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ASIA & MIDDLE EAST
Changsha, China - Young transgender dancer faces hard road to love. [SOURCE]

India - Salman Rushdie investigates India's transsexual underworld. [SOURCE]

EUROPE
Cwmbach, Wales, United Kingdom - Lesbian couple hounded out of village by vandals. [SOURCE]

Romania - Third of Romanians think gays should be punished. [SOURCE]

Rome, Italy - Italian gay cops to stage mass coming out. [SOURCE]

St. Petersburg, Russia - Taxi service for gays to launch. [SOURCE]

NORTH AMERICA
Blacklick, Ohio - Pro-gay vandals graffiti church sign that once said "I kissed a girl... then I went to hell." [SOURCE]

Cuba - Country's gay politics mired in past. [SOURCE]

Dyersville, Iowa - HIV+ man sues McDonald's for wrongful termination. [SOURCE]

Carribbean Islands - Hurricane victims seek refuge in gay shelter. [SOURCE]

Gulf Breeze, Alabama - 20-year-old arrested for gay bashing 57-year-old man. [SOURCE]

Miami, Florida - School Board may oppose gay-marriage ban. [SOURCE]

Montgomery, Maryland - Court rejects transgender rights referendum. [SOURCE]

New York City, New York - Country's largest labor union urges state government for marriage equality. [SOURCE]

Orlando, Florida - Gays' center reaches out, raises profile. [SOURCE]

Orlando, Florida - Newspaper profiles home For transgenders with HIV. [SOURCE]

Ottawa, Canada - Gay village supporters told to move fundraiser. [SOURCE]

Raleigh, North Carolina - Gay DJ pleads guilty to HIV health law violation
[SOURCE]

Riverside, California - Anti-Gay non-profit organization under fire for spending money on employees, not programs. [SOURCE]

San Francisco, California - Office fighting anti-gay marriage amendment opens in Castro. [SOURCE]

Seattle,Washington - Gay softball team disqualified from gay world series for having four too many straight players. [SOURCE]

Trinidad, Colorado - Small town unlikely sex-change capital of the U.S. [SOURCE]

United States - Libraries asked to stock ex-gay literature. [SOURCE]

Washington, DC - Study says lesbians, gays, bisexuals, making strides in workplace. [SOURCE]

Westchester County, New York - Child Welfare Network to hold recruitment event for adoptive LGBT parents. [SOURCE]

Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania - Judge denies separate trials in gay porn producer murder case. [SOURCE]

OCEANIA
Australia - Openly gay Olympic athlete and gold-medal diver, Matthew Mitcham, on postal stamps. [SOURCE]

Fiji - Faux gay wedding angers hymnal choir. [SOURCE]

Sydney, Australia - Official charged in bizarre gay sex visa scandal. [SOURCE]