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SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - A weekend gay pride parade in San Diego will feature a large contingent of active-duty and retired military personnel, opening service members to possible discipline in the waning days of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," organizers said on Friday.

This year, Pride Weekend — celebrated by the LGBT community on the last Sunday in June, as usual — has been extra-festive, owing to New York's passage of equal marriage rights for same-sex couples. In Chicago, however, vandals tried to dampen the weekend's celebrations by slashing the tires of 51 floats bound for the city's Pride parade.

ROME — Lady Gaga hailed gays on Saturday as the "revolutionaries of love" and called for "full equality now" for same-sex couples around the world in a speech in front of hundreds of thousands in Rome.

ROME (AFP) – Hundreds of thousands of people paraded through central Rome in a gay pride parade on Saturday, with many criticising Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government for failing to grant same-sex rights.

The man who has been arrested in connection with the attempted bombing of a parade in Spokane, Washington honoring Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday has been linked to a neo-Nazi organization, according to a group that tracks hate groups.

A bomb planted along the route of a Martin Luther King Day parade in Spokane, Washington, appeared to have been an attempt at a sophisticated attack, according to statements made by law enforcement officials.