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Syracuse University offers the first colony of the national gay fraternity, Delta Lambda Phi, in New York State. Eight male SU students were inducted last week to form the colony. They will need to have three more pledge classes inducted to form a chapter of the fraternity. One of the founding members said he wanted to start the fraternity because he "sort of saw Greek life here sort of on the homophobic side, and [he] didn't really want to enter into that." CBC News
Terry Curtis, accused of assaulting a member of 's Parliament who cast the tie-breaking vote for same-sex marriages, was told to undergo a 30-day psychiatric assessment. Curtis' wife has said her husband doesn't "believe in" homosexuality and had gone to legislator Andy Scott's office last weekend to post anti-marriage signs. His lawyer thinks maybe Curtis is mentally ill. CBC News
A Brazilian court in an unprecedented ruling has given a British man the right to a permanent visa based on his union with a Brazilian man, the couple said Wednesday. David Ian Harrad said he and Toni Reis sought an injunction preventing his deportation to England when his latest tourist visa expired. The men successfully argued that their union qualified in Brazil as a common-law marriage. CNN
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