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With the year coming to a close, NNN Rewind polled Logo readers to find out what they felt were the most important news stories of 2007.
Topping the list were the upcoming presidential election, ENDA and gay unions as issues that most affected the LGBT community this year.
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Hungary’s Registered Partnership Act was approved by Parliament this week, paving the way for same-sex couples to enter into legally recognized unions.
The law, set to go into effect in January 2009 gives gay and lesbian couples almost identical rights as heterosexual married couples such as joint tax filing, next of kin status in addition to […]

As long as same-sex marriage is illegal, the Lyndale United Church of Christ, a small liberal congregation outside of Minneapolis will stop performing civil marriage ceremonies.
The church will still hold religious ceremonies to celebrate the unions of straight and same-sex couples, but straight couples must go to a state authority to obtain a marriage license.
Lead pastor for the […]

On Thursday night dozens of people came to a Manhattan church to commemorate the death of Ali Forney, a young gay man who was fatally shot in the head ten years ago. 
Ali Forney had struggled with homelessness and drug use for years. His death brought to light the fact that there was no safe place for […]

After a three year battle with the city of Philadelphia, the Boy Scouts of America refused to change its policy that refuses membership to homosexuals, and will now be evicted from a municipal building.
Since 1928, the Boys Scouts have paid $1 a year in rent, to reside in the Beaux Arts building where the market value […]

In a letter issued to Congress, 28 retired U.S. generals and admirals called for an end to the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. The law, passed in 1993 prohibits anyone who displays a tendency towards homosexual acts from enlisting in military service because “it would create an unacceptable risk to the high standards of morale…discipline […]