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The U.S. lobbied intensively for the resolution, which supports equal rights for all, regardless of sexual orientation. The move "puts the issue squarely on the U.N.'s agenda," a U.S. official says.

A prenatal pill for congenital adrenal hyperplasia to prevent ambiguous genitalia may reduce the chance that a female with the disorder will be gay. Critics call it engineering for sexual orientation.

The city controller, Annise Parker, who avoided making an issue of her sexual orientation, won a run-off election.

Physical attacks on people based on their sexual orientation will join the list of federal hate crimes in a major expansion of the civil rights-era law Congress approved today and sent to President Barack Obama.

A House vote today put Congress on the verge of significantly expanding hate crimes law to make it a federal crime to assault people because of their sexual orientation.