Antigay bias has flared up in Hollywood and pro basketball recently, and soon the topic will be thrust dramatically into a new forum: a reshaped Congress likely to pass the first major federal gay rights bills.Read more Gay News from GXR.

Social scientists who have done research on gay and lesbian families say religious fundamentalists are deliberately distorting their work to make the case that heterosexual married couples provide the best environment for rearing children.
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Social scientists who have done research on gay and lesbian families say religious fundamentalists are deliberately distorting their work to make the case that heterosexual married couples provide the best environment for rearing children.Read more Gay News from GXR.

Measures on workplace discrimination and hate crimes expected to prevail with Democrats in control. NEW YORK - Anti-gay bias has recently flared up in Hollywood and pro basketball, and soon the topic will be thrust dramatically into a new forum — a reshaped Congress likely to pass the first major federal gay rights bills.
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It is Saturday afternoon in a half-empty restaurant on the fourth floor of a modern shopping mall in Beijing. Two young women kiss slowly and continuously, one permed head of hair poised above another, arms entwined, as other customers ignore them completely.
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NEW YORK | Anti-gay bias has flared up in Hollywood and pro basketball recently, and soon the topic will be thrust dramatically into a new forum — a reshaped Congress likely to pass the first major federal gay-rights bills.Read more Gay News from GXR.

BOSTON - A federal judge yesterday threw out a lawsuit filed by parents who objected to discussions of gay families in their children's classrooms, ruling the parents do not have the right to dictate curriculum in public schools.
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The Episcopal Church's presiding bishop asks for patience as the church — and the denomination — tries to forge a compromise. Top Anglicans at a crucial meeting in Tanzania this week sternly rebuked their communion's American branch on issues involving sexuality and biblical interpretation. The decisions now facing the U.S. Episcopal Church and the global Anglican Communion may push them further down the road toward schism.Read more Gay News from GXR.

Some private health plans exempt from new anti-bias code. In one of the first cases to test Washington's landmark gay-rights law, state officials said Friday that they had no jurisdiction in a dispute over access to health care because federal law supersedes the state statute.Read more Gay News from GXR.

One of the most sweeping anti-gay bills ever introduced in any parliament in the world is in danger of rapid passage in Nigeria in the coming weeks. Although billed as a ban on same-sex marriage, the proposed law includes provisions that would make any expression of homosexuality — not only sexual conduct but any homosexual inclination or reference — in public or in private, a crime.
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