Va. lawmakers split along party lines on AG’s plan to fight gay marriage ban

• Released Date: 23-Jan-2014

RICHMOND, Va. — Attorney General Mark Herring’s announcement Thursday that he’ll join a fight to undo the state’s ban on same-sex marriage set the stage for a showdown with Republican legislators.

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Leading Indian psychiatrist: Homosexuality is unnatural, gays should seek treatment

• Released Date: 23-Jan-2014

MUMBAI – The former head of the national India Psychiatric Society described homosexuality as unnatural and that homosexuals uncomfortable with their sexuality should seek psychiatric help.

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Hundreds of thousands of Sochi Games tickets still unsold as Russia is criticized for gay rights

• Released Date: 23-Jan-2014

With just three weeks to go before the start of the Sochi Winter Olympics, hundreds of thousands of tickets remain unsold for the games in an embarrassment for Russian authorities. - See more at: http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/hundreds-thousands-

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Candidate: Autism, dementia are God’s punishment for abortion, gay marriage

• Released Date: 23-Jan-2014

CHICAGO – A Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives says that autism and dementia are punishments from God, who is angry over abortion and same-sex marriage.

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Three UK thugs found guilty over anti-gay attack

• Released Date: 23-Jan-2014

Three thugs who attacked a man they met online in a homophobic assault were found guilty this week. - See more at: http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/three-uk-thugs-found-guilty-over-anti-gay-attack230114#sthash.smsSaSB9.dpuf

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UNAIDS launches legal challenge to Malawi’s ban on gay sex

• Released Date: 22-Jan-2014

The United Nations body tasked with tackling HIV around the world has announced it will join local activists and the Malawi Law Society in a court challenge to Malawi’s law criminalizing gay sex - See more at: http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/unaid

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Houston’s newlywed lesbian mayor to GOP critics of her marriage: ’They can get over it’

• Released Date: 22-Jan-2014

Houstons lesbian Mayor Annise Parker is being attacked by GOP critics for getting married in California last week to her partner of more than two decades. - See more at: http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/houstons-newlywed-lesbian-mayor-gop-critics-h

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Gays not widely represented in NIH studies

• Released Date: 22-Jan-2014

EAST SUSSEX, UK — Just half of one percent of studies funded by the National Institutes of Health concern LGBT issues according to a new report from the American Journal of Public Health, Medical News Today reports.

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Lesbian lawmaker from San Diego to be the next speaker of the California Assembly

• Released Date: 22-Jan-2014

The leadership of the California Assembly will be handed off from a gay man to a lesbian at the end of 2014. - See more at: http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/lesbian-lawmaker-san-diego-be-next-speaker-california-assembly220114#sthash.cCpUrfOZ.dpuf

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Oxfam cancels London event after speaker called gays ‘evil’

• Released Date: 22-Jan-2014

Global charity Oxfam has cancelled an event in London after learning the speaker called gay people ‘evil’. - See more at: http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/oxfam-cancels-london-event-after-speaker-called-gays-evil220114#sthash.iiF1rURo.dpuf

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LGBT advocates seek equality

• Released Date: 22-Jan-2014

The government must amend legislation to stamp out hate crimes and discrimination against Cambodia’s gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender citizens, rights activists said during a forum in the capital yesterday.

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Pregnant smokers, drinkers more likely to have gay kids: study

• Released Date: 22-Jan-2014

LONDON — A new study from an Amsterdam University neurobiology professor suggests that choices made during pregnancy such as taking synthetic hormones, smoking, drinking and stress can raise the chance of having a gay child, the Sunday Times reports.

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