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The Rev. Ted Haggard emerged from three weeks of intensive counseling convinced he is "completely heterosexual" and told an oversight board that his sexual contact with men was limited to his accuser. That is according to one of the disgraced pastor's overseers, who on Monday revealed new details about where Haggard has been and where he is headed. The Rev. Tim Ralph of Larkspur also said the four-man oversight board strongly urged Haggard to go into secular work instead of Christian ministry if Haggard and his wife follow through on plans to earn master's degrees in psychology. Haggard broke a...

The Australian newspaper The Age reported today that the new Kitty Kelley book "The Family" may contain allegations of a gay relationship with President George W. Bush, among other things. This is a mainstream paper like the New York Times or the Washington Post with one of the most popular Internet news sites:

Photographer: KerryEdwards ........................The interviews took place at a campaign stop in Des Moines, Iowa, just after the senator spoke to an audience about health care. Below is a transcript of this reporter's interview. Between The Lines: The gay community knows your record, generally, and the Human Rights Campaign has described it as stellar. But I don't think many of us know exactly what inspired you back in 1985, in your first term, to author the gay civil rights bill. Can you recall who or what - Sen. John Kerry: I just think it's an important matter of fundamental fairness. I...

Mike Signorile, who says in his bio he co founded a now-defunct New York City magazine for lesbian and homosexuals, is known for what we might call harassing politicians about sex. He prowled the halls of the 1996 Republican Convention in San Diego, which I attended, pouncing on unsuspecting delegates about sex. It appears that at the Republican Convention in New York, he finally pounced on someone who pounced back when he went after Alan Keyes, Illinois Republican candidate for the US Senate. Signorile's first sentence was: "I am speaking with Alan Keyes — and you've come to the Republican...

TORONTO (CP) - Those still struggling with the concept of same-sex marriage, beware. Three of Hearts, a compelling new feature-length documentary eight years in the making and debuting at this year's Toronto International Film Festival, throws a bigger, fatter monkey wrench into society's preconceived notions of what constitutes a marital relationship. Not that Sam, Steven and Samantha had any intentions of busting all the rules and exploring uncharted territory with their three-way commitment. And rest assured it was much more than just a menage-a-trois. They liked to call it a "trionogamous" marriage. This trio of young Manhattanites quite simply fell...

With two months left in a term truncated by scandal, Gov. James E. McGreevey is planning his post-government future, hunting for office space in the friendly confines of Middlesex County and for a home along the Hudson River waterfront. === First lady Dina Matos McGreevey, meanwhile, has been house-hunting in Cranford and nearby towns, indicating the couple's four-year marriage is unlikely to survive the governor's bombshell announcement last month that he is gay and had an adulterous affair with a man. McGreevey, who set Nov. 15 as his resignation date, will be helped in his passage from public official to...

Gov. McGreevey Is Gay, And Still Popular A month after he shocked the nation by announcing he had had a gay extramarital affair and would resign, Gov. James E. McGreevey's approval ratings have remained steady, according to a new poll. In the latest Star-Ledger/Eagleton-Rutgers poll, 46 percent of voters surveyed approved of McGreevey's performance in office, while 42 percent disapproved.

Alyn Libman won a $15,000-a-year scholarship to the University of California at Berkeley with a resume that showed more than just Libman's athletic achievement and academic potential. It also showed years of ridicule, beatings and threats, along with Libman's decision to become a boy in 11th grade. "It felt amazing to actually be embraced by someone who didn't just dismiss me for being different," said Libman, a 19-year-old aspiring civil rights lawyer and the first transgendered person to win a scholarship from The Point Foundation, a Chicago nonprofit organization that has awarded more than $1 million to college-bound gays since...

  According to the mayor of a small Dutch town, allowing Highland heifers to graze in a nearby nature reserve will help deter couples who have scandalized the upright citizens of Spaarnwoude with their open-air sex antics. Mayor Ellen van Hoogdalem-Arkema said the brazen behavior of amorous outdoor enthusiasts has angered and embarrassed people walking their dogs in the reserve or taking their grandchildren for a stroll.... ... "I just got off the phone with a man who was cycling in the area with his children, when suddenly two naked men came running across the road." she added with a...