Source: BBC News , Reuters , AIDS Healthcare Foundation press release President Bush signed a new law today that triples America's budget for fighting Aids and other diseases in Africa and the Caribbean and which also lifts a ban on HIV-infected people from entering the US. The measure increases funding for the successful global health program from $15 billion up to $48 billion over the next five years. "Defeating HIV/AIDS once and for all will require an unprecedented investment over generations. But it is an investment that yields the best possible return -- saved lives," Bush said. Full story...
Source: Deseret News , Salt Lake Tribune , Leonard Link Salt Lake police are investigating a possible hate crime after a man was attacked while waiting for a cab outside of a gym that caters mainly to gay men.
Source: Christian Science Monitor , New York Times , BBC , Wall Street Journal Quincy, Ill. -- The long-running but slow rending to the "Anglican Communion" -- a loose confederation of national churches that trace their heritage to the Church of England -- got another tug today, when conservatives in the US and Canada formed a rival Anglican province in North America.
:: An executive at Cincinnati Christian University is the latest in a long string of victims of morals stings that found the man in a position that compromises his stated beliefs.
Source: Sacramento Bee , San Francisco Chronicle Sacramento -- The gay and lesbian caucus of California's legislature and Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg Tuesday introduced a resolutions in both the Senate and Assembly opposing Proposition 8.
Source: BBC , Voice of America International media watchdog groups are calling for the release of an Iraqi journalist was jailed for writing a story about homosexuality which prosecutors said violated a public decency law.
Source: Playbill , Los Angeles Times Proposition 8 gets star-studded treatment in a web video conceived and written by Hairspray Tony winner Marc Shaiman who also plays the piano in the three-minute satire staged as though it were an awkward community theater production.
Source: Thaindian News , Daily News & Analysis , Indian Express NEW DELHI -- An extended legal debate over an Indian statute that makes gay sex illegal took a new twist this week as lawyers for the government's ruling coalition argued that Delhi High Court, which has been hearing a challenge to the statute, has no authority to overturn it.
Source: Cincinnati Enquirer , Toledo Blade A former University of Toledo employment administrator who was fired after writing a column about employment rules for a local publication is suing the university.
Source: Reuters , Times (London) , Catholic News Service Gay rights groups and newspaper editorials on Tuesday condemned the Vatican for its decision to oppose a proposed U.
Source: Kalamazoo Gazette , Blogging for Michigan , Pride Source KALAMAZOO, Mich. -- City commissioners are scheduled to vote tonight whether to implement an ordinance that would ban discrimination based on a person's sexual orientation.
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