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California debating whether to add gay history to textbooks
Posted: 04.18.2011 at 5:04 PM
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State Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, urges members of the Senate to approve his measure to require the teaching of gay history in public schools, at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif.  / AP photo
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