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Sunday, May 19, 2013
12:22pm

Friday night in New York's Greenwich Village, police say a gunman, who is in custody but has yet to be identified, followed Mark Carson, taunting him with anti-gay slurs and homophobic language, before tragically shooting him in the head.

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Jared Leto has been one of Hollywood's most desired men since breaking out in 1994's My So-Called Life, but he's dev

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Lambda Legal and the ACLU visited the Illinois capitol in Springfield with 10 gay and lesbian couples to lobby lawmakers on marriage equality, and reported that a bill on the issue could be voted on in January 2013.

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Poland’s Supreme Court Wednesday recognized the right of gay partnerships to succeed to tenancies in this country where legislators have for years stonewalled attempts to introduce civil unions for lesbian and gay couples.

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A Taiwanese court is set to rule next month on a gay couple's appeal against a government agency's refusal to register their marriage, in what rights groups Thursday called a "milestone" case.

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The number of gay men being diagnosed with HIV has reached a record high in the UK, according to the Health Protection Agency (HPA).

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Secretary of State Hilary Clinton paid tribute to the State Department’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender employees at the 20th anniversary celebration of the Gays and Lesbians in Foreign Affairs Agencies (GLIFAA) organization.

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The Los Angeles Times Editorial Board urges the U.S. Supreme Court to review the case against the anti-gay Proposition 8 and the cases against the so-called "Defense of Marriage" Act (DOMA), saying, "The Supreme Court should rule clearly that Proposition 8 and other bans on same-sex marriage are unconstitutional."

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A blog post written by James Gunn -- the filmmaker handpicked by Disney-owned Marvel Studios to rewrite and direct its upcoming superhero blockbuster Guardians of the Galaxy -- has been removed from the Internet amid building outrage over comments in it perceived to be sexist and homophobic.

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