In Wisconsin, voters elected the country's first openly gay U.S. senator, Tammy Baldwin.
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He recounts hearing about Kennedy, who is not gay, marching in Boston's Gay Pride Parade.
Gay's husband was president of the local Veterans of Foreign Wars chapter, and she led the group's Ladies' Auxiliary.
In addition to hurting his ability to score new endorsement deals, Gay's falter will likely impact those he already has.
The bib fiasco "had more of an effect on them dropping the baton than anything else, " said Mr. Gay's coach, Jon Drummond.
"The doctor (William Meyers) was really, really happy with the surgery and Tyson should start walking on Saturday, " Gay's manager Mark Wetmore said.
But getting a player with Gay's natural scoring talent, even at the expense of parting with a valued player like Calderon, proved too enticing to pass up.
After missing out on bronze by one-hundredth of a second at the 2012 Olympics, Gay's goal for this summer is a medal at the world championships in Moscow in August.
They do run the risk of upsetting the chemistry on a tight-knit group, even if there were some questions of how Gay's scoring fit in with the ball-dominant frontcourt of Gasol and Randolph.
Gay's rivalry with Bolt over the 100m and 200m looks set to continue in the Diamond league next summer - the new-look Golden League which will cover Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the United States.
Calderon and Davis had both been starting for the Raptors, but they do have Kyle Lowry waiting in the wings at point guard and likely see Gay's scoring punch as the key to vaulting back into the discussion in a mediocre conference.
Mr. ROTHAUS: I think that if somebody is gay and, you know, is living with a partner or has a partner or had a partner or, you know, is known gay socially, that - if that person then votes in what's considered to be anti-gay legislation, that it's appropriate to bring this up.
The Gay Pride festival is thought to be Europe's biggest gay festival.
Obama administration officials point to what they see as the administration's biggest accomplishment in the gay rights cause: repealing "don't ask, don't tell, " the military's ban on openly gay and lesbian members serving in the forces.
Studies have found that having older brothers increases a man's likelihood of being gay, as well as that the arrangement of a mother's genes could impact whether her son is gay.
Perhaps it is time to examine how we are treating America's gay youth through that lens.
He suspects they may have done so because they discovered he's gay and were uncomfortable with that.
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Some of his own colleagues initially heaped scorn on him for wasting resources on a gay man's scourge.
The breaking point came this summer when one of Selekman's gay brothers died, having had hepatitis C and lung cancer.
Its website prominently features its criticism of Kraft, a food company, for sponsoring next year's Gay Games (a sporting contest).
The rainbow crossing, an idea of Sydney's city council, was placed as part of this year's gay and lesbian Mardi Gras celebration.
Graham Burnett, a young historian of science, served as the foreman of a jury examining an admitted killing in Manhattan's gay demi-monde.
In an interview posted Tuesday on the YouTube.com talk show "Gwissues, " Johnson said that he didn't feel violated after TMZ recently revealed that he's gay.
Later that month, Iceland's prime minister Johanna Sigurdardottir married her partner, writer Jonina Leosdottir, on the day the country's gay marriage law came into force.
Ms. Quinn maintains a deep well of support in the city's gay community, said Jimmy Van Bramer, one of four openly gay members of City Council.
The Archbishop said he was aware of the debate over whether the body would agree to endorse the gay minister's appointment, adding that "mercifully" this was done.
And when it comes to scary, Marcia Gay Harden's born-again proselytizer is fearsome enough to convince Drayton and his clique to take their chances with the beasties.
So Britain's gay businessmen and women may need attitudes to change elsewhere, as well as in the UK, before they can be seen heading the country's top companies.
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