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Despite difficulties in buttoned-down corridors of power, institutional and business CEOs aren’t so willing to hide.

Alba Martinez, chief executive officer of the United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania, didn’t know her father was gay until he contracted AIDS and died when she was 21. To the world, Antonio Martinez, an administrator at the University of Puerto Rico, was a heterosexual family man. Only when his disease was diagnosed, in 1986, did he reveal his secret life. Six months later, he was dead at 55.

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BY BRETT GILBERT AND JONATHAN EZOR |Brett Gilbert, left, is assistant dean for career services and Jonathan I. Ezor is assistant professor of law and technology at Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center.

January 28, 2008

In a condensed primary season like this one, when every day brings a new poll or voting results, it’s hard to focus on policy nuance. This is all the more true when issues don’t garner the attention they should from the outset.

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Some parents in California are pissed after finding out that photos of their teenaged sons have shown up on some gay porn websites.

The photos of teen water polo players, some boys as young as 14, were displayed next to photos of nude young men and graphic sexual content, an Orange County Register investigation found.

Parents say some of the boys were traumatized and had to seek counseling.

“These kids don’t look at what they do as shameful,” said Joan Gould, an international water polo official and a spokeswoman for a group of Orange County water polo parents. “For someone to come in and take what these kids are doing and take it out of context and exploit these images, these kids and their schools, because you can see the school name on the caps, is just horrible.”

Cops at the University of California, Irvine are investigating whether a campus police dispatcher was the one who photographed the high school athletes for gay-oriented sites.

The Register said it found photos of players from 11 Orange County high schools in addition to schools in Los Angeles and San Diego counties on several pages of one gay porn site registered to a London address.

PLEASE NOTE: The photos here are NOT the photos of the teenaged boys. These men in this photo are a part of British college waterpolo team.

From Mr James Johnston.

Sir, Three cheers for the investment banks actively trying to recruit gay and lesbian staff in Asia. However, Raphael Minder’s article “Cool reception for Asia’s gay workers” (January 15) acknowledges but barely touches on the numerous difficulties that these new gay recruits may experience later in their careers once “partnered” if they consider transfers to other Asian countries.

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Man convicted in wife’s death seeks new trial

SACRAMENTO – Phone calls Robert Gay made to 911 dispatchers after a fatal fight with his wife in 2005 became the focus Tuesday of oral arguments before the state’s 3rd District Court of Appeal.

The three justices – Coleman Blease, Vance Raye and Arthur Scotland – have three months to decide whether Gay’s 10-year sentence for shooting his wife should be overturned. Gay is out on bail while they decide.

The 911 recording “shows the mental state of mind” Gay had, said Charles Bonneau, Gay’s Sacramento attorney.

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In a recent University of San Diego study, psychologist Robert-Jay Green revealed some discoveries that demonstrate how same-sex relationships may be healthier than straight ones, according to an article by United Press International.

The study found that couples in same-sex relationships were more flexible in terms of gender roles, parenting, and household responsibilities.

It also found that lesbian couples are emotionally closer than gay couples, who, in turn, are emotionally closer than heterosexual married couples.

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BEIJING, Jan. 16 (Xinhuanet)– A new drug-resistant superbug staph is being transmitted among gay men, U.S. researchers said as quoted by media reports Wednesday.     The methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, is spreading among the gay communities outside hospitals in San Francisco, Boston, New York and Los Angeles.

    The Castro district of San Francisco, which has a higher gay population in the United States, has been hardest hit, researchers said.

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Gay couples who got married abroad could have their partnership recognised here as soon as the Government’s Civil Unions bill is introduced.

According to a report in today’s Irish Times, dozens of gay couples are already travelling to the UK and Canada to get married in advance of the eagerly anticipated bill.

Same sex civil partnerships and marriages that were obtained in other countries are expected to be recognised here as soon as the Civil Unions bill is introduced, under a number of conditions.

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The Government’s planned civil partnership scheme for gay and lesbian couples is likely to provide for the automatic legal recognition of civil unions or weddings in certain other countries, it has emerged.

Already, dozens of gay and lesbian couples are travelling to countries such as Canada and the UK to wed or obtain civil partnerships, in the hope their unions will be recognised in Irish law shortly.

Senior sources say that civil unions or weddings will have the same legal recognition as new civil partnerships in Ireland, as long as they meet a number of conditions.Such a provision is contained in civil partnership legislation in the UK, which recognises unions in almost 20 countries, including the US, Canada and France. (more…)

BERLIN — Six men whirled faster and faster in the center of the nightclub, arms slung over one another’s shoulders, performing a traditional circle dance popular in Turkey and the Middle East. Nothing unusual given the German capital’s large Muslim population

But most of the people filling the dance floor on Saturday at the club SO36 in the Kreuzberg neighborhood were gay, lesbian or bisexual, and of Turkish or Arab background. They were there for the monthly club night known as Gayhane, an all-too-rare opportunity to merge their immigrant cultures and their sexual identities.

European Muslims, so often portrayed one-dimensionally as rioters, honor killers or terrorists, live diverse lives, most of them trying to get by and to have a good time. That is more difficult if one is both Muslim and gay.

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