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National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and Human Rights Campaign Launch $1 Million

www.gaywired.com Los Angeles, CA

The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the Human Rights Campaign this week announced they would donate up to $100,000 each as a challenge to raise $1 million by Labor Day to fight a proposed California constitutional amendment that seeks to eliminate all legal rights and protections for same-sex couples and their families, including domestic partnerships and equal marriage rights.

Army discharges wounded gay soldier

By Karen Gullo
Bloomberg, CA

Members of the California Assembly defeated a bill to legalize gay marriage in the state, with 37 legislators opposed to the measure and 35 in favor.

Gay-Marriage Opponents in Calif. Seek Ban

By BRIAN MELLEY, Associated Press Writer
SACRAMENTO, Calif.

Gay marriage opponents Thursday filed a proposed amendment to the state Constitution that would ban same-sex marriage and strip domestic partners of most spousal benefits.

Despite DNA, colleague testimony might be key in gay officer's murder trial

By Harriet Ryan, Court TV
COLUMBIA, Mo.

The hard scientific evidence linking Steven Rios, a married police officer, to the murder of his gay college-student lover boils down to three hairs and a speck of DNA five times too small to be seen by the naked eye.

Sniffing out the gay gene

Steven Pinker - The New York Times
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts

It sounds like something out of the satirical journal Annals of Improbable Research: A team of Swedish scientists scanned people's brains as they smelled a testosterone derivative found in men's sweat and an estrogen-like compound found in women's urine.

In heterosexual men, a part of the hypothalamus (the seat of physical drives) responded to the female compound but not the male one; in heterosexual women and homosexual men, it was the other way around.

Gay Former Congressman Marries in Mass

BOSTON - Former U.S. Rep. Gerry Studds, the first openly gay member of Congress, quietly married his longtime partner last year after same-sex marriage became legal in Massachusetts, according to a published report.

Half of 760 Polled Oppose Gay Marriage

BOSTON - Half of Americans disapprove of same-sex marriages and do not want their states to recognize gay marriages from Massachusetts, a new survey by the Boston Globe shows.

Kraft attacked for backing Gay Games

Kraft Foods has come under attack by the American Family Association, which urges the food maker to drop its corporate sponsorship of the 2006 Gay Games in Chicago.

U.S. Judge Rejects Neb. Gay-Marriage Ban

BY KEVIN O'HANLON, Associated Press Writer

LINCOLN, Neb. - Nebraska's ban on gay marriage was struck down by a federal judge who ruled the measure interferes with the rights of gay couples and people in a host of other living arrangements, including foster parents and adopted children. The constitutional amendment, which defined marriage as a union between a man and a woman, was passed overwhelmingly by the voters in November 2000.