Transgender candidates allowed to run in election for the first time

Karachi - 15 Apr
2013
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South African human rights activists have launched a petition to demand that the government opens an official inquiry into the treatment of gays in the apartheid...

HEADLINE: Pentagon to look at how to end ''don''t ask, don''t tell''

CAPTION: As the Pentagon launches a year-long study on how the "don''t ask, don''t tell" policy can be repealed without a major...

1. Pan of demonstrators shouting "Yes We Can!"

2. Demonstrator with megaphone in front of the White
House
3. Demonstrators marching and chanting "What do we want? Equality! When do we want it?...

President Barack Obama on Friday nominated the Pentagon's former top lawyer to run the Department of Homeland Security.

Jeh C. Johnson, whose first name is pronounced "Jay," would replace Janet Napolitano, who...

HEADLINE: Judge likely to deny gov't on gay troops order

CAPTION: U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips said Monday that she is learning toward denying a government request to delay her order halting the...

HEADLINE: Pentagon: Don't Ask Don't Tell policy repealed

CAPTION: President Barack Obama on Friday formally signed off on ending the ban on gays serving openly in the U.S. military, doing away with a policy that has been...

1. Wide of US President Barack Obama walking onto stage at Human Rights Campaign dinner

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Barack Obama, US Presid
ent:
"Every single American - gay, straight, lesbian, bisexual,...

HEADLINE: Video Essay: Transgender Vet returns to base

CAPTION: Transgender veteran Autumn Sandeen is still disappointed, even after President Barack Obama signed the repeal of don't ask don't tell. That is because the law...

1. Pan of demonstrators shouting "Yes We Can!"

2. Various of demonstrators marching in front of White House and chanting "What do we want? Equality! When do we want it? Now!" in front of the...

1. President Obama walks into White House East Room followed by incoming chief of staff Denis McDonough and outgoing, Jack Lew

2. Wide shot of the three men in the White House East
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HEADLINE: Gates wants review of ban on gays in military

CAPTION: Defense Secretary Robert Gates has tapped his chief legal adviser and a four-star Army general to lead a landmark study on how the U.S. military would lift its...

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Los Angeles, 20 April
2013
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3. "The New Normal" actor Andrew Rannells pose
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People in wheelchairs, walking on stilts, riding rainbow-decorated motorcycles and scooters turned out for gay pride events over the weekend in Denver, Colorado. On Sunday, people carried posters with the faces or names of victims who...

Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday joined in a rally in Washington to show their support for transgender service members and to protest against the ban of transgenders from serving in the military.

HEADLINE: U.S. Army, Marine chiefs cast doubt on gay service

CAPTION: The top uniformed officers of the Army and the Marines told a Senate panel that letting gays serve openly in the U.S. military at a time of war would be divisive...

HEADLINE: Gay Vet: "Don''t Ask Don''t Tell" Should End

CAPTION: Mario Benfield, past commander of the only American Legion post whose membership is predominantly gay and lesbian, reacts to top Defense officials seeking to...

1. Wide of US President Barack Obama in news conference

2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Barack Obama, US Presi
dent:
"You're right, I won't comment right now on a review that I have not received yet. I can tell...

1. Medium shot of Westboro Baptist Church Anti-Gay demonstrators pan to President Bush's motorcade

2. Wide shot of Westboro demonstrators as Marine charges in to strip American flag from woman police grab...

HEADLINE: Raw video: House repeals ban on gays in military

CAPTION:The House on Thursday delivered a victory to President Barack Obama and gay rights groups by approving a proposal to repeal the law that allows gays to serve in the...

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Gays and lesbians in the Philippines celebrated their second Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride March this weeke
nd.
Decked out in colourful costumes, and carrying pro-gay...

A Chilean marine announced that he was gay in front of reporters gathered in Santiago on Wednesday, after being granted permission by the Navy to come out publicly.

Standing with his boyfriend, 24-year-old...

HEADLINE: Active duty gays attend first convention

CAPTION: Service members attending the first-ever convention for gay military personnel say they have received nothing but support or shrugs since coming...

HEADLINE: McCain challenges Gates, Mullen on DADT

CAPTION: Sen. John McCain snubbed a U.S. military study on gays as flawed and said letting them serve openly would be dangerous in a time of war during a hearing on Thursday....