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Contents:

• GAY
• GAYS ON TV
• THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS
• GAY MARRIAGE
• A ‘FOTTEN TRAGEDY’ AT A NEW ORLEANS GAY BAR AND A NEW EFFORT TO HONOR VICTIMS’ REMAS

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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THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS

And today, long-standg prejudice has been stutnalized to law wh the untry’s “Anti-Homosexualy Act, ” which lls for harsh sentenc for gay acts. The pope's remarks on gay Catholics may suggt a shift acceptance, but not a change church policy or teachg.

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?

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

What "Queer as Folk" did was change the perceptn of not only gay people, but gay characters on televisn. It had never been done before, a drama about gay people, and I thk we were very … I thk we were very sred at the begng.