George Plimpton, Norman Mailer, Gay Talese, Robert Stone, Willie Morris, Peter Maas and Hunter Thompson were often in attendance.

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Callers to conservative talk-radio shows made an issue of the fact that it was an openly gay judge, Broward County canvasser Judge Robert W. Lee, who was accepting ballots that were merely indented, not fully punched through.

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Seventeen countries, provinces and states permit gay marriage, including such cutting-edge places as Portugal and Belgium, says Robert Wintemute, a lawyer at Kings College London who is representing the litigants.

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