San Diego's GAY Interim Mayor Shows How Much the City Has Changed

He is a Democrat. He is 35. He comes from a multiethnic family. And he is openly gay Although Gloria and his family may perhaps be the only San Diegans with a Filipino-Dutch-Puerto Rican-native Alaskan heritage, the city as a whole has become more diverse.

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Gay Dads, Steven And Roger Ham, , Adopt 14 Kids To Create Amazing Happy Ending

TV's "Brady Bunch" had six kids, but Steve Ham and his partner, Roger Ham, make the Bradys look like amateurs. The Phoenix men are raising 12 adopted children and they don't think they're doing anything extraordinary.

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First openly gay boxer ready for title shot

Cruz, a native of San Juan, Puerto Rico, will face Mexico’s Orlando “Siri” Salido for the vacant World Boxing Organization (WBO) featherweight title on October 12th.


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Modern Family Gay Wedding: Will Mitch and Cam Get Married Tonight?

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Bush serves as witness at gay marriage

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Another top Republican has come out for same-sex marriage — or at least one marriage in particular.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/reliable-source/wp/2013/09/25/george-h-w-bush-is-witness-at-same-sex-marriage-in-maine/

‘Modern Family’ wins Emmy for best comedy.....Meet the Men Playing “Modern Family”‘s Gay Dads

Meet the Men Playing “Modern Family”‘s Gay Dads  the inclusion of a gay couple, which one of them is part of the “modern” family, whether the new show is stereotyping gay men in our society.

 The gay couple played by Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Eric Stonestreet actually are not the physically typical gay men portrayed in most TV shows that are drop dead gorgeous, coming out of a perfume or denim jeans print ads. This couple is one of the "common" gay couples in the world: one being overly healthy and one with facial hair. The gay couple adopted an Asian baby and now is struggling to pass parenthood.


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Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Gay Marriage Reflects The Constitution's 'Genius'

PHILADELPHIA -- Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who recently officiated at a friend's same-sex wedding, told a Philadelphia audience Friday that growing acceptance of gay marriage reflects the "genius" of the U.S. Constitution.

Ginsburg said equality has always been central to the Constitution, even if society has only applied it to minorities – be they women, blacks or gays – over time.

"So I see the genius of our Constitution, and of our society, is how much more embracive we have become than we were at the beginning," Ginsburg said in a far-ranging discussion of her work at the National Constitution Center, steps from the nation's founding at Independence Hall.

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'Gayest Cities in America' list causes a stir

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Openly gay men's college basketball player on coming out

Story Highlights

    Jallen Messersmith announced to his teammates and coaches that he's gay
    Messersmith is a 6-foot-7 shot-blocking specialist from Benedictine College
    Messersmith's announcement comes on the heels of Jason Collins coming out as the first actively gay NBA player

Jallen Messersmith has been hearing gay slurs all his life.

They first started in middle school when the bullying was so brutal that he decided to be home-schooled in 7th and 8th grade.

He still hears the "you're gay" and "that's gay" and other slurs. He's even heard them from his teammates.

"Basketball has always been an outlet for me," he said. "Basketball helped get me through high school. I'd use the bullying as motivation to get better on the court. The more that fans or players poke and prod at me, the better I feel like I'll play. They're the ones who are losing at the end of the day."

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Players’ Support of Gay Marriage Alters N.F.L. Image
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New Zealand Couples Take Marriage to the Sky

New Zealand's department of internal affairs says that roughly 1,000 marriage applications have been downloaded in the week since same sex marriage was legalised. Some couple celebrated by exchanging vows in the sky.

Approximately 30 couples were invited aboard an Air New Zealand flight to Auckland for an in-flight marriage ceremony. The lucky couples were winners of a contest held by the New Zealand tourism board. A choir serenading the newlyweds with a traditional Maori love song while US actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson spoke at the proceedings.

The 1,000 marriage applications is about three times the normal amount for a week in New Zealand. Internal affairs says 170 were from different countries, mainly from Australia Hong Kong, Russia and the US.

New Zealand's Marriage Amendment Act, passed in April, legalised same sex marriage by removing the gender and sexual orientation clause from existing statutes

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Countries where same-sex marriage is legal
France became the 14th nation to legalize gay marriage when President Francois Hollande signed the bill into law on May 18. While the United States debates the issue, the law has been on the books for more than a decade in some countries. And, like the movement in American states, there has been an acceleration worldwide in equal marriage laws.
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How To Make Your School More Gay

You don't have to Glee up your school to make it more  gay. There are several other ways to spread the rainbow on your high school or college campus this year:  Read more here

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