Word: gayness
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...very language we use to describe the Vermont vote cheapens the historic nature of the moment. On the afternoon of April 7, the headlines on the websites of several publications-including the Washington Post, Fox News, USA Today, and Chicago Sun-Times-were identical: "Vermont Legalizes Gay Marriage." (Read "A Gay-Marriage Solution: End Marriage...
...Wrong. Vermont (and the District of Columbia, whose council voted unanimously that same day to provide equal rights to all couples married outside D.C. regardless of gender composition) was not creating a new institution called "gay marriage." Rather, it was correcting a historical, legal and moral error, one that restricted the institution of marriage to couples that possessed a certain arrangement of genitalia...
...There is no such thing as gay marriage. There is equality, and Vermont's elected representatives will be remembered as the first in history to recognize...
Watch TIME's gay-marriage wedding video...
...with men and intravenous drug users - all communities thought to have higher rates of infection than the general population - facing the highest risk. After the new government numbers were released in February, Zhang Beichuan, a researcher at Qingdao University, told the state-run media that the high number of gay men entering into heterosexual marriages is a contributing factor to the increasing spread of HIV. Extra-martial, high-risk sex puts both those men and their wives at risk, according to a study Zhang conducted in 2006, and the enduring discrimination homosexuals face in China prevents many men from getting...