Roundup: News From
Around the Web

Help is on the way : Sen. John Kerry has asked Attorney General Eric Holder to grant asylum to a gay Brazilian man married to a man in Massachusetts (pictured).

Sad news : Prominent Colombian gay rights leader Alvaro Miguel Rivera Linares , who had previously received death threats, was murdered on March 6.

Scot-free : A Northern Ireland politician who called homosexuality an "abomination" and said gay people could be "cured" will not be prosecuted. It's the economy, stupid : Culture wars are a dispensable luxury during an economic crisis.

Gay life in the Midwest archived : Collector Bruce McKinney gives the University of Kansas an impressive array of historical artifacts.

Tourist trap : Members of the Topeka, Kan., church founded by the Reverend Fred Phelps plan to picket a London primary school that teaches tolerance.

Discrimination on campus : A lesbian English professor at Southern Connecticut State University is being harassed because of her sexual orientation.

Marriage on the move : The city council in Durham, N.C., is considering a resolution to support same-sex marriage.