It received a total of eight nominations, including best actor for Sean Penn as gay rights leader Harvey Milk.

VOA: special.2009.02.20

These include a Jewish klezmer music version, a gay dance-along version and a sexy version for adults only.

VOA: special.2010.12.22

A survey last April by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found that fifty-four percent of Americans opposed gay marriage.

VOA: special.2010.02.06

And,he said the real reason officials removed the video is because of the exhibit's main subject,gay love.

VOA: special.2010.12.15

Now,after years of effort by gay rights groups and others, the law will include sexual orientation.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

The purpose is to help LGBT -- lesbian,gay,bisexual and transgender -- young people.

VOA: special.2010.10.23

Matthew Shepard was a gay college student murdered in Wyoming in nineteen ninety-eight.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

The film shows the early struggle for gay rights in San Francisco,California.

VOA: special.2009.02.20

"Like millions of Americans, I was terribly saddened to learn of the recent suicides of several teenagers across our country after being bullied because they were gay or because people thought they were gay.

VOA: special.2010.10.23

He is African American and gay, and he says that at first, he did not take the nomination too seriously.

VOA: standard.2010.02.18

But the shooting has intensified the controversy in Israel over the growing prominence of the country's gay community.

VOA: standard.2009.08.04

"He would become, after several attempts, one of the first openly gay Americans elected to public office.

VOA: standard.2009.08.12

And openly gay Democratic Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts was the target of a homophobic slur.

VOA: standard.2010.03.25

Organizers of the vigil included rabbis from several Jewish denominations and gay and lesbian Jewish activists.

VOA: standard.2009.08.04