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UK:The world's first sperm donor service designed to help lesbians become parents has been launched in the UK. Man Not Included will match up lesbian couples with sperm donors through the internet. The site at www.mannotincluded.com went live last weekend and will begin working fully on 9 July.      (Date: 2002.06.24, from BBC News, UK)

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Same Sex Couples have Baby       (on Marriage)

Taiwan: Two same-sex couples cross-married and later have their own baby Two same-sex couples, two women and two men, cross-married as legal heterosexual couples and live as neighbours. Years later, one of the women gave birth to a baby by artificially inseminated from one of the male marriage partners. The child is parented by both couples. Their story is widely circulated in the web. The number of same-sex couples living as family is on drastic rise in Taiwan. They are making a major challenge to dominant ideas of family and marriage.      (Date: 2002.6.9, from UDN, Taiwan)

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Xiulan Maya ¨qÄõº¿¶®'s Ex-boyfriend a Bio-female       (on Gender)

Taiwan: Taiwan: Young Tai-language singer Xiulan Maya (¨qÄõº¿¶®) has been lately discovered by the media that her ex-boyfriend is in fact a bio-female. She has lived together with her "boyfriend" but only after some discovered that her "boyfriend" is actually a female, according to Xiulan Maya's self-explanation. She insists that she has been cheated since the woman told her she is a man. The singer emphasizes that she is definitely a heterosexual woman.      (Date: 2002.6.13, from UDN, Taiwan)

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Comments: What gender is really about? About the way one dresses herself? Or about one's genitalia? If gender is that easy to be manipulated or mistaken, then what does it mean by announcing yourself as heterosexually oriented or any other way oriented? For further discussion, please go to message board.

Man Fired for Dressing Women's Clothes       (on Gender)

Japan: A 36-year-old Japanese man has been fired from his job after wearing women's clothes to work. The man, who is believed to be awaiting a sex change operation, is now suing Shobunsha Publications in a bid to be reinstated. Lawyers for the company are arguing that cross-dressing creates problems in the workplace.      (Date: 2002.6.14, from RainbowNetwork.com)

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Psychologists Claim Homophobia a Misnomer       (on Homophobia)

U.S: Homophobia is a misnomer, according to a group of U.S. psychologists. The psychologists from the University of Arkansas claim that homophobia is not an actual phobia because it's caused by disgust, not fear or anxiety. The findings suggest that social conditions and attitudes, not psychological factors, create homophobia, the researchers said. In other words, homophobia is closer to racism than it is to a phobia      (Date: 2002.6.13, from PlanetOut.com)

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