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Shifting attitudes take gay rights fight around world
CNN, Posted: 8/20/2010, 12:17 PM
QUICK LOOK: In signing Argentina's same-sex marriage law, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner said debate over the issue would be "absolutely anachronistic" -- archaic, out... (MORE)

Report: 1 killed and 17 detained in Brazil Gay Pride
Associated Press (AP), Posted: 8/15/2010, 10:30 PM
QUICK LOOK: Authorities say a teenager has been shot to death in a fight between rival gangs at a gay parade in southeastern Brazil. Police say the teenager was shot when the gangs... (MORE)
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Lance Bass now dating Marc Jacobs' former fiancee
People, Posted: 8/2/2010, 9:02 PM
QUICK LOOK: There's a new man in Lance Bass's life. ? The former 'N Sync singer has been happily dating Lorenzo Martone – designer Marc Jacobs's former fiancé – for two months, a... (MORE)
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3 million join world's biggest Gay Pride in São Paulo
Agence France Presse (AFP), Posted: 6/7/2010, 6:02 PM
QUICK LOOK: WATCH: Homosexuals and their supporters filled Sao Paulo's main avenue Sunday for an annual Gay Parade that organizers claimed was the biggest in the world with an estimated... (MORE)
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Gay American's foreign partner gets special reprieve
Boston Globe, Posted: 6/5/2010, 6:07 PM
QUICK LOOK: Tim Coco and Genesio Oliveira married in 2005, among the throngs who wed after same-sex marriage became legal in Massachusetts. But for nearly three years, they lived... (MORE)
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Brazilian actor to sue for pics on 'GayTube' XXX site
Posted: 3/7/2010, 11:45 PM
QUICK LOOK: The family of Caio Castro, 22, says the Brazilian actor is the victom of an Internet scam that resulted in photos of him appearing on the gay porn site Gay Tube, (MORE)
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Gay Pop pageant draws 20k to Florianopolis, Brazil
Posted: 2/16/2010, 7:42 PM
QUICK LOOK: More than 20,000 turned out for the traditional Gay Pop contest during the early morning hours of Fat Tuesday in Florianopolis, Brazil. The competition, this year in... (MORE)
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Big Brother Brazil contestant may sue over gay rumor
Posted: 2/10/2010, 8:32 AM
QUICK LOOK: *VIDEO after the jump*: A contestant eliminated this week from Big Brother Brazil is threatening to sue a gay blogger who claims the hunky hopeful is actually gay... (MORE)
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Brazilian gay man wins asylum in the United States
365gay.com, Posted: 2/10/2010, 2:07 AM
QUICK LOOK: Columbia Law School’s Sexuality and Gender Law Clinic has won asylum for a gay man who feared persecution because of his sexual orientation if forced to return to his... (MORE)
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Brazilian general says military is no place for gays
Posted: 2/5/2010, 8:44 AM
QUICK LOOK: One week after President Obama raised the prospect of repealing the Don't Ask Don't Tell law preventing gays from serving openly in the U.S. ministry, a top Brazilian... (MORE)

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Soccer great Maradona hits Pele with anti-gay slur
The Spoiler, Posted: 4/17/2009, 11:58 AM
QUICK LOOK: As leading contenders for the position as the greatest football of all time, the Brazilian Pele and the Argentinean Maradona have been trying to soil one another’s reputations... (MORE)
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Kerry asks for asylum for raped Brazilian gay man
Posted: 3/22/2009, 2:50 PM
QUICK LOOK: Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry has asked Attorney General Eric Holder to grant asylum to a gay married man in his state who was deported despite his rape in Brazil. In... (MORE)
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Brazilian actor refuses to dub Penn's voice in 'Milk'
Latina, Posted: 3/11/2009, 7:08 PM
QUICK LOOK: Brazilian actor Marco Ribeiro, who has dubbed Sean Penn's voice into Portuguese for the films 21 Grams and All the King's Men has refused to help with the Oscar winner's... (MORE)
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Posted: 12/26/2008, 12:46 PM
QUICK LOOK: The brutal murder of a gay man and his teenage adopted son this month in northern Brazil has been followed by the homicide of another gay man in a nearby town. Francivaldo Santos Lima, 31 years, was... (MORE)

Ex-cop arrested in murders of 13 São Paulo gay men
Associated Press (AP), Posted: 12/15/2008, 3:22 AM
QUICK LOOK: A retired police officer has been detained in connection with the murders of 13 gay men in a low-income suburb of Sao Paulo, police said Thursday. Retired state police... (MORE)

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São Paulo police hunt suspect in killing of 13 gay men
Posted: 12/10/2008, 2:48 PM
QUICK LOOK: The police are on the hunt for a serial killer responsible for the death of 13 gay men in 18 months in a park in Carapicuíba in greater São Paulo, Brazil. Twelve out... (MORE)

Rio mayor signs anti-discrimination law into effect
Posted: 11/21/2008, 7:25 AM
QUICK LOOK: Just weeks before leaving office, the mayor of Rio De Janeiro signed into law an ordinance that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation by government... (MORE)
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Gays seeking asylum in U.S. feed growing caseload
Boston Globe, Posted: 10/20/2008, 12:37 PM
QUICK LOOK: In her sister's spacious home in Chelsea, Delmy Berganza sat at the kitchen table one recent day and talked openly about life as a lesbian. In her native El Salvador,... (MORE)
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Thousands flock to Rio De Janeiro's Gay Pride parade
Posted: 10/13/2008, 4:54 PM
QUICK LOOK: Hundreds of thousands of gays, lesbians and transsexuals partied down Brazil's world famous Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro on Oct. 12 to call for an end to homophobic... (MORE)
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Mr. Gay Brazil contestant decides to pose sans speedo
Made In Brazil, Posted: 10/3/2008, 7:35 PM
QUICK LOOK: Twenty-one-year-old Maicon Araujo, a.k.a. Mr Gay Florianópolis, let it all hang out at the beach for the October issue of G magazine, a popular Brazilian magazine. He... (MORE)
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Brazil's president defends civil unions for gay couples
Posted: 9/18/2008, 4:45 PM
QUICK LOOK: Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva for the first time defended civil unions for gay couples, attacking "hypocrisy" on the issue in a TV interview yesterday... (MORE)
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Posted: 9/17/2008, 5:32 AM
QUICK LOOK: One of Brazil's highest appeals courts for the first time ruled there is no reason why a stable same-sex couple cannot be recognized as a family under the country's laws. The 3-2 decision by the Superior... (MORE)
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First real estate development just for gays in Brazil
Made In Brazil, Posted: 9/7/2008, 3:41 PM
QUICK LOOK: Agra Loteadora is taking a big chance by launching a real-estate development geared exclusively to the gay market in the state of São Paulo. Season in Sorocaba is located... (MORE)
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Brazilian congress rejects adoption for gay couples
Posted: 8/22/2008, 6:55 PM
QUICK LOOK: Brazil's lower house of Congress has rejected part of a pending adoption law that would have allowed gay couples to adopt children. A Wednesday statement from the... (MORE)
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Surprise gay rights support in Brazilian mayoral race
Posted: 8/21/2008, 1:21 AM
QUICK LOOK: Four out of five candidates running for mayor of the important Brazilian city of Salvador committed their support for gay rights in answers to a questionnaire from gay... (MORE)
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