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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 [...]

  From Steve Rothaus' Gay South Florida at May 21, 2013, 4:03pm in Politics, News, Life, MiamiHerald.com Blogs

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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 [...]

  From Steve Rothaus' Gay South Florida at May 21, 2013, 3:58pm in Politics, News, Life, MiamiHerald.com Blogs

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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 [...]

  From Steve Rothaus' Gay South Florida at May 21, 2013, 11:18am in Politics, News, Life, MiamiHerald.com Blogs

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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. [...]

  From Steve Rothaus' Gay South Florida at May 21, 2013, 8:41am in Politics, News, Life, MiamiHerald.com Blogs

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• Stolen Bike Alert

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  (3) Three black 2012 Jamis "Taxi" bicycles were stolen from outside the Scoot, Skate, and Bike Co on Biscayne & 18th this afternoon (5/20). Three hispanic males were seen riding along the sidewalk on their own bikes, stopping to cut the cable lock, and then each [...]
  From Miami Bike Scene at May 20, 2013, 8:25pm in Life

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• Can We Conquer Congestion? Mobility for 21st Century

  Multiple facets of our community are abuzz with transportation- and mobility-related talk.

  We’ve got the Miami-Dade 2013 Transportation Summit scheduled for June 6 and the “Transit Talk” pre-summit summit a week in advance on May 29.

  Now we’ve got yet another transportation-/mobility-related event scheduled for [...]

  From Transit Miami at May 20, 2013, 6:53pm in News, Life

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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 [...]

  From Steve Rothaus' Gay South Florida at May 20, 2013, 6:28pm in Politics, News, Life, MiamiHerald.com Blogs

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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.

  [...]
  From Steve Rothaus' Gay South Florida at May 20, 2013, 12:41pm in Politics, News, Life, MiamiHerald.com Blogs

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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 [...]

  From Steve Rothaus' Gay South Florida at May 20, 2013, 8:54am in Politics, News, Life, MiamiHerald.com Blogs

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• The road to immobility for older Miamians

  Written by Peter Smith

  Two summers ago, I attended a presentation on mobility at the Department of Transportation’s new headquarters in Navy Yard. My then-boss, Mariia Zimmerman, was speaking on our nation’s preparedness to deal with an aging population in an auto-centric culture, and she gave a startling statistic: eighty-five percent [...]

  From Transit Miami at May 20, 2013, 8:45am in News, Life

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