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		<title>DJ&#8217;s life threatened</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Radio star and gay icon (sic) Chris Needs has revealed he has received death threats because of his sexuality, according to This is South Wales.
Gay Activist admits being unaware that Mr Needs was a gay icon, so the article&#8217;s in-depth profile of Mr Needs was very welcome. Years after getting a lift in Richard Burton&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gactupdate.wordpress.com&blog=3071370&post=3123&subd=gactupdate&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MPs vote against religious lobby in free speech row</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MPs last night defeated an amendment by 342 votes to 145 which would protect free speech for bigots in the bill designed to protect gays and lesbians from homophobic hatred. The House of Lords had required the amendment but for the fourth time in succession, MPs threw it out, reports Pink News.
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		<title>Gay families under the microscope</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Both the New York Times and USA Today have been looking at gay families, gay marriage, and gays adopting or otherwise caring for their children.
Both are good articles.
Gay couples: A close look at this modern family, parenting, USA Today
What’s Good for the Kid, New York Times
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		<title>Texting leads to blackmail</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A man who has not been named has been blackmailed for thousands of pounds after sending explicit text messages to another man. Two men have been jailed for the blackmail attempt.
On May 23, the blackmailers turned up at the victim&#8217;s home, &#8220;punched and slapped&#8221; the victim and his partner, then left with £300 and one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gactupdate.wordpress.com&blog=3071370&post=3114&subd=gactupdate&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How dangerous is it to live in Liverpool for gays?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Liverpool Echo has been investigating homophobic crime in Liverpool following the recent well-attended protests against homophobia. They found more cases ranging from teenagers to a man of sixty who is terrified and trying to leave the city.
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		<title>Gay rights approved by Washington state voters</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gay rights have been approved by voters in Washington state, US but by a tiny margin, reports the Associated Press.
With about 72 percent of the expected vote counted Thursday in unofficial returns, Referendum 71 was leading 52 percent to 48 percent, with a margin of about 60,000 votes.
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		<title>20 Years On from the fall of the Wall; 20 Years Wasted</title>
		<link>http://gactupdate.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/20-years-on-from-the-fall-of-the-wall-20-years-wasted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Its 20 years since the Iron Curtain fell and you are probably fed up with the repeats of the wall falling on television. But twenty years after the fall of communism there are still parts of Europe which retain anti-gay laws, like the Baltic States. AFP has been doing a survey.

Uncredited and untitled Photo: AFP/Google [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gactupdate.wordpress.com&blog=3071370&post=3108&subd=gactupdate&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Get out of my cab darlings</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A gay couple got tossed out of a taxi in New York after the cabbie spied them hugging in the back of his vehicle, reports Edge Boston. New York?
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		<title>Facing gay relationships in Kenya, where homosexuality is still illegal</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Homosexuality is still illegal in Kenya, but that doesn&#8217;t stop Kenyans coming to the UK and getting hitched here. Thats what Daniel Chege Gichia and Charles Ngengi have done and it has caused a stir back home in Kenya; and now the Kenyan government is planning to find out how many gay and lesbian people [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gactupdate.wordpress.com&blog=3071370&post=3104&subd=gactupdate&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Our fragmented history</title>
		<link>http://gactupdate.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/our-fragmented-history/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing in the Belfast Telegraph, Sean Og Garland asks why Belfast&#8217;s museum does not put on an exhibition of LGBT history, like the British Museum has done.
And the Museum of London. And many others.
The thing is: you need to get involved: if you don&#8217;t ask, you don&#8217;t get; if there hasn&#8217;t been an exhibition locally, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gactupdate.wordpress.com&blog=3071370&post=3102&subd=gactupdate&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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