SAN FRANCISCO — Gay and lesbian couples in San Francisco rejoiced on Thursday over a State Supreme Court decision affirming their right to marry even as political leaders on both sides of the issue girded for an extended fight over the ruling in the courts and at the ballot box.

LAST NOVEMBER IN BOSTON, Joshua Janson, a slender and boyish 25-year-old, invited me to an impromptu gathering at the apartment he shares with Benjamin McGuire, his considerably more staid husband of the same age. It was a cozy, festive affair, complete with some 20 guests and a large sushi spread where you might have expected the chips and salsa to be.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Harry Potter fans, the rumors are true: Albus Dumbledore, master wizard and Headmaster of Hogwarts, is gay.

The makers of the L-Word social network will be pleased to hear the results of a poll released on Tuesday by Harris Interactive and Witeck-Combs Communications (not publicly available). The poll shows that gay, lesbian and bisexual people use social networks more often than straight people - 27% of the GLB group visited YouTube for “one hour or less” per week, compared to 22% of heterosexuals.

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