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Solace International to sell wares at San Diego Pride Festival, benefiting global communities in need

Beni Ghale, a woman in Nepal, was abandoned by her husband with no source of income and two children to care for on her own.

Rather than resort to prostitution, and with only herself to rely on, Beni began to ask local restaurants in Kathmandu for their used rice sacks. She worked hard to replicate the traditional grass baskets by making tote bags and purses from these recycled sacks.

U.S. couple make history: Asia's first public lesbian wedding

KATHMANDU, Nepal -- There were no howls of outrage or attempts at disruption but only good-natured curiosity and non-stop traditional music as American psychologist Courtney Mitchell tied the knot with fellow American Sarah Welton, a lawyer by profession, in Kathmandu valley's celebrated Dakshinkali temple on Monday, making it Asia's first public lesbian wedding and an additional feather in the cap of Sunil Babu Pant, Nepal's only openly gay legislator.

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COMMENTARY: The quiet genocide – a call for religious conscience and action

Editor’s note: The San Diego-based St. Paul’s Foundation for International Reconciliation is having a fundraiser at Diversionary Theatre on Saturday, May 14, to help support the international fight for HIV prevention and care as well as global human rights. The evening begins with a cupcake and champagne reception at 6:30 pm, followed by a performance of the world premiere of “Dooley” at 8 p.m. Call (619) 220-0097 or visit HERE.

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