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		<title>Court dismisses attempt to force California to defend Prop 8</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anti-same-sex-marriage activists filed suit in California&#8217;s 3rd District Court of Appeal in Sacramento on Aug. 30 in an attempt to force Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown to defend Proposition 8 in the federal case that has been appealed to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. But it wasn&#8217;t to be. Three [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California Senate condemns Ugandan bill and U.S. religious groups</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The California Senate passed a resolution Aug. 30 condemning the pending bill in Uganda that would jail gays for life and punish some with the death penalty. The vote was 21-14. Introduced by Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, and sponsored by Equality California, the resolution also &#8220;calls upon the United States Department of State to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scott Long leaves Human Rights Watch</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scott Long resigned Aug. 23 as director of Human Rights Watch&#8217;s LGBT Rights Program. In a note to friends, Long wrote: &#8220;In mid-July I suffered a pulmonary embolism of a fairly unpleasant sort. While running to catch a bus on a New York street, I saw a blinding effusion of white light, amid which several spangled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California Senate unanimously votes to repeal anti-gay law</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The California Senate on Aug. 23 unanimously passed a bill to repeal a 1950s-era law that instructs the California Department of Mental Health to conduct research into the &#8220;causes and cures of homosexuality.&#8221; The repeal previously passed the Assembly and heads to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger after an Assembly concurrence vote. &#8220;It is outrageous that California [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California Legislature calls for census count of LGBTs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The California Assembly passed a resolution Aug. 23 urging Congress and President Barack Obama to require that the next census count LGBT Americans. Introduced by Sen. Christine Kehoe, D-San Diego, the measure passed 49-25. It previously passed the Senate 22-9. &#8220;All segments of our nation&#8217;s diverse population need to be counted by the U.S. Census,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ken Mehlman comes out</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ken Mehlman, George W. Bush&#8217;s 2004 campaign chief and the former chairman of the Republican National Committee, came out of the closet Aug. 25 in an interview with The Atlantic. He is the most powerful Republican in history to openly identify as gay. He previously had denied being gay in published reports. &#8220;It&#8217;s taken me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What matters now in the Prop 8 federal case?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Various legal documents will be filed and then the federal Proposition 8 case will be argued in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals the week of Dec. 6. And there&#8217;s little chance California&#8217;s statewide and local LGBT activists will talk about much else between now and then. So what&#8217;s the Prop 8 chitchat here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>59% support same-sex marriage in Rhode Island</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fifty-nine percent of Rhode Islanders support legalization of same-sex marriage. Rhode Island is the only New England state without same-sex marriage, apart from Maine, where, in 2009, the Legislature passed and the governor signed a law legalizing gay marriage, then saw voters &#8220;veto&#8221; it at the ballot box. The survey of 502 likely Rhode Island [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York lawmakers address gay divorce</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:51:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The legislative history of a no-fault divorce bill that passed New York&#8217;s Senate, then the Assembly, includes an Assembly memo that reaffirms New York&#8217;s recognition of same-sex marriages from elsewhere and says that married gay couples can divorce in New York. Gov. David Paterson signed the bill Aug. 15. The memo says: &#8220;It is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California same-sex marriages blocked for several more months</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Aug. 16 blocked any same-sex marriages from taking place in California while proponents of the state&#8217;s marriage ban appeal the Aug. 4 district-court ruling that found Proposition 8 in violation of the U.S. Constitution. The appeals court said it will hear the case the week of Dec. [...]]]></description>
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