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Cuba Pays For Sex Change Operations – Photos – WGAL The …

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‘I am gay,’ state Sen. Roy Ashburn acknowledges (San Francisco Chronicle)

Republican state Sen. Roy Ashburn of Bakersfield announced on a Kern County radio station Monday that he is gay, but said he likely will continue to vote against legislation that would expand rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Californians…

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‘I am gay,’ state Sen. Roy Ashburn acknowledges (San Francisco Chronicle)

‘I am gay,’ state Sen. Roy Ashburn acknowledges (San Francisco Chronicle)

Republican state Sen. Roy Ashburn of Bakersfield announced on a Kern County radio station Monday that he is gay, but said he likely will continue to vote against legislation that would expand rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Californians…

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‘I am gay,’ state Sen. Roy Ashburn acknowledges (San Francisco Chronicle)

Same-sex couples protest for right to marry at Houston City Hall (11 News Houston)

HOUSTON—Same sex couples living in Houston continued to fight for their right to marry on Friday. They took their protest to the County Clerk’s Office. The Gay-Lesbian-Bisexual-Transgender Community said this is national Freedom to Marry Week. Those wishing to be a married applied for a license Friday, but were denied.    Supporters staged a protest outside the Clerk’s Office and City Hall. The …

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New compromise emerges on gay rights (The Salt Lake Tribune)

Anti-discrimination ordinances adopted by Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County are safe — at least for 2010. But lawmakers won’t be diving into a yearlong study of whether to expand such protections in housing and employment statewide to gay and transgender Utahns in 2011.

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Antique gold jewellery to go on show at historic house > Gold News …

Baldwin County’s department of archives and history recently received a box of rare gold jewellery from the Swift-Coles estate that is believed to be worth more than $100000 (£61492), according to the Press-Register. …

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Local perspectives (Miami Herald)

MIAMI BEACHTRANSGENDERS PROTECTED The City Commission beefed up its 1992 Human Relations ordinance last week to extend protections to transgender residents, partly in hopes that it will inspire the county and state to do the same. That might be feasible at the county level, but even supporters say chances at the state level are, sadly, slim to none right now.

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