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The sky's the limit :More than 60 legislators from both parties have signed on as cosponsors of the bill to legalize same-sex marriage in Maine. Horror in South Africa: Gangs of South African men are raping lesbians in the belief it will "cure" their sexual orientation, an NGO charges. Compassionate solutions : A new initiative in England seeks to make care homes friendlier for gay patients with dementia. What bipartisanship looks like : Maryland's state attorney general, a former Republican congressman and an African-American civil rights activist, testified in favor of same-sex marriage on Thursday. Shut out : Laws against homosexual activity make men in Jamaica reluctant to visit health care experts.

On the contrary: The editorial board of the Indiana University student newspaper thinks voters, and not judges, should decide the fate of same-sex marriage in California.

The mayor comes marching in: San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom has been named the political grand marshal for the Long Beach Lesbian and Gay Pride Parade, scheduled for May 17.