Adam Lambert spent several hours in jail after a lover’s quarrel turned into a physical brawl at a Swedish gay bar. “American Idol” runner-up Lambert was at a bar in Helsinki called Don’t Tell Mama in the wee hours of Thursday morning, when he got into a tiff with boyfriend Sauli Koskinen, a Finnish reality TV star who won a season of their “Big Brother.” The fight turned physical, according to The Hollywood Reporter. When their friend, former Miss Helsinki Sofia Ruusila, tried to get between the two, she was apparently struck in the squabble.

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Chicago’s Cardinal Francis George has never been shy about expressing his views on divisive issues like abortion rights and civil unions for same-sex couples. But gay rights groups say the Chicago archbishop crossed the line when he compared the gay rights movement to the Ku Klux Klan. The comments came during an interview Wednesday with Fox Chicago. When the cardinal was asked his views of a local pastor complaining that the annual gay pride parade would force the church to cancel its morning mass, George said he supported the pastor.

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Gay Kenyan Men Used as Sex Slaves in Middle East
Newt Gingrich to Gay Iowan: Vote for Obama
Gay Couple Gets Custody of Surrogate Twins

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A New Jersey judge has given a gay couple custody of twin girls conceived under a surrogacy agreement between one of the partners and the other’s sister. Angelia Robinson, who was declared the girls’ legal mother even though she is not biologically related to the twins, was granted visitation rights, The (Newark) Star-Ledger reported. She was implanted with a donor egg fertilized by Sean Hollingsworth. Hollingsworth and Donald Robinson Hollingsworth live in Jersey City. They were married in California.

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Newt Gingrich told a gay man and longtime resident of Oskaloosa here today that he should vote for President Obama. “I asked him if he’s elected, how does he plan to engage gay Americans. How are we to support him? And he told me to support Obama,” said Scott Arnold, an adjunct professor of writing at William Penn University.”

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Gay men from Kenya are being trafficked as sex slaves in Persian Gulf countries, according to a report in Identity, a gay magazine in Kenya. The report alleges that gay and bisexual men are lured from university campuses –particularly from Kenyatta University — with promises of high-paying jobs and then transported to labor as sex workers for men in the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

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Gay Couple Sue Hawaii B&B, Claim Discrimination
Student Gets 21 Years for Shooting Gay Classmate
N.J. Gay Couple Fight for Custody of Twins
Gay Marriage Plea Top Political Video of Year

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Videos gone viral are a staple in politics these days, but the most-viewed images of 2011 aren’t of President Obama or any of the Republican candidates trying to oust him. Footage of Zach Wahls, a University of Iowa engineering student and son of two lesbians, asking state lawmakers to reject a ban on same-sex marriage leads YouTube’s list of top political videos this year. The Wahls video got more than 18 million views in several uploads on the popular video-sharing site.

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It was not the typical custody case. On one side of the parental tug-of-war over the 5-year-old twin girls at the center of the long-fought court battle were Donald Robinson Hollingsworth and Sean Hollingsworth — a gay couple who married in California and live in Jersey City. On the other was Angelia Robinson, Donald Hollingsworth’s sister, who agreed to serve as a surrogate, ultimately giving birth to the girls through a donor embryo fertilized by Sean Hollingsworth.

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The father of a gay Oxnard junior high school student spilled his rage in a Ventura courtroom Monday, telling the convicted killer that he could not forgive him for shooting his son “with the precision of a cold-blooded assassin.” Greg King, reading a biting four-page statement to the court before Brandon McInerney was sentenced to 21 years in state prison, called jurors “incompetent” for failing to reach a verdict in the September murder trial, criticized the media for its coverage of the high-profile case and heaped blame on school officials for failing to watch over his son’s well-being.

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Two Southern California women filed a lawsuit Monday against a Hawaii bed and breakfast, saying the business denied them a room because they are gay. Aloha Bed & Breakfast discriminated against Diane Cervelli and Taeko Bufford, a couple living in Long Beach, Calif., claims the lawsuit filed on behalf of the women by Lambda Legal in First Circuit Court in Honolulu. Cervelli, 42, called the business in 2007 to book a room because it’s in Hawaii Kai, the same east Honolulu neighborhood where the friend they were visiting lived. When she specified they would need one bed, the owner asked if they are lesbians. Cervelli responded truthfully and the owner said she was uncomfortable having lesbians in her house because of her religious views, the lawsuit said.

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Gay WikiLeaks Soldier Claims Discrimination
Bachmann Talks ‘Myth’ of Kinsey Report
Rick Perry Confronted by Teen Over Gays in the Military

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A 14-year-old openly bisexual girl collared Texas Gov. Rick Perry after his town hall here and challenged him to explain the reasoning behind his belief that gays should not serve openly in the military. “I just want to know why you’re so opposed to gays serving openly in the military, why you want to deny them that freedom when they’re fighting and dying for your right to run for president,” Rebecka Green, a high school student from Decorah, asked the Texas governor.

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Republican presidential contender Michele Bachmann continued her super-charged bus tour across Iowa Sunday, attending several more events to shake hands and sign autographs. Her events have been largely of the meet-and-greet variety – get in and out as fast as she can. The campaign has instituted a “no questions” policy at a majority of her stops this weekend to keep things moving, and that generally applies to both the media and to Iowa voters.

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The young Army intelligence specialist accused of disclosing government secrets spent his 24th birthday in court Saturday as his lawyers argued his status as a gay soldier before the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” played an important role in his actions. Lawyers for Pfc. Bradley Manning began laying out a defense to show that his struggles as a gay soldier in an environment hostile to homosexuality contributed to mental and emotional problems that should have barred him from having access to sensitive material.

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