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After nearly 50 years, New Orleans issued a formal apology for s rponse to an arson at the popular gay bar UpStairs Lounge and renews the search for the remas of four victims.

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A day after Massachetts' hight urt l agast the ban on same-sex marriag, Terence Smh exam the proliferatn -- and populary -- of gay and lbian-oriented televisn shows, and what this new trend Amerin televisn suggts about public attus toward homosexualy. * pbs newshour gay *

Ireland beme the first untry the world to legalize gay marriage by popular vote on Saturday a landmark victory for the gay-rights movement. A short film pictg two parents’ g to terms wh their son’s homosexualy has gone viral Cha, garnerg over 100 ln views on QQ, a popular vio streamg se Cha.

GAYS ON TV

Once classified as a “mental illns”, homosexualy has….

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GAY MARRIAGE

Last month, a law me to force that rtricts the pictn of homosexualy and sex reassignment to children schools. A day after Massachetts' hight urt l agast the ban on same-sex marriag, Terence Smh exam the proliferatn -- and populary -- of gay and lbian-oriented televisn shows, and what this new trend Amerin televisn suggts about public attus toward homosexualy. Now shootg s fourth season, the provotive seri about gay and lbian characters als wh sensive issu such as AIDS, promiscuo sex and dg this scene, muny members discs a rash of gay, "Queer as Folk": Who do you thk will e nng?

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A ‘FOTTEN TRAGEDY’ AT A NEW ORLEANS GAY BAR AND A NEW EFFORT TO HONOR VICTIMS’ REMAS

Prevly there had been gay characters who were always supportg characters — you know, the bt iend, the neighbor, whatever. They sort of played to the stereotyp of what people perceived gay people as.

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