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Sort Of!   U.S. Tax Court says transition surgery medically necessary and tax deductible   CBS rejects gay dating website's Super Bowl commercial City asks for 'substantial' Scouts bond (Phila.)   Transgender Surgery is Deductible; Medical Coverage Coming   CBS is fine with Tebow's pro-life ad, but rejects gay dating ad Weiss pleads not guilty (Phila.)   Transgender Houstonian’s murder remains unsolved   Galileo Sets Up LGBT Capital for Gay Market Marriage activists stage weeks of events in Pa.    Book Deal For Amazing Memoir Of Transgender   AT&T Denies Gay Employee Sick Leave to Care for Ailing Partner Pa. court makes landmark custody ruling   World's 'second pregnant man' expecting baby boy next month   AT&T changes stance allowing gay employee leave of absence to care for partner Philadelphian spearheads national LGBT attorney group   With REAL ID, Privacy Concerns for the Transgender Community   Atlanta gay paper drops staff, stops publishing LGBT families head into year with new leadership, events   Is regulating drivers licenses for transgender people worth the time?   Atlanta’s new LGBT newspaper disappears Norman Baker, HIV/AIDS activist, 58   Harassed, intimidated, abused: but now Pakistan's hijra transgender minority finds its voice   Delta Helps HIV/AIDS Haiti Relief Workers  National   Victim Blaming and Transgender Rape Victims   Gay Group Says CBS Decision 'Homophobic Double Standard'  2010 US Census Opens Doors for Gay Participation   VA Official Calls Transgender People 'It' and 'Real-Life Tootsies'   Watch the gay ad that got banned from the SuperBowl [video]: Gay dating violence ignored again in S.C. 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Malawi Man Arrested for Gay Rights Posters   Don't Ask Don’t Tell / Military   Opinion: To struggle for gay rights is to struggle for all rights For China's Gay Community, The Show Doesn't Go On   Gay Ban Should Be Lifted, Mullen Says   A Contract for the Gay Guy/Straight Guy Friendship Manila gay bar raided   Gates Wants Review of Ban on Gays in Military (Video)   Gay Blood Weaker than Water Ramdev accepts challenge, says he will cure gay prince (IND)   Top Defense Officials Seek to End ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’   Celebrities / Personalities British Army Actively Recruits Gay Soldiers   Colin Powell shifts stance on 'don't ask, don't tell' policy   CNN's Anderson Cooper and Supposed Boyfriend to Adopt Haitian Orphan Conservative cabinet minister John Baird outed (CAN)   US military ban on openly gay personnel 'should end'   Anderson Cooper Not Adoptiong Haitian Baby, Still Gay The NHS pays to 'cure' homosexuals (GBR)   Attitudes toward gays have changed markedly since military policy was set   Jane Lynch: ‘I didn’t want to be gay – I wanted an easy life’ Harriet Harman will not continue fight over gay church staff (GBR)   Gay military ban to be repealed says President Obama; meanwhile 428 discharged in 2009 [video]   Don Imus Supports Gay Marriage! 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House committee kills anti-gay marriage bill   Congressman: Lifting 'Don't Ask' Will Mean Hermaphrodites   Religion / Clergy DC gay marriage bill in jeopardy as US Senators move to block it   Pentagon May Appoint Advisers To Help Implement Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal   Pope attacks gay-friendly laws ahead of U.K. visit No Local Donors for Anti Gay Marriage Funding in Washington, DC   The Harm of Don't Ask Don't Tell: Leading Double Lives, Dismissals and Making America Less Safe   Gay orthodox rabbi nudging Judaism Many Successful Gay Marriages Share an Open Secret   Politics/Politicians   Gay Humanists Thank Pope for Reinforcing Case for Secularism Indiana Senate Approves Constitutional Ban on Gay Marriage   Obama and gay rights: On again, off again   Pope wades into UK gay clergy battle Hawaii House Kills Gay Civil Unions Bill    Some wonder why Utah lawmakers backed off on gay-rights bills   Minn. 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Trial Reenactment Hits YouTube; Maude Fans Rejoice   Chicago Pol Claims Opponent Is Gay Pedophile, Then Doesn't Win Election   Wife of gay rugby star Gareth Thomas has no regrets Will we apologize to Gay, Inc. if the Prop. 8 case is lost?   Illinois Primary Includes Record Number Of Gay Candidates    Rugby legend claims skit was homophobic Protect Marriage's 1st Witness Admits DOMA is Discriminatory. Is Their Entire Case Doomed?   Sen. Scott Brown: Let the States Decide Gay Marriage, And Let the Military Decide DADT For Me   Travel     Ford's tough night with Colbert   A Bus Tour of Gay Hollywood All headlines are presumed copyrighted by there respective owners.    TV / Webcast   HBO eyes biopic about anti-gay activist Bryant   ABC Orders More Gay Dads    'SNL' and John Hamm Gay Up Politics   The 2010 Gay TV Pilot Round-Up!   Passings   Community activist Benjamin Gardiner dies   Norman Baker, HIV/AIDS activist, 58

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