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Mexico City lawmakers on Monday made the city the first in Latin America to legalize same-sex marriage, a change that will give homosexual couples more rights, including allowing them to adopt children. The bill passed the capital’s local assembly 39-20 to the cheers of supporters who yelled: “Yes, we could! Yes, we could!”

Leftist Mayor Marcelo […]

Five Republican House members are urging the president of Uganda to oppose a proposed law that would impose the death penalty for some gay Ugandans. The lawmakers say they are all men of faith, and that the bill is antithetical to the Christian belief of “inherent dignity and worth” of all people. The congressmen used […]

The head of the Russian Orthodox Church says that, although the church views homosexuality as a sin, homosexuality is a personal choice.

Patriarch Kirill says gays and lesbians must not be persecuted or discriminated against in any way, though the church still opposes same-sex marriages.
The patriarch’s statements, a breakthrough for the Russian church, were made during […]

The District of Columbia is asking a judge to throw out a lawsuit that attempts to block the marriage equality bill Mayor Adrian Fenty signed into law last Friday, the Associated Press reports.
The plaintiffs, led by Bishop Harry Jackson, a local minister are hoping to get an initiative on the ballot to ban marriage equality […]

Will & Grace actress Megan Mullally will return to Broadway in the revival of out playwright Terrence McNally’s Lips Together, Teeth Apart. The play, which centers around a July 4 celebration filled with mishaps at a Fire Island beach house, will begin previews April 9, 2010 at the American Airlines Theatre with a limited engagement […]

Religion has not loosened its grip on the South — a new poll finds that the most religious states are south of the Mason-Dixon line, with Mississippi leading the pack.
A Pew Forum study asked respondents whether religion is important in their lives, and 82% percent of Mississipians said yes. Following Mississippi was Alabama and Arkansas […]

Carrie, Miranda, Samantha, and Charlotte are back in another flick inspired by the HBO hit Sex and the City.
It appears that the rumored gay wedding — possibly between Mario Cantone’s Anthony and Willie Garson’s Stanford — may have made the cut. The gang also get to travel abroad, as a short clip shows them traversing […]

 
An Australian father who is accused of forcing his teenage son to have sex with a prostitute — out of fear that he was gay — may face rape charges.
As the rest of the family celebrated Christmas 2007, the father allegedly took his son to a motel in North Rockhampton, where he paid the prostitute […]