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LGBT
U.S. Judge orders California to pay for inmate’s sex change
A federal judge on Thursday ordered California’s corrections department to provide a transgender inmate with sex reassignment surgery, the first...
To flee anti-gay violence, scores of Russians seek U.S. asylum
An increase in the number of Russian gays seeking asylum in the United States is due in part to the worsening anti-gay climate in Russia, according to...
Russian couple registers ‘first same-sex marriage’
A lesbian couple tied the knot in Russia in a quiet ceremony seen as the first such marriage in the country where gay unions are illegal.
For some social networks, a push to protect LGBT users abroad
For gay men in the dozens of countries that criminalize their sex lives, social networking can be a blessing and a curse.
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