Word: lesbian
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More than 11,000 gay and lesbian athletes from 43 nations converged on New York this week for the fourth annual Gay Games. Begun as a low-profile event to encourage greater visibility for gays and lesbians, this year's games saw one athlete, former Olympic Gold Medalist Bruce Hayes, set a world record in a masters-division swimming event. The athletic tournament coincides with the 25th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, widely considered the beginning of the gay-rights movement. Thousands are expected to participate in a rally Sunday morning...
...lesbian regained custody of her son in a Virginia State verdict that could make sexual orientation less relevant to parental fitness. An appeals court judge returned 24-year-old Sharon Bottoms' 3-year-old son a year after another state judge decided she was an unfit mother because she and her live-in lover engaged in oral sex. The judge in the earlier case called the act a "crime against nature." That ruling sent the child to his maternal grandmother Kay, who now plans an appeal. "I think it's a tragedy . . . to put him back in that environment...
Joining the growing phalanx of courts around the country that have attacked the military ban on gays, a federal district court in Seattle ordered the Washington National Guard to reinstate Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer, a highly decorated nurse and a lesbian. Although the decision struck down as unconstitutional the Pentagon's old, pre-1994 prohibition against gays, the court's reasoning provides ammunition for assailing the new "don't ask, don't tell, don't pursue" policy...
...court orders the reinstatement of a lesbian colonel...
Judge reinstates bemedaled lesbian National Guard colonel...