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		<title>Gay in America: When culture and sexuality collide</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 04:43:24 +0000</pubDate>
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At some point, nearly everyone grapples with their identity &#8211; faith, family, sexual orientation. But it can be even more difficult for minorities or immigrants struggling to sort through their sexuality.



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		<title>The Gay Generation Gap</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 04:36:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How have attitudes towards gays and lesbians changed in the 40 years since the Stonewall Riots? Bill Rydwels, 76, who has been living with HIV for 25 years, explains. 





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		<title>Young and old come together to celebrate Gay Veterans</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 19:44:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Veterans from World War II sat side-by-side in Chicago&#8217;s Daley Plaza with veterans from the Gulf War during a salute to gay servicemen and women.
No other city has sponsored an event of this nature in the past, said Bill Greaves, the city’s liaison to the LGBT community. Mayor Richard M. Daly declared Aug. 5 &#8220;Lesbian, [...]


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		<title>Protestors proclaim ex-gay group&#8217;s mission a fraud</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Randy Thomas stopped being gay 17 years ago, though he admittedly still longs for men.
“If I am tempted today,” the 41-year-old says, “it doesn’t determine who I am and it doesn’t determine how I’ll behave.”
Since he stopped identifying as gay, Thomas says, he’s had two very significant relationships with women. Those relationships “have been much [...]


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		<title>Half of HIV-positive gay men in Chicago don’t know they’re infected</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:42:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Healy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three decades after the start of the AIDS epidemic, gay men in Chicago are still battling HIV at alarmingly high rates. And many infected men don’t even know they’re fighting it.
Half of HIV-positive gay men in Chicago don’t know they’re infected, according to a recent study by the city’s Department of Public Health. The study, [...]


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		<title>Big win for gay high school activist</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:52:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Healy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an end-of-the-year video, seniors from Chicago’s Kelly High School reminisced about their four years together. “I remember when my friend came to school with a pink wig,” one student can be heard saying. “That was gay.”
For Hector, who is gay, it hurt. A skinny and animated 17-year-old from the city’s Brighton Park neighborhood, he [...]


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