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• Moroccans tried for homosexuality get four months

  BY SMAIL BELLAOUALLI, ASSOCIATED PRESS

  RABAT, Morocco -- A Moroccan court has convicted two men of homosexuality and public indecency, and sentenced each to four months in prison, in the latest case against gays in this North African nation.

  Prosecutors at the Temara court near Rabat, the capital, said at [...]

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• AP Sources: Obama OK punting gay immigration idea

  BY JULIE PACE, AP WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT

  WASHINGTON -- Two people familiar with the Senate immigration deliberations say the White House has suggested to Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy that it would be best to put off a controversy over gay marriage until a bill goes before the full Senate.

  President [...]

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• Killing of gay man in New York City's Greenwich Village draws thousands of protesters (with video)

  BY JENNIFER PELTZ AND TOM HAYS, ASSOCIATED PRESS

  NEW YORK -- The killing of a gay man who police say was taunted with homophobic slurs drew thousands of people to the scene of the crime to restore a sense of safety to [...]

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• Sally Ride to get posthumous Medal of Freedom

  ASSOCIATED PRESS

  WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama will bestow the Medal of Freedom posthumously on Sally Ride, the first American woman to fly in space.

  Obama says Ride was a role model to young women and showed that achievement has no limits. [...]

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• Lesbian, 18, faces 15 years in prison for having sex with 14-year-old high school basketball teammate

  BY STEVE ROTHAUS, srothaus@MiamiHerald.com

  More than 105,000 supporters since Friday have signed an Internet petition demanding felony sex charges be dropped against an 18-year-old lesbian who dated a 14-year-old high-school basketball teammate.

  Kaitlyn Hunt of Indian River County is charged with [...]

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• Czech President Milos Zeman in gay-rights dispute

  ASSOCIATED PRESS

  PRAGUE -- Czech President Milos Zeman is being criticized for refusing to grant a university professorship - the nation's top academic title - to a critic of his, allegedly because the man is also a gay rights activist.

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• Chinese police detain gay pride march organizer

  ASSOCIATED PRESS

  BEIJING -- Police in central China have detained the 18-year-old organizer of a gay pride march in a sign of the government's nervousness over a growing civil society movement and demands for stronger individual rights.

  The man, identified only by his surname Xiang, was detained following the Friday [...]

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• Gallery | Aqua Girl's Beach House Pool Party and Tea Dance in South Beach (with video)

  Hundreds of women (and a few men) on Sunday packed the pool area at the National Hotel in South Beach for the annual Aqua Girl festival.

  DJs Pride, Tracy Young and Tatianna kept the crowd on its feet for Sunday's Beach House Pool Party and Tea [...]

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• Suspect in hate crime slaying of gay man in New York City's Greenwich Village charged with murder

  BY VERENA DOBNIK, ASSOCIATED PRESS

  NEW YORK -- The man who police say hurled homophobic slurs at a gay man on a Manhattan street before firing a single fatal shot to his head has been charged with murder as a hate [...]

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• Video | Bullies attack teenage lesbian, chop her hair

  An ABC-TV affiliate in Sacramento, Calif., reports that bullies lured a 15-year-old lesbian into a remote area and cut off her ponytail, leaving her with a bald spot in the back of her head. The attack happened about 50 miles from Sacramento.

  Source: San Diego Gay & Lesbian [...]

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