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• Eighteen-year military gay ban to end on Sept. 20

  By Nancy A. Youssef and Curtis Tate, McClatchy Newspapers

  WASHINGTON — The order banning gays and lesbians from serving openly in the U.S. military will be lifted in 60 days after President Barack Obama formally certified Friday that the 18-year policy will be repealed.

  Obama's decision came after Defense Secretary [...]

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• President Obama formally ends gay military ban

  By LOLITA C. BALDOR and ERICA WERNER, Associated Press

  WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama on Friday formally signed off on ending the ban on gays serving openly in the military, doing away with a policy that's been controversial from the day it was [...]

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• View the certification repealing 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' signed by Obama, Panetta and Mullen

  

  News release from the White House:

  Statement by the President on Certification of Repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell

  Today, we have taken the final major step toward ending the discriminatory ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ law that undermines our military readiness [...]

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• SLDN hails formal certification of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' repeal by Obama, Panetta and Mullen

  

  News release from Servicemembers Legal Defense Network:

  (Washington, D.C.) Service members today welcomed a key milestone in repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT), as President Obama, [...]

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• Patrick Duffy still swims between 'Atlantis,' 'Dallas'

  

  BY STEVE ROTHAUS, srothaus@MiamiHerald.com

  Actor Patrick Duffy says his charmed professional life seems to be “going back in reverse.”

  Duffy’s first series, the almost forgotten 13-episode Man From Atlantis, has just been reborn via DVD-on-demand. His second series — the iconic, 13-season Dallas, [...]

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• GayLatino.about.com features story package for Hispanic parents with gay children

  From my El Nuevo Herald colleague Daniel Shoer Roth, who keeps a Spanish-language gay issues blog, GayLatino.about.com:

  "Recently I did a package of stories for Hispanic parents with gay children, or parents who suspect their child is gay but don't know how to react, etc.," Shoer says. "I've [...]

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• Poll: Over half of all Americans favor national recognition for same-sex marriages

  News release from Harris Interactive and Witeck-Combs Communications:

  New Poll Reveals that Nearly Half of U.S. Adults Also Support Marriage Equality

  New York and Washington, DC – July 22, 2011 – This week, President Obama endorsed repeal of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, arguing that it is unconstitutional [...]

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• Supremacist views blamed for gay student killing

  Associated Press

  LOS ANGELES -- A prosecution expert says a California teenager's white supremacist ideology is the primary reason the murder defendant shot to death a 15-year-old gay classmate.

  Simi Valley police Detective Dan Swanson, a white supremacy expert, testified Thursday that now-17-year-old Brandon McInerney embraces white supremacy and that [...]

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