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• Anti-gay U.S. Defense of Marriage Act heads to federal appeals court in Massachusetts

  BY DENISE LAVOIE, AP LEGAL AFFAIRS WRITER

  BOSTON -- A legal battle over a law that denies federal benefits to married gay couples is headed to a federal appeals court in Massachusetts, the first state in the nation to legalize gay marriage.

  The federal Defense of Marriage Act, enacted by [...]

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• Queerty publishes photo believed to be couple having sex on balcony during Atlantis cruise

  The blog Queerty has published a photo of two men having sex on a cruise ship balcony, their bodies clearly visible from port below.

  The men in the photo are believed to be John Robert Hart, 41, and Dennis Jay Mayer, 43, of Palm Springs, both arrested [...]

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• President Barack Obama could face election-year jam on gay marriage

  BY JULIE PACE, ASSOCIATED PRESS

  PORTLAND, Maine -- President Barack Obama could be caught in an election-year bind on gay marriage, wedged between the pressure of supporters who want him to back same-sex marriage and the political perils of [...]

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• Sam Champion, weather anchor for ABC's 'Good Morning America,' to be AIDS Walk grand marshal

  News release from Care Resource:

  WELCOME GRAND MARSHAL "SAM CHAMPION" OF ABC's "GOOD MORNING AMERICA"

  AIDS Walk Miami and Care Resource wish to announce and welcome Sam Champion as the Official Grand Marshal for the 24th Annual AIDS Walk Miami fundraiser scheduled for Sunday, April 22nd.

  Sam [...]

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• Oscar-, Tony-winning Liza Minnelli is back in Broward to perform at Hard Rock Live on April 10

  BY STEVE ROTHAUS, srothaus@MiamiHerald.com

  Her mother may have been born in a trunk, but since day one Liza Minnelli has lived life in the glare of a spotlight.

  After countless interviews, the Oscar-winning musical star says she’s still managed to keep her real-life self to herself.

  “I learned [...]

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• Carson Daly apologizes for joking that gay men would be unable to stop pilot who had meltdown

  Radio host Carson Daly has apologized via Twitter for an antigay joke he told Wednesday on his Los Angeles radio show:

  This morning on my radio show I attempted to make fun of myself & offended others by mistake. I sincerely apologize.

  [...]
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• The Rev. John Gregory Tweed, minister to South Florida AIDS patients during 1990s, dies at 72

  BY ELINOR J. BRECHER, EBRECHER@MIAMIHERALD.COM

  The Rev. John Gregory Tweed, whose calling led him from the pulpits of historic Northeastern churches to the bedsides of desperate South Florida AIDS patients when HIV was still a death [...]

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• Cops: High school classmate threatened to reveal alleged gay affair with Twins pitcher Carl Pavano

  BY DAVE COLLINS, ASSOCIATED PRESS

  HARTFORD, Conn. -- A high school classmate of Minnesota Twins pitcher Carl Pavano threatened to reveal an alleged gay relationship they had and to write a book about it unless Pavano apologized to him [...]

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• Gay activist Trevor Thomas runs for Congress in Michigan; 'Time to return to values of Jerry Ford'

  A video posted on YouTube by Trevor Thomas, a gay activist (Servicemembers Legal Defense Network) running for U.S. Congress in Michigan. From the campaign:

  It's time for us to return to the values of Jerry Ford, who put politics aside to [...]

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• Priest: Found porn, lewd letter to boy in rectory

  BY MARYCLAIRE DALE, ASSOCIATED PRESS

  PHILADELPHIA -- Several Roman Catholic priests have testified in a landmark clergy-abuse case, including one who said Wednesday that he found pornography and a lewd letter to a boy in the rectory.

  The priests are [...]

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