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What's Next in the Fight for Marriage Equality in Connecticut? - Anne Stanback, Executive Director of Love Makes a Family, talks about how a decision in the Kerrigan marriage equality case before the Connecticut Supreme Court may lead same-sex couples down the aisle, or to the Legislature.

'Shocking' program could carve $60 million out of HIV/AIDS prevention budget over next three years. A little-known initiative added to the recently-renewed Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Act will divert $60 million from the Center for Disease Control’s HIV/AIDS prevention budget over the next three years into a fund for which no states actually qualify.

Minority AIDS Initiative threatened by funding changes. Funding for a federal grant program to help city and states fight rising HIV infection rates within minority communities has been suspended only days before the Center for Disease Control released a report calling for a “heightened response” to the “major health crisis” of HIV/AIDS in African American communities.

2006 Dorothy Awards - In an evening dedicated to saluting the pioneers of the new civil unions law, the New Haven Gay and Lesbian Community Center will present its third annual Dorothy Awards next month.

Love Makes a Family hosts equal marriage forum - Same-sex marriage and equal rights activists, while thankful for the hard work that led to the state’s General Assembly legalizing civil unions earlier this year, are urging Connecticut’s gay and lesbian community not to become complacent in the wake of their historic legislative victory.