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Homosexual activists blast man who posted warning to families ___ A promoter of tourism in a Colorado ski town has stirred up a controversy among local residents after posting a warning to potential visiting families about the city's Gay Ski Week. Al Heirich runs an online guide to Telluride, Colo., offering information about the town, its skiing, lodging and restaurants. Telluride is a world-class ski resort with a population of about 3,000. Heirich says promoters of the homosexual event, including the Telluride Ski Resort, have demanded he remove his warning to families on his website, claiming it is discriminatory. The...

In a column last Saturday headlined "Love, Internet Style," the New York Times’ new conservative op-ed columnist David Brooks explained why he believes the internet is bringing back dating and courtship rituals from some bygone era. Since couples can "exchange e-mail for weeks and months" rather than hop in the sack right away, he explains, the internet is providing the "restraint" we so desire. Hawking online dating services such as eHarmony, Brooks declared that, "Online dating puts structure back into courtship." Curious about that structure, I clicked over to eHarmony, only to find that they don’t serve my kind. "eHarmony...

(New Haven-WTNH, Oct. 4, 2002 Updated 6:15 PM) _ Military recruiters came under attack by dozens of Yalies Friday. A group of students and professors says the military's 'don't ask, don't tell' policy clashes with the university's anti-discrimination policy. It's a quiet protest that several Yale Law School students and professors hope will speak volumes. They're defending the universities non-discrimination policy. "When we see Department of Defense kind of strong arming us, trying to push us away from that principal, people stand up and say no were not going to allow that to happen," Yale student Matt Alsdorf said. Since...

STRATFORD, Conn. (AP) _ For the Gay-Straight Alliance at Stratford High School, progress can be measured in the hallways: These days, only some of its posters get torn down. Harassment and name-calling haven't vanished from the 900-student school. But its gay students _ and their straight allies _ are pleased to have a club of their own, a weekly forum to share worries, frustrations and laughs. For Michael Burgess, a sophomore who co-founded the club with some friends in the fall of 2000, it was partly an act of self-protection. ``We were having a lot of problems,'' Burgess said. ``Not...