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Daily News (LA)
BY REBECCA ROSEN LUM
MediaNews Staff Writer

The Mormon Church has quietly moved further from defining homosexuality as evil and the result of faulty parenting.

An unheralded new church publication, “God Loveth His Children,” says gay feelings are neither learned nor chosen, and it counsels against rejecting a gay child.

Seemingly aimed at young people, the statement gently counsels individuals who feel attraction to and love for same-gender people to trust in God’s plan and not act upon the transitory desires of mortal life - a period of “probation during which we face a variety of temptations and challenges.”

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Trendhunter Magazine

There’s a class of modern day nomads that include homosexuals, and a new publication was written catered just to them. In “Traveling in our Fabulous World”, Donald Pile and Ray Williams go beyond the regular touristy sites to see, and make specific note of gay hot spots in different cities. From locales with gay history, to the best places to mingle with men today, the book is the ultimate resource for the savvy gay traveler. Explore the best of New York, Boston, Kansas City, L.A., and of course, San Francisco!

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By PAUL BOURGEOIS
Star-Telegram

ARLINGTON — By all accounts, Cecil H. Sinclair lived a quiet life as an openly gay man. But in death — particularly in the handling of his funeral — controversy now swirls around Sinclair.

Blogs, e-mails, letters and water-cooler talk Monday centered on last week’s decision by High Point Church in southeast Arlington to withdraw its invitation to host funeral services for Sinclair.

Church leaders said they canceled the service because, as planned by friends and family, it would have promoted homosexuality.

Sinclair, a Fort Worth native, graduated from Sam Houston High School in Arlington in 1979 and from Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches. He was a Navy veteran of Desert Storm. He was a member of Turtle Creek Chorale of Dallas, a gay men’s chorus that had planned to perform at his service.

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The Seattle Times
By Lornet Turnbull

Some men rocked and cradled young babies; others pushed gleeful toddlers high on the playground swings.

Among them were fathers still getting used to maladies like colic and diaper rash and others gearing up for back to school.

And all of them were gay — dads of children ages 3 months to 10 years, who gathered for a picnic at Cal Anderson Park on Capitol Hill on Sunday to share stories of child rearing and offer each other support.

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…that a lesbian organization has finally gotten the balls to put together a “hottest chicks” list. And they did a much, much better job than Maxim did. Bravo, kudos and two thumbs up (way up) for AfterEllen.com.

The AfterEllen.com Hot 100 List
by scribegrrrl, Sr. Editor

Let’s face it: Maxim doesn’t cater to lesbians. In fact, you could say it flies in the face of all that we hold dear, especially when it declares Lindsay Lohan the hottest of them all, as it did when it published The Maxim Hot 100 List last month. So we asked you, our readers, to create your own list of hotties, and you came out in droves to nominate the women you think deserve to be on the AfterEllen.com Hot 100 List. Thousands of votes later, we have the results.

How is our list different from Maxim’s? Eight of the top 10 women on our list aren’t mentioned anywhere on the Maxim list (Angelina Jolie and Lena Headey are the exceptions), and only four of the women who made Maxim’s top 10 (Jessica Alba, Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Biel and Lindsay Lohan) appear somewhere on the AfterEllen.com list.

Clearly, what straight men and lesbians find sexy in a woman is a little bit different.

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yahoo.com
By BOB JOHNSON
Associated Press Writer

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - The Alabama Department of Homeland Security has taken down a Web site it operated that included gay rights and anti-war organizations in a list of groups that could include terrorists.

The Web site identified different types of terrorists, and included a list of groups it believed could spawn terrorists. The list also included environmentalists, animal rights advocates and abortion opponents.

The director of the department, Jim Walker, said his agency received a number of calls and e-mails from people who said they felt the site unfairly targeted certain people just because of their beliefs. He said he plans to put the Web site back on the Internet, but will no longer identify specific types of groups.

Howard Bayliss, chairman of the gay and lesbian advocacy group Equality Alabama, said he doesn’t understand why gay rights advocates would be on the list.

“Our group has only had peaceful demonstrations. I’m deeply concerned we’ve been profiled in this discriminatory matter,” Bayliss said.

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Boy Poland’s a few years behind.

 au.news.yahoo.com

WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland’s conservative government took its drive to curb what it sees as homosexual propaganda to the small screen on Monday, taking aim at Tinky Winky and the other Teletubbies.

Ewa Sowinska, government-appointed children rights watchdog, told a local magazine published on Monday she was concerned the popular BBC children’s show promoted homosexuality.

She said she would ask psychologists to advise if this was the case.

In comments reminiscent of criticism by the late U.S. evangelist Jerry Falwell, she was quoted as saying: “I noticed (Tinky Winky) has a lady’s purse, but I didn’t realize he’s a boy.”

“At first I thought the purse would be a burden for this Teletubby … Later I learned that this may have a homosexual undertone.”

Poland’s rightist government has upset human rights groups and drawn criticism within the European Union by apparent discrimination against homosexuals.

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