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• LGBT activists in Doral protest U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio after gay couples left out of immigration plan

  BY ALFONSO CHARDY and STEVE ROTHAUS, srothaus@MiamiHerald.com

  Gay activists gathered Wednesday in front of U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio’s Doral office to protest the Senate Judiciary Committee’s failure to include [...]

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• Video | Gay former Eagle Scout James Dale: Change your profile pic to 'show your support for equality'

  From GLAAD:

  [Thursday], 1400 members of the Boy Scouts' National Council will converge in Dallas to vote on a resolution critical to the Boy Scouts' longstanding ban on gay members. James Dale —an openly gay former Eagle Scout whose membership was revoked by the [...]

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• Immigration bill without protections for gay and lesbian couples heads to full Senate

  BY ERICA WERNER AND DAVID ESPO, ASSOCIATED PRESS

  WASHINGTON -- A far-reaching bill to remake the nation's immigration system is headed [...]

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• Texas judge: Lesbian couple can't cohabitate

  ASSOCIATED PRESS

  MCKINNEY, Texas -- A judge has ruled that a North Texas lesbian couple can't live together because of a morality clause in one of the women's divorce papers.

  The clause is common in divorce cases in Texas and other states. It prevents a divorced parent from having a' [...]

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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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