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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.

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

GAYS ON TV

For gays livg Uganda, jt walkg outsi of their hom n be dangero. 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.

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

Last month, a law me to force that rtricts the pictn of homosexualy and sex reassignment to children schools.

GAY MARRIAGE

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.

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

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? 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.