Word: gayness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...just hours ahead of the final, Moscow's riot police squashed a gay-pride rally, hauling away about 40 demonstrators. Critics said that clamping down on gay activists at Eurovision seemed decidedly out of tune with the show's mission to promote peace and harmony among the competing countries. As Rybak said himself, "Why did [the police] spend all their energy stopping gays in Moscow when the biggest gay parade was here tonight...
...Gay-marriage opponent MISS CALIFORNIA obviously not opposed to naughty, naughty pictures...
...there is a public vote on the issue, Iowans could lose their new-found cool by following Californians, who rejected gay marriage last November. Some recent polls show that most Iowans believe marriage involves one man and one woman, but were willing to allow gays and lesbians to have civil unions...
...brief ceremony was conducted by Judge Robert Hanson, whose 2007 ruling that the state's same-sex marriage ban treated gay and lesbian couples unequally under the law, landed the case in front of the Iowa Supreme Court. (Hanson's decision was in response to a lawsuit by six gay and lesbian couples denied marriages.) The teenagers each carried a calla lily. The couple shed a few tears and shared a laugh when the judge asked if they wanted to be referred to as "spouses" or "partners." (They went with "spouses.") An impromptu celebratory lunch followed at a brew...
Read "The Meaning of Iowa's Gay-Marriage Decision...