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		<title>Scandal rocks Howard Brown &#8211; again!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 04:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kerrie Kennedy</dc:creator>
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Rumors swirl and community leaders demand an explanation after the abrupt departure of Howard Brown’s CEO and CFO last week, but the GLBT health care organization continues to stonewall in providing an explanation.
After placing Michael Cook and Mark Joslyn on paid administrative leave two weeks ago, Howard Brown Health Center confirmed last Friday that Cook [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lou Conte: ballerina or businessman?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 03:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Alderton</dc:creator>
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You don’t have to know the difference between a plié and a pirouette in order to appreciate dance, and you don’t have to know dance in order to appreciate Lou Conte.
The founder and former artistic director of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago (HSDC), Chicago’s most famous dance troupe, he’s animated but approachable, passionate but not at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ricky Martin (officially) comes out</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:34:26 +0000</pubDate>
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Stating he is &#8220;a fortunate homosexual man,&#8221; Ricky Martin announces to the world that he is gay.  Check out the of the announcement on his official website.
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		<title>Daley appoints DePaul professor to gay advisory council</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kerrie Kennedy</dc:creator>
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Mayor Richard M. Daley has appointed DePaul University professor Elizabeth Kelly as chairperson of the Advisory Council on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Issues.
Kelly, who teaches women’s and gender studies at DePaul, was a founding member of DePaul’s interdisciplinary program in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender studies; will Kelly has served on the council for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joy Behar, Cynthia Nixon honored at 21st Annual GLAAD Media Awards</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 01:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Staff and Wire Reports</dc:creator>
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NEW YORK—The Gay &#38; Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) honored Joy Behar and Cynthia Nixon last week at the 21st Annual GLAAD Media Awards in New York.
Sex and the City creator Michael Patrick King presented actress Cynthia Nixon with the Vito Russo Award, which honors openly GLBT media professionals who have made a significant difference [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christy Webber’s &#8220;Gay Garden of Eden&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 01:52:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Alderton</dc:creator>
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Although she’s lived in Chicago since 1983, Christy Webber is no city mouse. Born 88 miles northwest of Detroit in Montrose, Mich.—population 1,480—she was born a country mouse, and a country mouse is what she says she’ll always be.
That’s why she started her business, Christy Webber Landscapes, in 1988: If she had to work, she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Illinoisans rally to save essential HIV/AIDS services</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 01:50:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kerrie Kennedy</dc:creator>
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Hundreds of HIV/AIDS advocates from around the state met at the State Capitol last Wednesday to rally for a budget that would protect programs that are essential to the lives of people living with and at risk for HIV/AIDS.
AIDS advocates from the recently formed Illinois Alliance for Sound AIDS Policy as well as State Sens. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watching a tea party</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 01:47:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Varnell</dc:creator>
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I don’t remember seeing much print coverage of the so-called Tea Party movement last year, but then in recent months The New York Times had three or four articles about the movement—is development, its national convention, and then just this month, its effort to remain “on message.”
The Tea Party movement, founded just last year, is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Malawi and Madonna</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 01:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Vanasco</dc:creator>
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Ministers in Malawi gathered last week to “understand the phenomenon” of homosexuality.
Their conclusion:
1. Homosexuality is a sin.
2. Western donor nations should stop trying to blackmail Malawi into accepting something (some, maybe most) Malawians find immoral.
Hmmm.
We can dismiss their first point right away. I don’t believe homosexuality is sinful—and likely you don’t either, if you’re reading [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Episcopal church approves second gay bishop</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 01:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Staff and Wire Reports</dc:creator>
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LOS ANGELES—The Episcopal Church has approved the election of a lesbian assistant bishop—Rev. Mary Glasspool—in the Diocese of Los Angeles, making her the second openly gay bishop in the Anglican global fellowship, diocese officials said last Wednesday.
Glasspool’s victory underscored a continued Episcopal commitment to accepting same-sex relationships despite enormous pressure from other Anglicans to change [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spurned by Nev., transgender woman to wed in Calif.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 01:07:16 +0000</pubDate>
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RENO—Danielle Pauline Severson takes female hormones, dresses and acts like a woman and plans to have sex reassignment surgery so she physically looks like a woman.
Yet the pre-operative transgender female, who was born Dana Paul Severson, will have to tie the knot to a woman in California.
After being jilted by officials in Nevada—which bills itself [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report questions excluding gays from some studies</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 01:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
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MILWAUKEE—A small but significant portion of medical studies exclude gays from participating, sometimes without an apparent scientific reason, several cancer researchers say.
In a letter in last week’s New England Journal of Medicine, three scientists from the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia cite several dozen studies requiring a participant to be “in a reciprocal relationship [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ellen presents $30K to lesbian in school prom flap</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 01:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
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JACKSON—A lesbian high school student embroiled in a legal flap over her high school’s prom policy has received a $30,000 scholarship on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.”
Constance McMillen was speechless Friday when the talk show host, who is a lesbian, pulled out an oversized check from the Web site Tonic.Com, a digital media company.
DeGeneres says she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Activist Choi arrested at the White House</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 01:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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WASHINGTON, D.C.—Openly gay activists Lt. Dan Choi and Capt. Jim Pietrangelo were arrested last Thursday after chaining themselves to the White House gates following a Human Rights Campaign rally for DADT repeal.
Pietrangelo, who was discharged from the military under the gay ban, and Choi, whose discharge is pending, have been outspoken activists for the repeal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Groundbreaking study on GLBT seniors released at Aging in America conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:17:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Alderton</dc:creator>
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On any given day of the week, the Center on Halsted in Lakeview is teeming with activity. There are gay and lesbian teenagers from Chicago&#8217;s South and West sides socializing via instant message in the Cyber Center. There are trans-gendered men and women assembling for “T” talk, a peer-led trans discussion group. There are Boystown [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Windy City Performing Arts names new Artistic Director</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:19:59 +0000</pubDate>
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Windy City Performing Arts has appointed Stephen C. Edwards as artistic director for Windy City Gay Chorus and Aria: Windy City Women’s Ensemble.
Edwards, an accomplished musician and choral director, is currently the Director of Music and Worship at Community United Methodist Church, where he conducts three choirs. He has sung with the Chicago Symphony Chorus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ben &amp; Jerry’s Georgetown shop hosts DC gay wedding</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:17:39 +0000</pubDate>
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WASHINGTON—Ben &#38; Jerry’s co-founder Jerry Greenfield attended the wedding of a gay couple who got married at a Ben &#38; Jerry’s store in Georgetown last week. Keith Spangler-Vellios and Andreas Vellios married last Thursday at the scoop shop. The couple previously married in San Francisco in 2004, but the marriage in California was invalidated. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sean Hayes comes out</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
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LOS ANGELES—Actor Sean Hayes, best known for playing the flamboyant character Jack McFarland on the show “Will &#38; Grace,” has publicly announced that he’s gay.
Although Hayes’ sexual orientation was long considered an open secret in Hollywood, this is the first time the 39 year-old Chicago native has gone on record about it.
Despite his resistance to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>San Francisco LGBT center asking for $1M</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
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SAN FRANCISCO—San Francisco’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center is asking the city for some big financial help to stay afloat.
Since opening in 2002, the $12.3 million, city-subsidized center has struggled to pay its mortgage and is now on the verge of foreclosure.
Officials are now asking the city for a $1 million line of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lesbian Sgt. discharged after police tell military</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:17:11 +0000</pubDate>
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RAPID CITY—Jene Newsome played by the rules as an Air Force sergeant: She never told anyone in the military she was a lesbian. The 28-year-old’s honorable discharge under the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy came only after police officers in Rapid City, S.D., saw an Iowa marriage certificate in her home and told the nearby [...]]]></description>
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