| December 13, 2012 | - The Vatican said that homosexuality, currently punishable by law in 85 countries, should not be a crime.
| Source:
China National News
|
| May 26, 2009 | - The California Supreme Court upheld Proposition 8, thereby maintaining the state's ban on same-sex marriage.
| Source:
California Supreme Court upholds gay marriage ban
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| September 11, 2008 | - An Italian prosecutor sought to charge actress Sabrina Guzzanti with “offending the honor of the sacred and inviolable person” of Pope Benedict XVI; Guzzanti had suggested that “within 20 years the Pope will be where he ought to be--in Hell, tormented by great big gay
devils, and very active ones, not passive ones.”
| Source:
The Times of London
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| June 10, 2008 | - Research showed that same-sex marriages are more egalitarian than opposite-sex marriages.
| Source:
New York Times
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| May 2, 2008 | - A former Mr Gay UK charged with murder was accused of carving up, dicing, cooking, and eating his victim's leg.
| Source 1:
BBC
Source 2:
Telegraph UK
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| March 18, 2008 | - Marvin Richardson, an organic strawberry farmer in Idaho who is challenging Senator Larry Craig for his Senate seat, had his name legally changed to Pro-Life.
| Source:
CBS News
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| March 17, 2008 | - Michael Stipe, lead singer of R.E.M., announced that he is gay. “I thought it was pretty obvious,” said Stipe, who has been explaining that he is not heterosexual for nearly a decade.
| Source:
US Weekly
|
| December 11, 2007 | - Researchers in Chicago used drugs and manipulated genes to control the sexuality of fruit flies, making them gay and then straight again within a few hours. “It was very dramatic,” said scientist David Featherstone. “They even attempted copulation.”
| Source:
Fox News
|
| November 24, 2007 | - The Interfaith Rainbow Coalition Against Homosexuality in Uganda protested a summit of British Commonwealth leaders in Kampala. “I asked President Museveni to get us an island on Lake Victoria and we take these homosexuals and they die out there,” said Sheikh Ramathan Shaban Mubajje of an earlier meeting he had with Uganda's head of state. “If they die there, then we shall have no more homosexuals in the country.”
| Source:
365Gay
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| October 7, 2007 | -
Republican Senator Larry Craig was selected for induction into the Idaho Hall of Fame and announced that he would not resign from the Senate, despite being denied his request to withdraw his guilty plea of disorderly conduct resulting from a sex sting at an airport men's room.
| Source 1:
CNN
Source 2:
AP
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| September 16, 2007 | - At a gala hosted by Mr. Sulu from “Star Trek,” the Japanese American Citizens League saluted Sen. Larry Craig (R., Idaho), and tourists flocked to the airport men's room stall where Craig was recently arrested for attempted cruising. “I checked it out,” said Jon Westby of Minneapolis, who was with his wife, Sally, visiting the stall for his second time. “It's the second stall from the right.”
| Source 1:
The Hill
Source 2:
Idaho Statesman
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| September 6, 2007 | - Spokesmen for Larry Craig said that the senator, caught flirting in a men's room, would resign, then that he wouldn't, and then that he would. His former chief of staff claimed that Craig had been planning to quit anyway.
| Source:
CNN.com
|
| August 31, 2007 | -
Gay marriage was legal in Iowa for four hours.
| Source:
NY Times
|
| August 29, 2007 | - U.S. Senator Larry Craig (R., Idaho) insisted that he was “not gay” and had not ever “been gay.”
| Source:
NY Times
|
| August 21, 2007 | - The Ugandan Interfaith Rainbow Coalition Against Homosexuality called on the government to uphold its laws against gays and lesbians.
| Source:
BBC
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| August 5, 2007 | -
Iraq's
gays were being targeted for murder, though one observer noted that the scale of sectarian violence made it difficult to say whether gays had been killed for any specific reason. “I'm just looking for salvation,” said a gay pharmacist. “Maybe next month you will call and my family will say, 'Oh, he is killed.'”
| Source:
Los Angeles Times
|
| July 28, 2007 | - Letters written by Senator Clinton during her undergraduate years at Wellesley College were made public. One described her childhood sense of being the only person in the universe. “I'd play out in the patch of sunlight that broke the density of the elms in front of our house,” wrote the 19-year-old Clinton, “and pretend there were heavenly movie cameras watching my every move.”
| Source:
New York Times
|
| July 4, 2007 | - Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in an attempt to prevent gay sex, planned to install a quarter-million-dollar robot toilet.
| Source:
South Florida Sun Sentinel
|
| April 5, 2007 | - The Walt Disney Company announced that it will begin offering “Fairy Tale” weddings to homosexuals.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| March 22, 2007 | -
Gay policemen in Manila were ordered not to swing their hips while on duty.
| Source:
MSNBC
|
| March 5, 2007 | -
Ann Coulter called former Senator John Edwards a faggot.
| Source:
Fox News
|
| February 15, 2007 | - Former NBA all-star Tim Hardaway told a radio program, “I hate gay people.”
| Source:
CBS4
|
| February 14, 2007 | -
Nigeria's House of Representatives introduced a new bill that would criminalize homosexual relations.
| Source:
BBC
|
| February 6, 2007 | - Reverend Ted Haggard declared himself “completely heterosexual.”
| Source:
NY Times
|
| February 6, 2007 | - In Washington state, proponents of same-sex
marriage pursued legislation that would annul all connubial unions still barren after three years.
| Source:
Washington News
|
| January 2, 2007 | -
Scientists were performing experiments to turn gay
sheep straight.
| Source:
Daily Telegraph
|
| December 13, 2006 | - Dr. Tony Campolo, a Baptist minister and professor emeritus of sociology at Eastern University in Pennsylvania, said that evangelicals had been “very, very mean to the gay and lesbian community.”
| Source:
NYT
|
| December 11, 2006 | - Paul Barnes, a senior pastor at a 2,100-member evangelical megachurch in Colorado, stepped down after admitting to sexual relations with men.
| Source:
Denver Post
|
| December 7, 2006 | - Harry Reid, the new Senate majority leader, gave outgoing Republican leader Bill Frist a big bear hug.
| Source:
Washington Post
|
| December 6, 2006 | - It was revealed that Vice President Dick Cheney's
lesbian daughter is pregnant.
| Source:
CNN
|
| November 30, 2006 | - Conservative rabbis in Beverly Hills called for an end to the religious edict forbidding oral sex between men; anal congress, however, would still be forbidden.
| Source:
Los Angeles Times
|
| November 16, 2006 | - Parents in Illinois were lodging complaints against an elementary school library for carrying And Tango Makes Three, a children's book based on a true story about gay male penguins.
| Source:
CBS 3
|
| November 11, 2006 | - Despite the objections of the Vatican, a gay rights rally was held in Jerusalem under the guard of nearly 3,000 police. Rabbi Yehuda Levin flew from Brooklyn to denounce the rally. “They are not,” said Levin, “being tolerant of our feelings.”
| Source:
The New York Times
|
| October 18, 2006 | - An exhibit at the Oslo Natural History Museum displayed homosexual behavior among giraffes, penguins, parrots, beetles, and whales. Radical Christian critics said organizers of the exhibition should “burn in hell.”
| Source:
Reuters via ABC News
|
| July 19, 2006 | - U.S. Representative Phil Gingrey of Georgia claimed that God supported a Constitutional amendment banning same-sex
marriages. “I think,” he said, “God has spoken very clearly on this issue.” “It's part of God's plan,” said Texas
Congressman John Carter, “for the future of mankind.” “We best not,” said Colorado Representative Bob Beauprez, “be messing with His plan.”
| Source:
Washington Post
|
| July 19, 2006 | - Prosecuting attorneys in California and New York were trying to limit “gay panic” defenses in criminal trials.
| Source:
CNN.com
|
| July 7, 2006 | - The high courts of Georgia and New York both upheld bans on gay
marriage.
| Source:
Forbes
|
| July 6, 2006 | - President Vladimir Putin of Russia explained that he had recently kissed a young boy on the stomach because he “wanted to stroke him like a cat.”
| Source:
Agence France-Presse
|
| June 15, 2006 | -
Gay
Episcopalian bishop Gene Robinson said that he is “not an abomination before God.”
| Source:
BBC News
|
| May 30, 2006 | - It was declared that Batwoman will be a lesbian.
| Source:
BBC
|
| May 28, 2006 | - A gay-rights rally in Moscow turned violent when activists were attacked and beaten by anti-gay protesters. "Moscow," shouted the protesters, "is not Sodom!"
| Source:
Fox News
|
| May 17, 2006 | -
Gay
Iraqis were fleeing the country to avoid being killed by militias.
| Source:
Times Online
|
| May 5, 2006 | -
Iraqi
police
shot a 14-year-old boy named Ahmed Khalil in the head for being a gay
prostitute.
| Source:
Gay.com
|
| April 1, 2006 | - Polls found that 51 percent of Americans oppose gay marriage (the same percentage that thinks illegal immigrants mostly contribute to American society).
| Source 1:
HoustonVoice.com
Source 2:
Times-Herald
|
| March 19, 2006 | - It was reported that the U.S. military is less likely to discharge homosexuals than it was in the past. "They are under enormous pressure," explained a legal analyst, "to retain people."
| Source:
The Boston Globe
|
| March 16, 2006 | - In the Netherlands organizers were planning to encourage tolerance by holding a soccer game matching homosexuals against Muslims. Gay Muslims, said organizers, will be able to choose which team they will join.
| Source:
Seattle PI
|
| February 27, 2006 | - U.S. conservative groups were planning to propose bills or initiatives outlawing gay marriage in 16 states.
| Source:
The Sydney Morning Herald
|
| February 24, 2006 | - In Raleigh, North Carolina, seven paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division were in trouble for appearing in a sex video on a gay-themed website.
| Source:
AP via Yahoo! News
|
| February 23, 2006 | - Officials in Malden, Massachusetts, were uncertain what to do about a city-hall bathroom after a gay
website said the bathroom was a good spot for cruising.
| Source:
Boston Herald
|
| January 24, 2006 | -
President Bush said that he had not yet seen the film "Brokeback Mountain."
| Source:
NBC13.com
|
| January 19, 2006 | -
Nigeria planned to make it a crime, punishable by five years in jail, to participate in or officiate at a same-sex marriage.
| Source:
BBC News
|
| January 4, 2006 | - In Oklahoma City an anti-gay activist Baptist pastor and member of the Southern Baptist Convention's executive committee was arrested after he propositioned a male undercover policeman for sex.
| Source:
Newsday.com
|
| December 21, 2005 | - A U.S. National Guardsman who served in Iraq was sentenced to 25 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to shooting an Iraqi soldier with whom he had had consensual gay sex.
| Source:
Gay.com/AP
|
| December 20, 2005 | -
gay marriage became legal in the U.K. Elton John married his partner David Furnish in Windsor, and two gay druids who perform in amateur pantomime productions were registered as legal partners in Wrexham.
| Source 1:
The Jerusalem Post
Source 2:
BBC News
|
| December 9, 2005 | - In San Francisco a group of lesbian motorcyclists successfully trademarked the name “Dykes on Bikes.”
| Source:
Reuters
|
| December 6, 2005 | - Ford began to cut back its advertising in gay publications.
| Source:
Breitbart.com
|
| December 1, 2005 | - A South African court ruled that same-sex marriage was constitutional.
| Source:
AP
|
| November 23, 2005 | - The Vatican announced that men with “deep-rooted homosexual tendencies” may not become Roman Catholic priests. Men who experienced “transitory” homosexual tendencies at least three years ago, however, may.
| Source:
The Lost Angeles Times
|
| November 17, 2005 | - A former student at Oxford University was in trouble for calling a policeman's
horse “gay.” “Sam was adamant,” said an eyewitness, “his equine gaydar was accurate.”
| Source:
The Oxford Student
|
| November 3, 2005 | - It was revealed that Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito once led a student conference that called for sodomy to be legalized.
| Source:
IndyStar.com
|
| October 28, 2005 | -
George Takei, who played Mr. Sulu on Star Trek, announced that he is gay.
| Source:
Advocate.com
|
| October 28, 2005 | - Women's basketball star Sheryl Swoopes came out as a lesbian.
| Source:
New York Blade
|
| October 7, 2005 | - The Vatican was expected to announce that it will allow gay men to become priests if the men have lived chastely for three years.
| Source:
CBC News
|
| October 6, 2005 | - A British reverend told a group of 12-year-olds that Harry Potter was “not the only gay in the village”.
| Source:
CNN.com
|
| October 1, 2005 | - A Fresno, California, man who stabbed a cross-dressing man to death with a pair of scissors was sentenced to only four years in prison after his attorneys argued that the murder was the result of "gay panic."
| Source:
Fox News
|
| September 16, 2005 | - The Vatican was investigating all 229 Roman Catholic seminaries in the United States for evidence of homosexuality.
| Source:
The Washington Post
|
| September 8, 2005 | - California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced that he would veto a bill legalizing same-sex marriage.
| Source:
Democracy Now!
|
| September 2, 2005 | - “New Orleans now is free of Southern Decadence,” said the pastor of the New Covenant Fellowship of New Orleans, “and the sodomites, the witchcraft workers, false religion—it's free of all of those things now.”
| Source:
Agape Press
|
| August 3, 2005 | - The Cherokee Nation was thinking about gay marriage.
| Source:
Chicago Sun-Times
|
| July 28, 2005 | - The Boy Scout National Jamboree was held at Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia. The Senate passed the Support Our Scouts Act of 2005, guaranteeing the Boy Scouts the right to use federal land whether the organization discriminates against atheists and gays or not. The Senate also noted that holding the Jamboree on a military base gave U.S. soldiers the opportunity to practice the “preparation, logistics, and leadership” needed in combat. At the Jamboree four scout leaders were electrocuted while setting up a tent, and three hundred people were treated for heat-related symptoms. In California, a scoutmaster and a thirteen-year-old scout were killed by lightning.
| Source 1:
CNN.com
Source 2:
SWNebr.net
Source 3:
WBOC16
Source 4:
Thomas.loc.gov
|
| July 13, 2005 | - A Florida man, worried that his three-year-old son might become a gay sissy, was accused of beating the boy to death.
| Source:
TBO.com
|
| July 4, 2005 | - The United Church of Christ endorsed same-sex marriage.
| Source:
The Guardian
|
| June 29, 2005 | -
Canada's parliament voted to allow gay
marriages.
| Source:
BBC News
|
| June 6, 2005 | - An Italian court ruled that Sicilian authorities had acted improperly when they took away a man's driver's license because he was gay; the man's lawyer said that the arrest had caused his client to suffer hair loss.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| June 6, 2005 | - The American Family Association called on its members to boycott Ford, saying that the auto-maker promotes the homosexual lifestyle. They suspended the boycott a few days later.
| Source:
Detroit Free Press
|
| June 5, 2005 | -
Switzerland gave gay couples tax and inheritance rights, but will not allow them to adopt children.
| Source:
BBC News
|
| June 5, 2005 | -
Scientists found that a single “switch gene” determined whether a fruit fly turned out gay or not.
| Source:
The Independent
|
| May 30, 2005 | - Hundreds of thousands of people marched for gay rights in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
| Source:
BBC News
|
| May 19, 2005 | - A researcher found that Malcolm X had enjoyed sex with men.
| Source:
The Guardian
|
| May 7, 2005 | - The Mayor of Spokane, Washington, an opponent of gay rights, was accused of being a pedophile; he insisted that he cruised the Internet only for men of legal age.
| Source:
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
|
| May 5, 2005 | - The FDA announced that men who have had gay sex in the last five years will not be eligible to donate sperm anonymously.
| Source:
CNN
|
| April 27, 2005 | - A state representative in Alabama put forward a bill that would prohibit school libraries from purchasing books by gay authors. The measure died when not enough state legislators showed up to vote.
| Source:
CBS Evening News
|
| April 24, 2005 | -
Connecticut voted to allow gay civil unions.
| Source:
365Gay.com
|
| April 23, 2005 | - Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who belonged to the Hitler Youth before he became a priest, won the papacy by a landslide and styled himself Benedict XVI. The new pope dislikes homosexuality (he moved quickly to condemn a Spanish bill that would permit gays to marry), abortion, and the death penalty, but he loves little kittens. In 2001, he ordered Catholic bishops to hide allegations against pedophile priests from the public.
| Source 1:
BBC News
Source 2:
New York Daily News
Source 3:
The Observer
|
| April 22, 2005 | - The Navajo Nation banned both uranium mining and gay marriage from its reservation.
| Source 1:
MSNBC
Source 2:
ABC News
|
| April 20, 2005 | -
Texas legislators were considering a bill that would ban gay people from taking in foster children.
| Source:
USA Today
|
| March 25, 2005 | - An Ohio judge threw out domestic violence charges brought by a woman against her live-in boyfriend, who slapped and pushed her, because Ohio's anti-gay-marriage law prohibits state or local government from enforcing laws that “create or recognize a legal status of unmarried individuals.”
| Source:
The Advocate
|
| March 25, 2005 | - Ken Mehlman, chair of the Republican National Committee, once again avoided saying that he is gay.
| Source:
Gay People's Chronicle
|
| March 16, 2005 | - Evangelical Christians from the United States and ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel were working together to stop homosexuals from marching through Jerusalem.
| Source:
Haaretz
|
| February 21, 2005 | - The British Navy was actively seeking gay recruits.
| Source:
The Guardian
|
| February 13, 2005 | -
Alan Keyes disowned his daughter and threw her out of his house because she is a lesbian.
| Source:
Washington Post
|
| February 11, 2005 | - The government of Uganda was concerned about a production of the play “The Vagina Monologues.” “The author of the film is a known lesbian who lives with another woman,” said James Nsaba Buturo, the minister for information. “She worships the female sexual organ, seeing it as her god.”
| Source:
All Africa
|
| February 2, 2005 | - George Bush failed to mention the mayor of New Paltz, New York, who stands accused of 27 counts of marrying gay people.
| Source:
Newsday
|
| January 25, 2005 | - Christian groups were threatening to withdraw their support from any privatization scheme whatsoever unless Bush tries harder to ban gay marriage,
| Source:
The New York Times
|
| January 21, 2005 | -
Christian groups warned that SpongeBob SquarePants was an insidious weapon being used to promote acceptance of homosexuality in a music video made for elementary schools. The video teaches children cooperation and tolerance and also features Barney, Winnie the Pooh, and Bob the Builder.
| Source:
CNN
|
| January 17, 2005 | - The White House continued to work towards a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages.
| Source:
New York Timesimes
|
| December 15, 2004 | - A poll found that gay people make more cell phone calls.
| Source:
Gaywire
|
| December 9, 2004 | -
Canada's supreme court ruled that the government can define marriage to include same-sex couples.
| Source:
AP
|
| November 11, 2004 | -
Jerry Falwell announced the Faith and Values Coalition, a revival of the failed Moral Majority. The new group will fight against abortion, homosexual rights, and Democrats.
| Source:
ABC News
|
| November 3, 2004 | - Voters in Dallas County, Texas, elected an openly gay Hispanic woman as sheriff.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| October 11, 2004 | - A senate candidate in Oklahoma warned of "rampant" lesbianism in the schools.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| October 2, 2004 | -
Spain's cabinet approved a measure legalizing gay
marriage.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| September 23, 2004 | -
Jimmy Swaggart said that he would kill any gay man who "looks at me like that."
| Source:
The Advocate
|
| September 15, 2004 | - Two Canadian
lesbians were granted a divorce.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| September 1, 2004 | - Alan Keyes, the Illinois Republican Senate candidate, declared that Dick Cheney's
lesbian daughter is "a selfish hedonist."
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| August 25, 2004 | -
Dick Cheney said that he opposes a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage; he explained that he has a gay daughter and that marriage policy is best left to the states.
| Source:
Washington Post
|
| August 13, 2004 | - Governor James McGreevey of New Jersey announced that he is a "gay American" and resigned. "I am here today because, shamefully, I engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man, which violates my bonds of matrimony," he said. "It was wrong. It was foolish. It was inexcusable."
| Source:
Men's News Daily
|
| August 13, 2004 | - The California Supreme Court nullified gay marriages in that state, and
| Source:
San Francisco Chronicle
|
| July 22, 2004 | - It was reported that one of the first lesbian couples to get married in Canada filed for divorce within five days, though Canadian law does not yet recognize same-sex divorce.
| Source:
Globe and Mail
|
| May 20, 2004 | - The Food and Drug Administration banned homosexuals from being sperm donors.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| May 17, 2004 | -
Homosexuals were lining up to get married in Massachusetts, and President Bush again called for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.
| Source:
CNN
|
| April 14, 2004 | -
Zanzibar outlawed homosexuality.
| Source:
BBC
|
| April 4, 2004 | - A study found that teenage lesbians
smoke too much.
| Source:
New Scientist
|
| March 21, 2004 | - The Methodist Church put a minister on trial for openly carrying on a lesbian relationship; a jury found her not guilty of violating the church's teachings, because the teachings are vague.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| March 19, 2004 | - A county in Tennessee was trying to rid itself of homosexuals.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| March 6, 2004 | - Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who was named as the new executive editor of Muscle and Fitness and Flex magazines, said it was fine with him if voters want to change the law to permit gay
marriage.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| March 3, 2004 | -
Homosexuals continued to get married around the country.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| February 25, 2004 | -
President Bush came out in favor of a constitutional amendment banning gay
marriage.
| Source:
CNN
|
| February 21, 2004 | - King Norodom Sihanouk said that Cambodian
homosexuals should be permitted to marry.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| February 18, 2004 | -
Homosexuals were lining up to get married in San Francisco.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| February 7, 2004 | - It was revealed that two male chinstrap penguins in New York's Central Park zoo have been homosexual lovers for years. They once tried to hatch a rock, and when their keeper gave them a fertile egg to hatch "they did a great job" raising the chick. Scientists, it was noted, have observed homosexuality in more than 450 species.
| Source:
Guardian
|
| February 5, 2004 | - The Massachusetts Supreme Court ordered the state to permit homosexual marriages; Republicans were delighted.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| January 14, 2004 | - "There will be a purge on God's orders, and evil will be eliminated like shadows," said the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the cult leader and owner of the Washington Times, in a recent speech. "Gays will be eliminated, the three Israels will unite. If not then they will be burned. We do not know what kind of world God will bring but this is what happens. It will be greater than the Communist purge but at God's orders."
| Source:
New York Press
|
| December 17, 2003 | -
President Bush came out in favor of a constitutional amendment outlawing homosexual
marriage.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| November 19, 2003 | - The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that homosexuals have the right to get married.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| August 10, 2003 | - A Roman Catholic bishop in Canada warned that Jean Chrétien might burn in hell for legalizing gay marriage.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| August 9, 2003 | -
Leaders of the Episcopal Church approved a gay bishop and said that individual churches could choose to bless same-sex unions; a group of conservative bishops called for the creation of a new Anglican province in the United States where homosexuality would remain a bona fide sin.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| July 31, 2003 | -
President Bush announced his opposition to same-sex
unions.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| June 24, 2003 | - The United States Supreme Court upheld the University of Michigan law school's use of affirmative action in its admissions process and overturned a Texas
sodomy law, saying that "the state cannot demean [homosexuals'] existence or control their destiny by making their private sexual conduct a crime."
| Source:
New York Times
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