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Major CEO: Being Outed Ruined My Career
By Kilian Melloy
With advanced degrees from Cambrige University, a position as CEO of a major firm, and a seat in the House of Lords (the British equivalent of the Senate), John Browne seemed a man of rare accomplishment. But his life was turned inside out when he was outed, Browne says in his new memoir, Beyond Business.
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U.K.’s Conservative Leader (& Likely Next PM) Supports Gay Marriage
By Kilian Melloy
Conservative British pol David Cameron, who is viewed by many as the likely next Prime Minister of Britain, has made it his mission to reach out to gay and lesbian voters, reckoning that plenty of gays share his party’s conservative views--at least, the ones that are not flagrantly anti-gay.
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With Legal Sex for Gays in India Come Dating Scammers
By Kilian Melloy
In India, where gay relationships have been newly decriminalized, online dating has emerged as a means for men to forge new relationships; but scammers are online, too, looking to lure, and rob, gay men.
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Calif. Prof’s Anti-Gay Lesson Content Sparks Complaints
By Lisa Leff
An instructor at a public community college in Fresno has been presenting his religious views on homosexuality, abortion and global warming as fact to students in an introductory health science class, the American Civil Liberties Union alleged Monday.
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Ohio Teacher Parades Long-Haired Boy as a Girl
By Kilian Melloy
An 11-year-old boy says he was harassed and humiliated at school for his long hair--by his teachers, who forced him to wear pigtails and encouraged his classmates to verbally abuse him, a federal lawsuit claims.
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Prop 8 Judge is Outed
By Kilian Melloy
The judge in the case challenging the constitutionality of Proposition 8 is gay himself--and anti-gay pundits are jumping on the story.
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Marriage Equality Low Priority for Iowans
By Kilian Melloy
Though national anti-gay organizations have targeted marriage equality for repeal in Iowa, the state’s voters are largely unconcerned with the issue, rating the problem of drivers texting while at the wheel as being of greater significance.
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Pakistan’s ’third gender’ seek greater rights
By Elena Becatoros
Pakistan’s transgender community has long lived on society’s margins, harassed by police, ridiculed as freaks, pitied as the outcast people of Allah and often rejected by their own families. Now the Supreme Court is giving them hope through a petition for their rights to be respected.
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