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I N T H E N E W S
- Ted Haggard confesses to having an affair with a man and resigns as president of the National Association of Evangelicals.
- New Jersey outlaws discrimination based on gender identity or expression.
- Kim Coco Iwamoto, becomes the highest-ranking openly transgender person elected in the United States.
- Northern Mexican state of Coahuila approves law recognizing gay unions.
- Jerusalem registers its first homosexual couple as married.
- February 20: Barbara Gittings, gay rights activist, dies at the age of 75 after a lengthy battle with breast cancer.
- New Jersey’s same-sex civil unions signed into law by Governor Jon Corzine.
- John Amaechi, former player with the Utah Jazz and Orlando Magic, becomes the first male NBA player to come out as gay.
- Michigan’s ban on gay marriage blocks public institutions from providing health insurance benefits to the partners of gay workers.
- Largo, Florida city manager Steve Stanton was fired after revealing his plans to live as a woman.
- Iowa bans discrimination against gay men and lesbians in the workplace, housing and public accommodations.
- Washington State creates domestic partnerships, giving gay and lesbian couples some of the same rights that come with marriage.
- New Hampshire lawmakers vote to authorize civil unions.
- New York Governor Eliot Spitzer unveils a bill to legalize same-sex marriage in New York.
- Rudy Giuliani opposes the New Hampshire bill legalizing same-sex civil unions.
- Hepatitis-C infections increasing among gay men in the UK.
- Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski declares “It’s not in the interest of any society to increase the number of homosexuals - that’s obvious.”
- Christine Daniels, formerly Michael Penner, veteran sportswriter for the Los Angeles Times announces that she is transgender.
