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SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - San Francisco's torrent of same-sex marriages may be making political waves across the United States, but they are also proving to be a major business boon for the city's jewelers, florists and champagne sellers. AFP Photo Reuters Photo Slideshow: Same-Sex Marriage Issues Since the city began issuing marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples last Thursday, wedding bands, bouquets and pricey bottles of bubbly have rapidly disappeared from the counters of shops around the city for wedding celebrations. With no advance notice that the city would undertake the controversial step to legalize their marriages, few of...

Queer EyesBy Seana Mulcahy A while back, I wrote an about the diminishing audiences of young men toward TV viewing habits. The Spin board got a bit heated and prejudiced (to no endorsement of mine). Several young men wrote that programming wasn't what it used to be. Many complained that everything was either, "reality or gay."It made me think about content. As a real time medium, our industry is taxed with the daunting task of continuously coming up with new and fresh ideas. If content looks or sounds old, we are as good as dead.Content tied with online activities revolves...