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Beattie, a female to male trans man, formerly named Tracy Lagondino, told The Advocate this March that he became pregnant and carried the child since his wife Nancy, who’d had a hysterectomy, could no longer have children.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[S.F. Mayor Gavin Newsom Lays the Groundwork for Governor Run]]></title><link>http://www.connexion.org/newsstory.cfm?id=13343</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 MDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Just weeks after the California Supreme Court finished a job started four years ago by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and legalized same-sex marriages, the controversial and seemingly fearless politician announced he had launched an exploratory bid for governor Tuesday.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[John McCain Backs Marriage Equality Ban]]></title><link>http://www.connexion.org/newsstory.cfm?id=13341</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 MDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[At first, he thought the issue should be left to the states, allowing the voters to decide if same-sex couples should be granted marriage equality under the law. Now, presumptive Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain has moved further to the right in his position, going as far as to support the efforts of ProtectMarriage.com to amend California’s constitution.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Barack Shouldn't Have Apologized for Wesley Clark’s John McCain Attack]]></title><link>http://www.connexion.org/newsstory.cfm?id=13334</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 MDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The McCain camp is up in arms because Wesley Clark took their war hero and that prisoner of war sob story he’s been singing for the last God knows how many years and downplayed the significance it plays in his ability to be president. This is politics, and I've got some other things Barack's camp should be calling out right about now.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mitt Romney Creeping Up John McCain’s List of Potential VP Nominees]]></title><link>http://www.connexion.org/newsstory.cfm?id=13332</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 MDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[While Democratic eyes seem peeled solely on whether Barack Obama will name Hillary Clinton his Vice Presidential running mate for a so called “dream ticket,” one name keeps getting repeated over and over again in John McCain circles: Mitt Romney.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein Arrested on Teen Sex Charges]]></title><link>http://www.connexion.org/newsstory.cfm?id=13331</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 MDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Billionaire stock broker turned investor Jeffrey Epstein was arrested Monday after pleading guilty to his involvement in a teen sex scandal. The 55-year-old financial advisor and philanthropist plead guilty to solicitation and an additional charge of procuring a minor for prostitution. According to the Associated Press, Epstein still faces charges of sexually assaulting high-school students as young as 15 years old.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rosie O. Fires Back at Cheating Rumors, Calls Gossip Cindy Adams a Lesbian]]></title><link>http://www.connexion.org/newsstory.cfm?id=13326</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 MDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Big gay Rosie O’Donnell gave original gossip girl, 90-year-old Cindy Adams, a taste of her own medicine. Responding to Adams’ column in the New York Post alleging that O’Donnell and her partner Kelli Carpenter have called it quits, O'Donnell joked to upstart gossip guru Perez Hilton via email, 'Cindy Adams and I are having a full blown affair. She is a lesbian.']]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Retired Gen. Wesley Clark Targets McCain’s War Record; McCain Camp Outraged]]></title><link>http://www.connexion.org/newsstory.cfm?id=13325</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 MDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[John McCain’s campaign is outraged by remarks from retired Gen. Wesley Clark that the Republican presidential hopeful lacks command experience, chalking the attack up to 'the lowest form of politics.' A military advisor for Sen. Barack Obama, Clark pondered Sunday is McCain’s military record was a qualifier for being commander in chief.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chace Crawford's Publicist Denies Gay Rumors]]></title><link>http://www.connexion.org/newsstory.cfm?id=13324</link><pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:00:00 MDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In the latest round of rumors that Gossip Girl star Chace Crawford is gay (this batch linking him to co-star Ed Westwick), the young heartthrob's publicist has issued a statement to Us Weekly that Crawford is 100 percent straight. There is zero truth to the rumors, the publicist told the gossip rag.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[One Million Plus Attend NYC Gay Pride Parade to Commemorate Stonewall Riots]]></title><link>http://www.connexion.org/newsstory.cfm?id=13323</link><pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:00:00 MDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The largest of the pride celebrations in the United States, more than one million people attended today's gay pride parade in New York, which commemorates the anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall Riots.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Gay Gene: Biology is Not Destiny]]></title><link>http://www.connexion.org/newsstory.cfm?id=13321</link><pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:00:00 MDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Genetic explanations of homosexuality are crude, simplistic and doomed to failure. Why? Because queer and straight desires are far more ambiguous, blurred and overlapping than any theory of genetic causality can allow. Kinsey was on the right track. So why now is science trying to simplify the 'gay gene'?]]></description></item></channel>
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