AP - Argentina on Monday announced its first nationwide gay-rights measure: granting same-sex couples the right to claim their deceased partners' pensions.
AP - The family of a gay teenager who was fatally shot in class blames the school district for allowing their son to wear makeup and feminine clothing to school — factors the family claims led to the death.
AP - California Chief Justice Ronald George has spent more than half his life cultivating an image of a cautious jurist and earning a reputation as a politically skilled court administrator.
AP - In an Aug. 4 story, The Associated Press reported that gay couples in California are using their weddings to wage a ballot fight. The story identified a source in the story, Pamela Yager, as a wedding planner. It should have specified that Yager plans pre-wedding parties, rather than wedding ceremonies or receptions.
AFP - Tens of thousands of people thronged Amsterdam Saturday to watch the city's biggest-ever parade of homosexuals floating flamboyantly down the historic canals in dazzling style.
Reuters - Massachusetts lawmakers cleared the way
for out-of-state same-sex couples to marry in the state by
voting on Tuesday to repeal a 1913 law that banned marriages
not considered valid in the couples' home states.
AP - To police, Steven Hirschfield was violent and out of control when he clambered aboard a patrol boat sent to rescue him in the San Diego Bay during a gay pride party.
Reuters - An Australian lesbian couple have lost
a controversial court battle after trying to sue their doctor
for having healthy twins from an in vitro fertilisation
procedure (IVF), with doctors on Friday praising the verdict.
AFP - A lesbian couple in Australia failed on Thursday in a bid to sue their doctor after one of them gave birth to twins rather than one baby following fertility treatment.
