouTube's news and politics category last week. YouTube is owned by the online search giant Google, which saw a 458 per cent increase in national searches for "Obama" and "gay marriage" between 10am and ...

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New York Times (blog)
A Female President Demands Equal Rights for Africa's Gays
New York Times (blog)
Just nine days after Mr. Obama's announcement that he supports same-sex marriage rights, Malawi's new president, Joyce Banda, denounced the continued persecution of gays and lesbians in her country. Mrs. Banda said, “indecency and unnatural acts laws ...
Malawi's President Joyce Banda Boldly Stands Up for Gay RightsJezebel
Malawi's First Female President Is Down with Gay RightsThe Atlantic Wire
Malawi: Joyce Banda pushes against tide in vowing to aid gay rightsScotsman
Irish Times
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Los Angeles Times
Gays may have the fastest of all civil rights movements
Los Angeles Times
People rally in San Francisco in 2010 against California's Proposition 8 ban on gay marriage. Though many states don't recognize same-sex marriage, public attitudes have tilted sharply toward approval in the last decade. (Wally Skalij, Los Angeles ...

Minnesota gay rights supporters say they are in constant battle
WDAY
Fergus Falls, MN (WDAY TV) -- Gay rights supporters in Minnesota say they're in a constant battle, lately it has felt like a tug-of-war. On one hand you have our country's leader support for gay marriage, on the other a vote in Minnesota that if passed ...

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Pride Kickoff Party, June 7
Vital VOICE
LOUIS – Vital VOICE is pleased to announce that Pride St. Louis will be partnering with the region's premier LGBT publication for the Pride Community Kickoff Party on Thursday, June 7 at Kota Wood Fire Grill. This June, the LGBT community of St. Louis ...

Long Beach Pride parade rolls, dances through town
Long Beach Press-Telegram
By Phillip Zonkel, Staff Writer The 2012 Long Beach Gay Pride Parade on Ocean Boulevard Sunday was kicked off with lesbian motorcycle riders leading the way. (Sean Hiller / Staff Photographer) LONG BEACH — The Long Beach Gay Pride Parade started with ...
DAY OF DIVERSITYContra Costa Times

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Long Beach Pride parade rolls, dances through town
Long Beach Press-Telegram
By Phillip Zonkel, Staff Writer The 2012 Long Beach Gay Pride Parade on Ocean Boulevard Sunday was kicked off with lesbian motorcycle riders leading the way. (Sean Hiller / Staff Photographer) LONG BEACH — The Long Beach Gay Pride Parade started with ...

New York Times (blog)
Israel's gay rights record touted in NY
Jerusalem Post
By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL, JERUSALEM POST CORRESPONDENT Birthright Israel alumni placed a mural in Manhattan's West Village which contrasts gay rights in Israel with discrimination elsewhere. BERLIN – The alumni association of Birthright Israel placed a ...
A West Village Mural Weighs Gay Rights in the Middle EastNew York Times (blog)
NY mural contrasts gay rights in Israel with neighboring countriesJewish Telegraphic Agency
New York mural compares gay rights in Israel to its neighboursPinkNews.co.uk

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New York Times (blog)
Israel's gay rights record touted in NY
Jerusalem Post
The pro-Israel scale contains a text saying “Same sex couples can legally adopt children, gay people serve openly in the military and government” and more than 10000 attended the 2011 Tel Aviv Gay Pride Parade. The scale for “Israel's neighbors,” notes ...
NY mural contrasts gay rights in Israel with neighboring countriesJewish Telegraphic Agency
A West Village Mural Weighs Gay Rights in the Middle EastNew York Times (blog)
New York mural compares gay rights in Israel to its neighboursPinkNews.co.uk

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Letters: Gay marriage overblown issue
The Advocate
After North Carolina voted to ban gay marriage, comedian Lewis Black appeared on Piers Morgan's CNN show to comment on the law. His interview was preceded by a video segment of one of his 1996 routines, during which he ridiculed the amount of effort ...

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Gay fund cut 'astonishing'
Brisbane Times
Gay rights advocates have questioned the Newman government's real motive for cutting funding to the state's only health organisation dedicated to the prevention of AIDS/HIV among the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
Balancing the gay-rights debateJamaica Gleaner
Protest as govt cuts gay health fundsNinemsn
Government pulls funding from gay health groupCourier Mail

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Charles Krauthammer: Gay marriage: Is it a right or just empathy?
Los Angeles Daily News
By Charles Krauthammer THERE are two ways to defend gay marriage. Argument A is empathy: One is influenced by gay friends in committed relationships yearning for the fulfillment and acceptance that marriage conveys upon heterosexuals.
Obama adds fuel with gay-marriage issue in state battlegroundsReno Gazette Journal
Contradiction in president's new position on gay marriageSouth Bend Tribune
Leader of Barack Obama's former church defends president on gay marriageBoston Herald
Gay People Chronicle -Times Daily -CBS News
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Gay marriage could be big voting issue in Colorado
Long Beach Press-Telegram
By IVAN MORENO and KRISTEN WYATT AP DENVER—Minutes after President Barack Obama endorsed gay marriage on May 9, Colorado's Democratic governor choked back tears as he ordered state lawmakers to reconsider a civil-unions measure defeated the day before ...

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The Jackson Citizen Patriot - MLive.com
Gay rights hearing in Jackson will be covered live on MLive.com
The Jackson Citizen Patriot - MLive.com
The 6 pm public hearing is to gather public input on changing the civil rights law to include protection of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people from discrimination. Bob Wheaton, a local government report for the MLive Media Group and the ...

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Toronto Star
For gay marriage opponents, moments shape minds
Duluth News Tribune
By ADAM GELLER AP National Writer , AP - When President Obama announced his support for gay marriage, supporters and pundits declared it symbolic of a historic shift in American attitudes. But as the attention fades, the fact remains that voters in 31 ...
Burman: Obama's support for gay marriage helps the cause of international ...Toronto Star
Obama Finds Middle Way on Gay VowsNew York Times

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