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Russia Arrests Alleged Gay Web Cannibal
US Researchers Broke Rules in Guatemala Syphilis Study
BBC Receives 500+ Complaints Over Gay Sex Scene in TV Show
NJ Prosecutors Want to Keep Man’s ID in Gay Webcam Case Private

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Prosecutors say the identity of a man recorded on a webcam in a gay intimate encounter with a New Jersey university student who killed himself should remain a secret. The Middlesex County prosecutor’s office filed a motion Monday asking a judge to withhold the name of the man, identified only as M.B. The Star-Ledger newspaper of Newark (http://bit.ly/n4qqL0) reports the request came in response to a motion filed by lawyers for Dharun Ravi (DAHR’-uhn RAH’-vee), who is accused of spying on Rutgers University roommate Tyler Clementi and is charged with bias intimidation and invasion of privacy.

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More than 500 complaints have been received by the BBC about a sex scene between two men in last week’s episode of one of its top-rated sci-fi dramas.
Viewers of Torchwood saw the immortal time agent Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman) speaking intimately to an Italian immigrant to New York, Angelo Colasanto (Daniele Favilli), in a flashback to 1927, prior to a sex scene between the two on their hotel room’s bed.

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U.S. government researchers must have known they were violating ethical standards by deliberately infecting Guatemalan prison inmates and mental patients with syphilis for an experiment in the 1940s, according to a presidential commission.The U.S.-funded research in Guatemala did not treat participants as human beings, failing to even inform them they were taking part in research, as was the case for a similar study in the United States, the commission said on Monday.

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The 21-year-old man was arrested on Friday, several days after human remains were found in the Far North city of Murmansk, an official at the regional branch of the Investigative Committee told AFP. According to investigators, the suspect said he had met a 32-year-old man through the internet and inviting him to his house, where he stabbed him to death. “Having confirmed that the man is dead, he dismembered the body and ate the human remains,” the Investigative Committee said in a statement.

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Santorum Says Gay Community is Waging ‘Jihad’ Against Him
Minister Charged with Violating Noise Ordinance at Charlotte Gay Pride
Puerto Rico Anti-Gay Senator Resigns After Gay Photo Scandal
German Soccer Captain Says Gay Players Shouldn’t Come Out

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Homosexual professional soccer players should not come out because the repercussions could be too devastating, according to Germany captain Philipp Lahm. “I would not advise any gay professional footballer to come out,” Lahm wrote in his autobiography “The Subtle Difference”. “I would fear that he could end up like Justin Fashanu who after he outed himself was driven into such a corner that he ended up committing suicide,” the 27-year-old Bayern Munich captain added.

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A Puerto Rico senator says he can’t remember whether he posted explicit photos on the gay cruising app Grindr, but presented a letter of resignation this weekend anyway. Roberto Arango gave an Anthony Weiner-esque non-denial of the photos to local news outlets: “You know I’ve been losing weight. As I shed that weight, I’ve been taking pictures. I don’t remember taking this particular picture but I’m not gonna say I didn’t take it. I’d tell you if I remembered taking the picture, but I don’t.” Arango has previously voted in favor of Resolution 99, a proposal that would block any attempt to permit same-sex marriages in Puerto Rico. He has also opposed adoption rights for gay people.

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Rev. Phillip “Flip” Benham, a preacher convicted earlier this year of stalking a doctor who performs abortions, was charged with violating Charlotte’s noise ordinance Saturday outside of the gay pride festival. Benham said he turned down his speaker after officers warned him he was preaching too loudly outside the boundaries of the Pride Charlotte Festival. But later, Benham said, as he read from the first chapter of Romans, which talks about God’s wrath against sinful humanity, he got passionate. His voice, he admitted, began to rise as he spoke into the microphone.

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Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum said the gay community has “gone out on a jihad” against him for his stance against gay marriage. “So the gay community said, ‘He’s comparing gay sex to incest and polygamy, how dare he do this,’ and they have gone out on a, I would argue, jihad against Rick Santorum since then,” the former senator said at a campaign stop in Spartanburg, S.C., on Friday.

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Taxpayer Money Used In Same-Sex Marriage Fight
Illinois College Becomes First to Ask Undergrads if They’re Gay
Perry Signs Pledge on Anti-Gay Marriage Amendment
Belgrade Gay Pride Parade Planned for October

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Organisers of Belgrade’s gay pride parade, which provoked violent riots last year, announced on Friday plans to hold a new march on October 2. Jovanka Todorovic, a member of the special organising committee, confirmed the date at a heavily guarded press conference, saying further details would be announced later. “This morning we officially informed the police of our plans to organise this event,” gay rights activist Goran Miletic added. A dozen police officers stood guard outside the press centre in central Belgrade, with several van loads standing by. Officers in civilian clothes were also present as the activists spoke.

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Gov. Rick Perry has signed a pledge to back a federal constitutional amendment against gay marriage – a reversal of his earlier position that marriage rights should be left up to individual states. The Republican presidential hopeful signed the National Organization for Marriage’s pledge Friday. It states that, if elected, Perry will send a Constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman to the states for ratification and appoint U.S. Supreme Court and federal judges who will “reject the idea our Founding Fathers inserted a right to gay marriage into our Constitution.”

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Elmhurst College, a private liberal arts school in suburban Chicago affiliated with the United Church of Christ, has become the first college in the country to ask an optional question about a student’s sexual orientation and gender identity on an undergraduate admission form, according to the school and a gay rights advocacy group.
“Would you consider yourself a member of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) community?” the new application asks prospective enrollees.
Students can answer “Yes,” “No,” or “Prefer not to say.”

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Federal government grant money awarded to a social conservative group to provide marriage counseling in Iowa also helped pay some of its operational expenses while it was leading an anti-same-sex marriage campaign, newly released documents show.
The documents reviewed by The Associated Press show the $2.2 million received by the Iowa Family Policy Center between 2006 and 2010 helped hundreds of Iowans get marriage education and counseling.

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