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• Transman gives birth to girl
  Thomas Beatie, the 34-year-old transgender man who made global headlines when he came out as pregnant, gives birth to a healthy girl.
• Kmart exec fights for Calif. marriage equality
  Kmart’s former chief marketing officer, Bill Stewart, joins Equality for All to defend same-sex marriage and defeat California’s marriage amendment.
• Wis. law makes Calif. marriage a crime
  Wisconsin gay couples theoretically risk jail under a decades-old law if they wed in California, though an activist hopes no one will take it to court.
• Gay Aussies flock to U.S. for parenthood
  Same-sex couples have no fertility rights in Australia, so they flock to U.S. clinics that charge them up to $80,000 for a test-tube baby.
• Gov. Gavin? He’s thinking about it
  San Francisco’s marrying Mayor Gavin Newsom files papers to form an exploratory committee to run for governor of California in 2010.
• Gay N.Y. pair fight adoption-service bias
  ParentProfiles.com allows only straight couples to register; after gays successfully sued the firm in California, it stopped doing business there.
• EU agency seeks stronger anti-bias laws
  Seven member nations protect against discrimination only in employment and should expand that to other aspects of life, says the EU’s Agency for Fundamental Rights.
• Obama courts right with faith-based programs
  Taking a cue from President Bush in a play for centrist voters, he says he’d get religious charities more involved in government anti-poverty efforts.
• India gay rights at turning point
  Gays and allies hold the first Prides in Calcutta, Bangalore, and New Delhi as the Delhi High Court prepares to consider overturning India’s gay ban.
• Pastor arrested at Wichita Pride
  Pastor Mark Holick of Spirit One Christian Center is arrested for the second year in a row after hurling his $5 admission badge at a Pride official.