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*A recent poll by 'The Wall Street Journal' reveals that 55% percent of the 2,337 Americans questioned do not support the current US military policy of barring openly gay people from serving. Only 18% of respondents felt that gay people should not be allowed to be in the Armed Forces at all.
*Last week, James E. McGreevey, the nation's first openly gay governor, filed for divorce from his wife of seven years, Dina Matos McGreevey. Sandra Thaler-Gerber, a spoke woman for the Union County Superior Court in Elizabeth, NJ, confirmed receiving a two-page document from McGreevey's lawyers, in which the New Jersey's ex governor seeks to dissolve his marriage. The ex-governor and his wife have lived apart since November 2004, when McGreevey resigned as New Jersey's governor following a stunning public announcement that he was "a gay American" who had had an affair with a male staffer.
*A lesbian couple registered, what officials called Mexico's first gay civil union on Wednesday in the northern city of Saltillo. The couple, Karina Almaguer and Karla Lopez, traveled to Saltillo from their home state of Tamaulipas to register as a "civil solidarity union" under a newly passed law that made Coahuila the first of Mexico's 31 states to grant recognition to such unions. Yay!! However, Roman Catholic bishop, Alonso Garza of Piedras Negras, said Friday that their union is "a disgrace" and "a show."
* AIDS Project Los Angeles and New York City–based Gay Men's Health Crisis announced the launch of tweakends.org, a website dedicated to helping gay and bisexual men understand crystal meth.
*Homophobic Bullying 'Getting Worse'! According to the Queer Youth Network, a British organization by and for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered youth, high-profile homophobic bullying initiatives are failing to make a significant impact in preventing homophobic bullying in schools.
*This month, Catholic Portugal may decide to break ranks with a small group of countries including Ireland and Poland and legalize abortion, in a referendum which some cast as a deeper test of its readiness for progress. On the face of it, the February 11th vote could resolve the estimated 23,000 abortions that take place in secret each year, which Socialist Prime Minister Jose Socrates has called "Portugal's most shameful wound."
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Is legalization of abortion progress?? Because I'm gay do I have to believe in abortion also....Why not follows the US laws...you can have an abortion but can't smoke in a bar!!!
That's a good question anonymous. I personally believe that the legalization of abortion is progress. Why give birth to a child that is not wanted or that would be born into misery and hardship, that is if the mother lives in poverty or dangerous environment. Also taking under consideration that the world is overpopulated, why not abort. And no, not because you are gay you have to believe in abortion...'Gai News' is mainly about issues related to gay people but from time to time, if i find something not directly gay related but interesting, it will end up under Gai News. And completely agree with baning smoking in bars.
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