Judge upholds testimony on gay relationship in Denton case
AUSTIN - A state district judge on Tuesday upheld his decision to allow testimony that a former state representative accused of theft was involved in a gay relationship.Former Rep. Lane Denton of Waco is being tried on charges of felony theft and misapplication of fiduciary property. He is accused of misappropriating more than $67,000 in 1988 and 1989 while serving as executive director of the Texas Department of Public Safety Officers Association. Monday, Mr. Denton, 54, listened...
Gay Relationship: Daily Post (Liverpool): Gay book in running
A NOVEL about a teenage gay relationship is in the running for one of Britain's most respected children's book awards.The Shell House by Linda Newbery is one of seven books competing for the Carnegie Medal, to be presented on July 11. Tales discussing teenage suicide and domestic abuse are also nominated for the award, won six years ago by a book about a teenager slipping into heroin addiction and prostitution.Newbery's book,aimed at readers of 14...
Gay Relationship: USS IOWA SAILOR DENIES CAUSING FATAL EXPLOSION
A young Navy gunner's mate stood outside his lawyer's Miami offices Friday afternoon and categorically denied that a ruined gay relationship brought on the fiery deaths of 47 fellow sailors aboard the USS Iowa. Kendall Truitt, 21, a central figure in the U.S. Navy investigation of the battleship's turret explosion April 19, found himself answering personal questions as a federal inquiry takes an increasingly bizarre and public turn."I think...
Gay Relationship: COMMITMENT KEY FOR GAY COUPLES
QUESTION: I started a relationship with another man just recently. Both of us are interested in a permanent relationship and we wonder what ideas you have for establishing roots for gay male relationships and what kinds of things we can do to maintain the relationship.ANSWER: Dr. Karen Rapaport responds: Most couples struggle to establish a sense of permanence and intimacy in their relationship; these issues become more complex in a gay relationship. One of the difficulties that gay...
Gay Relationship: Reform Rabbis Back Blessing of Gay Unions
The rabbis of Judaism's Reform movement declared today that gay relationships were "worthy of affirmation" through Jewish ritual and that Reform rabbis who decided to officiate at same-sex ceremonies would have the support of the branch's rabbinical body, as would those who decided they would not. The decision by the Central Conference of American Rabbis, through a resolution at its annual convention here, makes the conference the largest...