Author Edmund White called it "the best book on gay life yet written by an English author".

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"My one wish, and it hasn't been fulfilled yet, is to have some gay friends, " he said.

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And yet, we may never have an openly gay athlete.

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Yet campaigners warn that the focus on advances towards gay marriage in Western nations risks distracting attention from more urgent efforts to secure basic human rights for gay people in many regions of the world where homosexuality is still illegal and homophobia is deeply entrenched.

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Yet if one could not precisely demarcate the limits of gay culture, there was no question that it existed.

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Culver apologized in yet another example of how much more tolerant America has become of gay Americans.

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The result is a heartfelt yet painfully sincere liberal social-problem film that even offers a ringing endorsement of gay marriage but, playing to its target audience, avoids any hint of gay sex.

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Mr Portillo is a rummer cove: a bit of a dandy, a bit exotic, a bit Spanish, exquisitely aware of the impression he makes on those around him, a man who since confessing to a gay past has embarked publicly on a journey of rediscovery whose destination is not yet known.

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Either Clinton or Obama could make a strong appeal to Catholics on peace-and-justice issues, yet both are out of sync with Catholic teaching on issues such as abortion, stem-cell research and gay rights.

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