51.   Both candidates support gay rights, free trade, abortion on demand, affirmative action and campaign finance reform.

52.   Both gay rights activists and Miami officials agree that the vote reflects a national change in attitude as Americans have become increasingly fair-minded about equal rights for gays.

53.   Both ran through a series of romantic partners, wrote about sex, support gay rights and think Al Gore would make a fine, if boring, president.

54.   -- A big jump in attempts to pass state and local ballot initiatives against gay rights.

55.   ----- Carolyn Wagner, who has since become an Arkansas gay rights activist, says she was dumbstruck at first.

56.   A brief shouting match erupted between one man who was blaming homosexuality for the sex abuse scandal and another who said he was a gay rights activist.

57.   A gay rights controversy in Williamson County, Texas, a suburb of Austin, bears some similarity to what happened in Cobb.

58.   A deeply divided U.S. Supreme Court dealt a setback to the gay rights movement Wednesday, ruling that the Boy Scouts of America can exclude gays from its organization.

59.   A few dozen delegates sympathetic with the gay rights cause also stood beside their tables on the floor where the conference was in session.

60.   A nascent gay rights movement is beginning to make an impact, and is even receiving government financial support to combat the spread of AIDS.