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Gay Rights Group To Honor Tom Lantos, Desmond Tutu

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Mar 11, 2008 8:09 pm US/Pacific

Gay Rights Group To Honor Tom Lantos, Desmond Tutu

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ― An international human rights group that works to end discrimination against gay men and lesbians says it will honor the late Bay Area congressman Tom Lantos next month in San Francisco.

The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission singled out Lantos, who died of cancer last month, to be honored along with Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa, to receive the organization's annual OUTSPOKEN award.

The New York-based group says that Lantos, who was the only Holocaust survivor in Congress at the time of his death, was a vocal supporter of rights for gay people around the globe.

He and Tutu are scheduled to be honored during an April 9 ceremony at Grace Cathedral.

(© 2009 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)

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