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________________________________ * A standoff between the city of Atlanta and a local country club that doesn't want to give spousal benefits to same-sex domestic partners has Republican state lawmakers planning to prevent the city from enforcing a local law that forbids antigay discrimination. http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?id=14794&sd=01/13/05 MARRIAGE AND FAMILY ________________________________ * A coalition of social conservatives who oppose gay marriage will mount an initiative campaign to put a state constitutional amendment on Arizona's 2006 ballot instead of seeking legislative action as previously planned. http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?id=14809&sd=01/14/05 * A Virginia woman involved in a custody dispute stemming from a civil union breakup wants to take her case to the Vermont supreme court. http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?id=14801&sd=01/13/05 * Adoptions by gays would be illegal in Arkansas under legislation now being prepared. http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?id=14785&sd=01/12/05 ________________________________ POLITICS & SOCIETY ________________________________ * A historic joint statement from a coalition of national lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender civil rights organizations urges gay people everywhere to get involved and not to back down in their pursuit of equality. http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?ID=14817&sd=01/14/05 * The number of Arabic linguists discharged from the military for violating its "don't ask, don't tell" policy is nearly three times as high as previously reported. http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?ID=14807&sd=01/14/05 * Democrats should have talked more directly about fundamental values and ideals in last year's presidential campaign, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy says. http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?id=14795&sd=01/13/05 * The Illinois house passes a bill banning discrimination against gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people and sends it to Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who has said he supports the measure. http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?id=14793&sd=01/12/05 * President Bush exploited religious feelings against same-sex marriage in his reelection campaign, former presidential candidate Al Sharpton says. http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?id=14767&sd=01/11/05 ________________________________ CRIME & LAW ENFORCEMENT ________________________________ * A man who collected $68,000 by falsely claiming his domestic partner died in the 2001 terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center pleads guilty to grand theft. http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?id=14808&sd=01/14/05 * Marshall County, Ala., sheriff Mac Holcomb is a no-nonsense lawman who remembers the 1940s and 1950s as a better time than now. He spells his views out on a Web site for all to see. Don Hunter, an Anniston native who is now a deputy administrator for Marin County, Calif., ran across it and didn't like what he saw--a law officer publicly condemning homosexuality as "an abomination." http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?id=14804&sd=01/13/05 ________________________________ RELIGION ________________________________ * The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is expected to announce results from a three-year study on sexuality, including recommendations on whether the church should change its policies on the blessing of same-sex unions and ordination of gay ministers. http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?id=14771&sd=01/11/05 * Pope John Paul II calls for more opposition to laws approving gay marriage and rights for unwed couples, urges a vast public mobilization against hunger, and restates the Roman Catholic Church's ban on stem cell use. http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?id=14770&sd=01/11/05 ________________________________ INTERNATIONAL ________________________________ * Israel's supreme court rules that a lesbian couple can adopt each other's children. But the judges caution against viewing the case as setting a precedent. http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?id=14766&sd=01/11/05 ________________________________ HEALTH & SCIENCE ________________________________ * A single change in a human gene may hold the key to preventing people living with HIV from progressing to full-blown AIDS. http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?id=14790&sd=01/12/05 * Several congressional Democrats have written to a group of Bush administration officials to call for their endorsement of a recent commentary in the medical journal The Lancet that supports condom use as part of HIV prevention efforts. http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?id=14797&sd=01/13/05 * Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton criticizes the Bush administration's policies on abstinence and reproductive health. http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?id=14798&sd=01/13/05 * A clinical trial of an experimental HIV vaccine that aims to prevent infection with the virus is set to begin. http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?id=14796&sd=01/13/05 ________________________________ http://www.hivplusmag.com ________________________________ * A new global campaign to stop the spread of HIV uses three animated characters dressed as condoms to deliver a serious message in humorous public-service spots in 41 languages: If you're going to have sex, use a condom. http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?id=14799&sd=01/13/05 * A budget proposal by California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger would allocate an additional $29.4 million to the state's AIDS Drug Assistance Program to cover costs for an increasing caseload. http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?id=14789&sd=01/12/05 * An abstinence program cited by a congressional report as presenting inaccurate information about HIV resumes in Wyoming. http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?id=14787&sd=01/12/05 * A new study shows that HIV patients who treat nausea with medical marijuana adhere better to their antiretroviral therapy than those who take other antinausea treatments or take none at all. http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?id=14779&sd=01/11/05 ________________________________ YOUTH & EDUCATION ________________________________ * The Point Foundation, a national nonprofit that supports lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender college and graduate students, awards an academic honorarium to James Barnett, the 18-year-old honor student who was expelled from Trinity Christian Academy in Texas. http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?id=14791&sd=01/12/05 ________________________________ ENTERTAINMENT & CULTURE ________________________________ * Seven new musicals, a Tennessee Williams minifestival, a couple of new plays, and a parade of stars--a busy second half of the 2004-2005 theater season means that spring could push Broadway box office receipts to levels not seen since before September 11. http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?id=14800&sd=01/13/05 * A&E Network is developing an original movie described as a high-concept comedy in the vein of the feature film In & Out. It centers on a young gay couple who inadvertently spark a strike by every gay person in America to protest for their right to get married; the couple then unwillingly become poster children for gay marriage. http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?id=14773&sd=01/11/05 * Out writer-director Bill Condon (Kinsey) is tapped to direct the long-awaited film adaptation of the Broadway smash Dreamgirls. http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?id=14792&sd=01/12/05 * Out designer Mr. Blackwell, who praises the well-dressed and excoriates the fashion-challenged with his annual Best- and Worst-dressed Lists, has released his 2004 edition. http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?id=14786&sd=01/12/05 ________________________________ ________________________________ ADVOCATE-SPONSORED EVENTS ________________________________ To submit an event for sponsorship consideration, e-mail your proposal at least three months prior to the event to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or fax it to (212) 242-8143. 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