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      <title><![CDATA[Nick Clegg named best-looking party leader by gay men]]></title>
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      <createdate unixtime="1328404220" delta="12 hours ago"><![CDATA[2/4/2012]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[The poll, organised by gay networking organisation Jake, saw the Liberal Democrat chief attract the kind of ratings he can usually only dream of.Mr Clegg was named 'most physically attractive' of the party leaders by 42.1 per cent of respondents, in what proved to be a landslide victory.David Cameron earned 12.6 per cent of the vote, with Ed Miliband trailing home in third with just an 8.8 per cent share.Ivan ...]]></text>
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    <bigarticle id="17781">
      <title><![CDATA[Boy George: Gay Men Try to Fit In]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Gay Mens Connection Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1327902897" delta="6 days ago"><![CDATA[1/30/2012]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[In speaking about the brutal attack on a flamboyant longtime gay friend, Boy George discussed the pressures on gay men to assimilate.Speaking to The Guardian, George discussed how his friend Philip Sallon, recently attacked in London, was part of the outlandish New Romantic movement in the early 1980s."People aren't so individual any more," George told the newspaper. "There is this sense of why would you want to stand out and ...]]></text>
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    <article id="17598">
      <title><![CDATA[Virginia Governor may block gay adoption provision]]></title>
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      <createdate unixtime="1327461081" delta="1 week ago"><![CDATA[1/24/2012]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[''We want to have all of our adoption agencies, particularly those that are faith-based agencies... be free to do the great work they're doing with out having additional government mandates or requirements.''Bob McDonnell, the Governor of Virginia, who is being pressed by an anti-gay Republican, Delegate Bob Marshall, to accept a proposal that would require religious adoption agencies to treat lesbian and gay and transgender people as potential parents. (Virginian-Pilot)The ...]]></text>
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    <article id="17370">
      <title><![CDATA['DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL': Law to be implemented after Army finishes training REPEAL TO END THIS SUMMER]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Gay Mens Connection Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1327183454" delta="2 weeks ago"><![CDATA[1/21/2012]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[WASHINGTON %u2014 The Defense Department will let gays and lesbians serve openly in the military around midsummer, Pentagon officials said Friday.How quickly the repeal of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" law can be implemented depends on the Army, which has the greatest number of soldiers to train in the new policy, said Clifford L. Stanley, under secretary of defense for personnel and readiness.The military's adjustment to open service by gays ...]]></text>
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    <article id="15142">
      <title><![CDATA[3 discharged gay service members suing for reinstatement]]></title>
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      <createdate unixtime="1317648700" delta="17 weeks ago"><![CDATA[10/3/2011]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[A federal lawsuit was filed Monday on behalf of three service members discharged from the U.S. military under the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy, asking for their reinstatement, according to attorneys representing the three. "This filing is a shot across the bow as we prepare to pursue and sustain an aggressive, far-reaching litigation strategy if the Senate fails to act this month to repeal the law," Aubrey Sarvis, executive director ...]]></text>
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    <article id="15141">
      <title><![CDATA[Helping Gay Actors Find Themselves Onstage]]></title>
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      <createdate unixtime="1317648474" delta="17 weeks ago"><![CDATA[10/3/2011]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[One by one the students in Brad Calcaterra's acting class stood at the front of the room and tearfully, joyfully, brazenly talked about being gay. A young lesbian laughed about her first kiss. A gay man described living with H.I.V. since the 1980s. A transgender woman performed high kicks. Before one man said anything his body shook, and he began to sob. “Keep breathing,” Mr. Calcaterra told him. “Create.”The weekly ...]]></text>
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    <article id="15140">
      <title><![CDATA[Two men allegedly kidnapped in gay 'hate crime']]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Gay Mens Connection Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1317648020" delta="17 weeks ago"><![CDATA[10/3/2011]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[Two North Otago men have been arrested after they allegedly kidnapped two other men and ordered them to leave town because they thought they were gay. The 'hate crime' took place in the town of Moeraki, with the two alleged victims detained in their homes and told to leave town last Thursday night, The Otago Daily Times reported.Two men, aged 40 and 41, from North Otago were arrested on Friday ...]]></text>
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    <article id="15139">
      <title><![CDATA[Portland Gay Men's Chorus Makes the Season Bright]]></title>
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      <createdate unixtime="1317647891" delta="17 weeks ago"><![CDATA[10/3/2011]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[If you caught the Portland Gay Men's Chorus this weekend at the Newmark Theatre, well lucky, lucky you. The talented gents were simply outstanding in their annual holiday revue, this year themed 'Jingle Bell Swing.' And did they ever. Whether going traditional or contemporary, religious or secular, hymns or humming, the PGMC delighted audiences with an infectious program staged around a retro radio broadcast.Spirited soprano Dru Rutledge guested with the ...]]></text>
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    <article id="15138">
      <title><![CDATA[Young  Gay Men in Australia Indulging Into Unsafe Sex]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Gay Mens Connection Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1317647660" delta="17 weeks ago"><![CDATA[10/3/2011]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[The young gay men in Australia are increasingly getting indulged into unsafe sexual practices than older men who have sex with men 'MSM', as found by a recent study. The findings of the study conducted by researchers from Melbourne's Burnet Institute appeared in the Medical Journal of Australia. The researchers discovered that young gay men in Australia were less inclined towards getting themselves tested for HIV; condom use was less ...]]></text>
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    <article id="15137">
      <title><![CDATA[Gay Social-Networking Site Fabulis Renamed Fab.com]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Gay Mens Connection Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1317647377" delta="17 weeks ago"><![CDATA[10/3/2011]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company has invested in gay social-networking site Fabulis, which has been renamed Fab.com. 'Fab.com is more than just a rebranding of Fabulis,' Jason Goldberg, founder and CEO of Fab.com said on the company's blog. 'It's an entirely new site with 350+ new features and more than 100,000 new pages. Our fab vision is to be the definitive resource for gay men, helping us discover the world and ...]]></text>
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    <article id="13023">
      <title><![CDATA[Today show decision to open wedding contest to gay couples spurs heated debate]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Gay Mens Connection Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1304671428" delta="39 weeks ago"><![CDATA[5/6/2011]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[NBC's decision to allow gay couples to enter the "Today" show's annual wedding contest triggered a passionate online debate Friday, opening a new front in the fiercely waged battle over same-sex marriage. The move came the same day as a federal judge in Boston ruled part of the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional, ratcheting up the legal fight over the rights of gays to marry. Activists on both sides are ...]]></text>
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    <article id="12793">
      <title><![CDATA[Doubts About Cuomo's Support of Gay Rights]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Gay Mens Connection Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1304072398" delta="40 weeks ago"><![CDATA[4/29/2011]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[As a landmark gay marriage bill hurtled toward an uncertain vote last year, New York's Democratic leaders scrambled to corral support. Gov. David A. Paterson delivered impassioned speeches, Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand headlined a giant rally and City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn shuttled back and forth to Albany to lobby lawmakers. But the state's most popular Democrat, Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo, was all but invisible. He was asked ...]]></text>
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