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Newsprints is a weekly TNG feature looking back on the GLBT-relevant headlines and opinions from the last week.

Federal Stories:

• Gays prefer to work in states with marriage equality: MarketingProfs, 10/19/2009.
• DOJ files motion in DADT case: People for the American Way, 10/19/2009.
• Federal LGBT adoption bill introduced: Bay Windows, 10/20/2009.
• Prestigious military law commission recommends scrapping sodomy ban: Reuters, 10/20/2009.
• US Marshall pick was already gay rights pioneer: AP, 10/22/2009.
• Senior Chief out after claims of degrading gay sailors: On Top Magazine, 10/22/2009.
• Hate crimes bill set to become law: Washington Post, 10/22/2009.
• Robertson: Gay marriage advocates want to ‘destroy’ marriage: On Top Magazine, 10/22/2009.
• Census bureau says 2020 count could include gays: AP, 10/22/2009.

News from Around the Nation:

• (DC) Gay rift surfaces over marriage bill: Washington Blade, 10/19/2009.
• (RI) Marriage activists rally at state house: Edge Boston, 10/19/2009.
• (DC) DC has lowest marriage rate, largest percentage of same-sex couples: Washington City Paper, 10/19/2009.
• (WA) Justice Kennedy blocks release of R-71 petition signers’ names: Lower Columbia Daily News, 10/19/2009.
• (ME) How Maine marriage campaign echoes Prop. 8 battle: Edge Boston, 10/20/2009.
• (MA) Boston LGBT group to protest Obama visit: Bay Windows, 10/20/2009.
• (ME) Turnout is the Maine issue: FiveThirtyEight, 10/20/2009.
• (ME) Maine: Taking everything down to the wire: Bay Windows, 10/20/2009.
• (NY) Governor expected to renew gay marriage pledge tonight: On Top Magazine, 10/22/2009.
• (VA) Transgender homecoming queen a first for college: The Flat Hat, 10/23/09.

International News:

• Zimbabwean gay leader dies: Bay Windows, 10/19/2009.
• European Commission tells EU applicants to respect GLBT rights: Bay Windows, 10/19/2009.
• India’s gay prince to visit Australia: Generation Q, 10/20/2009.
• Swedish church allows gay weddings: BBC News, 10/22/2009.

Opinions and Editorials:

• Evolve: Gays more accepted: Charleston Gazette, 10/19/2009.
• Homophobia: Healing it from the inside out: Huffington Post, 10/21/2009.
• Arguments against gay marriage literally stop making sense: FiveThirtyEight, 10/22/2009.

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