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– Students at the University of North Texas and the University of Maryland are the latest calling for Chick-fil-A to be removed from her campus.
– A gay Manhattan man is fighting his father’s will, which mandated that he marry a woman if he expects his children to be entitled to their inheritance.
– Police in Greenville County, South Carolina have been accused of entrapping gay men with prostitution and sex in public, then arresting them even when the entrapment doesn’t work.
– San Francisco has approved its first affordable housing and activities center for LGBT seniors.
– Patrick Scwarzenegger (son of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver) is partnering up with Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation for Office Depot’s back-to-school campaign.
– The United Church of Canada has elected its first openly gay moderator.
– Anti-gay activists in Russia have sued Madonna for $10 million because she insulted their feelings by speaking out for gay rights at her concert in St. Petersburg.
– A Chinese student has “dared to be different,” coming out as gay during his graduation speech from Guangdong University of Finance and Economics.
– The United States and European Union have condemned the arrest of gay activists by Zimbabwean police.
– A new book profiles the struggles of a gay man living in Afghanistan.
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– Rob Rogers, editorial cartoonist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, takes on the Family Research Council’s claims that it isn’t a “hate group”: