MEXICO CITY — Ricky Martin defended the right of pop stars to come out of the closet, saying he felt solidarity with Christian Chavez of Mexican band RBD, who recently said publicly that he is gay.

“Life is too short to live closed up, guarding what you say,” said Martin _ whose sexual orientation has been the subject of speculation _ in an interview with The Associated Press. Christian “has to be free in many aspects. I wish him much strength.”

Martin, who was named person of the year in 2006 by the Latin Recording Academy, has hits including “Livin’ la Vida Loca” and “Shake Your Bon-Bon.”

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ST. LOUIS — Olivia Nabulwala says her family in Uganda was so angry and ashamed to learn she was a lesbian that her relatives hurled insults at her, pummeled her and, finally, stripped her and held her down while a stranger raped her.

“I hated myself from that day,” she says in a sworn statement. “I disliked my family for subjecting me to such torture, and yet they felt this was a good punishment for me.”

Now, in a case that illuminates a relatively unexplored area of immigration law, the African immigrant is asking for asylum in the U.S. on the grounds she was persecuted over her sexual orientation. And a federal appeals court ruling last week in St. Louis has raised her hopes of success.

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An elderly man in Detroit whose death became a cause for gay rights advocates died of natural causes, not from being beaten, authorities said Wednesday. Police also said they intended to close the investigation into 72-year-old Andrew Anthos’ death.

”There’s no evidence that an assault occurred,” police spokesman James Tate told The Detroit News.

According to family members, Anthos said he was riding a city bus home from the library on February 13 when a young man asked him if he was gay and uttered a slur. Anthos said the man followed him off the bus and confronted him again. Anthos said he told the man he was gay as he went to help a friend whose wheelchair was stuck in a snowbank, according to his cousin, Athena Fedenis.

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Advocates of a defeated measure barring gays and unmarried couples from fostering or adopting children said today they may try to put the ban on the 2008 ballot. Arkansas Family Council director Jerry Cox says the group is considering trying to place the ban on the ballot as a constitutional amendment or an initiated act if the measure does not win approval in the session.

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>(New York City) Staten Island voters have elected their first openly gay candidate for the state legislature - making Matthew Titone the fourth gay member to serve in Albany.

>Titone was elected in a special election to replace Assemblyman John W. Lavelle. The 57 year old Lavelle, who died of a stroke in January had been a strong supporter of LGBT rights.

>Both Titone and Lavelle were Democrats and Titone’s election was not altogether a surprise.  The district has been solidly Democratic in modern history.

>Titone, 46, had the support of Empire Pride Agenda and the Victory Fund.

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Iowa’s state Senate passed a bill Monday to extend civil rights protections to gay, lesbian and transgender people in the state, despite opposition from business interests.

The bill adds the words “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” to a list of protected characteristics under Iowa’s Civil Rights Act. Democrats have long supported expanded protections, and they now control the Senate, the House and the governor’s office.

The chamber passed Senate File 427 on a bipartisan 32-17 vote. It moves now to the state House of Representatives, where Iowa Equality board president Sandy Vopalka expects it to have a tougher time.

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