Calling Someone Gay Isn't Crime, Judge Rules

Deseret News (Salt Lake City) › May 30, 2004

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BOSTON (AP) -- Stating that someone is homosexual does not libel or slander them, particularly in light of new court decisions granting gays more rights, a federal judge has ruled.

The ruling by U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner came as she threw out a lawsuit by a former boyfriend of pop singer Madonna who claimed he was libeled because his name appeared in a photo caption in a book about Madonna -- under a picture of Madonna walking with a gay man.

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