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A gay civil rights bill in Washington
State is one or two
votes shy of a majority in the state senate, and senators say they are
optimistic it will pass.
http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?id=15508&sd=03/24/05
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MARRIAGE AND FAMILY
* A judge rules that Ohio's new constitutional ban on
same-sex marriage prohibits unmarried people from being able to file
domestic violence charges, a decision that has prompted an immediate appeal
by prosecutors.
http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?ID=15513&sd=03/25/05
* As a state
senator leading Connecticut
down the aisle toward civil unions for gay couples, Andrew McDonald is
hearing plenty of objections. The bill's harshest opponents claim that
McDonald, one of the few out gay lawmakers in the legislature, will burn in
hell.
http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?ID=15514&sd=03/25/05
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POLITICS & SOCIETY
* Lesbian tennis star Martina Navratilova is chosen as
the spokeswoman for lesbian travel company Olivia.
http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?ID=15515&sd=03/25/05
* A cruise ship carrying gay and nudist passengers is temporarily stopped
and prevented from entering the Caribbean country of St. Kitts and Nevis.
http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?id=15507&sd=03/24/05
* A lawsuit challenging an opinion by Michigan's attorney general that bars
public employers from offering domestic-partner benefits to same-sex
couples in future contracts is filed by the American Civil Liberties Union
of Michigan.
http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?id=15481&sd=03/22/05
CRIME & LAW
ENFORCEMENT
* The best friend of convicted murderer Gary Hirte says
he's known Hirte since the seventh grade but doesn't know why he would kill
another man.
http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?id=15487&sd=03/22/05
* Ever since a 21-year-old man was beaten unconscious in Santa Fe, N.M., by
a group of men allegedly yelling antigay slurs, some people are wondering
whether the city isn't a little naive about its tolerant self-image.
http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?id=15496&sd=03/23/05
* A 30-year member of a Unitarian Universalist church in New York State
is arrested for vandalizing its property with antigay messages.
http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?id=15485&sd=03/22/05
RELIGION
* Being a practicing homosexual
is no bar to becoming a priest, the Scottish Episcopal Church says, a
stance that puts it at odds with the Anglican Communion in other parts of
the world.
http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?ID=15526&sd=03/25/05
* San
Diego's Roman Catholic bishop apologizes for denying funeral rites to the
owner of a gay nightclub and bar and promises to preside over a mass to be
held in his honor.
http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?id=15497&sd=03/23/05
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INTERNATIONAL
* Singapore rejects an
application for a concert by a local AIDS support group, citing concern over
its gay performers following a spike in HIV cases.
http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?id=15512&sd=03/24/05
* Authorities in China's
Yunnan
province announce they will require hospitality industry workers to take
annual HIV antibody tests.
http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?id=15505&sd=03/24/05
HEALTH & SCIENCE
* Scientists report several U.S.
outbreaks of methicillin-resistant Staphyloccocus
aureus infections among HIV-positive people.
http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?id=15499&sd=03/23/05
* The history of the United Kingdom's HIV-1 subtype B epidemic began with
six separate introductions of the virus in the early to mid 1980s, rather
than from one transmission, according to genetic research.
http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?id=15506&sd=03/24/05
* Although worldwide clinical trials of the anti-HIV drug Viread are
drawing criticism from AIDS activists, the AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition
issues a report that calls for the studies to continue, since the drug is
still a possible way to prevent HIV infections.
http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?ID=15517&sd=03/25/05
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* Biotechnology company Digene begins a public advertising campaign for its
Food and Drug Administration-approved test for human papillomavirus, mostly
due to lower-than-expected sales of the test to health care providers and
clinics.
http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?id=15503&sd=03/24/05
* The San Francisco AIDS Foundation announces the hiring of a new executive
director.
http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?id=15500&sd=03/23/05
* A preliminary study suggests a genetic and epidemiological link between
an HIV-positive Connecticut man and the
widely reported case of a New York
City man with virulent multidrug-resistant HIV.
http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?id=15494&sd=03/22/05
* Teens who pledge to remain virgins until marriage are more likely to take
chances with other kinds of sex that increase the risk of sexually
transmitted diseases, a study of 12,000 adolescents suggests.
http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?id=15490&sd=03/22/05
ENTERTAINMENT & CULTURE
* Reggae singer Beenie Man, who has recently been at the
center of a controversy between gay activists and dancehall performers
whose songs espouse violence against gays and lesbians, says his lyrics
have been misunderstood.
http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?ID=15523&sd=03/25/05
* You can laugh about it. Fantasize about it. Be punished or killed for it.
But what you can't do is take sex seriously at the movies. Look at the
numbers on sexy movies. The list of box-office casualties is long.
http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?id=15511&sd=03/24/05
* A friend of a murdered husband's mistress sues over lesbian allegations
in a new book.
http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?id=15510&sd=03/24/05
* Out good guy Sir Ian McKellen is in negotiations to return to the role of
mutant bad guy Magneto in X-Men 3.
http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?id=15502&sd=03/23/05
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