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1 Dead, 3 Shot at San Francisco Gay Pride Event
The 40th annual gay pride weekend drew thousands to Civic Center Plaza Saturday, and more were expected Sunday for the parade, a concert and comments from U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. However the event was marred after a shooting during the street party on Saturday night. In the shooting 19-year-old Stephen Powell died. and a 19-year-old woman and a 29-year-old man, were injured but are expected to survive. A 19-year-old man is in custody....
Catholic Charity WINS gay adoption ruling
An independent Catholic charity won a High Court battle on Wednesday over adoption laws that would have forced it to consider gay couples as parents. Catholic Care, a registered adoption agency, wants special dispensation from sexual orientation regulations which forbid it from giving children solely to heterosexual couples. The organisation argued that a clause in the act allows charities to discriminate by amending its objectives. An earlier High Court judgement ruled against it, b...
Why older women are more prone to fertility problemsScientists have discovered why women are more likely to suffer from miscarriages and infertility problems if they try to have babies later in life. Their study also sheds light on why children born to women in their late 30s and early 40s are at greater risk of Down's Syndrome and other genetic conditions. The team of British researchers found that as a woman gets older levels of a crucial pro... |
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I love this poem :)If our relationship was a babywe would be counting its age this way.It might be walking by nowpulling itself to an awesometwenty-seven inches andmaybe tottering across the roombefore collapsing on its bottom.There would be plenty of time for mistakes.It would always manage to getback on its feet again. If our relationship was a babyit would be starting to feed itselfIn a messy sort of waybut with... |
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Thousands attended Manchester Pride's Parade and Festival 2010Thousands of people attended Manchester's 20th annual gay Pride parade and celebrations over the Bank Holiday weekend. The parade, part of the Big Weekend that concludes Pride week, was this year led by Sir Ian McKellen. Despite damp weather, organiser Jackie Crozier told the BBC that the turnout was "fantastic". She added: "We're absolutely delighted with the amount of people who turned out a... |
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Pride Angel at Manchester Pride's Lifestyle ExpoManchester Pride's Lifetyle Expo started today with great success, thankfully the rain did not dampen any spirits, with hundreds of visitors attending the variety of stalls. Pride Angel were happy to be one of those stalls and gave advice to those interested in becoming parents through donor conception or co-parenting. Erika and Karen the co-founders of Pride Angel said 'We are so happy by the ... |
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Sperm Donation - FSDWHi,My wife and I are trying to find a nice man who will kindly donate some of his sperm. We are using the Free Sperm Donations Worldwide website and have come into contact with a few men.We have done this before, and met a really nice guy, but after 6 months of trying it didn't work. Now we've moved to a different part of the UK, we want to try again.It now feels really strange that we... |
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Shouldn't donors donate for 'altruism' rather than reward?Many men and women who long for a baby - but are beset by fertility problems - will read with envy the news that Samantha Cameron has given birth to a baby girl and say a silent prayer that they too will be so blessed. Yet the fact remains that, in many cases, their prayers will not be answered because of a chronic shortage in the number of people willing to donate eggs or sperm to help them con... |
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Good Pysch appWell had a good pysch app today, come out feeling listened to and understood :) We talked about my self harm and the fact its ok that if every now and again I self harm, cuz its not like everyday like it used to be its like3-5months in between. Its an addiction that I might not ever get over but for now its something that I'm dealing with and I'd rather I do it every now and again when i really f... |
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1 Dead, 3 Shot at San Francisco Gay Pride EventThe 40th annual gay pride weekend drew thousands to Civic Center Plaza Saturday, and more were expected Sunday for the parade, a concert and comments from U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. However the event was marred after a shooting during the street party on Saturday night. In the shooting 19-year-old Stephen Powell died. and a 19-year-old woman and a 29-year-old man, were injured ... |
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Egg donors could get up to £800 in paymentsCurrently the Human Fertility and Embryology Authority (HFEA) imposes a £250 cap on payments so as to avoid commercialising the procedure. But the low payment is thought to be behind a shortage in egg and sperm donation which is driving infertile women and men to overseas – often unregulated – clinics, according to research. Now the HFEA is considering adopting the Spanish system which would s... |
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Searching for my community...For the longest time I thought I was asexual. As a teenager, I had a couple of boyfriends: one at age 15 with whom I was most definitely *just friends*. There was nothing sexual about our relationship, he was a sweet boy, but we literally didn't even kiss! My second boyfriend was referred to for a good 10 years as "The Bastard" and... well... we won't talk about that. Suffice to say, it wasn't a... |
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Surrogacy: We went from nought to three children in a yearAfter her hopes of getting pregnant were crushed, Caroline Van Den Heever turned to surrogacy to keep alive her dream of starting a family My house is full of noise and activity – shouting, laughter and colourful paintings pinned to the noticeboard. Not so long ago, it was deathly quiet and I hated it. That was before my husband Jan and I had our three amazing children, born through surrogacy an... |
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Oh man...Ok so if you're going to delete me off facebook at least make sure you delete me off here too...not sure why I was deleted in the first place, but ok yeah thanks. Sometimes I'd just prefer a slap in the face to all this secretive deletion and people refusing to return calls or texts would be much more straight forward and give me closure. That's all I need to say about that really... |
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Manchester Pride 2010 begins with Fringe festivalManchester Pride 2010 began today with a Fringe festival of comedy, art, theatre and sport. More than 40 events will be held in 20 venues ahead of the Big Weekend, which starts next Friday. The Big Weekend will feature acts such as Kelis, Beverly Knight and Belinda Carlisle and includes the annual pride march through the city centre. Coronation Street cast and crew will mark the soap's 50th ... |
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Sisters are doing it for themselves: Fertility Road FeatureHaving a child is the most natural thing in the world. In an ideal scenario, it’s a situation born of love, commitment and the desire to procreate. But what if the usual trappings of that romantic impulse to give life aren’t available to you? To put it into context, The UK Adoption and Children Act 2002 gave same-sex couples the right to jointly adopt children, and in the same year the English C... |
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hmm well not such a happy blogWell things have taken a turn for the worse since my last blog, which sucks and I'd never thought I'd have my heart broken again but I did! Me and my GF have split up a few weeks ago now, but tonight I have closure, on the whole situation it was hard to let go of something that made me feel so happy and good, but sometimes when you love someone you have to let them go even though it hurts a lot! ... |
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