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America West Airlines is offering gay and lesbian travelers some perks, including a 10 percent airfare discount to a gay pride event anywhere in the United States. An amendment to the Louisiana Constitution banning gay marriages will be taken up Wednesday by their state Supreme Court. The amendment was struck down by a judge in Baton Rouge who said the proposition's structure violated a constitutional requirement that an amendment deal with only one issue. The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a death-sentence appeal by Eric Running, the Portland, Oregon, man convicted of killing a lesbian couple at a karaoke bar in 1998. He shot Jacqueline Anderson, whom he had dated, and Barbara Gilpin in the Ambassador Restaurant and Lounge. And the church trial of United Methodist Church minister Irene Elizasbeth Stroud, who declared in a sermon last year that she is a lesbian living with her partner, has begun and is expected to run two or three days.
In South Africa a law related to corrective surgery for intersex children is under consideration, the South African Human Rights Commission said today. They're asking whether gender "normalization" surgery is in the best interest of the child. We could answer that one for them if they're interested. Meanwhile, a Saudi Arabian transsexual has run into an inheritance problem. As a man, he inherited a large sum of money from his millionaire father, but now that she's a woman, well, by law women can inherit only half. We're speechless. Have a queer day.
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