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D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty and Police Chief Cathy Lanier agreed to increase the city's efforts to fight anti-gay hate crimes, but the mayor expressed reluctance to issue a formal public statement condemning anti-gay violence, according to officials of the local group Gays & Lesbians Opposing Violence. Fenty and Lanier met with GLOV's two co-chairs last Friday at Lanier's office in D.C. police headquarters on Indiana Avenue, N.W., at GLOV's request. Acting Lt. Brett Parson, who oversees the police's Gay & Lesbian Liaison Unit, also attended the meeting. 'Mayor Fenty opened the meeting with a request for actionable suggestions on how the D.C. government could address the issue,' said GLOV co-chair Chris Farris, 'but would not commit to making a public statement acknowledging and condemning the violence, although we pressed hard for that.' Farris and GLOV's other co-chair, Todd Metrokin, said Fenty and Lanier were receptive to several other recommendations from GLOV, including one ca

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BELÉM, Brazil, Jan 30 (IPS) - 'True socialism is feminist,' and is already being built, said Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, standing next to three other South American presidents, all of them men, at a dialogue that took place Thursday at the World Social Forum (WSF).

NEW YORK - Lambda Legal, Empire State Pride Agenda, the New York Civil Liberties Union and the American Civil Liberties Union have released a guide outlining government protections and obligations for same-sex couples in New York who married out of state. The new guide is released as the first anniversary of Martinez v. County of Monroe draws near, and in light of last week's decision in Lewis v. New York State Dept. of Civil Service - both notable appellate court rulings that upheld government recognition of out-of-state marriages of same-sex couples.